Overview Think Box: For a wider view of instruction and its possibilities, consider this expanded role description that credentialed librarians might lead in your school.

Design Thinking Think Box: David Lee continues his ideas for actual design thinking in a second grade classroom as the students create a new community from the ground up. Discuss this second example with your group with reasons why both teacher and librarian make this kind of project much more effective. Could other specialists contribute? Suppose administrators rolled up their sleeves to participate?

Design Thinking Think Box: David Lee explains the concept of design thinking and then describes an example with a first grade class of students designing a new animal. Here think of the teacher and librarian as partners who are then joined by another specialist, the art teacher to make this learning experience superior. Creativity and invention can happen at a very young age and worth exploration in your schools at all levels.

Micro Documentation Think Box:  In this book, chapter seven centers on the school librarian as co-teacher using flexible rooms where all LIIITE model elements can be integrated to boost learning experiences.  Check out documentation measures at the learner, teaching unit, and organization levels.

Micro Documentation Think Box:  Chapter three of this book focuses on collaboration and co-teaching which are both essential to build and maintain rich learning experiences.  Check out documentation measures at the learner, teaching unit, and organization levels. 

Teacher Librarian Collaboration Think Box:  Discover what middle school librarians in Douglass County School District in Colorado say about making themselves valued members of the school and curriculum creating partners with teachers.