I am a bit of an anomaly when it comes to being a school librarian.\u00a0 I work with a team, I am in an independent school that does not participate in standardized testing, and common core is not a factor.\u00a0 So many of the issues that face so many school librarians do not necessarily apply to me.<\/p>\n
That said, even if I feel like a bit of spare peg, it is incredibly important to take part in the larger conversations happening in the field.\u00a0 While attending the SLJ Leadership Summit in Austin in September, I was lucky enough to share a table with Elissa Malespina ( @SOMSlibrary ) and she told me about #tlchat<\/a> (teacher librarian chat) on twitter.\u00a0 #tlchat is a monthly chat filled with concerns of teacher librarians, and each month the topics are broad strokes like “Collaboration”, “Participatory Culture”, “Building Your PLN”.<\/p>\n I took part for the first time this past Monday during the collaboration chat.\u00a0 Not only did I get a few new ideas, I also found inspiration.\u00a0 Inspiration, as I have said before, is fuel for me.\u00a0 Even though I work with a team in a progressive environment, it is pretty incredible to connect across geography with professional peers.<\/p>\n If you have never participated in a library related chat on twitter, I encourage you to do so.\u00a0 Here is a list of chats that may help you find some inspiration!<\/p>\n Please add any other chats you find valuable into the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am a bit of an anomaly when it comes to being a school librarian.\u00a0 I work with a team, I am in an independent school that does not participate in standardized testing, and common core is not a factor.\u00a0 So many of the issues that face so many school librarians do not necessarily apply to me. That said, even if I feel like a bit of spare peg, it is incredibly important to take part in the larger conversations happening in the field.\u00a0 While attending the SLJ Leadership Summit in Austin in September, I was lucky enough to share a table with Elissa Malespina ( @SOMSlibrary ) and she told me about #tlchat (teacher librarian chat) on twitter.\u00a0 #tlchat is a monthly chat filled with concerns of teacher librarians, and each month the topics are broad strokes like “Collaboration”, “Participatory Culture”, “Building Your PLN”. I took part for the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95,24,16,48,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-stacy-dillon","category-digital-world","category-professional-reading","category-school-library","category-slice-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n