Partnership Leadership Team

The College of Education Partnership Leadership Team, as part of the governance process for the College of Education, works together to advance mutually beneficial partnerships with schools, districts, and other education service providers to support high-quality field placements and experiences for candidates in educator licensure programs. Members of the Partnership Leadership Team have dual responsibilities: to advocate for the needs of their programs and units and to consider the good of the COE and the university in making decisions and recommendations regarding partnership work related to educator licensure programs.

 Purpose of the Partnership Leadership Team

• To suggest, develop, and assess COE-wide policies and procedures relating to work in the field for teacher licensure candidates; 

• To provide a forum for Program Coordinators to discuss program-specific policies and procedures related to placements and partnerships;

• To advise the School Partnership Director about strategies for establishing and sustaining mutually beneficial partnerships;

• To foster collaboration among teacher licensure programs and related units (e.g., Field Placement Office);

• To ensure an appropriate level of alignment in guidelines and implementation related to partnerships and field experiences across the teacher licensure programs; and

• To recognize challenges arising from and in district partnerships related to teacher licensure programs and field placements and to seek solutions to them.

Membership of the Partnership Leadership Team

• School Partnership Director

• Field Placement Coordinators

• Program Coordinators from all teacher licensure programs 

Operation of the Partnership Leadership Team

• The Director of Community Partnerships serves as chair/convener of the Partnership Leadership Team;

• The Partnership Leadership Team’s regular meetings occur monthly;

• Agendas are developed in advance of the meeting; agenda items may be suggested by any member of the COE community through their representative (Program Coordinator) or the Director of Community Partnerships, in collaboration with the directors in the EL department;

• Decisions are generally made by consensus;

• Guests may be invited to the meetings to provide information or counsel to the Partnership Leadership Team; and

• If a member of the Partnership Leadership Team must be absent, a substitute may attend in their place.

Partnership Leadership Team Meeting Updates

• Updates will be shared with program faculty by the program coordinator and/or the Director of Community Partnerships on a regular basis as determined by the program faculty.

• Running Notes for 2024-2025