Exploring Cross-Sector Partnerships: How to build impactful school partnerships - Thursday 6 February 2025 (HMC, 12 The Point, Market Harborough)
This course aims to: Equip you with the tools you need to develop a coherent, sustainable and impactful partnerships strategy for your school.
Description
This course is for:
Schools who are looking to initiate or expand collaborations with state schools.
Those with responsibility for partnerships: Heads of Partnerships/Outreach/ Community Engagement, Heads, Deputies, Development Directors and External Relations Directors.
Course Programme
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Time |
Session |
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10.10 |
Arrival, registration, and coffee
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10.30 |
Welcome and introduction
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10.35 |
Session 1: Why? The benefits of partnership for your school How? Models, structures and types of collaboration Who? What? Identifying partner schools and the strengths and needs of both schools
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11.45 |
Refreshment break
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12.00 |
Session 2: Case studies What works well? Learning from others. Structuring and staffing partnerships within the constraints of time and budget
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13.00 |
Lunch
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13.45 |
Session 3: How? Making the first move in a new collaboration; building relationships Impact evaluation – how to know if our schools are benefitting? Measuring (and communicating) outcomes not outputs Take-aways and further support
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15.30 |
Closing remarks and depart
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Speaker Biography - Christina Astin
Christina is a prominent thought-leader on partnerships, especially cross-sector, and is author of Partnerships WorkBook, a DIY course in Building a Cross-Sector Partnerships Strategy. She is Founder-Chair of the Schools Together Group (now the School Partnerships Alliance), established whilst she was Head of Partnerships at King’s Canterbury. She offers bespoke consultancy and mentoring for schools, directs training programmes and speaks and writes on school partnerships. In January 2022 she launched #PartnerChat, a series of free monthly breakfast briefings.
She is also a school science consultant (having taught physics for over 20 years) and advises corporate clients on their educational outreach.