Collaboration

Collaboration Debra Kay Logan and Kathy Halsey

1. What is collaboration? • Little things- i. select materials ii. ID the right materials for a book • AR • Fixed i. partial flex ii. instead of “Change what they do,” change what you do…connect to what they are doing • Find shared interest and build • Offer to pull books, but… • Swaim, Brazee & Capuletti (sp?) – Integratative- involve kids as collaborators • Connect w/teachers who are marginalized/underserved • Connect through special skills that teachers don’t have • See Doug Johnson’s list

2. Think about your best collaborative efforts. What makes them possible? We are as interested in the process as the event/unit. Look at failures too. • Communication • Need shared vision

3. Think about a collaboration that did not work so well. What pieces of the process/product would you have changed? What did you learn from this experience that you are willing to share? Work with teachers in the planning process.

4. How is collaboration different now in a 2.0 world? In a “high-stakes testing” world?

5. PLEASE- someone add to this page!!!