This article lays out a path for an institutional analysis of strategic interventions for collaboration. The analysis is informed by recent theorizing on structures and strategies for collaboration and by the insights of the new institutionalism found in recent work by organizational theorists. The article uses a framework of institutional propositions to guide an analysis of the strategic efforts to promote community collaborative effort to enhance the life chances of students, efforts that are evolving in one Canadian high school from the perspective of school leaders in the initiative. The article extends existing theoretical conceptions of school-community relations through analysis of the institutional effects of these strategic efforts at collaboration.
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