Partnership District and Organization Awards 2022

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Four districts and two organizations earned 2022 Partnership Awards from the National Network of Partnership Schools (NNPS) at Johns Hopkins University.

• District leaders are recognized for guiding schools’ Action Teams for Partnerships (ATPs) to develop, implement, evaluate, and continually improve their programs, plans, and practices of school, family, and community partnerships.

• Organizations in NNPS have diverse agendas. Some organizations guide district leaders to work with their own schools to build stronger partnership programs. Others have funded projects to work directly with a set of schools. This year, the two organizations that earned awards are located at universities. They are guiding district leaders and their schools. In addition, they offer coursework and training workshops to help many educators in and beyond their geographic boundaries to better understand and implement research-based programs of school, family, and community partnerships.

In their applications for awards, district and organization leaders must show that they are helping educators implement their official policies for family and community engagement.

NNPS guides district and organization leaders to address six leadership strategies for effective partnership programs at all policy levels:

(1) increase awareness of their work on family and community engagement

(2) align district and school programs of partnerships with official policies

(3) provide training for program development

(4) share knowledge

(5) celebrate successes

(6) evaluate progress.

Award applicants also submitted their annual Leadership Plans for Partnerships. Repeat winners must show how they improve their programs over time to promote sustainable programs (not just isolated activities) of family and community engagement for student success. Activities conducted by the featured districts and organizations are summarized in this section. Details on these and other district and organization activities are in the NNPS collection, Promising Partnership Practices 2022 at www.partnershipschools.org in the section Success Stories.

Guidelines for district and organization leadership are in Chapter 7 of Epstein, et al., (2019). School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, Fourth Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.