Investing in Partnerships for Student Success: A Basic Tool for Community Stakeholders to Guide Educational Partnership Development and Management:

• Is designed for use collaboratively by a broad-range of community stakeholder groups, including educators, businesses, families, community, and government. It is, by intent, inclusive and encourages leaders to use this material as a guide and support throughout the continuous improvement process for partnership planning, development, implementation, management, monitoring/evaluation, and long-term, comprehensive planning.
• Can be used as a tool to guide and support small and/or large local, state, regional, and/or national collaborative efforts; it is not limited to a particular curriculum area or partnership type (volunteer or adopt-a-school program, regional collaborative, school-to-work effort; legislative advocacy).
• Offers basic, no frills guidance to plan and develop partnerships, implement and manage these partnerships, monitor and evaluate these efforts, and make decisions related to program improvement and expansion. It is designed to address the basic challenges that prevent and/or limit successful achievement of goals and objectives. Most important, the product?s continuous improvement process encourages stakeholders to remain focused on student achievement and school, student, and partnership success.

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[Continuous Improvement Process Model]