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Unit 4: Implementing and Sustaining Strategic Partnerships
Building and sustaining productive professional relationships is like exercise. If you do it consistently, you create professional strength, balance, and confidence. If you don't do it regularly (or don't pay attention to technique), it will hurt more afterward, and over time, your relationships and rapport with others become flabby. (For the record, I'm better at my professional relationships than my exercise.)
Now that you've completed your first meeting, you've had your first workout in a while. How does it feel? Need an Advil? Anything need to be iced? Don't worry, that's normal. Keep working those professional muscles. Before long, you'll like how it feels.
In this unit, you will complete the course but only begin your collaboration and partnership with an administrator and, possibly other colleagues. You will begin by reviewing and processing all the inputs which you've created and curated so far:
Insight into mindsets, perceptual positions, norms, and habits of mind
FRL Self-Reflection and identification of your professional strengths and areas for growth
Research into school and district strategic goals and communications
Interview with administrator
This is a lot to process and compile. But your job is not to solve all of your school and district's challenges, only to identify one in which you can collaborate with an administrator to make a difference. Hopefully, your first administrator conversation helped you identify a short list of areas of opportunity or need. Use this and your research to identify and narrow to 2-3 focus areas which respond to local needs of students, teachers, or the school community. You will do this in preparation for your second meeting.
For the second meeting, you will take these 'partially-baked' focus areas back to your administrator to review and clarify. The two of you will identify one of these areas of focus and begin brainstorming how to translate this idea into an action plan. For the purposes of this course, that will bring you to the end of required coursework, aside from some final reflection and the course evaluation.
However, with luck (and your hard work), you will have begun, rekindled, and/or strengthened a partnership with an administrator which will pay benefits not only to your professional practice, but positively impact your school, students, and educators.
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