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: Effective School Partnerships: Why, How, and Who?
Why? Explore the key benefits of school partnerships, including shared resources, enhanced learning opportunities, and improved outcomes for students and staff.
How? Learn about practical models and structures for collaboration, as well as the different types of partnerships that schools can establish to suit their unique needs.
Who and What? Identify potential partner schools by assessing mutual strengths, addressing shared needs, and understanding the critical factors for a successful partnership.
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11.45 |
Refreshment break
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12.00 |
Session 2: Case studies in School Partnerships
What Works Well? Gain insights from successful school partnerships, learning from real-world examples of collaboration that have achieved meaningful outcomes.
Learning from Others: Explore practical tips and best practices from other schools to inform and inspire your own approach.
Structuring and Staffing Partnerships: Understand how to effectively design and support partnerships while navigating time and budget constraints, ensuring sustainability and impact.
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13.00 |
Lunch
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13.45 |
Session 3: Actionable Steps: Starting Partnerships and Measuring Their Impact
How to Begin: Learn practical strategies for initiating new collaborations, making the first move, and building strong, trust-based relationships with partner schools.
Evaluating Impact: Understand how to assess the benefits of your partnerships by focusing on measurable outcomes rather than outputs and effectively communicate the value of collaboration.
Key Takeaways and Support: Recap essential insights, tools, and resources to sustain and strengthen partnerships, with guidance for ongoing success.
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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.