Professional Development Partners
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NNPS will conduct the following professional development opportunities for all partners throughout the year.

See the detailed MENU of SERVICES for Spring 2025 and the 2025-26 School Year.

I. Prepare Leaders for Partnerships with Knowledge and Skills to Conduct Research-Based Programs of School, Family, and Community Partnerships

1. Awareness Session: Overview of Research on Partnerships, Main NNPS Partnership Program Components, Q & A (2-hour sessions).

2. Leadership Training for District, Organization, and Regional Leaders for Partnerships: Discussion of Leadership Roles, Responsibilities, and Strategies for strong and sustainable leadership at the district, organization, region, or state levels. Preparation to complete a Leadership Plan for Partnerships. Q & A (3-hour sessions).

3. NNPS Workshop for Schools’ Action Teams for Partnerships (ATPs): Topics include Activating the Framework of Six Types of Involvement, Meeting Challenges to Engage ALL Families, Forming a Strong Action Team, and Writing a One-Year Action Plan for Partnerships. Q & A (3-hour sessions).

II. Support leaders’ work to improve program quality: Exchange Ideas and Increase Knowledge.

Quarterly Networking and Support Meetings (Let’s Talk About Partnerships) for leaders to share best practices, solve emerging challenges, ask important questions/clarifications. (2-hour sessions; 2-4 p.m.)

Quarterly Knowledge-Building Meetings (Let’s Learn More About Partnerships) for leaders to learn about new topics in research and new approaches in practice for more effective and more equitable school, family, and community partnerships. Topics may include Engaging Families with Low Incomes; The Role of Students in Family Engagement; Principals’ Roles on School ATPs; Engaging Grandparents, Using Evaluation Resources, and other topics requested by NNPS Professional Development Partners (i.e., district, region, organization, or state leaders). (2-hour sessions, 2-4 p.m.).

III. All year: Provide resources for leaders to strengthen their Network of Partnership Schools

IV. On-going NNPS Support for YOUR Leadership: On-call consultations.

• Guidelines and materials for leaders to evaluate the quality of their programs and progress from year to year (from NNPS to Leaders each spring).
• Guidelines and materials for leaders to collect and report best practices across all schools in a district or project (from NNPS to leaders each spring).
• NNPS website, www.partnershipschools.org, will continue to feature excellent work by Leaders for Partnerships, including examples of leadership activities to organize partnership programs with all schools and creative school practices. 

V. Amendments or Changes to the JHU-NNPS Professional Development Contract

See details attached for MENU of SERVICES and Calendar with DATES of Activities.