DIPLOMAS NOW PRINCIPALS INSTITUTE Collaborating with Many Partners for Impact

1. DIPLOMAS NOW PRINCIPALS INSTITUTE Collaborating with Many Partners for Impact Robert Whitman, Ed.D Principal Manual Arts High School

2. Objectives • To share best practices for collaborating with school partnerships to improve student achievement. • To reflect on our current practices and identify new strategies to more effectively collaborate with school partners.

3. What is your understanding of effective collaboration with school partnerships?

4. Partnerships At MAHS LAUSD LA’s Promise Manual Arts High School Wellness Center USC DN St. Johns Health Clinic LA Child Guidance Single Plan for Student Achievement Performance Meter Goals

5. Introducing Partnerships to School Stakeholders • Mobilize key stakeholders and resources to create changes. • Share current resources or the lack thereof. • Discuss most salient needs of the school. • Articulate the need for partnership support. • Establish buy-in with key stakeholders by discussing the rationale for a partnership. • Communicate rationale for partnership with the larger school community.

6. Cultivating Relationships with Partnerships • Articulate school’s strengths/weaknesses. • Create trust with school partners. • Establish clear line of communication. • Form common understanding. • Choose an effective group structure for iterative partnership collaboration with key stakeholders. • Establish benchmarks for ongoing monitoring. • Set up standing meetings between principal and partnership heads. • Develop vision of long-term, sustainable change.

7. Aligning Goals of Partnership Goal 1: 100% Graduation • How does/will the partnership support the matriculation/retention of students? Goal 2: Proficiency for All • What curriculum/pedagogical support will the partnership provide to support students and teachers in ELA/Math proficiency? • How will we know they are effective. Goal 3: 100% Attendance • How does/will the partner assist with responding to patterns in student attendance and recognizing students with outstanding attendance? Goal 4: Parent & Community Engagement • How does/will the partnership work alongside the school to increase parental engagement. Goal 5: School Safety • How does/will the partnership’s involvement contribute to a positive school culture.

8. Iterative Communication of Goals & Progress Instruction Supports Social & Emotional Supports

9. Importance of Progress Monitoring of Partners • Ensures accountability • Justifies partner’s existence on campus • Maintains trustful relationships between partnership and school community • Ongoing reflection of what is going well and what changes need to occur

10. Evidence of Program Monitoring

13. Reflection ExerciseStart – Stop – Continue The SSC is a helpful strategy for establishing baseline data and developing a common understanding of stakeholders’ perceptions of the current situation.

14. Reflection Exercise “Round Robin” & “Gallery Walk” (continued) • Assemble into groups of four. • Each member will number off 1 – 4. • “Round Robin” – Each group member will share, in one minute, their practices of collaborating with partners on their campus with their group. • Following the “Round Robin,” each group will collectively identify practices of partnership collaboration their respective schools need to “Start,” “Stop,” or “Continue.” • The third member of each group will be the designated scribe. • Each group will record their responses on chart paper. • “Gallery Walk” – Each group will observe each other’s reflective responses to understand varying perspectives of the “Dos” and “Don’ts” of partnership collaboration.