 ALPHA Partnership
The ALPHA Partnership—Our Prototype
In Spring 2004, the former Office of University-School Partnerships started a concerted effort to coordinate existing partnership programs and facilitate the creation of new partnerships in order to establish a successful and effective framework for continued, long-term community collaboration within a five-year timeframe. In the Fall of 2003, the university laid groundwork for the ALPHA Partnership which was launched in January 2004. This partnership works with Senator Richard Miranda (D-AZ, Arizona Legislative District 13), the school leaders of the Cartwright Elementary, Fowler Elementary, Isaac Elementary, Murphy Elementary, Phoenix Elementary, Phoenix Union High School, Tolleson Elementary, and Tolleson Union High School Districts. It is the first of many that will leverage university, Pre-K-12, and community resources to enhance Arizona’s academic achievement.
Through the ALPHA Partnership, ASU has offered the following opportunities to partner districts.
Plans are underway to reconfigure and expand the ALPHA Partnership in the following ways: 1) Form the Tolleson “family” of districts by including Littleton, Union, and Pendergast along with Tolleson Elementary and Fowler, all five “feeder” elementary districts which form the Tolleson Union High School District; 2) Align ALPHA elementary districts (Phoenix El., Murphy, Isaac and Cartwright) with receiving high schools in the Phoenix Union High School District; and 3) Use this reconfiguration to enable tracking student progress over time in a more-articulated education pipeline.
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