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29 Earn NNPS Partnership Awards for Research-Based Progress on Partnerships
In 2011, 19 schools, 5 districts, and 5 organizations earned NNPS Partnership Awards for making noteworthy progress in their programs of family and community involvement. These programs applied NNPS research-based approaches and tools to meet the conditions, characteristics, and goals of their own schools,
families, and communities....
MetLife Foundation Supports Scaling Up NNPS
MetLife Foundation awarded NNPS a new grant through September 2012. The funds enable NNPS to continue professional development to increase the number and quality of district and school programs of family and community involvement linked to student success in school. The grant also supports the development of new products that will assist members of NNPS...
Issues and Insights:
Can Do, Can't Do, or Won't Do? Replace Excuses with a CAN DO Spirit!
As the 11-12 school year began, NNPS happily reviewed work submitted by members of NNPS across the country and in Canada. About 600 school, district, state, and organization members (and counting) evaluated their progress on UPDATE surveys and renewed their active membership in NNPS....
Middle and High School Report:
The Can-Do Spirit Enables Secondary Schools to
Create Partnerships for Student Success
People with a can do attitude see
every challenge as an opportunity
and every failure as a chance to
learn. In the same way, schools' Action
Teams for Partnerships (ATPs) take
a can do approach to improve their
plans, teamwork, and activities for
family and community involvement at
their schools...
Meeting the Challenge:
Close the Divide: Bring Home, School, and
Community Together to Support Student Success
Educators are responsible for increasing
student achievement every year, regardless
of which family or community a student
comes from. Rather than create a family-proof or community-prohibited school, members
of the National Network of Partnership
Schools (NNPS) understand that positive
school, family, and community connections
help increase the quality of education for
all students and the likelihood of students'
success...
Elementary School Report:
Many Ways to Help Parents Support Student Learning at Home
NNPS has long been interested in
ways that schools involve parents
with students in learning activities at
home to improve skills and attitudes in
specific subjects. Some teachers guide
parents, directly, on how to help students
at home on homework, practice
skills, or conduct interesting projects.
Other teachers and school-based Action Teams for Partnerships (ATPs)...
Leadership Line:
District Leaders Help Schools Improve their Partnership Programs
NNPS guides district leaders to directly facilitate schools’ ATPs in developing their goal-linked programs of school, family, and community partnerships.
Our Growing Network - Fall 2011(pdf)
See PDF link above for entire newsletter...