Orange and yellow graphic with a smiling student and teacher in the corner. It reads "FREE ONLINE TRAINING" and "SUMMER ENROLLMENT IS OPEN" with a blue arrow pointing to the next graphic. The PSS logo is in the bottom middle in white.

Enrollment is OPEN for our free summer training cohort!

Courses include:
✅ College Student Mentoring
✅ Postsecondary Coaching 101
✅ Peer-to-Peer Support
✅ After FAFSA: Paying for College
✅ Supporting Uncertain Seniors

⏳ Deadline: May 22 🔗 www.partnershipstudentsuccess.org/online-train...
#K12 #EDU

A graphic titled Volunteering Redefined: Managing and Advocating for Older Adult Volunteers. The event is scheduled for April 23rd at 2pm ET. The background shows a blurred image of an adult and child working together. The bottom of the graphic features logos for AARP Foundation Experience Corps, AmeriCorps, Partnership for Student Success, and Idealist.

Older adult volunteers stay with programs for 7 years on average. They support our students over the long-run.

PSS, Idealist, & AARP will discuss how to advocate for these volunteers.

April 23 | 2 PM ET
🔗 tinyurl.com/nr684jfx

#VolunteerManagement #StudentSuccess

A promotional graphic for a summit session titled Building Tomorrow’s Educators Apprenticeship Pathways that Ignite Careers. The graphic has a bright blue background and features the logos for Apprenticeships For America in the top left and the Partnership for Student Success in the top right. Four guest speakers are featured with their portraits and titles. From left to right they are Katherine Bassett (Chief Executive Officer at New Jersey Tutoring Corps), Kate Cochran (Managing Director at Partnership for Student Success), Ben Fritch Ph.D. (Director of Teacher Pathway Programs at Teachers College, Ball State University) and Katrina Gobins (Executive Director of New York Programs at Ampact). A dark blue box in the bottom right corner lists the event details as May 21 2026 from 9:45 AM to 10:45 AM in Washington DC.

One month until the @Apprenticeships for America Summit! Hear from @ps-success.bsky.social @njtutoringcorps.bsky.social @ballstate.bsky.social & @ampact.bsky.social on programs supporting novice educators.


🔗 summit.apprenticeshipsforamerica.org/pages/worksh...

#Apprenticeships #TeacherPathways

That’s a wrap on an exciting week at the ASC National Service Training!

We’re heading home energized by our session on engaging older adult volunteers and brainstorming ways to support students and communities. Thanks to everyone who connected with us!
#ASC2026 #NationalService

A light blue graphic titled Join The Upcoming California Fall 2026 Cohort, which is powered by the Standards of Excellence for Outcomes Based Contracting. Text on the right invites up to 10 districts to join in designing and implementing high dosage tutoring programs that tie payment to measurable student outcomes. An orange box indicates a deadline of May 8, 2026, above a QR code and the text Limited Spots Apply Today. A white box on the left titled Why Join? lists benefits including results based funding, mutual accountability, strategic procurement, proven success, and field leadership. The bottom of the graphic features the OBC logo and notes the collaboration with the California Department of Education and the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence.

California Districts: Partner with the CCEE, CA Dept. of Education & Center for OBC to launch high-dosage tutoring where payment is tied to student growth.

Join the Fall 2026 Cohort
Apply by May 8: obc.southerneducation.org/about-the-ce...

#Tutoring #Education #K12 #CaliforniaEdu

Promotional graphic for an ASC National Service Training workshop. The top right features the workshop title in white text: "WORKSHOP Bridging the Gap: Engaging Older Adults in P-12 Student Success Through Purposeful Recruiting." The left side of the graphic lists the event details: April 16, 2026, from 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM CT in Addison, TX. The center and right sections feature headshots of two speakers. On the left, Jennifer Bennett: Director, Education & Training at Idealist. On the right, Dorothy Jones: Director of Corporate, State & Local Partnerships at Partnership for Student Success. Logos for Idealist and the Partnership for Student Success are included along the bottom edge. The background is a light blue with soft, swirling circular patterns.

