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BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS FOR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT. WELCOME & SESSION OVERVIEW. Opportunities to strengthen existing school partnerships for student achievement. WELCOME & SESSION OVERVIEW. Adults Rely On One Another Student Achievement Is Our Focus - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS FOR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
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Opportunities to strengthen existing school partnerships for student achievement
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Adults Rely On One Another
Student Achievement Is Our Focus
We Are All Focused on College, Career & Life Readiness
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Welcoming Environment
Who Might This Be?
We Are ALL Partners In A Child’s Journey
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Partnerships That Build Independent Learners
Student Achievement Is a Cyclical and Ongoing Partnership
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Open DialogueTrustResults In Partnership for Student Achievement
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Prosperous Futures
Successful College Graduates
Productive & Engaged Adults
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Learning Objectives:
Discuss the importance of building strong partnerships for student achievement
Create a 1-page Partnership Agreement that defines our school’s vision of a partnership for student achievement, include examples of how all adults will strengthen existing partnerships
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Adopting Group Agreements: Why Group Agreements?
Support the formation of a professional community:
Support Staff, Parents, Teachers, Administrators and
Community
Define expected behavior among group members
Process for adopting collaborative norms that help a
working group meet meeting objectives
Establishes effects of adult culture on student
learning
Adaptive Schools Foundation Seminar: Learning Guide
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Group Agreements:
Sample: All adults will keep an open mind and respect the
perspectives presented by all members of the school
community
Sample: We will use a meeting process that gives everyone
an opportunity to participate
Sample: We will work towards sharing ideas and comments
that strengthen the community of adult learners that are
partners at this school
Others?
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Group Agreements:
Step 1: Participants will write down one group
agreement on a 4x6 index card
Step 2: Starting with the back row participants will
read their group agreement out loud
Step 3: Pass all index cards to the end of the isle
where a support facilitator will collect and tape all
index cards in a wall that is visible to all
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ICE BREAKER:Welcome and Introductions
Step 1: Get a 4x6 Index card
Step 2: Write your name and define what it means to have strong partnerships forstudent achievement at a school site
Step 3: Answer the following prompt on the back of the card:Give an example of what this can look like at a school:
School Staff/Parent School Staff/Student Student/Parent
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ICE BREAKER: Block Party!!
Step 1: Introduce yourself to an elbow partner.
Step 2: Spend 1-minute with the elbow partner and share your definition and examples of partnership
Step 3: Once time is up, the other partner shares their responses.
Step 4: Hand your index card to your partner.
Step 5: Repeat process with a new partner.
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Small Group Reflection:Round Robin
Step 1: Find your original 4x6 index card
Step 2: In your small group, every participant will respond to the following prompts:
What were some of the ways in which participants described what a school partnership for student achievement might look like?
Why were the ideas presented important to build authentic partnerships for student achievement?
Step 3: In this activity, one person speaks at a time, without cross-talk. You may share following a clockwise order
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WHAT KEY INGREDIENT IS NEEDED IN A
PARTNERSHIP?
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PARTNERSHIP RESEARCH
Boundary Dynamics: Implications for Building Parent-School PartnershipsMarilyn Price-Mitchell
Research cites that partnerships focused on student achievement result with gains in student achievement
In recent years, the role of parents has shifted from parental involvement and participation to parent-school partnerships
The use of parent-school partnerships implies shared and equally valued roles in education that support student achievement
What Key Ingredient Is Needed In A What Key Ingredient Is Needed In A Partnership? Partnership?
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PARTNERSHIP RESEARCH
Boundary Dynamics: Implications for Building Parent-School PartnershipsMarilyn Price-Mitchell
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The concept of partnership is widely supported in the literature on education and school improvement
Rather than focusing on parts of systems or spheres of influence, partnership emphasizes improvement of the entire system
Integrated relationships have the potential to generate learning for children and for adults seeking to address and solve the complex issues of our times: graduating students prepared for college, career and life
What Key Ingredient Is Needed In A What Key Ingredient Is Needed In A Partnership? Partnership?
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Partnerships Based on Trust
Trust In SchoolsA Core Resource for School ReformAnthony S. Bryk & Barbara Schneider
Partnerships based on trust are grounded on the following principles:
RespectPersonal RegardCompetence in ResponsibilitiesPersonal Integrity
What Key Ingredient Is Needed In A What Key Ingredient Is Needed In A Partnership? Partnership?
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Partnerships Based on Trust
Trust In SchoolsA Core Resource for School ReformAnthony S. Bryk & Barbara Schneider
“An interrelated set of mutual dependencies are embedded within the social exchanges in any school community. Regardless of how much formal power any given role has in a school community, all participants remain dependent on others to achieve desired outcomes and feel empowered by their efforts.”
What Key Ingredient Is Needed In A What Key Ingredient Is Needed In A Partnership? Partnership?
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BUILDING A UNITED VISION FOR
PARTNERSHIPS THAT SUPPORT STUDENT
ACHIEVEMENT
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School Definition of Partnership
By the end of the session, all participants will work towards adopting a definition of partnerships for student achievement at ______________ ES/MS/HS.
We will produce a 1-page handout called a Partnership Agreement
The handout will include our definition of Partnership as well as examples of ways in which all adults will work towards building strong partnerships for student achievement
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School Definition of Partnership
Step 1: Everyone gets 2 blank 4x6 index cards.
Step 2: Write down any edits or leave your existing definition of partnership
Step 3: On the 1st index card, write down your personal definition of partnership based on what you have learned today
Step 4: Write down one example of ways in which all adults will build partnerships for student achievement on the 2nd index card
Step 5: 5 Minutes to complete Steps 1-4
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School Definition of Partnership
Step 1: Participants post their index cards on designated wall spaces next to the group agreements written earlier
Step 2: Participants will then receive 18 stickers: 6 for the group agreements, 6 for the partnership definitions and 6 for the examples of partnership
Step 3: Once all participants are ready, everyone is welcome to engage in a gallery walk to place their stickers on their top choices
The top 6 group agreements, definitions and examples of ways to build strong partnerships will be used to build our Partnership Agreement
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School Definition of Partnership
We will now build a united vision of partnership using the 6 definitions selected by participants.
The principal, a teacher, classified staff member and parent volunteer will put together a definition of partnership
The rest of the participants can take a 5-minute recess
Following the recess, we will share our definition and Partnership Agreement
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Closing Thought:Identify an elbow partner and answer the following question:
What did we learn today about partnerships? What actions will you take as an individual to honor our new group agreements and definition of partnerships for student achievement?
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What Did We Achieve?
The importance of building strong partnerships for student achievement
Created a 1-page Partnership Agreement that builds a united vision for partnerships for student achievement
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NEXT STEPSNEXT STEPS
Our next steps will be:
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