In schools, the learning climate is enhanced when faculty see one another as resources and allies; when there are collaborative relationships between parents, administration, faculty, and volunteers. Recent decades have seen a significant growth in the influence of collaborations and cooperative approaches to learning, a healthy trend in my view. Cooperation cultivates communication and therefore connectedness. Cooperation tends to facilitate learning. Cooperation reinforces a sense of shared purpose, efficacy, and accomplishment.

– Cheryl Charles
(science educator) Brandewein Lecture, National Science Teachers Association Annual Meeting