Partnership Strategies
- Establishing a Welcoming School Climate
- Assure high quality partnership interactions through a positive and welcoming climate at your school.
- The Role of the Partnership Contact
- The point of contact at both the school and business should be someone who believes strongly in the value of partnerships.
- Recruit New Partners To Support Your School
- Helpful hints when trying to develop new business/community relationships to support your school
- Tried and True Partnership Activities
- Partnerships should be unique to the needs and resources of both partners. However, certain activities are common to many partnerships and provide a starting point for beginning the relationship.
- A Little Thank You Goes a Long Way. . .
- Recognizing your business partner's contributions in a meaningful way contributes to the long term success and sustainability of the partnership.
- Effective Communication
- Don't overlook the impact of effective communication on the success of your partnership.
- Partnership Checklist
- An easy way to organize and keep track of your school's business partners
- Partnering with APS has never been easier!
- The APS Education Foundation offers a full spectrum of ways to support public schools.
- Partnership Pitfalls to Avoid
- Find out about difficulties inherent in partnerships so that you can avoid the same blunders.
- Partnership Plan Template
- A sample document to record the components of your partnership. Developing your own plan or document that highlights your school community's needs and benchmarks may be more effective. Use whatever works to keep the partnership/relationship on track but keep it simple and clear.
