tips for battling professional loneliness
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A few strategies for battling the professional loneliness that can come with changing one's practice.TRANSCRIPT
TIPS FOR BATTLING PROFESSIONAL
LONELINESS
Presented by Your Ah.mazing TCRWP Staff Developers
TIP 1
Take part in TCRWP twitter chat.
(most Wednesdays at 7:30 pm EST)
LINDSAY MANN SAYS…
Set a goal and share it with a partner…
then check in across the year!
MARY GREEN SUGGESTS…
Splurge on a trip to NYC for an institute!
TIP 4
Start a think tank with
like-minded colleagues
in your area.
TIP 5
Be Positive: look for the humor and the
good stuff when things feel hard.
TIP 6
Make friends with “distance teachers”
(aka published authors)!
TIP 7
Reach out to your “local experts”
(aka literacy specialists)
DEE KLOSS RECOMMENDS…
A little at a time—Implementing writing workshop is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you
can make the whole trip that way. (apologies to E. L. Doctorow)