1) Collaboration between teachers and librarians involves shared thinking, planning, and creation of integrated instruction. 2) Models of collaboration range from coordination, where individuals work alone, to cooperation, where teachers and librarians work closely, to integrated instruction and curriculum, where they are deeply involved across subjects. 3) Successful collaboration requires time for planning, flexibility, and administrative support to create an instructional partnership between all staff.

1. LIB 604 Libraries in the School CurriculumSpring 2011 Developing collaboration in a learning community

2. 2 Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whither he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory . . . Leonardo da Vinci

3. Theorizing for collaboration 3 Patricia Montiel-Overall: Collaboration is a trusting, working relationship between two or more equal participants involved in shared thinking, shared planning and shared creation of integrated instruction. Toward a Theory of Collaboration for Teachers and Librarians

4. 4 Models of Collaboration: A. Coordinationfrom Montiel-Overall“A Theoretical Understanding”

5. 5 Models of Collaboration:B. Cooperationfrom Montiel-Overall, 2005

6. 6 Models of Collaboration:C. Integrated Instructionfrom Montiel-Overall, 2005

7. 7 Models of Collaboration:D. Integrated Curriculumfrom Montiel-Overall, 2005

8. A continuum from A through D 8 Montiel-Overall: In Model A, an individual could carry out major coordinating responsibilities alone In Model B: Cooperation, teacher and librarian begin to work more closely Model C: Integrated Instruction reflects a deeper level of involvement Model D: Integrated Curriculum involves TLC across the curriculum.

9. 9 “Theory without practice cannot survive and dies as quickly as it lives.”Leonardo da Vinciquoted in Slide 28 of A Unified Theory of Garbage Collection

10. Collaboration in practice Doesn’t work with everyone It has to do with personalities.... I mean, there are so many factors that come into these things. And to be under the illusion that you are going to work with everybody. Well, that would take some kind of saint. Someone charismatic and charming. Heather's Virtual Seminar

11. Forging a collaborative culture A Canadian’s success: Collaborations Between Teacher-Librarians and Classroom Teachers School Libraries in Canada, 2005, Vol. 25 Issue 2, p39-45

12. Appealing to teacher needs Joys and pitfalls: A Teacher-Librarian Finally Understands the Joys and Pitfalls of Collaboration School Libraries in Canada, 2005, Vol. 25 Issue 2, p18-29

14. “Individually, we are one drop. Together we are an ocean.” (RyunosukeSatoro) Quotes