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Investing in Partnerships for Student Success

STEP 2: Create a Vision for Your Partnership

PURPOSE

Use this template to encourage stakeholders to suggest their priorities regarding educational improvement and then work toward agreement of the priorities the partnership will address. These priorities may lie in academic areas (for example, reading, mathematics, preparing students for college, school-to-career) and/or academic support areas (for example, technology, afterschool programs, family involvement, school-based management). When they have agreed upon priorities, stakeholders can then address related goals and their partnership's vision/statement of purpose.

DIRECTIONS

List and rank stakeholders? potential academic/academic support priority areas for your partnership; some suggestions have been given and others can be added. Then develop goals for each partner's priority areas. Order priority areas and goals. For each goal, list the customer(s) you seek to affect. Finally, state your partnership's vision/statement of purpose.

QUESTIONS TO ASK

  1. Have the educational priority areas of all stakeholders been considered, clearly defined, and ranked?

  2. Have the goals of all stakeholders been clarified?

  3. Is the partnership's statement of purpose (vision) clear and concise?

  4. Does the partnership's vision address/complement educational goals? support school quality and student learning and achievement (success)?

  5. Is the vision shared by all the stakeholders involved?

  6. Does the vision define who will be the customer(s) for your partnership efforts?

  7. Does the vision commit to comprehensive long-term efforts to improve education?

UPON COMPLETION OF STEP 2, you will have agreed upon partnership priority areas and related partnership goals, determined the customers you expect to affect through your efforts, and completed your partnership?s vision/statement of purpose.

Step 2: Create a Vision for the Partnership

Potential Priority Areas

Priority for Partners?Rank 1-5 (high)

Goals

Order of Priorities (based on rankings)

Customer(s)

Educators

Family

Business

Community

Other

Academic Areas

Reading

                

Math

                

Preparing Students for College

                

School-to-Career

                

Other

                

Academic Supports

Technology

                

After School

                

Family Involvement

                

School-Based Management

                

Other

                

Partnership Vision/Statement of Purpose:

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