VI. School-Business-Community-Parent Partnerships
PRIORITY - Seek and engage businesses, community groups, parents, and schools to create winning partnerships in order to equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to make positive lifelong personal, social, academic, and career choices.
- Standardize District systems for district-wide partnerships such as mentoring, volunteering, and parental involvement.
- Create, communicate, and execute standardized strategies for developing mutually beneficial relationships between businesses, schools, community groups, parents (i.e. shared management expertise).
- Expand the model to all Northside ISD campuses in which the school serves as a community school providing opportunities for lifelong learning, extended learning (before and after school), and enrichment activities for children as well as support services for families and other community members.
- Create an infrastructure for a district-wide system of communication for all partnerships to include, for example:
- Use technology
- Input from business advisory such as Chambers of Commerce
- Create a volunteer liaison on every campus whose sole responsibility is partnership recruitment maintenance
- Develop a database or knowledge base of volunteers' skills and areas of expertise
- Develop vehicles for overcoming barriers to participation
- Develop vehicles for sharing management expertise
- Develop funding opportunities that provide tangible benefits to business partners
- Develop mutually beneficial processes to provide collaborations between parents and schools which promote student success.
- Maximize partnerships between businesses, community organizations and schools to increase opportunities for students which prepare them to enter the world of work (i.e. Smaller Learning Communities Model).
