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Collaboration between the Teacher and the Librarian is essential to further student achievement. If you are new to collaboration, or you haven't flexed your collaborative skills lately, here are some resources you might find useful!

"It is essential that school leaders apply the same spirit of innovation and future focus to the re-imagination of their school library environments as they do to other aspects of both their built and virtual school environment. Library as creative collaborative makerspace is an exciting, transformative idea that warrants exploration."

Using data driven collaboration to improve student achievement and prove your library program's worth.

A number of Canadian public libraries are pioneering a new service delivery model, which emphasizes collaborative service development and delivery, with library staff and the communities the library serves. Through this community-led service framework, library staff work with communities to understand their needs and deliver services that meet those needs, often devoting significant time outside the library walls. This article highlights two Canadian urban libraries which have embraced the community-led service approach, in order to remain relevant in our ever-changing environment.

This is a collaborative book lovers wiki for students around the world to add to

Use to share files in real time. Post multimedia files anywhere.

A Google Docs collaborative presentation.

This presentation focuses on a diverse array of web 2.0 tools teachers and librarians can use to enhance classroom websites, collaborative projects, and multimedia reports created by students individually or in distributed teams.

Excellent Prezi show with data to support funding and staffing library media centers as well as data to support positive effects of collaboration on student achievement.

A great wiki site to find good resources

The official website of Australian fantasy, science fiction author Justine Larbalestier. Jan 2008 was tips on writing month. Type in "writing" to bring up posts.

Curriki is a community of educators working together to create quality materials. It is an online environment that enables free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them. The name is a play on the combination of 'curriculum' and 'wiki' which is the technology we're using to make education universally accessible.

The Digital Classroom, the National Archives' gateway for resources about primary sources, activities and training for educators and students.

Lesson plans and teaching activities
How to teach with documents
How to collaborate with the National Archives

"Connexions is:a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute"