Engaging High School Students in Evidence-Based Roles
Engaging High School Students in Evidence-Based Roles Special thanks to Read Alliance & Los Angeles Trust for Children’s Health for their contributions and feedback on this brief.
Leveraging Partnerships Between Higher Education & P-12 Systems to Support Students via Federal Work-Study Roles
This guide outlines initial steps and considerations for joining the PSS Higher Education Coalition to placing college students in PSS-aligned community service roles in P-12 schools and out-of-school time programs.
High-Impact Tutoring: Out-of-School Time Playbook
The Playbook aims to support OST providers and networks that support OST providers (e.g., afterschool networks, national affiliates, state service commissions) that are interested in expanding or beginning to offer high-impact tutoring programs.
Partnering with Success Mentors in Greater Johnstown Public Schools
Partnering with Success Mentors inGreater Johnstown Public Schools Johnstown, a small city within rural surroundings, had an average chronic absenteeism rate of 36.4% for secondary students and 28.5% for elementary pupils. More concerning are the rates for subgroups,...
Presentation: Meeting the Chronic Absenteeism Challenge—What Do We Know?
Meeting the Chronic Absenteeism Challenge—What Do We Know? (Presentation) The following resource was adapted from a presentation delivered by Hedy Chang, Executive Director of Attendance Works, and Dr. Robert Balfanz, Director of the Johns Hopkins University Everyone...
Intergenerational Volunteering
Intergenerational Volunteering The following article appears courtesy of Carol Ayars, CVA, AmeriCorps Seniors Programs Manager with Senior Connections, The Capital Area Agency on Aging in Richmond, Virginia. One of my earliest childhood memories is helping my Granny...
Program Spotlight: Step Up Tutoring
Program Spotlight: Step Up Tutoring Step Up Tutoring is a nonprofit that provides high-impact tutoring to help close the opportunity gap. Step Up Tutoring and Ernst and Young piloted a program for a day of service for their employees where they created an online...
Program Spotlight: Reading Partners
Program Spotlight: Reading Partners Reading Partners Connects is our virtual tutoring program where volunteers provide 1:1 literacy lessons to Kindergarten-4th grade students via our online tutoring platform using our evidence-based curriculum. Content integrates our...
Program Spotlight: CricketTogether
Program Spotlight: CricketTogether CricketTogether is the mission-based, mentoring-for-children initiative of Cricket Media, Inc. TryEngineering Together (co-founded by Cricket Media and The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) partnered with Schneider...
Program Spotlight: iCouldBe
Program Spotlight: iCouldBe iCouldBe is a virtual mentoring program embedded in classrooms in historically underserved communities across the country, empowering young people to identify and engage support networks in their day-to-day lives and broker new professional...
Step Up Tutoring: Interview with CEO
Program Spotlight: Step Up Tutoring Step Up Tutoring is a Supporting Champion of the National Partnership for Student Success. In 2024, Step Up Tutoring was selected as an NPSS Community Collaboration Challenge awardee. Meet Sam Olivieri, CEO of Step Up Tutoring. For...
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...
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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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