Let’s reshape how we engage older adult volunteers in schools.

Join PSS, Idealist, & Volunteer Match for a workshop on current trends and outreach strategies.

4/16, 10:45 AM: Bridging the Gap: Engaging Older Adults in P–12 Student Success
#StudentSuccess #K12

The ASC National Service Training is here!

Join a PSS Coffee Chat (Exhibit Hall)
4/15
➤ 10:15 AM: Funding Student Supports
➤ 2:15 PM: Engaging Older Adult Volunteers

4/16
➤ 10:45 AM: Workshop on engaging older adult volunteers in P-12 with Idealist.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: It Takes a Village: Identifying, Forming, and Maintaining Community Partnerships. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. It takes a village to build strong mentoring programs, and meaningful community partnerships are at the core. In this three-part webinar series led by MENTOR Nebraska and the Connecticut Governor’s Prevention Partnership, we will explore how you can identify and recruit community partners, navigate relationship development, and strengthen collaboration. Attendees will gain practical strategies for building trust, aligning goals, and sustaining partnerships overtime.

Strong partnerships lead to strong #mentoring programs.

Join @mentornational.bsky.social , MENTOR Nebraska, & CT Governor’s Prevention Partnership for a 3-part webinar series on forming & sustaining deep community collaborations.

🗓️ Apr 30, May 21, June 30
🔗 tinyurl.com/yrbxm7wb

A graphic titled Volunteering Redefined: Managing and Advocating for Older Adult Volunteers. The event is scheduled for April 23rd at 2pm ET. The background shows a blurred image of an adult and child working together. The bottom of the graphic features logos for AARP Foundation Experience Corps, AmeriCorps, Partnership for Student Success, and Idealist.

We need to set our older adult volunteers up for success to support students.

Join PSS, Idealist, and AARP Foundation to learn strategies for management and training.

April 23 @ 2PM ET
🔗 tinyurl.com/nr684jfx

#K12 #VolunteeringRedefined #AmeriCorpsSeniors

California’s Success Coaches Support Academic Recovery, Relieve Teacher Workload | LA School Report California’s schools are facing a dual challenge: closing persistent academic gaps while rebuilding an educator workforce stretched thin. Unacceptably high numbers of students are testing below state standards, 50% in reading and more than 60% in math, according to state assessment data from the California Department of Education. Chronic absenteeism, while improving from pandemic peaks,...

CA teachers & students need support. One model leads the way.

In a new op-ed from LA School Report, @cityyear.bsky.social ’s Maggie Franco shares how the improves outcomes:

77% improved annual grades
95% graduation rate

Read more: tinyurl.com/536cj7ws

A blue graphic from the Partnership for Student Success titled Engaging Older Adults Coffee Chat: Empowering Staff to Support and Supervise Volunteers. The event is scheduled for April 9th at 3pm ET. The logo for Partnership for Student Success is in the top left corner in white. There’s a gray, blurred out border.

Join PSS, Idealist, and AARP Foundation for an interactive Coffee Chat on supporting school-based mentors & tutors. We’ll brainstorm ways to empower staff & older adult volunteers!

➤ April 9 @ 3PM ET
🔗 tinyurl.com/62w5en62

#Volunteers #K12 #StudentSuccess #Tutoring

A graphic for the STUDENT SUCCESS COACH LEARNING NETWORK. Text explains that the network supports mission aligned organizations deploying Student Success Coaches in New York. The graphic announces a Preproposal Webinar on Wednesday, April 8 from 1 to 2 PM ET. There is a QR code with the text Sign up to learn more! and a photo of several adults in red jackets that say “CITY YEAR” on them, giving high fives to smiling children in an outdoor courtyard with a black fence and a brick building behind them. The graphic’s background features yellow abstract shapes and blue polka dot patterns.

NY education leaders: Join @cityyear.bsky.social ’s Student Success Coach Learning Network. Selected orgs receive $50k to join a statewide cohort for success coaches.

