Type 2 Blog
TYPE 2 BLOG
Communicating to improve partnerships for student success
The NNPS Type 2 Blog will feature new research, exemplary field work, and useful resources to help NNPS members continually improve their partnership programs for student success in school.
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Chicora Elementary School
Chicora Elementary School North Charleston, SC Charleston County School District Tamula Dunmeyer, Parent Advocate and NNPS Key Contact Tamula_dunmeyer@charleston.k12.sc.us Cops and Pops Cops and Pops brings fathers, father figures, and members of the local police department to school to read and talk with male students in the 5th grade. This creatively-designed activity aimed to increase […]
Columbia High School
Columbia, SC Richland County School District One Yolanda Smith, Parent & Family Engagement Specialist yolanda.smith@richlandone.org Town Hall: Project Success! Working with its community partner—100 Black Men of Greater Columbia—the high school’s Action Team for Partnerships (ATP), teachers, and school leaders planned a new kind of Town Hall. The goal was to help more students and […]
Frasch Elementary School
Sulphur, LA Calcasieu Parish School Board Melisa Crumpler, Assistant Principal melisa.crumpler@cpsb.org Let’s Get Everyone Involved Frasch Elementary School experienced two years of COVID restrictions, a hurricane, and other serious storms. Parents could not come to meetings and activities at school. The Action Team for Partnerships (ATP) and teachers designed a series of three “send home” […]
Hawthorne Elementary School
Seattle, WA Seattle Public Schools Melissa Mak, ELL Department Lead mbmak@seattleschools.org Hawthorne’s Quarantine Academy: The Sequel Hawthorne Elementary School is on a mission to increase equity and social justice in all aspects of its program for student learning and school, family, and community partnerships. Extending last year’s program, the ATP and school leaders created Quarantine […]
Ladson Elementary School
Ladson, SC Charleston County School District Vanessa Smith, Family Service Advocate vanessa_smith@charleston.k12.sc.us The Poetry Café Ladson’s Poetry Café aimed to help students express themselves and increase their understanding of others. The ATP and school leaders also invited parents and community partners, including the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office, to participate. At Ladson, students and families speak […]
McMillian Early Learning Center
Cleveland Heights, OH Cuyahoga County Universal PreKindergarten / Starting Points Margie Jennings, Site Manager Margie.jennings@thecentersohio.org Unique Family Tiles McMillian Early Learning Center has an on-going goal to strengthen the “school family” with productive partnership practices. The COVID-19 experience—though very challenging—demonstrated that Zoom helped teachers meet and work with parents and students for extended learning activities. […]
Orchard Elementary School
Richland, WA Richland School District #400 Marta Jisa, Teacher and ATP Chairperson marta.jisa@rsd.edu Spring Fling For the first time in over two years, Orchard Elementary School invited parents to come in person to celebrate the school and strengthen the school community. The PTO suggested that it was time to do something BIG. The Spring Fling […]
Rowena Chess Elementary School
Pasco, WA Pasco School District Kristin McCormick, Math Chair/ATP Chair krmcormick@psd1.org STEAM Showcase and Carnival Rowena Chess Elementary continue to improve communications and interactions of administrators, teachers, staff, parents, and students. After a year of COVID restrictions, the ATP and others organized the STEAM Showcase and Carnival. This combined a math night, science showcase, and […]
Possibilities and Possible Futures
Steven B. Sheldon, Ph.D. Associate Director, NNPS, and Associate Professor of Education There is a phenomenon, prolepsis, which refers to our tendency to make assumptions about the future before it happens. More simply, sometimes we base our current actions in anticipation of an imagined or possible future. We have activated prolepsis in education for decades, […]
Work on Partnerships Helps Solve COVID-19 Challenges
Brenda G. Thomas, NNPS Senior Facilitator As we all try to grasp the impact of COVID-19 on society as a whole, we focus especially on the changes that have affected the world of education. Teachers quickly changed how they teach to assure that their students would continue to receive the best education possible during the […]
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