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2007 Schools and Districts Report Progress and Challenges in Partnership Programs
Schools and districts in NNPS reported progress on partnerships for the 06-07 school year on the annual NNPS UPDATE surveys. NNPS provided data summaries so that members can compare their own efforts to the work of districts and schools across the country...
NNPS Fees to Change in September 2008
On September 1, 2008, NNPS will raise fees for new members to join NNPS and for selected benefits and services. To date, grants to NNPS’s research team have helped subsidize member services. In its next phase of development, NNPS must cover the costs of program facilitation and benefits for members...
Issues and Insights: A Good Mix: Improve Partnerships with Formal Structures and Flexible Processes
Some school improvement approaches are too rigid. Other approaches are too casual. Educators do not want strategies set in stone, but they do want a “backbone” that will support innovative design. NNPS offers a unique mix of required structures and flexible processes that enable schools, districts, and states to develop effective – yet responsive – programs of family and community involvement...
Elementary School Report: New NNPS Book Published Family Reading Night
Today, just about all schools set measurable goals in their school improvement plans to increase student success in reading and literacy. Family reading nights contribute to these goals by engaging students, parents, teachers, and others in activities that encourage youngsters to value, share, and enjoy reading, writing, and other language arts skills...
Meeting the Challenge: Involve Fathers: Expand Expectations and Implement Innovations
Studies show that children whose fathers are involved in their lives have better social, emotional, and academic development. This positive effect of fathers on students’ academic grades, over and above the influence of mothers’ involvement, is even stronger in grades 6-12 than in younger grades...
Middle and High School Report: A Secondary School Challenge: Organize ATPs in Large High Schools
It is no secret that large high schools face challenges in organizing their programs of family and community involvement. In all high schools – large and small – involvement declines if parents think that involvement is no longer needed. Involvement declines, too, if high schools are not welcoming places with well-planned partnership programs and practices...
Leadership Line: Crucial Work by District Leaders: Conduct Basic and Advanced Team Training
District-level leaders are integral to schools’ success in developing and sustaining comprehensive school, family, and community partnership programs. NNPS guides district leaders for partnerships to take two distinct and essential roles in improving programs of family and community involvement...
Research Brief: Parent Liaisons on Action Teams Help Bridge Home and School
A case study conducted by Dr. Mavis G. Sanders, Principal Investigator and Senior Advisor to NNPS, explored how parent liaisons in a diverse suburban school district supported school, family, and community partnerships in their schools, and how the district leader for partnerships guided and assisted the parent liaisons. Liaisons served on schools’ Action Teams for Partnerships, and their schools were members of NNPS...