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01 Jun 2020, COVID-19, Type 2 Blog | Comments

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, […]

13 May 2020, COVID-19, Type 2 Blog | Comments

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 […]

08 Apr 2020, COVID-19, Type 2 Blog | Comments

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 […]

23 Mar 2020, COVID-19, Type 2 Blog | Comments

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 […]

21 Nov 2019, High School, Middle Grades, Transitions, Type 2 Blog | Comments

Does Your Middle or High School’s One-Year Action Plan for Partnerships Address the Transition to High School?

Martha A. Mac Iver, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Education and Principal Investigator1 Research shows that ninth grade is the “make or break” year for student success in high school. Some students start skipping school, and their poor attendance contributes to course failure, which puts them off-track for on-time graduation. Yet, just as students are making […]

13 Feb 2019, Type 2 Blog | Comments

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 […]

18 Sep 2018, Type 2 Blog | Comments

New and Improved! A Resource to Support YOUR Partnership Program

September 2018 New and Improved! A Resource to Support YOUR Partnership Program School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, 4th Edition Steven B. Sheldon, Ph.D. Associate Director, NNPS Engaging families and communities as partners is key for helping all students succeed in school. From kindergarten through high school graduation, studies have shown that students […]

30 Mar 2018, Type 2 Blog | Comments

Prevent Gun Violence and Increase School Safety: Are These Partnership Goals?

March 2018 Prevent Gun Violence and Increase School Safety: Are These Partnership Goals? Joyce L. Epstein, Ph.D., NNPS Director The agenda is daunting: Prevent gun violence and increase school safety. Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and—by marching—students from across the country inspired the nation to address the complex and connected problems of gun […]

12 Dec 2017, Type 2 Blog | Comments

Developing Partnerships through Evidence

December 12, 2017 Developing Partnerships through Evidence By Dr. Steven B. Sheldon, Associate Director, NNPS I joined CSOS on January 3, 2000, fresh out of graduate school, excited for the opportunity to work with leading scholars in education reform and improvement, and thankful that Y2K ended up being much ado about nothing. In my eighteen years […]

28 Aug 2017, Type 2 Blog | Comments

Did You Do Your Homework?

August 28, 2017 Did You Do Your Homework? Joyce L. Epstein, Ph.D., Director, NNPS Did you do your homework? This is one of the most common questions that parents1 ask children every day. Parents, teachers, and even students agree that homework is important. Countless research studies confirm that students who do their homework do better […]