學校、家庭與社區建立夥伴關係，進行密切的教育互動與合作，將使三方均獲益，最終使學生學習獲得成功，已是不爭之事實。在美國，關於學校、家庭與社區夥伴關係之建立，近年來最受到注目者之一是約翰霍普金斯大學社會學教授Joyce J. L. Epstein所建立的「夥伴關係學校全國網絡」(National Network of Partnership Schools, NNPS)。本文依據所蒐集的文獻，整理說明其所主張的學校、家庭與社區影響重疊圓理論模式，以了解學校、家庭與社區的動態關係，再針對她歷經多年發展而成的學校、家庭與社區夥伴關係主張，以及其所建立的全國網絡作介紹，以供我國相關人員經營學校的參考。

It is indisputably that establishing school-family-community partnerships and making closely interaction and collaboration among all three parties will ultimately enable students learning to be successful. In recent years, engaging in school-family-community partnerships was the one of the most noticeable event in US. The National Network of Partnership Schools, NNPS, established by Joyce J. L. Epstein, a sociology professor at Johns Hopkins University, already become a known matter. In this paper, based on the collection of literatures, organize Epstein’s advocates described school-family-community partnership theory model of overlapping spheres of influence to understand the dynamic relationship between school, family and community. This paper also introduces her advocates of NNPS through many years development and then provide for proposals of management of our schools.