Collaborative Units that Work

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
National Standards and the Collaborative Units
SECTION I: ELEMENTARY COLLABORATION UNITS
CHAPTER 1: Authors' Night
Betsey Kennedy and Barbara Powell-Schager Big Shanty Elementary School, Georgia
Project Overview
Timeline
Roles Defined
Measuring Success
Funding Your Project
Materials and Resources
Sustaining This Project
CHAPTER 2: The Global Schoolhouse Project
Cally Flickinger and Jennifer Opel Chamberlin School, Vermont
Project Overview
Timeline
Roles Defined
Measuring Success
Funding Your Project
Materials and Resources
Sustaining This Project
CHAPTER 3: Take-Home DVD: Improving Emergent Literacy Skills
T. K. Cassidy and Betsy Thornton Dug Gap Elementary School, Georgia
Project Overview
Timeline
Roles Defined
Measuring Success
Funding Your Project
Materials and Resources
Sustaining This Project
CHAPTER 4: Thinking Like a Scientist
Mary Karlovec and Anne Michael Windsor Elementary School, Ohio
Project Overview
Timeline
Roles Defined
Measuring Success
Funding Your Project
Materials and Resources
Sustaining This Project
SECTION II: MIDDLE SCHOOL COLLABORATION UNITS
CHAPTER 5: Where in the World Are Our Middle School Students Now?
Barbara Adair, Rick Norman, John Scrivano, and Dana Thompson New Smyrna Beach Middle School, Florida
Project Overview
Timeline
Roles Defined
Measuring Success
Funding Your Project
Materials and Resources
Sustaining This Project
CHAPTER 6: Mathematical Nightmares
Nelle Cox, Shari Galgano, and JoAnn Reynolds Dover Air Base Middle School, Delaware
Project Overview
Timeline
Roles Defined
Measuring Success
Funding Your Project
Materials and Resources
Sustaining This Project
CHAPTER 7: One Book, One School
Chris Altobello, David Guest, Kendra Hamby, John McCollum, Debbie Pace, Sharon Scott, Brooks Spencer, LaDonna Walker, and Susan Wilson Osceola Middle School, Florida
Project Overview
Timeline
Roles Defined
Measuring Success
Funding Your Project
Materials and Resources
Sustaining This Project
SECTION III: HIGH SCHOOL COLLABORATION UNITS
CHAPTER 8: Teen Expressions
Lorraine Grochowski and Corrine Richardson Booker T. Washington Senior High School, Florida
Project Overview
Timeline
Roles Defined
Measuring Success
Funding Your Project
Materials and Resources
Sustaining This Project
CHAPTER 9: Comic Relief: Using Graphic Novels with ESL Students
Leila "Bee" Manship and Chasity Markle Concord High School, North Carolina
Project Overview
Timeline
Roles Defined
Measuring Success
Funding Your Project
Materials and Resources
Sustaining This Project
CHAPTER 10: Internet Safety
Billie Esser and Mary Anne Knowles Jefferson West High School, Kansas
Project Overview
Timeline
Roles Defined
Measuring Success
Funding Your Project
Materials and Resources
Sustaining This Project
CHAPTER 11: Advanced Academic Literacies
Michaelyn Hein, Martha Hickson, Mary Loder, Caitlin Ryan, and Lauren Sheldon North Hunterdon High School, New Jersey
Project Overview
Timeline
Roles Defined
Measuring Success
Funding Your Project
Materials and Resources
Sustaining This Project
CHAPTER 12: Culinary Reading Program
Wilhelmina DeNunzio and Carol Faas Eastside High School, Florida
Project Overview
Timeline
Roles Defined
Measuring Success
Funding Your Project
Materials and Resources
Sustaining This Project
Works Cited
Index