Partnership Across Departments

• How can higher education institutions (HEIs) best leverage existing structures to develop high-impact tutoring partnerships with their local K-12 districts?
• What are the functions best suited for a school or department of education within the HEI to fulfill?
• What are the functions best suited for a volunteer or community support office within the HEI to fulfill?

• Determine which department within the HEI has or can build the staffing capacity to lead the development and implementation of the high-impact tutoring partnership with the K-12 district. 
• Leverage existing structures within the HEI to build high-impact tutoring programs (i.e., how can existing work-study processes include and/or increase tutoring positions in local K-12 schools?).
• Consider how other departments within the HEI might be best situated to support components of the high-impact tutoring program (i.e., how can teacher educators support the training and coaching of tutors if the tutoring program is housed in a volunteer or community service office?).

HEI Specific Tools:

• Recommended Division of Functions across HEI Departments

From Existing Resources: 

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Consider fostering a formal partnership across the school or department of education and volunteer or community support office at your HEI to maximize available resources. 

• Formalizing the partnership across departments enables greater leader role clarity, one of the standards identified in the Tutoring Quality Improvement Standards. 
• If your HEI does not have both of these functions on campus, consider extending the partnership to a neighboring HEI that does have the function your institution does not have.