Fall, 2001, No. 11 National Network of Partnership Schools
Members Submit TOP TIPS Activities
TOP TIPS 2001 is the first annual collection of Teachers Involve Parents in Schoolwork (TIPS) Interactive Homework activities submitted by members of the National Network of Partnership Schools. TIPS assignments require students to talk with a family partner about their work and ideas. The collection includes 25 homework activities for language arts in the elementary grades, and math and science in the middle grades. The contributors to TOP TIPS 2001 are:
Barbara McCue (Cleveland Municipal School District, OH)
Beverly Burgess and Kay Creamer (Chester Middle School, SC)
Barbara Bostic (Long Jr. High School, SC)
Cindy Gibson (Lakeview Middle School, SC)
Wilma Keitt (Schroeder Middle School, SC)
Jean Norman (University of South Carolina)
Chris McChesney, Natalie Dewberry-Moore, Julie Hornung, Chris McGuinness, and Leah Blind (Pikesville Middle School, MD)
The TOP TIPS collection and all TIPS resources from NNPS are available online at www.partnershipschools.org. Click on TIPS-Teachers Involve Parents in Schoolwork. Members of the National Network may submit TOP TIPS activities year-round. Contact Kenyatta Williams at (410) 516-2318 or kwilliams@csos.jhu.edu for more information on TIPS training workshops and materials.
