Spring, 1998 No. 4 National Network of Partnership Schools
Network Members Share Promising Practices
NOTE: Since this article was written, the National Network of Partnership Schools' web site has added Promising Partnership Practices--2000, Promising Partnership Practices--1999, and Promising Partnership Practices--1988. Each is a collection filled with practices from school, district, and state-level Network members. Check them out for great ideas!
Each year in January, schools, districts, and states in the National Network of Partnership Schools are invited to share their best practices and most effective leadership activities. Thirty schools, 6 districts, and 2 states submitted a total of 43 practices in time for "honorable mention" in this issue of Type 2.
Best practices were submitted for each type of involvement for elementary, middle, and high schools. Some activities include multiple types of involvement. The activities will be useful to those starting new programs, and those enhancing their school-family-community partnership programs.
Practices are currently featured In the Spotlight on the Network’s web site. Members may visit the web site (www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000) to read about an activity to encourage parents to read at home with their children, a parent resource directory, a program to start a home library for first graders, a summer learning fair, an eighth grade transition program, and a special workshop for Action Teams. These innovative activities can be adopted or adapted at other sites.
Twenty schools, 4 districts, and 2 states were selected to receive Network travel mugs to recognize their achievements in building school-family-community partnerships in the 1997-98 school year. These awards for promising practices will be sent to recipients in May.
About 35 practices have been selected for the National Network of Partnership Schools 1997-98 Collection of Best Practices. Copies of the Collection will be mailed to all Network members and posted on the web site.
Members want to know what activities others in the Network are doing well. We appreciate the time and effort of all the school, district, and state leadership teams who submitted best practices this year.
The chart below, organized by the six types of involvement, lists the promising practices for 1997-98.
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ACTIVITY NETWORK MEMBER Type 1-Parenting Learn and Grow Parent Education Series Barret Academy, Akron, OH Kinder's Family Room Kinder Elementary School, Miamisburg, OH The Parent Resource Center Max Leuchter School, Vineland, NJ Type 2-Communicating Parent Information Folder Arbor Hills Junior High School, Sylvania, OH Road Runner Rally Arbor Hills Junior High School, Sylvania, OH Friendship Breakfast Barrett Academy, Akron, OH C.C.N. (Central's Current News) Central Elementary School, Shelby, OH Type II-Communication Curtis Bay Elementary, Baltimore, MD 8th Grade Transition Program Dundalk High School, Baltimore, MD The Bottom Line is the Stanford 9 Gage-Eckington Preparatory Enterprise, Washington, DC Back to School Picnic Landstuhl Elementary/Middle School, Germany Daily Notebook Mary K. Vollmer Elementary School, West Henrietta, NY VIP Envelopes Northside Elementary School, St. James, MN Year of the Family Oakdale Elementary School, Cincinnati, OH Homework Hotline Valley View Parent-Teacher Co-Op School, Cleveland, OH Chat With The Principal Over Coffee and Donuts Williamston Elementary School, Williamston, MI Type 3-Volunteering Moms On The Move Howard Elementary School, Cincinnati, OH Valentine's Round Robin Reading Landstuhl Elementary/Middle School, Germany Parent Resource Directory Williamston Middle School, Williamston, MI Type 4-Learning at Home Open Library Nights Charles F. Kettering Elementary School, Ypsilanti, MI Parent/Child Monthly Projects George Washington Elementary School, Baltimore, MD Keep Books Henry Ford Elementary School, Ypsilanti, MI Camp Read-A-Lot Jefferson Elementary School, Wichita, KS Kids, Kits, and Kaboodles Perry Center-Children's Garden, Grand Blanc, MI Type 5-Decision Making School Improvement-Just Do It! St. Leonard Elementary School, St. Leonard, MD Type 6-Collaborating With the Community Abstinence Training for Teens Albritton Junior High, Ft Bragg, NC CARE (Children Are Ready to Learn) Buladean Elementary School, Spruce Pine, NC The Business of Attracting Business Edmonson-Westside High School, Baltimore, MD Career Week Gardenville Elementary School, Baltimore, MD Summer Learning Fair Kathleen E. Goodwin School, Old Saybrook, CT Striving for Excellence with Junior Achievement and Crestar Mt. Washington Elementary, Baltimore, MD Community Learning Center Sunderland Elementary School, Sunderland, MD District-Level Leadership An "Eggciting Beginning" BCPS, Southwest Area, Baltimore, MD Annual Parent Involvement Retreat Covington Independent Public Schools, Covington, KY Team Building DoDDS, Okinawa District, Okinawa, Japan Community Component DODEA, Arlington, VA "Up, Up and Away" Campaign DODEA, Ft. McClellan District, Fort McClellan, AL Accelerated Reader Program Fort Stewart School System, Fort Stewart, GA Budget Advisory Committee Rush-Henrietta Central School District, Henrietta, NY State-Level Leadership Communicating about School-Family Community Partnerships Kentucky Department of Education, Frankfort, KY Getting By With a Little Help From Our Friends Ohio Department of Education, Columbus, OH
