Service, Leadership, and Outreach

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Goal 1: Develop and disseminate educational resources across contexts and populations.

Strategies

  • Identify the needs and priorities of communities to cultivate meaningful interactions between communities and the School of Education.
  • Establish an annual calendar of events that will be delivered to address topics pertinent to communities.
  • Identify relevant research/expertise, school spaces, and personnel to collaborate with students, families, and community members.

Strategies:

  • Work with communities to develop processes/structures that enable them to request resources and/or intellectual contributions to supplement the supplies, knowledge, and expertise possessed by community members.
  • Regularly engage with the state relations team and state and local leaders and advocates to identify salient issues and priorities for community members to remove/mitigate societal and systemic barriers to education, health, wellness, and long-term development.

Goal 2: Increase the existing number and variety of schools, community settings, and other organizations engaged with the SOE in local, state, national and international collaborative partnerships.

Strategies:

  • Conduct a survey and interviews with relevant personnel about existing collaborative partnerships.
  • Report the number of active partnerships, their purpose, and the demographics of those involved in creating and maintaining it and of the populations served.
  • In collaboration with the SOE’s Faculty Affairs and Development Committee, develop a procedure for rewarding faculty for outreach activities during their annual review.

Strategies: 

  • Work with existing technology support to create a collaborative web presence.

Strategies:

  • Secure external funding to support new partnerships and community-based initiatives.
  • Expand collaborations with other campus units engaged in community-based collaborations.
  • Build relationships with government entities through high-quality interactions and collaborative actions.

Strategies:

  • Highlight through stories/marketing current partnerships and collaborations across the entire spectrum of life-long learning (e.g., undergraduate, graduate, adult, corporate partnership).
  • Grow the school identity through promotional activities among students, staff, faculty, and alumni to increase our reputation among our peers and colleagues.

Goal 3: Engage strategically with diverse stakeholders (e.g., local schools, community organizations, etc.) to advocate, nurture, and expand just and equitable learning opportunities for all students, families, and communities.

Strategies:

  • Cultivate and secure external funding for Research Practice Partnerships (RPPs) focused on pressing problems of practice for educators and other professionals working with children, youth, and college-age populations.
  • Build and leverage existing partnerships with school districts and other educational agencies to address educator recruitment challenges in underserved communities.
  • Develop undergraduate service experiences that position IU students as advocates for social change, educational attainment, and economic enhancement.
  • Advocate for equitable resources for public education.

Strategies:

  • Develop a strategic plan for national and international engagement.
  • Conduct research with international partners.
  • Connect with international alumni network to explore new partnership and service-related opportunities.