NNPS offers members customized professional development workshops in person or online.  These include basic training for districts and schools to start their programs, and advanced topics for NNPS members who are ready to tackle tough challenges to involve all families in their locations.

NNPS Workshop topics include:

• NNPS One-Day Workshop for schools’ Action Teams for Partnerships
• Special sessions for district, organization, and state leaders
• Advanced topics such as improving family and community engagement to improve student attendance, engage families with low incomes for student high achievement, engage families with students in reading, principal leadership, and other topic customized for your location

See information on the Workshops On Site or On ZOOM.

Arrangements for customized Workshops on the Road are made with NNPS, on a mutually-satisfactory schedule and on a first-come, first-served basis.

NNPS will conduct evaluation services to connect measures of the quality of partnership programs with your school improvement goals and results for students. For example:

1. Use NNPS data to identify program strengths and weaknesses. NNPS will conduct a professional development workshop (in-person or online) to enable members use NNPS evaluation tools (e.g., surveys and inventories) to continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.
2. Connect NNPS measures with locally-collected data on program quality and/or results for students. NNPS will, under contract, administer, collect, analyze, and report data from NNPS surveys of parents, teachers, and/or students on programs and practices of family engagement. Or, we will assist your Research/Evaluation Office to connect NNPS surveys or annual UPDATE data with your achievement tests or attendance records to learn whether the quality of family engagement affects results for students from one year to the next.

Contact Dr. Steve Sheldon (ssheldon@jhu.edu) or Dr. Joyce Epstein (jepstein@jhu,edu) to discuss the nature and costs of these or other program evaluation services.

Other professional development training workshops, “booster” sessions, keynote addresses, and other presentations can be arranged. Call NNPS to discuss the topics on school, family, and community partnerships that will help improve your program.