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		<title>Do I Have a Goal?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So much has changed this year in my teaching life. And, to be honest, I&#8217;m not sure how I feel about all of those changes. Changes in expectations, changes in class sizes, changes in supervisors are just a handful of the changes that have come with this new school year. I was telling a few [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelearningbiz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2600779&amp;post=896&amp;subd=thelearningbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nov-Dec. Books &amp; 2011 Reading Goal</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time last year (2011) I set a reading goal for myself. I set the goal to 100 books, but never really set any parameters on what constitutes a book. (Does it need to be a certain number of pages? Does a longer book count as two books? Etc.) Not to make excuses [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelearningbiz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2600779&amp;post=887&amp;subd=thelearningbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>October Reading List</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ranger&#8217;s Apprentice 2: The Burning Bridge by John Flanagan Going Blue: A Teen Guide to Saving our Oceans Lakes, Rivers &#38; Wetlands by Cathryn Berger Kaye* Stolen Children by Peg Kehret* Ranger&#8217;s Apprentice 3: The Icebound Land by John Flanagan P S Longer Letter Later Book 2: Snail Mail, No More by Ann M. Martin, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelearningbiz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2600779&amp;post=883&amp;subd=thelearningbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>September Book List</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 16:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat Ranger&#8217;s Apprentice Book 1: The Ruins of Gorlan (because I read the majority of it in September) You can&#8217;t get clearer proof of how pathetic my September reading has been than this. I only finished three books, and I&#8217;m half-way through two others. Let&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelearningbiz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2600779&amp;post=880&amp;subd=thelearningbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t forget the details</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that every year I&#8217;m reteaching the art of using details. There seems to be something ingrained in all young writers, one of those learned fallacies, that any reader can understand exactly what they are thinking, and with just a few vague jottings a reader will know exactly what it is being referred to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelearningbiz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2600779&amp;post=877&amp;subd=thelearningbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anomaly?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never think my students are listening. I assume that three quarters of what I say gets washed away in less than five minutes time into some vortex of inattention/distraction/brain-clutter and other such things. It becomes all the more impressive then, when well past the point in which I shared some tidbit of information, it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelearningbiz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2600779&amp;post=875&amp;subd=thelearningbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, the places you&#8217;ll go!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 23:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I reread &#8220;Oh, The Places You&#8217;ll Go! by Dr. Seuss today. I was planning to share  with my classes a handful of books that each in it&#8217;s own way has had an impact on me. It&#8217;s always interesting to hear from kids the books that have had an impact on them. It&#8217;s significant, I realize [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelearningbiz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2600779&amp;post=869&amp;subd=thelearningbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Look again</title>
		<link>http://thelearningbiz.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/look-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Revision is such a foreign concept to so many. Why go back and re-look at something you just spent all that time looking at not too long ago? Why add words or rearrange ideas. Why oh why would you ever start from scratch? (Isn&#8217;t that going backwards!) Revision is the hardest thing to teach and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelearningbiz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2600779&amp;post=866&amp;subd=thelearningbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>September is a slow reading month</title>
		<link>http://thelearningbiz.wordpress.com/2011/09/12/september-is-a-slow-reading-month/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every September I&#8217;m reminded of how hard it is to be a teacher and a reader at the same time. What was a book read every few days becomes a book read every other week or so. What was over 15 books in a month becomes a handful. And every year I tell myself that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelearningbiz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2600779&amp;post=864&amp;subd=thelearningbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sharing stories</title>
		<link>http://thelearningbiz.wordpress.com/2011/09/08/sharing-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 23:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stories. That&#8217;s really what I love. My day can sometimes seem chaotic, my brain overfull of to-do lists. It&#8217;s nice to get a bit of a pause from the handouts, procedures, expectations, etc. that come with the start of a school year. It&#8217;s nice to start to find out about the lives, minds and hearts, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelearningbiz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2600779&amp;post=861&amp;subd=thelearningbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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