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		<title>Elements of a Successful Class</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is inspired by an article written by Steven Beyer in the September, 2008 Issue of Principal Leadership. His topic was advice for (relatively) inexperienced teachers on the elements of a successful class. I have taken some of his points and added in a few of my own. Anybody else have any suggestions they&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;s blog is away for spring training</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<title>The Zen of Unstuckness</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unstuckness. That&#8217;s what I want to talk about today. First off, being stuck isn&#8217;t the end of the world. If you think about it, the moment that we become aware that we are stuck is the moment when we can consider the broadest possible range of ways of becoming unstuck. Everything is in play. Nothing has been ruled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zen and the art of stuckness.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stuckness. That&#8217;s what I want to talk about today. How individuals and institutions and even nations can get stuck. And any conversation about being stuck has to refer back to that 70&#8242;s classic, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig, which has a great section on what it means to be stuck. In fact, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Liberal Arts and the Millennial Generation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a recent conference, the topic was the Millennial Generation, those born after 1985, and their educational needs. The speaker gave us a couple of old chestnuts — today&#8217;s college graduate will have five or six different jobs over the course of his/her career and the relative mastery of any field will be out of [...]]]></description>
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