A few strategies for battling the professional loneliness that can come with changing one's practice.

1. TIPS FOR BATTLING
PROFESSIONAL
LONELINESS
Presented by Your Ah.mazing TCRWP Staff
Developers

2. TIP 1
Take part in TCRWP
twitter chat.
(most Wednesdays at 7:30 pm
EST)

3. LINDSAY MANN SAYS…
Set a goal and share it
with a partner… then
check in across the year!

4. MARY GREEN
SUGGESTS…
Splurge on a trip to NYC
for an institute!

5. TIP 4
Start a think tank with
like-minded colleagues
in your area.

6. TIP 5
Be Positive: look for the
humor and the good stuff
when things feel hard.

7. TIP 6
Make friends with
“distance teachers”
(aka published authors)!

8. TIP 7
Reach out to your “local
experts”
(aka literacy specialists)

9. 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)