Partnership for Student Success: Supporting Champions Virtual Meeting – Feb 26

Posted by Partnership for Student Success on February 18, 2025

Over the last two and a half years, AmeriCorps has collaborated with the U.S. Department of Education and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University to operate the National Partnership for Student Success (NPSS) initiative through a public-private partnership aimed at supporting students to recover from the impacts of the pandemic. The NPSS was charged with supporting schools, districts, nonprofit organizations, and communities to recruit, train, and support an additional 250,000 people in evidence-based and people-powered student support roles – tutors, mentors, student success coaches, postsecondary transition coaches, and wraparound/integrated student support coordinators – by 2025.

With support from AmeriCorps programs, sponsors, and partners, the NPSS grew into a coalition including more than 220 supporting champion organizations, 70 higher education institutions, and more than 200 school districts, each of which has played a key role in mobilizing additional people to provide evidence-based support to students. In October 2024, we were excited to announce that the results from a nationally representative survey of school principals indicated that between fall 2022 and spring 2024, an estimated 323,000 additional adults stepped up and served in NPSS-aligned roles in schools nationwide. And in January 2025, the NPSS released the 2022- 2025 Impact Report to capture the achievements and impacts of this innovative, collective effort.

As planned, our public-private partnership ended on Sunday, Jan. 19, but the work of the NPSS Hub at the Johns Hopkins Everyone Graduates Center will continue under a new name – Partnership for Student Success, or PSS. At the core of this work is local community collaboration to support all students through evidence-based practices led by many of you. The hub will continue this work through the following focus areas:

1. Operating the Community Collaboration Challenge microgrant program, which provides direct support to communities across the country to gather community stakeholders and pilot evidence-based programs.
2. Leading strategic efforts to engage specific populations–such as older adults, college students, high school students, AmeriCorps members and AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers, and corporate volunteers – in jobs, volunteer roles, and career-connected learning opportunities supporting P-12 students.
3. Organizing solutions networks and working groups to address pervasive challenges facing students and facilitate collaboration, information sharing, and learning between practitioners working toward shared solutions.
4. Providing technical assistance and networking support to schools, districts, nonprofit organizations, and state/local government to support implementation.
5. Developing shared tools and resources to support the implementation of evidence-based student supports.
6. Conducting research on the use and reach of evidence-based and people-powered student supports nationwide.

The PSS will host a monthly supporting champions call and briefing on Wednesday, February 26, at 2 p.m. ET. You can register for that call here.

In addition, on Thursday, February 27, at 12 p.m. ET, the partnership is hosting a focus group to discuss opportunities and challenges related to engaging college students in roles supporting P-12 students in rural areas. If you would like to participate, you can register here.