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NNPS Partnership Awards Recognize
Excellent Progress and Practices in 27 Sites
Fourteen schools, nine districts, three organizations, and one state department of education were recognized by NNPS in 2010 for effectively applying research-based approaches in their plans and programs of school, family, and community partnerships. Award winning programs showed how they were working to meet challenges...
MetLife Foundation Continues Support for NNPS
MetLife Foundation awarded NNPS a new grant starting October 2010 that supports professional development and publications to scale up the number and quality of district and school programs of family and community involvement. This includes targeted attention to family and community....
Issues and Insights:
How to Involve Parents with Students in Learning Activities at Home
The new edition of Promising Partnership Practices 2010—an inspiring collection—
includes over 100 activities from schools, districts, states, and organizations to involve parents in their children’s education. Many activities are events conducted at school. Importantly, some Action Teams for Partnerships (ATPs) are finding new and better ways to...
Elementary School Report:
Increase Father Involvement: Four Elements for Success
Over the past few years, data col-lected by NNPS showed that schools are actively seeking ways to increase the involvement of fathers in their children’s education at school and at home. On the 2009 UPDATE surveys, elementary schools reported that they were “making good progress” on meeting the challenge of involving fathers in partnership activities.
Meeting the Challenge:
Design Innovative Workshops for Parents on Child and Adolescent Development
More students succeed in school when parents and other adult family members provide a home environment that promotes the value of education. Many elementary and secondary schools conduct workshops for parents to assist them in understanding child and adolescent development and how to set home conditions that support children (Type 1-Parenting). By increasing parents’ understanding of their children’s stages of development, educators believe that more families will value education and support their children...
Leadership Line:
District Leaders Use NNPS Leadership Strategies to
Help Schools Strengthen Partnership Programs
NNPS guides district leaders to directly facilitate schools’ ATPs in developing their goal-linked programs of school, family, and community partnerships.
Middle and High School Report:
Wait A Second! It is Happening at the Secondary Level!
It is true that, on average, programs of school, family, and community partnerships are stronger in the younger grades than in high schools. Research is accumulating, however, that shows that, through high school, students whose parents remain involved in their education have higher achievement and more positive attitudes about school...
Our Growing Network - Spring 2010 (pdf)
See PDF link above for entire newsletter...