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Power Up Your Power Up Your PartnershipsPartnerships
The Campaign to Expand School-The Campaign to Expand School-Community Partnerships in BostonCommunity Partnerships in Boston
Boston Leaders for the Future of EducationBoston Leaders for the Future of Education
Innovation Incubator Proposal PresentationInnovation Incubator Proposal PresentationAugust 26, 2009August 26, 2009
Hilary Brayton | James Liou| Lindsey Musen | Katie Hilary Brayton | James Liou| Lindsey Musen | Katie SagarinSagarin
Statement of Statement of NeedNeed
ALIGNMENT: BPS BPS and City of Boston and City of Boston commitment to commitment to community community partnerships to partnerships to meet meet developmental and developmental and academic needsacademic needs
RESEARCHRESEARCH: School-community partnerships are important for healthy child development and academic success.
NEEDNEED: school-level discrepancy in the programs and services available to children in the Boston Public Schools
CBOs
Partnership Developme
nt Tools
Schools
What’s Needed: What’s Needed: Connections and Information-Connections and Information-
Sharing Sharing
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Seizing the OpportunitySeizing the Opportunity
THE OPPORTUNITY: THE OPPORTUNITY:
- promotion of partnership development tools- promotion of partnership development tools
- navigation assistance for school leaders- navigation assistance for school leaders
THE INNOVATIVE SOLUTION: THE INNOVATIVE SOLUTION:
Power Up Your Partnerships: Power Up Your Partnerships: The The Campaign to Expand School-Campaign to Expand School-Community Partnerships in BostonCommunity Partnerships in Boston
Examples of Partnership Examples of Partnership Development ToolsDevelopment Tools
Resource TypeResource Type ExampleExample
Online ToolkitsOnline Toolkits DELTAS’ Community DELTAS’ Community School Toolkit, NIOST’s School Toolkit, NIOST’s Connecting School and Connecting School and After School: 15 Ways to After School: 15 Ways to Improve PartnershipsImprove Partnerships
OST DirectoriesOST Directories Boston After School and Boston After School and Beyond’sBeyond’s
BOSTONavigator, City of BOSTONavigator, City of Boston’s Youth ZoneBoston’s Youth Zone
Professional Professional NetworksNetworks
Build the Out-of-School Build the Out-of-School Time Network (BOSTTime Network (BOSTnetnet ) )
Resource Resource MappingMapping
DELTAS, FSSRoundtable, DELTAS, FSSRoundtable, Boston After School and Boston After School and Beyond’s collaborative Beyond’s collaborative resource mapping projectresource mapping project
Overview of Proposal Overview of Proposal Objectives Objectives
1.1. Increase awarenessIncrease awareness of partnership of partnership development tools.development tools.
2.2. ExpandExpand useuse of partnership development of partnership development tools.tools.
3.3. Enable partnership development Enable partnership development through through new or strengthened school-based new or strengthened school-based partnerships.partnerships.
Power Up Your Power Up Your Partnerships Publicity Partnerships Publicity
CampaignCampaignReaching
out to Schools
Providing Supports
Educating Key
Stakeholders
Making a Political
Case
Target Audience:
School Leaders
Implementation ProcessImplementation Process
1. Gather information & advice from 1. Gather information & advice from intermediary organizations. intermediary organizations.
2. Assemble Implementation Team.2. Assemble Implementation Team.3. Develop publicity plan.3. Develop publicity plan.4. Create audio, video, and print 4. Create audio, video, and print
materials.materials.5. Carry out campaign & assist 5. Carry out campaign & assist
schools.schools.6. Evaluate process and impact.6. Evaluate process and impact.
Suggested Resources Suggested Resources • Human resourcesHuman resources
– Project ManagerProject Manager– Interns: planning, Interns: planning,
development, development, deliverydelivery
• Physical Physical resourcesresources– Media equipmentMedia equipment– PrintingPrinting– Meeting spaceMeeting space
• Partnerships/SupportPartnerships/Support– BPS officesBPS offices– City DepartmentsCity Departments– UniversitiesUniversities– CBOsCBOs– Local FoundationsLocal Foundations
• Fiscal resourcesFiscal resources– Depends on scale of Depends on scale of
project and project and solicitation of in-kind solicitation of in-kind contributions.contributions.
Evaluation Strategy & Evaluation Strategy & Target GoalsTarget Goals
Objective Measurement Tool Sample Targets
Awarenesspre- and post- survey of school leaders
80% new knowledge of available resources
Usepre- and post-survey of intermediary organizations
30% increased website traffic; contact with 20 new schools
Actionpre- and post- survey of school leaders
50% new partnership; 30% improve partnership
Long-term ImpactLong-term ImpactBy catalyzing school-CBO partnership development, By catalyzing school-CBO partnership development,
this campaign offers:this campaign offers:
• Student benefitsStudent benefits– Increased access to programs and Increased access to programs and
servicesservices– Healthy child and youth developmentHealthy child and youth development– Improved academic performanceImproved academic performance
• System benefitsSystem benefits– Leverage of existing resourcesLeverage of existing resources– Improved communicationsImproved communications– Sustainable partnershipsSustainable partnerships– Efficiency of school-connected Efficiency of school-connected
servicesservices
Advances goals of the Acceleration Agenda:
“Develop partnerships with others to support students’ academic, non-academic, and post-secondary success.”
“Accelerate academic achievement and graduation for all; close achievement and access gaps.”
“Provide effective and efficient operational and fiscal services.”
“Increase the active participation of adults in children’s education and development.”
Long-term ImpactLong-term Impact
(C) Boston Public Schools, 2008
Thank YouThank You
• Boston Leaders for the Future of Boston Leaders for the Future of EducationEducation
• Mayor Menino and City of BostonMayor Menino and City of Boston• Dr. Carol Johnson and Boston Public Dr. Carol Johnson and Boston Public
SchoolsSchools• Tony SiddallTony Siddall• Abby Weiss, Full-Service Schools Abby Weiss, Full-Service Schools
RoundtableRoundtable• Marta Gredler, BPS DELTASMarta Gredler, BPS DELTAS• Chris Smith and Patricia McGuiness, Chris Smith and Patricia McGuiness,
Boston After School and BeyondBoston After School and BeyondBoston