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Schools and Districts Report Progress in 2010 on Leadership, Programs, and Outreach
A large number of NNPS schools (889) and districts (110) evaluated the quality of their work on partnerships on the 2010 UPDATE surveys. They, along with states and organizations that returned UPDATE, confirmed the importance of evaluating their efforts to organize and improve their plans and practices of family and community involvement...
NNPS Schools Win Honors
In addition to NNPS Partnership Awards, schools in NNPS win other honors throughout the school year. In the past few months, NNPS schools were recognized for excellent school programs and for partnership activities...
Issues and Insights:
Questions and Answers: What is the best word for our work? How can district superintendents support partnership programs in all schools?
One of NNPS’s rules-of-the-road is to answer all e-mails and phone calls to address members’ questions and discuss next steps. We believe that this kind of responsive technical assistance helps members of NNPS increase their expertise on partnerships and continually improve their programs...
Leadership Line:
The Importance of Building Capacity at the District and School Levels
District leaders in the National Network of Partnership Schools (NNPS) have two major responsibilities: Conduct district-level leadership activities. Facilitate the work of schools’ Action Teams for Partnerships (ATPs) to help them strengthen their school-based partnership plans and programs...
Meeting the Challenge:
Involve More Families in Decision Making
Of the Six Types of Involvement– Parenting, Volunteering, Communicating, Learning at Home, Decision Making, and Collaborating with the Community – the fifth is one that challenges many schools. Including families on decision-making committees and involving them as true partners in the decision making process raise issues of power and authority, parents’ and educators’ roles in schools, professional training, representation, and communication...
Elementary School Report:
Reveal the Secret: Include the Whole Staff in School’s Partnership Program
A school-family-community partnership program should not be the best kept secret in a school. To solve this challenge, the Action Team for Partnerships (ATP) should discuss its goals, plans, and activities with the entire staff because everyone has an important role to play in improving family and community involvement in children’s education...
Middle and High School Report:
Working to Increase Family and Community Involvement in Upper Grades
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 2011(pdf)
See PDF link above for entire newsletter...