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	<title>Constructing Kasun, Educator &#187; Alternative education</title>
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	<description>Chronicling the construction/deconstruction of a doctoral student of education's journey</description>
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		<title>Working Inside the Pain</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kasun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a student working on a found poem right now, so I&#8217;ll also do some quick writing next to him.   As I&#8217;ve commented before, one of the best ways to write is right alongside the student&#8230;  it&#8217;s like a spiral where both of us are generative, knowing the other is hard at work.
As I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Under the Hood</title>
		<link>http://kasun.edublogs.org/2008/01/27/getting-under-the-hood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kasun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my best efforts to connect with students, I am learning a lot more about cars than I ever planned to. 
 Why?
Because, as I try to get under the cognitive hoods of my students, I find that a couple of them are really driven by their interest in cars (puns intended).  So, in my efforts to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Kind of Intelligent Are You?</title>
		<link>http://kasun.edublogs.org/2008/01/13/what-kind-of-intelligent-are-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kasun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes we miss each other completely.  Sometimes what I value has nothing to do with what the other values.  And we end up speaking at each other, unpenetrated by the meaning.
That&#8217;s what&#8217;s happening in a book about a very young Hmong girl born to immigrants in California, http://www.spiritcatchesyou.com/.  She has epilepsy and seizes a lot.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Enough is Enough</title>
		<link>http://kasun.edublogs.org/2007/10/15/when-enough-is-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kasun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Ok, stop, I can&#8217;t do this,&#8221; is how a student responded to me last week.
Was I ordering him to read War and Peace?  Demanding that he write a lengthy essay?  Getting him to recite a monologue?
I was asking him to spell the word, &#8220;pet.&#8221;  This is a student who has been in the US for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Share Or Not To Share?</title>
		<link>http://kasun.edublogs.org/2007/10/09/to-share-or-not-to-share/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kasun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve officially begun working in the longterm with students. 
 I like it.  It&#8217;s fun.  And scary.  And requires a lot of individualized planning and weighs you down because you know that you want each lesson to be a hit for each student since you work alone with them.
 And I don&#8217;t know how much to share with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unbreakable Epiphanies</title>
		<link>http://kasun.edublogs.org/2007/09/20/72/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kasun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After discussing all the things we’re learning about life, my dear friend who lives in the Middle East and I decided this week we would open a worldwide chain of coffee shops. Caffeine-loving contemplative types could sit over coffee and experience moments of insight and wisdom, drop their coffee mugs in that “Eureka!” moment and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Test of the Will</title>
		<link>http://kasun.edublogs.org/2007/09/13/a-test-of-the-will/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kasun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I went to a site for kids who have been sent by their principal to another school so that their behavior becomes more appropriate to the norms of a regular US classroom.  I write this and ask myself, “Why aren’t we equipped in the regular school setting to help these kids better?”  It’s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disposable People</title>
		<link>http://kasun.edublogs.org/2007/09/10/disposable-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kasun</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Equity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Life is cheap in the Third World.”  An old friend and I used to share this sentiment back in the days when we studied the concept of development in what we often refer to as the Third World.  We looked at high infant mortality rates, lack of access to health care and education and came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can I Really Do This?</title>
		<link>http://kasun.edublogs.org/2007/09/04/can-i-really-do-this/</link>
		<comments>http://kasun.edublogs.org/2007/09/04/can-i-really-do-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kasun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recoil as I write this post.  What if someone from my district is watching?  What if they catch on to what I&#8217;m going to write?  It&#8217;s so contrary to No Child Left Behind, to standardized curricula, to everything education is mandated to be in this country these days.  But I&#8217;ll share the little secret [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The First Step to a Second Chance</title>
		<link>http://kasun.edublogs.org/2007/08/29/the-first-step-to-a-second-chance/</link>
		<comments>http://kasun.edublogs.org/2007/08/29/the-first-step-to-a-second-chance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kasun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first step to a second chance.  That’s the name of the conference I attended in my district today.  Hundreds of staff participated in this conference—an event specifically for those of us who work in alternative educational settings.  What is alternative education?  It’s all the education offered for the students who don’t learn the “normal” [...]]]></description>
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