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		<title>How Do We Treat New Teachers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve J. Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m new to teaching. Sometimes I wonder if it’s obvious to others in ways other than my optimistic smile and twinkling eyes. Talking with veteran educators every day is one way I test the waters, and feel out their perceptions of me. No matter the level of experience over me, rank, or area of specialty, I’m always treated delicately. They handle their conversation with me as a one might a small child who’s holding up a “picture of you” scribbled in abstract crayon shapes. Compliments and encouragement pour over the work, but I’m not sure they represent the efforts I’ve put forth. I defend what I’ve done and try to explain things, but after a while the kid gloves they hold me with are simply chaffing. That being said, there’s no way I can thank those people around me enough for their support.]]></description>
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		<title>Bare-Knuckled Optimism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve J. Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Note: This is the optimistic sequel to my challenging week in teaching post "I’ll Show YOU the Meaning of a Grawlix!"]

I think Marcus Aurelius said it best, "The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it." This meditation shows me the way through more dark alleys of life than almost anything else (maybe my wife's cookies help too). You can't stop the world from changing as a whole, but you can control how you react to whatever changes come your way. This has been my operative philosophy of life for a long time, and it has never steered me wrong. Maybe you're not one to "think positive!" or "put your bright side out!" Some of us do just find getting dressed each morning without our smiles, but how can you really expect to see any kind of shift in what comes your way, if you are working constantly to convince yourself that you are, in fact, doomed to be where you are.]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ll Show YOU the Meaning of a Grawlix!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many of you had bets on about me? What were the odds for burning out at what week, what would my reaction be... I'll tell you now, the smile on my face has faded slightly. I'm tired, behind in my grading, frustrated with my colleagues, and don't even ask me how much I've been neglecting my fantasy football teams (poor Plunderbuss and The Frumious Bandersnatch)! For the first six weeks of teaching, I kept up my blog each week, was always a week ahead, graded only at school, and had no trouble with my six graduate hours of class after school.

The past two weeks I've been a shell of my former self at best...]]></description>
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		<title>Take Two, Call Me in the Morning</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve J. Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What can you find at the bottom of a bottle of Excedrin? The bottom of a pot of coffee? It may be some form of peace, a temporary solution to the sum of your stresses, but compared to the power of a supportive community it is static. Those solutions are one-way fixes. The coffee gives me what I expect from it every time, as does the headache pill. A community gives to me and asks that I share in return as a part of the growth process. Solutions to the complex and emotional task of teaching are not simple switches to be toggled on or off. I have truly found that sharing in a two-way with my peers is as important for me as a teacher as it is for my students.]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, And&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve J. Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If classroom management is one of the most significant problems that new teachers face, then improv classes should be nestled right next to educational psychology on the curriculum. Teaching is all about being prepared to be unprepared. There's no way you can know what will happen from tomorrow or in the next hour of class; the one constant you can trust in is uncertainty. If teachers can take a page from Poehler's book into their classrooms, then the environment may just start to change from a rigid and scheduled order of events into something much more organic and flexible.]]></description>
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		<title>Pull!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve J. Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you asked me how long it's been since the beginning of school, I couldn't answer without reaching for a calendar; everything still feels new. I can read the eyes of my fellow teachers when they ask me--grinning--so...how's it going? They want a story, an exciting rubbernecker they can chuckle at first and then offer me advice on how to overcome it with time. They're consoling gestures are at the ready, locked and loaded. I'm not usually one to disappoint, but I've been returning a lot of grins lately.]]></description>
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		<title>Wizards and Crickets and Teaching, Oh My!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In just a few months, the entire population of our building will be moving in to a brand new, state-of-the-art high school across town. I’m excited. We are told nothing will need to be taken besides our personal files and belongings because everything will be shiny and new there. Our current building was constructed decades [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chronicle of a New Teacher</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve J. Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The beginnings of things are the most beautiful, the most terrible, and the most fascinating. Babies emerge covered in goo, screaming, and blinded as a room full of people stand and watch. Teaching is not much different. My four year gestation left me soaked in theory, conversational, and blinded with well-meaning naivety about the world I was entering.]]></description>
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		<title>On Staying Relevant, Politics, and Opinions in the Classroom</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve J. Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll start with a question:
&#8220;How do you deal with politics in your classroom?&#8221;
People become emotional about certain issues very quickly if they have strong beliefs, and political affiliation, if announced, can be a key to Pandora&#8217;s box. During this past election year, I found myself in a precarious position: student teacher in someone else&#8217;s classroom [...]]]></description>
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