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Advancing Digital Equity
Advancing Digital Equity: Bright Spots from Across the Country As schools, communities, and programs work together to identify strategies for closing the digital divide, wraparound/integrated student support providers and student success coaches can be engaged to...
What is a Digital Navigator?
What is a Digital Navigator? A “digital navigator” is an individual who addresses the whole digital inclusion process—home connectivity, devices, and digital skills—with community members through repeated interactions. As trusted members of the community, digital...
What is Digital Equity?
What is Digital Equity? Digital equity is achieved when all individuals and communities have the information technology capacity that is needed for full participation in the society and economy of the United States. Despite significant growth in technology use across...
NPSS Aligned Programs in All 50 States
NPSS-Aligned Programs In All 50 States The National Partnership for Student Success focuses on five types of evidence-based student supports that together meet holistic student needs: Academic Tutors Mentors Post-Secondary Transition Coaches Student Success Coaches...
Tools & Resources to Help You Prepare for the Better FAFSA
Tools & Resources to Help You Prepare for the Better FAFSA The 2024-25 FAFSA has been updated to allow applicants without social security numbers to apply for financial aid! The Better FAFSA includes the greatest updates to the form and application process seen in...
The Importance of Partnerships for School Districts
The Importance of Partnerships between School Districts & Nonprofits The following article was written by Jen LoPiccolo, Director of School and District Partnerships at the National Partnership for Student Success. Core memories are those extremely emotional...
Focusing on Family Engagement in Richmond Public Schools
Focusing On Family Engagement in Richmond Public Schools Like so many districts, chronic absenteeism was a major challenge for Richmond Public Schools (RPS) after the pandemic—at one point nearing a 40 percent chronically absent rate. Upon making it a district-wide...
Partnering with AmeriCorps Promise Fellows at Minneapolis Public Schools
Partnering with AmeriCorps Promise Fellows at Minneapolis Public Schools In school year 2021-22, chronic absenteeism increased sharply to a rate of 51% in Minneapolis Public Schools owing to a number of factors during the pandemic. Since its height in the 2021-2022...
Integrating a Focus on Attendance into Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports in Columbus City Schools
Integrating a Focus on Attendance into Positive Behavior Interventions & Supportsin Columbus City Schools In the 2021-2022 school year, Columbus City Schools (CCS) served nearly 47,000 pre-K-12 students. Of these students, nearly 30,000 were chronically absent,...
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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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