What is collaboration?

A little late in getting this out but when I went to the IPD conference, I attended a session that was partly about collaboration. I had some former colleagues from Holt present on year round schools and collaboration. Most of their presentation centered on the year round concept because the participants had a lot of questions about how it works. As an aside, questions about it stopped when the MEAP scores were presented. The scores were amazing and solidified their point that year round school and its shorter breaks helps in the ability of the students to retain the material that was taught.

Ok, but the idea of collaboration is what I am interested in. In education, we use this term in lots of different ways. How do you define collaboration? I am curious to see if we define collaboration different depending on the setting. If there are different definitions, how do we define it as it applies to the Association work that we do? Love to know your thoughts on this subject

Bargaining Conference

It is that time of year to pre-register for the Bargaining/PAC/PR conference in Detroit, Feb 5-7. In order to take advantage of the pre-registration reduced rate, you need to have your information postmarked by Dec. 15. For UBC members, remember that there is money set aside to reimburse your local for a portion of the conference costs. For registration information, contact our office or visit www.mea.org

I heard that session #202 is a great session. It is entitled "Is it Diamonds or Data?" There will be a sneak preview of this session for BIMEA bargainers in January. Contact Nancy, Ervin, or myself for more details...