Jan 13, 2023 | 2023, Epstein, Sheldon
by Joyce L. Epstein and Steven B. Sheldon School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing Educators and Improving Schools, 3rd Edition prepares future teachers and administrators to conduct effective and equitable programs of family and community engagement that...
May 23, 2022 | 2022, Epstein, NNPS
Over the past 25 years, NNPS has assisted more than 5,000 schools—and several hundred districts, educational organizations, and state departments of education—to plan, implement, and continually improve their partnership programs.” The article shows that Joyce...
Apr 8, 2020 | 2020, Epstein, NNPS
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...
Mar 23, 2020 | 2020, Epstein, NNPS
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...
Feb 13, 2019 | 2019, Epstein, NNPS
Joyce L. Epstein, Ph.D., NNPS Director 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...
Aug 15, 2018 | 2018, Epstein, NNPS, Sheldon
Joyce L. Epstein, Mavis G. Sanders, Steven B. Sheldon, Beth S. Simon,Karen Clark Salinas, Natalie Rodriguez Jansorn, Frances L. Van Voorhis, Cecelia S. Martin, Brenda G. Thomas, Marsha D. Greenfeld, Darcy J. Hutchins, Kenyatta J. Williams When schools, families, and...