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		<title>Chasing Fireflies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve J. Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summer has all but rolled up its beach towel for the last time this year. The iced tea is staring contemplatively at its winter companion the kettle on the stove. Kids have adorned classroom walls with the last dispatches from Florida vacations, and teachers everywhere are pondering where to go next to keep their classrooms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extending The Honeymoon: How Optimism Shapes My Teaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted on TeachHub.com in my series, The Optimistic Educator Last week I jumped into a new district, a new position, and a whole lot of new challenges. After two years teaching in high schools&#8211;one rural and one very urban&#8211;I&#8217;m exploring an entirely new category of teaching. This year, I&#8217;m traveling between two different middle schools [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Place I&#8217;ve Never Been Before</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 20:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve J. Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post by Scot Squires, an Instructional Coach at the Park Hill School District in Kansas City, Missouri and a Greater Kansas City Writing Project Teacher-Consultant. In his song, Rocky Mountain High, John Denver writes, “He was born in the summer of his 27th year  &#8211; comin&#8217; home to a place he&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faces of Learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve J. Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I wrote "Formula for Success," a little more than a year ago, I was just trying to put the next brick in my blogging wall. When I stumbled upon the "Rethink Learning Now" campaign website (which now redirects to its parent non-profit site) I saw a call to submit writing about experiences in learning. I can't honestly remember what went through my head, but after browsing and reading through others' stories, I pasted in the text of my most recent blog post.]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;ll Fix It in Post?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve J. Moore</dc:creator>
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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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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve J. Moore</dc:creator>
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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>
		<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>Formula for Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve J. Moore</dc:creator>
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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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