[CASL-L] Collaboration Question

[Victoria Barrette]

Hi Mary! I am also a middle school librarian and I collaborate constantly!
I find it helpful to establish a bit of a rotation schedule with ELA
teachers.  Not a structured one, but I plan big visits once a quarter with
each grade level where they come in for a big library visit such as a book
tasting, a book passport program, a book browsing cafe, etc.  Sometimes
that visit is just book talks and checkout.  For the other subject areas,
often times the teachers come to me as things come up in class they would
like my help with addressing.  I send out monthly newsletters where I put
lesson ideas and encourage teachers to reach out if they're interested in
planning a lesson about any of those topics.  Examples would be using AI as
a thinking partner vs an answer machine, lateral reading, media bias, etc.
Happy to chat more to discuss ideas and share lessons I've done.

-Tori Barrette
Suffield Middle school

On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 9:10 AM Alysson Olsen via CASL-L <casl-l at mylist.net>
wrote:

> Hi Mary,
>
> I am at a middle school in Farmington.  I collaborate with many of the
> teachers.  Happy to set up a Google Meet to chat if you would like to
> chat.
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 8:56 AM Mary Blair <mblair8506 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Happy Friday!
>> I am reaching out to get some feedback/ideas about ways to increase
>> collaboration time with teachers. I am in a middle school setting with a
>> flexible schedule.
>> It was my first year this year and I let teachers come to me and that
>> worked, but I want to know some other ways to increase collaboration
>> without “hounding” teachers.
>> Thank you!!!
>> Mary
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