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New Book: ‘School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Prepared Educators and Improving Schools’ 3rd Ed.
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...
Epstein: NNPS is a Bold Idea
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...
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...
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...
School and Family Partnerships — 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...
Epstein: 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...
Sheldon: Work on Home Visits and Student Absenteeism, Performance
Steven SheldonPhoto by Jim Burger Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Education and a Research Scientist with the Center for School, Family, and Community Partnerships (CSOS), Steven Sheldon, Ph.D. recently explored home visits by teachers and...
Epstein: How is NNPS connected to the Dual Capacity-Building Framework
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...
School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action (4th Ed.)
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...
NNPS and SOE Champion Family and Community Engagement
Journalist Jackie Hennessey looked into how NNPS's framework surrounding Family and Community Engagement plays out in at schools located in Calcasieu Parish in Louisiana. Check out the article here:...
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