Foundations of Powerful Partnership Teams

Foundations of Powerful Partnership Teams

A Powerful Partnership Team is a pathway/academy teacher team (which typically includes core academic teachers, CTE teachers and, often, special education teachers and pathway/academy counselor) AND their high-impact business partners.

This course is about how to best support employer organizations and teachers in building sustainable powerful partnership teams. You’ll get the foundational elements using the Ford NGL Blueprint for Powerful Partnerships.

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Features of Product

Provides an overview of Ford NGL’s Blueprint for Powerful Partnerships
Lots of downloadable resources to support development of powerful partnership teams in your schools and community
Voices from the Field – Learn from folks doing this work

Product Line Connection: Strands 3 & 2 in the Roadmap Process; Powerful Partnerships

Course Content

Module 1: Get Started Here

About this Course

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Module 2 : Secrets to Powerful Partnership Teams

What does a Powerful Team even sound like?

The 3 C’s: Communication, Collaboration, Coordination

Traits of Powerful Partnership Teams

Barriers to Powerful Partnership Teams

Your Role. Make It or Break It?

You need a Blueprint

Two Perspectives about the Traits

Module 3: Essential Roles & Structures

Partnership Structures That Support Success

Three Key Roles

Voices from the Field – Two Employer Partner Managers

Voices from the Field – Business Partner Coordinator

Voices from the Field – Academy Coach

Module 4: Plan for Strategic Outreach

What’s IN with strategic OUTreach?

Influential Factors for Partnering

Overcoming Roadblocks

Module 5: Start the Right Way

Are your Business Partners Ready? Find Out by Assessing Readiness & Capacity

Focus on the Teachers First. Here’s Why.

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At the heart of our approach is a fundamental shift in mindset about what it means to prepare young people for college, careers, and life.

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