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		<title>We&#8217;ll Fix It in Post?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can't imagine how much differently this year would be turning out without this blog. I've come here to write often with a full heart overflowing with joy, other times with a heavy one weighed down with frustration. At the risk of sounding like a small child talking to his imaginary friend or diary, I think I need this blog; I can tell it anything. Then again, unlike a journal locked away in a drawer or a made-up companion, this blog is connected to something bigger than myself. I get to speak here and be heard. I can listen for dissension, affirmation, and comments that add to my understanding of what I'm encountering in teaching.]]></description>
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		<title>Move The World? Don&#8217;t Look in the Mirror&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teachers spend a lot of my time in the minds of others. Maybe you’d call it metacognition, maybe you’d call it reflective curiosity, the title isn’t that important but it’s a habit many of us act out each day. Our students beg it of us and our departments and administrations challenge us to understand what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bare-Knuckled Optimism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Formula for Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does it take to make a teacher? It’s no simple formula, I can tell you, but it isn’t so strange. Share what you know with others. Convey to them that, while the wind is blowing hard, the water rising—the metaphors for challenge mounting—they can reach the other side.]]></description>
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