Best Practices, Volume IV

School Business Partnerships Best Practices

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The Anchorage School District School Business Partnership program continues to grow and prosper. In August 2001 we hired Terrence Shanigan, a former Anchorage School District student to head the SBP program.

In our continuing effort to provide information recognition, support and encouragement for both the business and the school involved in these programs, we again present this Best Practices publication.

To be involved in a successful Partnership program takes time, effort, commitment, caring, organization, relationship building, understanding, and planning. The schools and businesses in this publication truly represent all of these characteristics plus they have stretched themselves by getting out of their comfort zone, taking on new challenges and risks which have created exponential growth and more effective pathways to positively contribute to the career and academic success of their students.

In 2001-2002 School Business Partnerships focused on measuring the quality and impact of each partnership. Setting realistic expectations and clear standards by which each partnership is measured is only the first step. We have refined the process for establishing partnerships, drafted long-term relationship agreements, stressed resource sharing between businesses and schools, implemented data collection and measurement tools, and expanded the responsibilities of the Board of Directors.

Our partners are both small and large. They range from the one-person business involved with a school to the large corporations involved with many schools and sometimes districtwide.

We hope you enjoy this volume of “Best Practices -A measurement of success.” As you read through this booklet, think about next year’s publication and who might be represented.

Thanks for all that you do for the students in the Anchorage School District and know that through your efforts, we are working together to build bridges of understanding between the business and education community, establish positive working relationships, and create educational enhancement opportunities for our students.

Officers, School Business Partnerships Board of Directors

Chairman: Barbara Stallone, FedEx
Vice Chairman: Bob Dickson, Atkinson, Conway & Gagnon
President: Terrence Shanigan, SBP
Secretary: Becky Walters, Wells Fargo
Treasurer: Vilma Chavez, Northrim Bank

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Please note: The information on this page is from the 2002 edition of Best Practices. The people, programs and contact information included were current at the time of publication, but may have since changed.