Kimmel, S. C.
(2012). Collaboration as school reform: Are there patterns in the chaos of
planning with teachers?. School Library Research, 151-15.
Summary: Kimmel collected a year’s worth of notes on collaborative
planning sessions and broke them down statement by statement to find patterns in
the seemingly chaotic discussion. She then categorized these into five categories:
making connections, orienting, coordinating, making sense, drifting. Then she broke
down into percentages the amount of time spent on each category.
Review: At first it was hard for me to make sense of this
article, but when I did, it was very enlightening. I was impressed by the
nature of what had to be painstaking research. The conclusion she draws is that
librarians help the collaborative meetings because they contribute more to the
productive ends of the meeting. Also that the meetings do a have a pattern amid
the chaos.
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