Today’s focus on literacy and accountability makes this book a must-have for teachers and librarians who want to learn to collaborate to improve student learning in grades K-6. Learn to envision, plan, teach, and assess in partnership with colleagues to positively impact student learning. Be ready to teach these 16 fully collaborative units that have been successfully implemented nationwide. These practical, standards-based units are just what teachers and librarians need to work together to give students the help they need to achieve and succeed. Your lessons will never be the same once you begin the powerful and beneficial practices that Toni Buzzeo spells out so clearly.

"An extensive revision of the first edition, this excellent sourcebook provides an in-depth introduction to collaboration, which will help new and veteran library media specialists and teachers. It addresses the impact of No Child Left Behind, as well as the history, benefits, and roadblocks of collaboration. Quotes from library media specialists and other professionals dot these beginning chapters. The bulk of the book consists of collaborative units, using a standard template. With an emphasis on state standards, these examples represent some exemplary collaborations across the United States. The units will provide readers with activities, timeframes, resources, assessment tools, and adaptations that can be readily used. Each unit includes handouts and rubrics. Many facets of this book make it easy-to-use: the grade level and subject for each unit listed in the table of contents, a table of figures, a matrix of learning activities by content standard, and a resource list. For library media specialists who wish to collaborate with teachers, this book will be a must-read. For those who already collaborate with teachers, it will provide examples of what other teachers have done and examples of handouts and rubrics which could be adapted to other units. Index. Highly Recommended." - Library Media Connection

Toni Buzzeo is a writer and library media specialist from Buxton, ME.