
Partnerships are more successful and sustainable if those involved have thought through their reasons for wanting a partnership before embarking on one. Involving and reaching consensus with colleagues about the motives for a new partnership is also a good beginning.
Additional activity
Do this activity with your colleagues and compare their responses. Print out the list and make it up as a card set.
You may wish to include additional reasons.
Ask colleagues to individually select
their strongest reasons for wishing to partner (no more than six)
any reasons which discourage partnering.
Now discuss the choices that colleagues have made and the level of consensus.
Click here for a printable cutout list of reasons.
Partnerships are more successful and sustainable if they involve a range of colleagues from both schools who agree with and support the partnership rationale and practices. If colleagues can reach consensus about the motives for a new partnership from the start then they will have a firm basis for a successful partnership.