2017 Application for Lindy Award

Honoring K-16 Partnerships in the Philadelphia Region

Due: May 1st, 2017

The Phillip B. Lindy Award for Excellence in K-16 Partnerships

The Phillip B. Lindy Award aims to recognize a collaborativepartnership between at least one K-12 school and one university. This award will be given to the entire partnership, notan individual. Phil Lindy valued collaboration and communication among diverse stakeholders in order to maximize impact.

Through establishing the K-16 Partnerships Network at PHENND, he hoped to bring that philosophy to the world of university-school partnerships. The Lindy Award seeks to honor partnerships that focus on meeting articulated school and community needs and that have goals for long-term commitment. At the 2017K-16 Partnerships Network June Institute, an award of $1,000 will be given to the selected K-16 Partnership to enhance the mission and vision of this partnership (e.g., partner meetings, collaborative technologies, trainings, celebrations, outreach).

Eligibility Requirements

Organizations must meet all of the following criteria to be eligible:

  • Must be located in Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, or Montgomery Counties in Pennsylvania or Burlington, Gloucester, Camden and Atlantic Counties in New Jersey.
  • Partnership must include at least one K-12 school and one Institution of Higher Education (IHE) partner.
  • Application must be co-written, submitted and accepted by at least one university staff/faculty member and one K-12 staff member/teacher.
  • Yearly program budgets cannot exceed $100,000.

Criteria

In your application, please focus on:

  • Process (i.e., how did the partnership begin, how is it maintained?)
  • The objectives and outcomes of the partnership.
  • The roles of each partner (school and university)

Application

Name of Partnership:

Names of Partnership Members Completing the Application:

Organizations/Schools/IHEs:

Emails of all members of applicant team:

Phone number of at least one member of applicant team:

Average annual operating budget for this partnership over past three years (must be less than $100,000 annually to be eligible):

Year partnership began:

Please answer the following questions in a maximum of two pages about your partnership:

General Overview

  1. Please give a brief history of your partnership, including who is involved, why it started, recent activities, and overall accomplishments.

Community Needs

  1. What are the needsyour partnership is striving to address?How did you identify these needs?What progress have you made thus far?

Collaboration

  1. What is the role of faculty, students and K-12 staff within the partnership?How do you communicate and collaborate to accomplish your work?
  2. What lessons can you share with others based on your experiences through your partnership?
  3. If selected, how will you use this award?

Please submit your application via email to Caitlin Fritz at y Monday, May 1st, 2017, 5:00pm