Collaborating to Meet Standards: Teacher/Librarian Partnerships for K-6 » (2nd Edition)

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.

School Library Journal

This edition addresses the assessment-driven educational environment of the No Child Left Behind Act. In the first section, Buzzeo focuses on the benefits of an involved school librarian to the educational process and how best to achieve this collaboration. She includes a template for collaborative planning and instruction. Sample lessons for specific grades from librarians around the United States complete the book. Practical suggestions and examples from school librarians across the country appear in separate text boxes. But it all feels a little like preaching to the converted. While most librarians know how important they are to their schools, it is the school community and administrators who often need to become more aware of the valuable contribution a flexibly scheduled, open-access library media center can offer the school and its students. Numerous studies (some cited here) show the benefits to test scores of an active library media center, yet some of the librarians in this book discuss changing their roles to literacy instructor in order to prove their worth to the other teachers, and to avoid "being seen as irrelevant...[with] their budgets...reduced or their positions eliminated." It is a difficult balance to achieve, and Buzzeo gives worthwhile advice on maintaining this delicate juggling act.-Jane Barrer, PS/IS 111 Adolph S. Ochs School, New York City