NNPS Samplers

Research and Involvement Activities
on Goals for Student Success

NNPS is unique in that its research informs tools and guidelines for practitioners. At the same time, practitioners’ work and questions inform research studies. This marriage of research with practice encourages members of NNPS to design activities that will address important goals for student success.

The NNPS Sampler is a new resource to increase family and community involvement in goal-linked activities that contribute to student learning and development.

Each Sampler includes a description of the importance of family and community involvement for the selected academic or behavioral goal and a summary of related research.

Each booklet features ten activities – including family nights, workshops, volunteer activities, student work, and other creative activities – that have been implemented by members of NNPS and reported in annual collections of Promising Partnership Practices over the years.

The activities illustrate how to engage diverse families and many community partners at all grade levels using the six types of involvement in the NNPS framework: parenting, communicating, volunteering, learning at home, decision making, and collaborating with the community. The field-tested activities may be used or adapted by school’ Action Teams for Partnerships (ATPs) and by district leaders to strengthen their programs of family and community involvement.

To explore the Sampler that interests you. Click on:

Sampler: Family and Community Involvement in Reading
Make Partnerships Part of the Story
Sampler: Family and Community Involvement in Math
Math Partnerships = Student Success
Sampler: Family and Community Involvement in Science
Scientifically Speaking . . .

Packets of print copies of the Samplers may be ordered from NNPS: ORDER FORM

NOTE: Each Sampler includes just a few of many excellent activities in the NNPS annual collections. For more ideas visit www.partnershipschools.org and follow the links to Success Stories and to a particular edition of Promising Partnership Practices. Click on the goal(s) that your school, district, or state set to improve school climate and student success.

NNPS gratefully acknowledges a grant from MetLife Foundation that, in part, supports Promising Partnership Practices.