The article revisits the literature on educational partnerships in an attempt to re-frame and update conceptual frameworks to be used by school and district leaders for partnership development and evaluation. It also synthesizes and analyzes empirical literature specific to developing educational partnerships or analyzing the strengths that contribute to the development of a conceptual framework - published between 1990 and 2018. Finally, the article presents perspectives of partnerships from education literature in preface to a proposed conceptual framework specific to educational partnerships. The article concludes with recommendations for advancing the literature on partnerships.