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Investing in Partnerships for Student Success

STEP 3: Take Stock Based on Partnership Vision

PURPOSE

Use this template to assess the success of current efforts to meet needs in the academic and academic support areas that stakeholders have determined are the partnership?s priorities.

DIRECTIONS

Review the priority areas on which you expect to focus your partnership efforts. When you have chosen the area(s) on which to focus, list the extent to which stakeholder priorities align (match and/or support) appropriately with school, school district, and/or state educational goals.

Note: check the rankings of data collected and recorded on Template 2.

Collect and review the available data to determine the status of improvement/achievement in your priority area(s). As part of this process, list current (1) approaches to achieve results as well as (2) level(s) of success.

QUESTIONS TO ASK

  1. Have you reviewed the educational priorities upon which stakeholders have agreed?

  2. Do stakeholders know the kind, quality, and impact of partnership activities that are currently being implemented in the community?

  3. What tools will be used to determine the success of these current activities? Will these tools (records, test scores, portfolios, interviews, reports, focus groups, surveys, and the like) clarify and determine:

    1. For education:

      • Achievement levels

      • Graduation rates

      • Students taking advanced courses

      • Students interning

      • Student attendance

      • Ratio of computers to students

      • Technological competency of students/teachers

      • Percent of students participating in afterschool programs

      • Parent attendance at school/parent conferences and other school events

      • Educators? interest and willingness to actively participate in a collaborative effort

    2. For business:

      • Workforce demographics

      • How companies do business

      • The extent to which companies can meet their business objectives

      • Recruitment, retention, and productivity of a qualified workforce

      • Balance of work and family life

      • Employee volunteerism

      • A company?s image

    3. For family:

      • The school/home relationship and dialogue

      • Quality and quantity of family involvement in their children?s education (at home and at school)

      • Children?s access to postsecondary training, education, and work

    4. For the community-at-large:

      • The quality of community life

      • The development of productive, responsible members of the community

      • Volunteerism

      • Real estate/community economic development

  4. With this assessment, do stakeholders have access to the following information about the educational system (individual school(s), local district(s), state education agency) with which they plan to partner?

    1. The resources, people, and time the educational system can offer?

    2. The extent to which the system?s/other stakeholders? priorities complement each other? "Clash"?

      • The existing challenges/barriers to involvement?

      • The system?s view of stakeholder participation and contributions?

  5. Would it be more effective and efficient to join and support an existing collaborative to avoid "reinventing the wheel?" Or, is a new effort required in order to achieve your stakeholders? vision?

UPON COMPLETION OF STEP 3, you will have baseline data about the success of current strategies and programs to achieve educational goals in designated academic and academic support areas.


Step 3: Take Stock Based on Partnership Vision

 

Priority Areas

Alignment of Stakeholders? Priorities with Education Goals

Where Are You Now? (assessment)

Current Approaches Used to Achieve Goals

Level(s) of Success

Academic Areas

Reading

        

Math

        

Preparing Students for College

        

School-to-Career

        

Other

        

Academic Supports

Technology

        

After School

        

Family Involvement

        

School-Based Management

        

Other

        

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