Taking Roots

Building Stronger Partnership

Purpose and Goals

Approach to Partnership

5 Questions to ask

What is our mission?

• What is the current mission?
• What are our challenges?
• What are our opportunities?
• Does the mission need to be revisited?

Who is our customer?

• Who is our primary customer?
• Who are our supporting customers?
• How will our customers change?

What does the customer value?

• What do we believe our primary and supporting customers value?
• What knowledge do we need to gain from our customers?
• How will I participate in gaining this knowledge?

What are our results?

• How do we define results?
• Are we successful?
• How should we define results?
• What must we strengthen or abandon?

What is our plan?

• Should the mission be changed?
• What are our goals?

Process and Strategies

Reflection

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Lessons Learned

Challenges and Issues

Next Steps

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Action Plan

Questions?

Clear

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Literacy is a stepping-stone to school success and a prerequisite to high school graduation, which paves the way to healthy living.
- Alliance for Excellent Education, 2012

Literacy is a gateway to student achievement and high school graduation, yet literacy rates differ along racial lines.
- Alliance for Excellent Education 2012

Literacy opens doors to individual economic opportunity. On average, in her lifetime, a college graduate today will earn $1M more than a high school dropout.
-Baun, Ma, and Payea 2013

Supporting all learners in developing proficient literacy skills while in school will create far-reaching economic benefits. Economists estimate that cutting the nation's HS dropout rate in half would save the government $45B each year. - Levin, et. al 2006

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