Power Up Your Partnerships The Campaign to Expand School-Community Partnerships in Boston Boston Leaders for the Future of Education Innovation Incubator.

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

1

3

2

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