Our Vision

Across districts, universities, and organizations, passionate educators are transforming lives through learning. But how can we elevate our systems to better serve all learners?

The Institute for Partnerships in Education (IPiE) at UNC Greensboro invites you to explore this question—by understanding, challenging, and evolving our educational systems.

How we work:

• We leverage one another’s strengths and expertise in new ways. We look for partners who will challenge and learn alongside us.
• We seek collaborations, not transactional exchanges of services. We take the time to get to know each other and identify how we can support each other’s work. Genuinely understanding each other’s goals and how they connect to our common purpose enables us to have the greatest impact.
• We build relationships that evolve and adapt, relationships that are responsive to and supportive of our partners’ contexts, responsibilities, and challenges.
• We balance reflection with action. The process of developing lasting solutions to persistent problems of educational practice is complex — as complex as the systems in which we live and work. We create space for reflection and deliberation to better understand educational challenges and connect leaders with expertise to develop useful and timely solutions. 
• We recognize that partners have complementary knowledge and expertise. Working across organizational boundaries in close relationships makes it possible to solve all kinds of challenges we cannot solve alone.