Webinar: 4/8 @ 1PM ET 🔗 tinyurl.com/ww39j4c6
Apply by: 4/20 🔗 www.cityyear.org/sscln-ny/

#StudentSuccess #NY #K12

A promotional graphic for a summit session titled Building Tomorrow’s Educators Apprenticeship Pathways that Ignite Careers. The graphic has a bright blue background and features the logos for Apprenticeships For America in the top left and the Partnership for Student Success in the top right. Four guest speakers are featured with their portraits and titles. From left to right they are Katherine Bassett (Chief Executive Officer at New Jersey Tutoring Corps), Kate Cochran (Managing Director at Partnership for Student Success), Ben Fritch Ph.D. (Director of Teacher Pathway Programs at Teachers College, Ball State University) and Katrina Gobins (Executive Director of New York Programs at Ampact). A dark blue box in the bottom right corner lists the event details as May 21 2026 from 9:45 AM to 10:45 AM in Washington DC.

Learn about apprenticeship models that don’t require a degree to start.

Hear from PSS, New Jersey Tutoring Corp, Ball State University - Teacher's College, & Ampact NY at the AFA Summit on programs supporting novice educators.

🔗 summit.apprenticeshipsforamerica.org/pages/worksh...

A promotional graphic for an event titled Volunteering Redefined: Empowering Staff to Support and Supervise Volunteers. The main text is displayed in bold yellow and white lettering over a blurred background of a child and adult working together. The date and time are listed as April 2nd at 2 PM ET. A white banner at the bottom features the logos for AARP Foundation Experience Corps, AmeriCorps, Partnership for Student Success, and Idealist.

Your volunteers are only as successful as the staff who lead them.

Join PSS, Idealist & AARP Foundation on April 2 to learn how to equip staff to lead multi-generational teams & foster volunteer engagement in student support roles.

4/2 @ 2PM ET 🔗 tinyurl.com/2yjuzth3

#K12 #VolunteerSupport

The 2026 Attendance Awareness Campaign is here!

Join @AttendanceWorks for a 4-part webinar series on preventing chronic absence through belonging and engagement.

Join us April 1 @ 3PM ET and register for the series
🔗 www.attendanceworks.org/resources/we...

#K12 #StudentSuccess

Lorant Peeler is wearing a whit collared shirt and black pants with a purple lanyard, standing behind a table at an event in DC. The table is covered in paper hand outs and business cards and blue table cloth that reads "Partnership for Student Success"

Last Friday, Lorant Peeler represented PSS at the DC Postsecondary Success Summit to strengthen learner pathways across K-12 & higher ed.

College students can gain work-based experience too! Learn how:
🔗 www.partnershipstudentsuccess.org/colleges/
#StudentSuccess #DC #HigherEd #ResiliencyInAction

A promotional graphic announcing a new toolkit for tutor apprenticeships. The left side of the image features a solid blue rectangle with the headline NEW Toolkit for Tutor Apprenticeships in bold yellow and white text. Below a white horizontal line the text reads Watch the Webinar to Learn More Recording Available. The right side of the image is white and features the stacked logos of the National Student Support Accelerator, New Jersey Tutoring Corps Inc, Partnership for Student Success, and Pathways Alliance. The entire white and blue text box is centered over a blurred background of students in a classroom.

ICYMI: Our new Tutor Apprenticeship Toolkit is here!
Build a sustainable, high-impact tutor workforce using the Registered Apprenticeship Program (RAP) model.

Missed the live walkthrough?
Watch the recording: youtu.be/MYgMWEirJEE
Use the toolkit: tinyurl.com/2jsju4aj

Blue promotional image with the words White Paper Release: Powering Workforce Resilience in the Age of AI: The Case for AmeriCorps, co-authored by EDSAFE AI Alliance, City Year, Partnership for Student Success, and Voices for National Service. The graphic also includes a screenshot of the white paper cover and the logos of each co-author.

Today, we’re launching "Powering Workforce Resilience in the Age of AI: The Case for AmeriCorps" with partners at @edsafeaialliance.bsky.social , @cityyear.bsky.social , @ps-success.bsky.social & Voices for National Service.

🔗 www.edsafeai.org/poweringwork...

