The Table indicates the current partnerships in the Central Connecticut Professional Development School Network. Developing and building relationships with other constituents at the district, community, and state and national levels. CCSU and local schools strengthen their relationships through formalized agreements. Partnership Roles Partners share responsibility and operate from equitable relationships that encourage and empower. Successful partnerships need to challenge traditional interactions.
Partners are persistent and committed for the long term, and are willing to take on new roles.
Successful partnerships have shared goals and shared leadership. Partners are co-creators of a vision that reflects needs of the future and are collaborators in preparing for those needs. Successful partnerships recognize their own context but operate within a larger vision of schooling, learning, and teaching for the future. Partners are encouraged to take risks, to test innovations, and to grow. Successful partnerships involve risk taking, problem solving and trouble shooting.