The Arkansas Leadership Academy Partners adopted the following roles and responsibilities on May 21, 2003:

• Decision maker from organization attend meetings - Responsible to report back
• Involvement in meeting preparation
  • Use Web page, listserv, etc for discussions. Be aware of action plan (who what when and where – job chart) and next steps

• Use as a forum to connect resources to achieve common goals
  • Listserv: agenda and discussion before meeting and a discussion of what happened after the meeting has taken place
• Identify common concerns
• Develop consensus on common solutions
• Articulate and implement solutions with one voice
• Demonstrate results
• Lead and speak with one voice

• Use as a Forum to connect resources to achieve common goals
• Share resources
• Understand how to connect as partners
• Measure results
• Hold partners accountable
• Collect and share common data analysis

Engage Actively

• Be defined by the nature of each partner member
• Model what we do
• Be willing to change how we traditionally do things to meet the needs of the academy
• Bring in speakers
• Know about current research and share
• Implement strategy and action plan with the partners
• Implement learning within our own organizations

• Continuously evaluate of successful practices
• Eliminate practices that are not effective
• Participate in fundraising for the leadership academy
• Make use of leadership practices in our own organization
• Remember that people support what they help to create