As educational partnerships and collaboratives have become more popular in the last several decades, researchers and practitioners have sought to understand why these arrangements flourish or flounder. Taking into consideration the contextual factors affecting partnerships, we have conceptualized a framework of the types of partnerships that can…

Improving administrator preparation programs requires collaboration among universities, practitioners, and the business community. Interuniversity networking enables research institutions and regional state institutions to work together while maintaining their individual identities and purposes. This article explains how Louisiana's LEAD project…

College of education and school district relationships often resemble a battlefield. Partnerships between schools and other public organizations, including universities, can contribute to the overall success of school improvement activities. This paper identifies relationships and significant programs resulting from a cooperative venture involving…

Collaborative research effort between the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Office of Educational Leadership provided ethnographic data on the perceptions of principals at 22 schools participating in an educational transformation/shared-governance process. Findings show that awareness of obstacles to change is a necessary first step toward…

During the past four years, the University of Northern Colorado's educational leadership program has undergone major revision and restructuring. The new program provides a coherent, integrated program designed to assist individual learners' personal and professional development. This article describes the change process, showing how changes were…