District Partnership Toolkit
District Partnership Toolkit This resource was built in partnership with the following contributors: AASA, The School Superintendents Association, EducationCounsel, The Center for Education Market Dynamics, National Student Support Accelerator. The NPSS Hub District...
Leveraging Partnerships Between Higher Education & P-12 Systems to Support Students through Federal Work-Study Roles
Leveraging Partnerships Between Higher Education & P-12 Systems to Support Students through Federal Work-Study Roles In May 2023, the U.S. Department of Education called upon institutions of higher education (IHEs) to set public goals to use more of their Federal...
Recruiting Older Adults Into Volunteer Roles
Strategies for Recruiting Older Adults Into Volunteer Roles The following article was written by Dorothy Jones, Director of Corporate, State & Local Partnerships at the National Partnership for Student Success. Volunteering can benefit older adults in numerous...
Brief: Meeting the Chronic Absenteeism Challenge—What Do We Know?
Meeting the Chronic Absenteeism Challenge: What Do We Know? (Brief) Dr. Robert Balfanz What does a doubling of the number of students who are missing a month or more of schooling in the school year mean? What do the numbers tell us about the challenges our schools and...
City Year Student Success Coaches Playbook for Program Developers
City Year Student Success Coaches Playbookfor Program Developers This playbook has been developed by City Year and informed by learnings from the Student Success Coach Learning Network as a way to share lessons learned from years of developing and supporting student...
District Engagement Best Practices for Nonprofits
District Engagement Best Practices for Nonprofits Nonprofit organizations across the country are eager to partner with school districts and return to or expand upon their pre-pandemic partnerships, yet, they have found that school partners do not necessarily operate...
Planning Toolkit for Collaborative Goal-Setting Events
Planning Toolkit forCollaborative Goal-Setting Events This Toolkit of Planning Collaborative Goal-Setting Events is specifically intended to support community, school, and district leaders in bringing together key stakeholders in theircommunities to identify shared...
Toolkit Engaging Your Corporate Volunteers in Student Support Roles
Toolkit: Engaging Your Corporate Volunteers In Student Support Roles In today's corporate landscape, fostering meaningful partnerships and engaging employees in volunteer service has become increasingly essential. When collaborating with entities such as school...
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...
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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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