The Collaboration Handbook

Step up to the plate and hit one out of the park for collaboration!Read, learn, and apply these strategies to raise the level of collaboration and achievement in your school!

• Offers hands-on tools for moving from isolation, to cooperation, to collaboration, step-by-step

• Teaches you to asses your collaboration quotient and raise it to new levels

• Convinces administrators, teachers, and librarians of the benefit collaboration has on student learning

Buzzeo has written the seminal work on collaboration.This concise, heavy-duty, power-packed volume is filled with the information teachers, librarians, and administrators need to increase levels of collaboration in their schools in order to increase student learning and achievement.Buzzeo gives readers the why, the how, and the inspiration to build and enhance collaboration in every school.Data-based analysis is a key component of this handbook which is designed to be used by teachers and librarians wherever they are on the collaboration continuum.

Step up to the plate and hit one out of the park for collaboration!ÊRead, learn, and apply these strategies to raise the level of collaboration and achievement in your school!

· Offers hands-on tools for moving from isolation, to cooperation, to collaboration, step-by-step

· Teaches you to asses your collaboration quotient and raise it to new levels

· Convinces administrators, teachers, and librarians of the benefit collaboration has on student learning

Buzzeo has written the seminal work on collaboration.ÊThis concise, heavy-duty, power-packed volume is filled with the information teachers, librarians, and administrators need to increase levels of collaboration in their schools in order to increase student learning and achievement.ÊBuzzeo gives readers the why, the how, and the inspiration to build and enhance collaboration in every school.ÊData-based analysis is a key component of this handbook which is designed to be used by teachers and librarians wherever they are on the collaboration continuum.

VOYA

This resource is "designed to be a single-volume, essential guide to collaboration," and the author does an excellent job of presenting dense information in an accessible and positive voice that brings life to her topic and keeps the reader engaged. With the research of other scholars and practitioners in her field used to illustrate and complement her work, Buzzeo shows that she is professionally well-versed and welcomes readers to explore the sources she trusts. This transparency adds richness to the text, and a lengthy "Resources" section increases the usefulness of the volume. Although traditional collaborations are addressed in detail with specific benefits to teachers, library media specialists, administrators and students for each type, a strength of the text is the inclusion of "Data-Driven Collaboration," which allows teachers and school media specialists to identify student deficits and craft joint solutions. Presenting this idea as a "next step" in the collaboration continuum offers an incentive for professionals to work toward dynamic collaboration and adds to the practicality of the text. A final chapter focuses on technology and using Web 2.0 in collaborations, and although fairly thorough, a greater technology presence overall would have been appreciated. Practically sized, well organized, and styled as a workbook - with "Putting it to Work" sections left open for reader response and site-specific details - this text will be of interest to most library media specialists and library school instructors serving students interested in school librarianship. Reviewer: Elsworth Rockefeller