Tom Brandt

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#wcchat Thank you for hosting this. Great job!

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@TatianaREdwards Yes, be more inclusive in the community of your tutors. Tutoring is a very wide skill set, and the "best writers" aren't always the best tutors.

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#wcchat I would say to a new director to identify your allies at the school and get them involved

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#wcchat on a more local level, I feel like I am a member of a community when we have our tutor retreats

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#wcchat I feel this way a lot. If you are talking about the national/regional community, it would be the first NCPTW conference I attended many years ago.

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#wcchat this year we have helped the first graders with their books, the eighth graders with their NDH papers, and some fifth graders at the school down the block with their standardized writing assessments

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#wcchat I think community involvement is key. Both in terms of building a community within your writing center and then reaching out to different constituencies on campus. It has been an area of focus for us this year.

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@abbyburtons I've found that people interested in this sort of work, both students and faculty, are intrinsically motivated

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#wcchat I think the community looks on the center as a valuable resource. Admissions see us as value added and the students see us as a go-to resource although they don't always get around to actually utilizing it. A few students see it as vital.

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#wcchat friendly

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#wcchat Tom Brandt, Berkeley Preparatory School in Tampa, Florida, cheese and crackers

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#twentypercenttimeberkeley great group for the first session. Had fun talking about twenty percent time and Wix websites. Great ideas

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What I meant to say was #twentypercenttimeberkeleystyle

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Looking forward to 20 Percent Time with Berkeley faculty

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Great Skype visit with the tutors at Edison HS. What an intelligent, thoughtful group of young people. I learned a lot from them.

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@jasonstamand thanks for all your help and expertise with this. More meetings in the works!

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@JulieCarterBPS me too. I would like to take a couple classes here at Berkeley like singers or ceramics

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What would you do with 20% Time? #twentypercenttime

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Thank you so much to all of you who have already replied. Keep the great topics coming

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Just setting up my Twitter. #myfirstTweet