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Francis Marion Univ.-Center of Excellence (FMU-COE)
Florence, SC 2020 Virtual Summer Institute Series For many years, the Center of Excellence to Prepare Teachers of Children of Poverty (COE) at Francis Marion University conducted a popular Summer Institute to help educators in South Carolina to understand the effects of poverty on students and families, create curriculum to improve teaching classes for these […]
Partnership Schools Ireland
Dublin, Ireland Online Team-Training Workshop in Ireland To increase the number of schools with well-functioning Action Teams for Partnerships (ATPs), Partnership Schools Ireland (PSI) developed a comprehensive online Team Training Workshop. PSI leaders researched the content and worked with a digital learning development company to design and produce the training module. The online workshop addresses […]
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 […]
School and Family Partnerships—A Shared Responsibility WORDS ARE IMPORTANT
Let’s start with vocabulary. Just about every state, district, and school policy asserts that children’s education is a shared responsibility of home, school, and community. When schools are closed, teachers prepare, distribute, and collect students’ lessons on school subjects. Parents guide their children to complete their schoolwork at home, talk with them about their work […]
NNPS Partnerships in the Time of COVID-19: Help All Children Keep Learning when School Buildings are Closed
Joyce L. Epstein, Ph.D. Director, NNPS School buildings are closed, but “school” and learning are open. The geography of school has expanded across neighborhoods into students’ homes and onto kitchen tables. The swift change in policy to children learning at home is generating many ideas by educators and community organizations. Some interpret the demand for […]
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