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A Lasting Collaboration Is More Than a Two-Step Dance

School Administrator, June, 1998 by Carole Levine

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* Collaboration takes time.

We want instantaneous results. But in order for a school/community collaboration to be a sustainable process, there needs to be a clear commitment to the long-term.

Collaborations are risky because participants often must surrender something. This does not happen in a first meeting. It happens when partners get to know and trust one another. Trust is earned over time.

Over a seven-year period, we have worked with different groups, new superintendents and differing constituencies in one community as they worked to build a school/community collaboration. Our patience, at times, has worn thin, but the process is now moving forward. Success is likely and whatever results should be in place for the long term.

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Carole Levine is the regional coordinator of Communities In Schools, 815W. Von Buren, Suite 319, Chicago, Ill. 60607. E-mail: carole@cisnet.org.

A Lasting Collaboration Is More Than a Two-Step Dance

School Administrator, June, 1998 by Carole Levine

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