The Deep Meaning of Outside Collaboration

Internal ingenuity does not suffice when the environment is swirling. In this chapter, I will first view the outside from the perspective of the school. Then, I will shift to two outside-in perspectives, taking first the view of local authorities and second the vantage point of state-level authorities. The end result will be a deeper explanation of the necessity and meaning of outside collaboration. Put another way, the two-way street of ‘inside-outside’ is a far more powerful metaphor than topdown-bottom-up thinking.