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Motivations for Creating Partnerships

• Interviewees from all types of partner organizations described student benefits as a motivating factor to foster or engage in arts education partnerships, including academic reinforcement, career readiness, and social and emotional growth.
• School and district leaders talked about the value of arts partnerships in expanding teacher practices. There was also discussion about how partnerships can have a school-level benefit when the learning inside the classroom is shared outside the classroom with the broader school community.
• Arts partners discussed how engaging schools in partnerships provided specific benefits to their organizations, including the development of future audiences for the arts and professional development for teaching artists.

Facilitators of Regional Arts Partnerships

• It is important to have a range of supports in place to ensure that partnerships are formed and implemented successfully.
• Interviewees described more than 20 factors that facilitate arts partnerships in Allegheny County. The factors can be grouped into six facilitators: proximity to and diversity of cultural assets, intermediaries serving as brokers, funding, multiple champions for arts education, shared vision and goals, and collaborative effort.

Barriers to Establishing, Implementing, and Sustaining Regional Arts Partnerships

• Barriers to establishing arts partnerships include competition with higher-priority school needs; lack of awareness of and access to information about past, current, and potential partnerships throughout Allegheny County; difficulty with gaining multilevel buy-in (e.g., principals, teachers, parents, and community leaders) for arts partnerships; and capacity constraints among school and arts organizations.
• Barriers to implementing and sustaining regional arts partnerships include lack of funding for ongoing collaboration and for multiyear commitments, lack of time and capacity for regular check-ins, lack of transportation, inflexible schedules, and staff turnover.