#AILiteracy #Workforce

Blue promotional image with the words White Paper Release: Powering Workforce Resilience in the Age of AI: The Case for AmeriCorps, co-authored by EDSAFE AI Alliance, City Year, Partnership for Student Success, and Voices for National Service. The graphic also includes a screenshot of the white paper cover and the logos of each co-author.

Today, we’re launching "Powering Workforce Resilience in the Age of AI: The Case for AmeriCorps" with partners at @edsafeaialliance.bsky.social , @cityyear.bsky.social , @ps-success.bsky.social & Voices for National Service.

🔗 www.edsafeai.org/poweringwork...

#AILiteracy #Workforce

Bright Spots Panel Discussion: How Evidence-Based Student Supports are Improving Attendance In this panel discussion moderated by Dr. Robert Balfanz of the Johns Hopkins Everyone Graduate Center, expert panelists share promising practices they use to increase engagement and improve attendance to kick off the March 11th Attendance Solutions Network peer-to-peer learning community. Panelists include Emilio Ortega (Oakland Middle School, Oakland Unified School District, Oakland, CA), Gary Perez (Samara Community School, Children’s Aid, Bronx, NY), and Jess Sobin (OSSE, Washington, DC).

Missed our Attendance Solutions Network Showcase? The recording is live!

Hear how leaders in NYC, CA, and DC are using evidence-based strategies and family engagement to tackle chronic absenteeism.

Watch the 90-minute session: www.youtube.com/watch
#AttendanceMatters #K12

Heading to Dallas for the ASC National Service Training?
Join PSS on 4/16 (10:45 AM CT) for a session on older adult volunteer recruitment.

Plus, visit the Exhibit Hall April 14–15 for Coffee Chats on partnerships & funding! ☕
🔗 tinyurl.com/bdf5nsrr
#Tutoring #K12

A promotional graphic for an event titled Volunteering Redefined: Empowering Staff to Support and Supervise Volunteers. The title is written in bold yellow and white text over a blurred background image of a child and an adult working together at a table. Below the title the date and time are listed as April 2nd at 2 PM ET. The bottom of the graphic features a white banner with the logos of four partner organizations which are AARP Foundation Experience Corps, AmeriCorps, Partnership for Student Success, and Idealist.

Effective student support starts with well-supported staff.

Join us April 2 at 2 PM ET to learn how to empower staff who supervise volunteers and lead intergenerational teams.

🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/2yjuzth3
#StudentSuccess #Tutoring #K12 #AmeriCorpsSeniors

That’s a wrap on #Compact26!

Thanks to everyone who joined Dr. Mariko Cavey & Lorant Peeler to discuss scaling Federal Work-Study for K-12 success. We loved connecting with our #HigherEd peers.

Learn more here: www.partnershipstudentsuccess.org/colleges/
#StudentSuccess #FederalWorkStudy

A celebratory promotional graphic with a blue background and a yellow border. The white text at the top states "Partnership for Student Success Coalition has grown to: Over 250 CHAMPIONS!" The 250 champions is in a white horizontal banner with bold blue flanked by colorful firework illustrations. Underneath the banner, orange text explains that Supporting Champions are leaders from nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, state and local agencies, and state service commissions that inform and support the design, implementation, and learning of our work. The Partnership for Student Success logo, which features a circle of stars above an upward arrow, is in the bottom right corner. A final call to action at the bottom center in white text on the yellow border says Join as a Supporting Champion.

250+ Champions and counting!

The PSS Coalition has hit a huge milestone! Our champions network now includes 250+ leaders and practitioners from nonprofits & state agencies informing the future of #StudentSuccess.

Become a champion: www.partnershipstudentsuccess.org/supporting-c...

Promotional rectangular graphic split into two sections. The left side features a solid blue block with a bold yellow and white headline that reads, "NEW Toolkit for Tutor Apprenticeships! Underneath a thin white dividing line, it reads “Join the Webinar to Learn More: Thurs 3/19 3PM ET.” The right side of the graphic is white and features the logos of the four collaborating organizations: National Student Support Accelerator, New Jersey Tutoring Corps, Inc., Partnership for Student Success, Pathways Alliance. The background behind these elements is a blurred photo of a student and mentor working together.

