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	<description>Chronicling the construction/deconstruction of a doctoral student of education's journey</description>
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		<title>Visitors from the Past</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I was blessed.   I don&#8217;t know how else to put it.
A student I taught three years ago visited me.  He was a transfer from a nearby high school in a different district.  His writing skills were barely high enough to merit placement by my district&#8217;s standards in my class.  Verb tenses were muddled, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Questions for All</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 21:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After reading more of Barry Lane&#8217;s After the End, I realized it was time to work more explicitly on question formation with my students, especially as a writing revision strategy.
Boy, was it fun.  I brought in a big cowgirl hat I  had bought in Mexico a few years ago and asked students to make up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let It Snow</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let it snow.  That&#8217;s what we say in schools where an inch of snow shuts down our school system.  It seems immature, for sure.
I can&#8217;t explain the joy of the first snow day.  The inner child gleefully embraces the stolen time off.  I go back to bed while my husband readies himself for his work.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School as Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2007 21:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it&#8217;s easy to romanticize the people you work with.  Aggravating quirks can turn into &#8220;endearing&#8221; qualities, for instance.  Other times there&#8217;s no danger in romanticizing.  You know you simply don&#8217;t like some colleagues.
This week, the &#8220;world&#8217;s best administrator&#8221;&#8211;as I&#8217;ve referred to her&#8211;unexpectedly lost her husband.  I wouldn&#8217;t wish this on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trusting the Kids with Control</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was Day #2 of letting my kids be in control in class. It&#8217;s only the second time I&#8217;ve seen them after breaking the ideas about building a community from Alfie Kohn to them. OK, I&#8217;m still navigating the line between being the adult with more knowledge and life experience and allowing students to negotiate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turning the Power Over to Students Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was my first attempt at letting my high school ESOL students run the class. Today, I worked with my third and final class (I am also a department chair so do not teach a full courseload in my district).
Most of the students wanted the circle forum for discussion as opposed to the rows they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turning the Power Over to Students</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I made a frightening step today. I let the students have control over my class. I’m not talking about letting a few of them call on other students or give presentations or work in groups. I sat down, in a circle with them, and explained that I’m not going to control the class anymore.
I’m excellent [...]]]></description>
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