Professional Development Partners
Benefits & Services

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

 I. Organize leaders’ work and program components:

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

2. Leadership Training for District, Organization, and Regional Leaders for Partnership

Followed by: Demonstration School-Based Team Training Workshop with full teams from a few schools. Turn-Key Training with a Twist: Leaders for Partnerships will be guided to conduct and adapt the Team Training Workshop with their own schools, with NNPS support for back up (online, 3-hour segments, October and March).

These basic training activities will be offered twice each year to prepare, update, and reinforce the work of current or changing leaders, administrators, colleagues, and members of school teams. All or some may attend together. No registration fees will be collected. All NNPS contracted services are part of the year’s benefits to NNPS Professional Development Partners.

II. Support leaders’ work to improve program quality:

3. Quarterly (4) Facilitation Meetings (Let’s Talk About Partnerships) for leaders to share best practices, solve emerging challenges, ask important questions/clarifications (online, 2-hour sessions, February, May, August, and November).

4. Quarterly (4) 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 partner districts, regions, organizations, or states (online 2-hour sessions, March, June, September, and December).

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

5. One copy the NNPS manual: School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, 4^th edition. This book includes research summaries, tools, and guidelines for effective and equitable partnership programs. And, copies of posters of the Six Types of Involvement in English and Spanish.

6. Guidelines and materials for leaders to evaluate the quality of their programs and progress from year to year (from NNPS to Leaders each spring).

7. 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).

8. NNPS website, 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. The website will share NNPS resources, reports, and publications (e.g., TIPS interactive homework, prior books of Promising Partnership Practices, Samplers on goal-linked engagement activities, and YouTube recordings). Our Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships (CSFCP) website will provide additional resources (e.g., family engagement at the high school level) and results from new studies and projects.

IV. Continue NNPS Support for YOUR Leadership

9. Consultation Services. NNPS leaders will continue to address questions and requests from Professional Development Partners for guidance, information, resources, and ideas to solve emerging challenges, and NNPS resources.

Amendments or Changes to the JHU-NNPS Professional Development Contract

District, region, organization, and/or state leaders may add activities to the JHU-NNPS contract for individualized on-site or on-line workshops, keynote addresses, and meetings (e.g., with district, region, organization, or state colleagues). Additions or changes to the JHU-NNPS contract will be discussed, individually, with each partner to assess costs and amend the NNPS-JHU contract, as needed.