Coming up Thursday! 📣

Join us 3/19 @ 3PM ET for a deep dive into the Tutor Apprenticeship Toolkit. Learn how apprenticeships create work-based learning for tutors.

Register Now: tinyurl.com/37hxhkx8

#TutorApprenticeship #HighImpactTutoring #StudentSuccess

Promotional graphic for a Compact26 event featuring the Partnership for Student Success logo in the top right corner. Large white text on a blue background announces a "PSS Open Meet-Up." The main text states: "Our Higher Education Coalition helps higher ed connect with community partners to engage college students in meaningful service and work through tutoring, mentoring, and other roles supporting K-12 youth." A yellow text box on the right provides the schedule: "Monday, March 16, 2026, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CT, Hyatt Regency Chicago - Wrigley." Smaller blue text at the bottom adds: "Connect with us to learn how to get involved! The PSS provides free implementation guidance, program stipend opportunities, collaborative working groups, and other resources available through our nationwide network."

Attending #Compact26?

Whether you're scaling Federal Work-Study or exploring how college students can support K-12, join PSS for an Open Social & Meet-Up!

🗓️ Monday, March 16 | 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM CT
🤝 Network & share ideas!

#HigherEd #StudentSuccess #FederalWorkStudy

Promotional rectangular graphic split into two sections. The left side features a solid blue block with a bold yellow and white headline that reads, "NEW Toolkit for Tutor Apprenticeships! Underneath a thin white dividing line, it reads “Join the Webinar to Learn More: Thurs 3/19 3PM ET.” The right side of the graphic is white and features the logos of the four collaborating organizations: National Student Support Accelerator, New Jersey Tutoring Corps, Inc., Partnership for Student Success, Pathways Alliance. The background behind these elements is a blurred photo of a student and mentor working together.

The Tutor Apprenticeship Toolkit from @njtutoringcorps.bsky.social @ps-success.bsky.social The Pathways Alliance & National Student Support Accelerator is here! #Tutoring

Join us on Thursday, March 19th at 3:00pm ET for a webinar exploring the toolkit in depth!
🔗 tinyurl.com/37hxhkx8

Exclusive: New Research Strengthens Case for Virtual Tutoring John Hopkins study found that first graders who received services were still on track in reading a year later with no additional help.

Does virtual tutoring work? The data says yes. Research from @jhueducation.bsky.social on Ignite Reading confirms that virtual models are a high-quality solution.

Read: www.the74million.org/article/excl... #K12

Promo graphic for the "Attendance Solutions Network: Virtual Showcase & Peer-to-Peer Learning Community" webinar. The headline is in bold white and yellow text on a blue background. The event details are listed at the bottom on a yellow banner: "MARCH 11 | 2:00-3:30 PM ET." The graphic features three rectangular headshots with rounded corners of the featured speakers: Emilio Ortega: Program Manager, Community Schools at West Oakland Middle School, Oakland Unified School District (Oakland, CA) on the left. Gary Perez: Community School Director at Samara Community School, The Children's Aid (The Bronx, NY) in the center. And Jessica Sobin: High-Impact Tutoring Director at the Office of the State Superintendent (Washington DC) on the right.

TOMORROW:
Join @ps-success.bsky.social March 11 for a Virtual Showcase with practitioners & peers on attendance solutions. We’re diving into family engagement & integrated student supports to improve attendance.

➤ 3/11 @ 2PM ET
➤ Register now: tinyurl.com/4vey2crv
#K12

A Primer on Sustaining High-Impact Tutoring After ESSER High-quality tutoring has emerged as an important post-pandemic strategy for helping struggling students in public schools. Research has found that tutoring often results in substantial additional…

How do districts sustain high-impact tutoring following the expiration of ESSER?

A new guide from offers a roadmap for funding and support including from

Read: tinyurl.com/me7azr34

#StudentSuccess #ImpactTutoring #K12Education