Family, Business & Community Partnerships

Definition:

Creating and sustaining collaborative partnerships is key to reaching our vision of leading the world in the success of each student.

Engage parents in school redesign and policy conversations. Their buy-in is critical to the success of your school’s redesign. If parents don’t understand and support decisions that impact their own children, success can become difficult to attain. Creating a welcoming, supportive and transparent school culture should be the goal of parent partnerships.

Community partnerships provide an essential opportunity for bringing real-world experiences to students and ensuring schools are teaching students’ the skills needed to be successful in the workplace. Local businesses can offer job shadowing and internship opportunities to students, while community organizations can provide additional educational opportunities to support work in the classroom.