Developing Statewide Partnerships – A Washington Perspective

1. Developing Statewide Partnerships – A Washington Perspective Building Capacity for State Science Education October 12, 2012 Indianapolis Ellen Ebert, Director Teaching and Learning Science Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction Cheryl Lydon, Science Program Manager Puget Sound Educational Service District Phil Bell, Professor of Learning Sciences University of Washington

2. Session Goals • Examine a new kind of partnership called “collective impact • Apply specific “conditions” of collective impact to NGSS implementation plan

3. Washington’s Story Ambitious networks = great ambassadors • LASER Networks • ESD Networks • Math-Science Partnership Networks (including Higher Education) • Community and Business Networks (including non-profits and professional organizations) • Washington STEM Network • Continuous efforts to expand the network

4. Collective Impact Model • Five Features • Common Agenda • Shared Measurements • Backbone Organization • Continuous Communication • Shared Data • Mutually Reinforcing Activities What is it that we can take away from this model that is useful for our work?

5. Strong CollaborationsExamples Harlem Children’s Zone Doing whatever it takes to educate children and strengthen the community. Strive Partnership Every Child, Every Step, Cradle to Career Community Center for Education Results Sparking Collective Action from Cradle to College and Career

6. From cradle to college to community: preparing our kids for bright futures.

7. Collective Improvement/Collective Impact

8. Five Conditions Mini-Jigsaw Each person • Select two of the five conditions (Be sure all five conditions are covered at your table) • Read about your two conditions and record “GEMS” or essential elements on the Collective Impact Case Study Record Sheet

9. Share highlights from your readings with your table team • Collectively, identify and record ideas from the readings that you can apply to your state NGSS Implementation Planning

10. Add More to Your Record Sheet Discuss at your table . . . How can the five elements support your state NGSS planning process? What other key questions need to be on the table? (Don’t include $$$)

11. Developing Reciprocal Partnerships Partnerships between science-rich institutions and local communities show great promise for fostering inclusive science learning. Developing productive partnerships requires considerable time and energy. Reframe one-way ‘outreach’to focus on ‘reciprocal partnerships’ that attend to context and lived experience within communities

12. Reciprocal Partnerships… • are mutually beneficial to all parties; interests of each group are attended to • operate through shared governance & decision-making • involve equitable sharing of financial and material resources & project benefits • look out for and work against power differentialsthat may be operating (e.g., between university and community / school participants) • leverage diverse expertise of the team to create productive learning opportunities

14. Engagement in Our Work “Simply handing over a check to his favorite school or college does not end a businessman’s responsibility to education” ~Dave Packard, 1966

15. Collective Impact/Collective Improvement http://youtu.be/JircsPgh_FU

16. Collective Impact Resources Articles • Channeling Change Hanleybrown, Kania & Kramer 2012 • Collective Impact Kania and Kramer, 2011 • Catalytic Philanthropy Kramer 2009 • Leading Boldly Heifitz, Kania & Kramer, 2004 Book • Do More Than Give: The Six Practices of Donors Who Change the World Crutchfield, Kania & Kramer, 2011

17. Thank you!