This document describes a workshop proposal for SXSWedu 2014 on developing sustainable education partnerships. The workshop will explore case studies of successful national, district, and school-level collaborations leveraging funding, resources, approaches, and constituencies. Participants will utilize tools like a "Giant Venn Diagram" to assess partnership fit and design collaborations. The goals are to better understand how to create high-impact partnerships and network to plan innovative education solutions. The facilitator, Allison Trombley, has over a decade of experience managing education programs and partnerships in multiple states.

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Allison Trombley
SxSWedu 2014 Proposal
A new way of thinking about sustainable education partnerships
GIANT
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Find the overlap between you and your partners…
The overlap area where
innovative and sustainable
collaborations reside

3. Giant Venn Diagram:
New Approaches to Partnership
This SxSWedu workshop is intended for those involved in creating and
sustaining partnerships to improve educational resources and outcomes
• school and district leaders
• non-profit administrators
• education entrpreneurs
• teachers, artists and community leaders

4. Giant Venn Diagram:
New Approaches to Partnership
Join us for a hands-on workshop where you will:
• Better understand the mechanics of sustainable collaborations
• Explore case studies of successful collaborations at different scales
• Utilize new tools and approaches to plan, design, and implement partnerships
• Meet other education leaders, network, and participate in “pop-up” collaborations

5. Collaborations are
developed to leverage:
• Funding
• Capacity, Knowledge, and Resources
• Processes and Approaches
• Constituencies and Audiences

6. •Boston Public Schools Arts Expansion & Wallace Foundation
•Gates Foundation & Denver Public Schools
•Federal i3 development grant & Columbia College Chicago
Funding
•Teach Plus- teachers and policy makers
•Turnaround Arts- Arts advocacy for turnaround schools
•The Good Play Project & Project Zero
Capacity/Knowledge/Re
sources
•Interchange Arts Consortium & St Louis Public Schools
•Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project & JHS 185, Queens
•Johns Hopkins’ Diplomas Now (CIS, City Year, districts)
Approach
Examples of collaborations
leading change…

7. Leading the charge, arts and
non-profit organizations have
built sustainable and impactful
collaborations with schools for
over 40 years.

8. This workshop will examine:
• National and district collaborations, such as the federal Turnaround
Arts program and Boston’s Orchard Gardens K-8 Pilot School
• City-wide collaborations with non-profit organizations intended to
offer access to high-quality arts education in St Louis Public Schools
• School-organization partnerships and teacher-artist collaborations
between Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project and JHS 185, Queens

9. What are the benefits,
challenges, and mechanisms of
creating and sustaining learning
partnerships?
WORKSHOP ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

10. How do educational partnerships
create leadership and learning
opportunities for diverse
constituents at different scale
levels?
WORKSHOP ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

11. How can schools and
organizations find the right
partner fit and align to achieve
innovative educational outcomes
that are critical, timely, and
mission-driven?
WORKSHOP ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

12. Participants will:
• Utilize a case study approach and hands-on activities to explore new
approaches to building high-impact, sustainable partnerships
• Use new tools and methods (including the Giant Venn Diagram) to
assess partnership fit, design collaborations, sustain relationships, and
evaluate outcomes
• Meet education leaders, network, and design “pop-up collaborations”
that will further understanding of what’s involved in building
sustainable partnerships

13. Allison Trombley
• over 50 education collaborations
• 60+ schools, 200 teachers, and 25 organizations in 4 states (MO, MA, NY, MT)
• programs serving 4,000 students directly
• partners include St Louis Public Schools, Boston Public Schools, NYC DOE,
Silk Road Project, Harvard University, Turnaround Arts, National
Geographic, Calliope Magazine, Stanford SPICE, Central Park Summerstage,
American Museum of Natural History, MoMA, and individual artists

14. Allison Trombley is an educator with 12 years experience as a teacher
and arts administrator specializing in the strategic creation of pilot programs
and collaborations.
She spent the first 8 years of her career working in urban schools in St Louis,
MO, where she taught creative writing and media production. She later worked
for St Louis Public Schools and local organizations as an independent education
consultant focused on arts integration and innovative programs that raise
student achievement. Most recently, she designed and managed K-12 programs
for Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project. She now works with organizations to increase
educational opportunity and impact through collective action. In her spare time
she writes poetry with scientists and navigates rivers by kayak.

15. For more information, please contact
Allison_Trombley@mail.harvard.edu
If you’d like to learn more about developing
sustainable collaborations, please vote for this
workshop at the SxSWedu panel picker
Panelpicker.sxsw.com
Select “Giant Venn Diagram”