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Tremont Montessori

Cleveland Metropolitan School District and Starting Point/Universal Pre-K Cleveland, OH Calling All Dads Tremont Montessori’s Action Team for Partnerships (ATP), other teachers, and administrators set a goal to help all students’ parents understand the important roles they play in their children’s social-emotional development. This contributes to students’ academic and social readiness for kindergarten and for […]

Westwood Elementary School

Calcasieu Parish School District Westlake, LA Welcome to Our House At Westwood Elementary, Welcome to Our House was a re-designed Back-to-School Night. It was an introduction for students and parents to a new, mixed-age grade level system. The House System was designed to create a welcoming school and strengthen connections of students, teachers, staff, and families […]

How is NNPS connected to the Dual Capacity-Building Framework

Joyce L. Epstein, Ph.D., NNPS Director February 2019 The Dual Capacity-Building Framework (DC-BF) is a policy statement from the U. S. Department of Education based on decades of research by many scholars—including NNPS researchers. It tells educators to establish programs of family engagement and identifies conditions to put in place for successful programs.1 It notes […]