Powerful Partnerships:
A powerful system for creating impactful business-school partnerships that provide more students with life-changing experiences.
A Proven Process to Overcome These Common Partnership Challenges
Partnerships between your schools and businesses offer tremendous opportunities for young people, but there are often common challenges districts need to address to truly succeed including:
Insufficient Number of Dedicated, Trained Staff
Without experienced staff dedicated to building and supporting partnerships, your district faces a significant capacity gap.
Misalignment with District and CTE Goals
Without proper goal alignment, a business might offer internships that do not match the skills being taught in your CTE programs, leaving students without relevant, hands-on experience.
Lack of Data Collection to Inform Engagement Efforts
Without a system to track and measure the performance of partnership collaborations, districts struggle to understand their impact on student outcomes and overall goals.
Absence of Outreach and Training Strategies
This results in partnerships where business professionals, unfamiliar with educational settings, struggle to connect their expertise with student needs.
Transactional Activities Over Transformational Experiences
Traditional partnership activities are frequently transactional rather than transformational, leading to short-term, superficial interactions that fail to deeply enrich student learning experiences or prepare them for future careers.
Start Your Journey to Overcoming These Challenges
If you are ready for your schools, staff and even youth to shift from transactional interactions to transformational partnerships, reach out to us.
