The NPSS Hub is Now the Partnership for Student Success

Posted by Partnership for Student Success on January 28, 2025

We are reaching out from the Johns Hopkins University Everyone Graduates Center with an exciting update about the work of the National Partnership for Student Success Support Hub.

As you may know, we have had the privilege over the last 2.5 years of collaborating with the U.S. Department of Education and AmeriCorps on 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, nonprofits, 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. And in partnership with you, we have achieved that goal and so much more!

The NPSS grew into a coalition including over 220 supporting champion organizations, 70 higher education institutions, and over 200 school districts, each of which has played a key role in mobilizing additional people to provide evidence-based support to students. And you already know this big news – but always worth celebrating knocking it out of the park! 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. (Learn more about the accomplishments of the NPSS in our Impact Report.)

As planned, our public-private partnership with the U.S. Department of Education and AmeriCorps ended on January 19th, but the work of the NPSS Hub at the Johns Hopkins Everyone Graduates Center will continue under a new name–Partnership for Student Success.

At the core of this work is local community collaboration to support all students through evidence-based practices led by many of you. We 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, or 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, nonprofits, 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.

We appreciate your support during this time of transition and look forward to our continued collaboration. Stay tuned for more resources, branding, and some written pieces about our focus and strategy over the next two and a half years.