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Partnership: Critical Factors of Design for Sustainability

Partnership: Critical Factors of Design for Sustainability. Teachers College Stakeholders Summit October 22, 2008 Joseph McDonald, NYU Robert Miller, University Neighborhood HS Rosa Riccio Pietanza, NYU & UNHS. History of Recent NYU/NYC School Partnership Efforts.

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Partnership: Critical Factors of Design for Sustainability

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  1. Partnership: Critical Factors of Design for Sustainability Teachers College Stakeholders Summit October 22, 2008 Joseph McDonald, NYU Robert Miller, University Neighborhood HS Rosa Riccio Pietanza, NYU & UNHS

  2. History of Recent NYU/NYC School Partnership Efforts • 1999: University Neighborhood HS is founded on the Lower East Side. Pilot of a proposed network. • 2003: University Neighborhood MS opens. NYU experiments with a Region 9 cluster of partners. • 2005: Partnership for Teacher Excellence is launched. Eleven other schools are added on the Lower East Side, and three in East Harlem. Facing History School opens. • 2007: In the South Bronx, Fannie Lou Hamer HS and MS 223 become partner schools.

  3. Four Critical Factors • Champions • Contact • Appraisal • Formal Agreement

  4. Factor 1: Champions • On both sides, with clout • Aware of the culture gap • Return each other’s phone calls • Show up in each other’s world • Feel empowered in each other’s world • Speak well of the other

  5. Factor 2: Contact • Tutors arrive • Kids visit campus • Faculty members visit school • Student teachers arrive • Research projects are welcomed • Campus and school space become available • Whole school mentoring develops • Collaborative projects develop • Job pipeline/alumni connection forms

  6. Factor 3: Appraisal & Appreciation • School appraises the value of the university’s social capital. • University appraises the value of the school’s grounding. • Both partners appreciate that schools need universities and universities need schools.

  7. Factor 4: Formal agreement • To operate in mutual self-interest • To exchange liaisons • To scout needs and resources on both sides • To license each other’s use of the relationship • To work toward critical mass in contact • To expect sustainability, but exit gracefully at either partner’s choosing

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