This resource guides leaders of cradle to career education partnerships in choosing the members of their “Leadership Table” — “a formalized group of executive level members of the organizations participating in the Partnership … charged with setting the overall strategy for the Partnership, committing organizational/institutional resources to see that the right work gets done, and breaking down political or organizational barriers that inhibit the system from working effectively.”

This resource guides partners in considering what leaders in each sector — “K- 12, higher education, philanthropic, and business sectors and may include other sectors such as: early learning, non-profit, civic, community, and faith-based” — “have control, influence, expertise and/or action.”