Committed to Education

As the 2020 school year starts, filled with unique challenges, we want to congratulate this year’s winners of the Partner2Learn Leadership scholarship.

Partner2Learn is committed to supporting servant leadership both in the workplace and in the educational community. We are honored to sponsor scholarships that support students emphasizing Servant Leadership at WLC, located in Wauwatosa, WI. Congratulations to the 2020 winners as they focus on their physical, intellectual, and spiritual resiliency, which is increasingly important in today’s challenging world.

Why educational scholarships?

We believe in supporting the youth and future leaders and wanting them to have a solid foundation. In addition to helping faculty and staff build a StrengthsFirst mindset to increase engagement and retention, this is another way we give back. Our goal is to continue to address the engagement cliff in education, which begins as early as 5^th grade.

Defining engagement.

Before we explain the engagement, cliff, you need to understand what engagement means. In a previous blog post we explain the difference between actively disengaged, not engaged, and engaged. The same definitions can apply to school. Students that are engaged love coming to school, learning, and taking on extra projects for fun. Students that are not engaged are coming to school and doing what it takes to pass and not much more. Actively disengaged students are skipping classes and when they do show up, they are getting all the attention and taking away positive learning experiences from the class because the teacher to focusing on behavioral issues instead of the learning objective for the day.

What is the engagement cliff?

The engagement cliff describes students’ interest or engagement in their learning and how it steadily declines from 5^th grade on. Not surprising, once students reach high school, the engagement level hovers in the low 30’s, which mirrors the engagement levels in the workforce.

StrengthsFirst mindset & servant leadership.

By building a StrengthsFirst mindset focused on strengths for others (SFO), we see a positive impact on the individual and every life they touch.

Partner2Learn is honored to work with individuals, educational systems, and organizations to help them thrive by shifting their mindset to a Servant Leadership approach with a StrengthsFirst foundation.

Learn more about how one charter school is seeing immediate benefits by developing a StrengthsFirst culture.

Are you curious how this can impact your team and your bottom line? Contact us to learn more.

Testimonials

Sharyce G.

Director of Resident Services, senior living community

Life Changing

After discovering that belief was my #1 strength, I now know that I spent most of my life battling my biggest strength. This was truly life changing. It is amazing the mental and emotional relief that I have experienced now that I embrace my strengths.

Carlos L.

President, nonprofit education

Increased Team Efficiency

Partner2Learn gave us the best opportunity to apply real world best practices in a ministry setting. We are a ministry first, but we run like a business. Partner2Learn is unique in that it understands both perspectives. We are all excited about what this process could do for our ministry...namely, more bandwidth, more efficiency, more effective meetings, etc.

Bill M.

CEO, nonprofit

Leadership Development

Partner2Learn invested in my leadership as we prepared for a key Board of Directors planning retreat. They dug in to discover where we wanted to go, prepared us to work together, and then stood along the sideline and encouraged us as we got there. We entered that week low on trust and high on questions. We finished the retreat with energy and confidence in our future. Thank you!

Elise M.

School Business Specialist, financial services

Process Consulting Improves Efficiencies

Dan’s understanding of technology and general coding know-how made pre-existing processes faster and more efficient, eliminating manual keystrokes, data entry, and assisting with data reconciliation. These efficiencies resulted in a higher quality product with less chance of error, smaller file size, and created time savings that allowed our team to explore revenue generating projects.

Kelley W.

HR Director, municipality

Strengths & Teambuilding Success

Partner2Learn is exactly what the business name means, you gain partners in learning more about yourself, your team and how best to work together using each other’s strengths. It’s a positive approach to teambuilding and understanding co-workers while learning about your own strengths and how best to utilize them in the future for success.

Emily Y.

Owner/Healthcare Practitioner, healthcare

Partner Up For Success

Tiffany's thorough explanation of my strengths helped to solidify why I enjoy my profession. She also helped me to understand which strengths to seek out in future team members to make my business flourish!

Tim B.

Head of Schools, nonprofit education

Immediate Implementation

Partner2Learn’s process and resources can be used immediately. We implemented tools the day after we worked with them. I am excited to incorporate the Fuel meeting process at all our campuses.

Partner2Learn, LLC