This section of our website is designed to address issues that may come up when partners come together to work as a team and to accomplish shared goals and objectives. Sections include: School-to-Work and local partnership overview Information on collaboration Creating meaning through vision and focus Networking to get better results Student advice to professionals Involving Students as Leaders Marketing for Success! Partnership links to other websites Two good resources related to this are: The Collaboration Handbook: Creating, Sustaining, and Enjoying the Journey (1994). Available from: Publishing Center, Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, 919 Lafond Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55104; (800) 274-6024 or (612) 642-4000. People Power: 12 Power Principles to Enrich Your Business, Career & Personal Networks (1995). Available from: Bard & Stephen Publishers, Inc., 5275 McCormick Mountain Drive, Austin, TX 78734; (512) 329-8373. You can also contact your local bookstore or call 1-800-934-9675 for multiple copies at a discount. School-to-Work and Local Partnerships Local school-to-work partnerships are multi-sector groups that include a wide variety of community representatives involved in developing a school-to-work system in your community. Most include, at a minimum, employers, employees, school and community organizations. Sometimes, they include parents and family members. Rarely, do they include youth. Ensuring the involvement and support of families on our partnerships is critical. Even more critical, is support for all types of different learners to be involved on our partnerships as equal and contributing members. Local school-to-work partnerships are the worker bees of the school-to-work movement - they are action-oriented, they are the movers and the shakers. Members of local partnerships live and breathe school-to-work every single day, and are therefore critical stakeholders in building our school-to-work systems across the nation. Building a school-to-work partnership that is solid, stable, and that collaborates well across all stakeholder groups is a monumental task. Although we each have our own reasons for being involved in our school-to-work partnerships, we have come together for a much larger cause: we want to see good things happen for ALL youth and families. We want to see our teachers and our schools better connected to our communities. We want to see our communities become more involved in the future our children. We want employers to have access to a skilled, valuable future workforce. We want our economy to be enhanced by our future workforce, to be competitive in the global economy for the 21st century. But most of all, we want the transition from school to a career and adult life to be a smooth and successful one for ALL learners. To do this we must all work together. When you come together to try and do good things for and with youth and families, the things that separate us become the things that bring us together to create a better future. Segments you can choose from: Partnership Links What Does Collaboration Really Mean? Creating Meaning Through Vision and Focus Establishing a Valuable Network Advice from Students for Professionals in School-to-Work Marketing for Success!

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