NPSS Support Hub Resources
Ensuring our nation’s young people have what they need to thrive will require all of us.
Amplifying Youth Voice: Strategies for Helping Youth have their Voices Heard
Student voice (the process of educators, school leaders, and other supportive adults gathering young people’s values and unique perspectives and implementing policy and practice changes based on these shared ideas) provides an opportunity for young people to be active participants in improving their schools.
District Engagement Best Practices for Nonprofits
This resource is designed to provide nonprofit organizations with strategies to communicate how they are an indispensable asset to districts and build sustainable relationships with school districts.
Toolkit Engaging Your Corporate Volunteers in Student Support Roles
Our toolkit on engaging corporate volunteers in NPSS-aligned roles as tutors, mentors, and postsecondary transition coaches.
State Service Commissions
Understanding the Basics:State Service Commissions State service commissions (service commissions) subgrant federal AmeriCorps national service funds, as well as funding from state, local, and philanthropic sources, to support service and volunteerism. These...
Afterschool Alliance Provider Survey Results
The NPSS Support Hub collaborated with the Afterschool Alliance to survey a convenience sample of out-of-school time (OST) providers about the extent to which they offer specific high-impact student supports in their programs, as part of a larger tracking survey fielded by the Afterschool Alliance.
Afterschool Networks: The Basics
State Afterschool Networks are state-level intermediaries that bring together a wide range of partners from youth development, out-of-school time, education, workforce, state government, community-based organizations, and others to ensure that all kids have access to high-quality afterschool and summer learning programs. Currently, 50 states have statewide afterschool networks.
Promising Practices Webinar Series, Pt. 1
Promising Practices Webinar Series, Pt. 1 The NPSS Hub recently hosted the first session of a new Promising Practices Series, co-hosted by Throughline Learning—an NPSS Supporting Champion. The webinar included a panel discussion focused on place-based models utilizing...
Toolkit Engaging Your Corporate Volunteers in Student Support Roles
Our toolkit on engaging corporate volunteers in NPSS-aligned roles as tutors, mentors, and postsecondary transition coaches.
Presentation: Meeting the Chronic Absenteeism Challenge—What Do We Know?
This resource incorporates information included in a brief by Dr. Robert Balfanz, “Meeting the Chronic Absenteeism Challenge: What Do We Know?” to help districts create an actionable plan for addressing the issue of chronic absenteeism.
Digital Backpack: Resources to Address Chronic Absenteeism in Your Community
Digital Backpack: Resources to Address Chronic Absenteeism in Your Community In the 2020-2021 school year—the most recent year for which federal data is available—14.7 million students nationwide were chronically absent, nearly doubling prepandemic rates. Studies have...
Brief: Meeting the Chronic Absenteeism Challenge—What Do We Know?
This brief provides a synthesis of what we know about the district and school challenges of post-pandemic chronic absenteeism, and what can be done to meet them.
Districts Addressing Chronic Absense in Communities
Program spotlights from around the country, showcasing effective strategies to combat chronic absenteeism.
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Post-Secondary Transition Coaches
Support post-secondary exposure, college search and fit/match, college application creation, financial aid applications, and navigation of post-secondary transitions.
Academic Tutors
A form of teaching, one-on-one or in a small group, towards a specific goal. High-impact tutoring leads to months of additional learning gains for students by supplementing (but not replacing) students’ classroom experiences. High-impact tutoring responds to individual needs and complements students’ existing curriculum.
High-Quality Mentors
With training and support, facilitate a variety of youth development and enrichment experiences, help youth explore and affirm their identity, provide navigational support around school-to-work transitions, and buffer against adversity in-school, out of school, and over the summer.
Student Success Coaches
Form diverse teams in systemically under-resourced schools to partner with teachers to provide integrated, relationship-driven social, emotional, academic, and youth development supports to enhance student outcomes and create positive learning environments at the classroom and whole school level during and after the school day.
Wraparound/Integrated Student Support Coordinators
Enable schools to build strong connections and systems with community health, mental health, and social service providers. Coordinators put school climate plans and multi-tiered systems of support into action.
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