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 * TEACHING STANDARD #5 ** : Embraces and participates in effective collaboration.

//** "Nothing will work unless you do." **// --Maya Angelou

Areas of collaboration this year have included
 * Collaborating with classroom teachers on assessments for intensive ESL students
 * Working with Library staff to find a solution to lack of child-friendly popular music for various events including Wellbeing Awareness Week's ever-popular "Dance Like No One is Watching"--We found the "Kidz Bop" series, of which the Library purchased at least one CD
 * Standardizing/Moderating results of CBMs
 * Chaperoning high school service trip to Sichuan Province, China--monitoring students, interpreting English to Chinese/Chinese to English

One comment from a colleague which surprised me but shouldn't have was uttered during Francis Gipson's refresher course on Adaptive Schools strategies and techniques. When Francis asked each participant in my group to think of someone who embodies one of each of the Seven Norms of Collaboration, my colleague said the first person to come to her mind as an effective paraphraser was me.