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		<title>Hitting the Educational Wall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s so great when you’re in school and you not only understand what’s going on, but you’re learing the lessons and have no trouble getting the work done.  It’s even more amazing when that feeling of comprehension lasts the entire time you’re in school – from first grade until the end of your Master’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educationshortlist.com/2010/06/hitting-the-educational-wall/</link>
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		<title>The Importance, Value, and Relevance to Game Playing in the Classroom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[.
 
Life and learning include a lot of difficult tasks and lessons.  So, whenever the opportunity presents itself to make that learning more interactive and creative – good educators reach for the chance to do just that.  Which is why, I believe, game playing activities are a valuable resource in a teacher’s tool [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educationshortlist.com/2010/06/the-importance-value-and-relevance-to-game-playing-in-the-classroomte/</link>
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		<title>Earth Day &#8212; A Lifelong Learning Lesson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earth Day, like other nationally recognized days, should serve as a launching point into integrating that day’s beliefs and values into your day.  Earth Day, I have to admit, has been the easiest of these days to make a part of my life.  Since I was little, I was very interested in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educationshortlist.com/2010/04/earth-day-a-lifelong-learning-lesson/</link>
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		<title>Top 6 Ways to &#8216;Green&#8217; Your Classroom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone does better in their learning when they have an example to follow.  And, like so many other parts of life these days, that example comes from the classroom.  As a big advocate of saving the environment (really who shouldn’t be?)  I have the top 6 ways to help make that example [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educationshortlist.com/2010/04/top-6-ways-to-green-your-classroom/</link>
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		<title>Which work will work in your room?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The educational author, Jonathan Kozol writes how there is value in having a classroom filled with work from all students [look at me, using the word ‘work’ Alfie Kohn would be so upset].  I completely agree.  But for me, knowing how to fill my classroom is an internal struggle.
I always wanted each child [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educationshortlist.com/2010/04/which-work-will-work-in-your-room/</link>
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		<title>Bullying &#8211; a Teachable Moment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bullying has been in the news more than usual these past few weeks; and for good reason.  An Irish immigrant was bullied to death, so much that the girl who was being terrorized by her peers committed suicide because she just couldn&#8217;t take it anymore.    Another girl, who was not allowed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educationshortlist.com/2010/04/bullying-a-teachable-moment/</link>
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		<title>Teachable Moments: Students Taking the Lead on Their Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I had written about an article from Metro Parent, that discussed the importance of having American students learn about how their country&#8217;s government works.  I am a huge advocate of getting students involved, and making the learning more real to them and their world.  So, you can imagine how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educationshortlist.com/2010/03/teachable-moments-students-taking-the-lead-on-their-education/</link>
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		<title>The curse of the yellow highlighter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can’t use yellow highlighters.  All of the other colors are just line, but it’s the yellow ones that work against me.  Please allow me to explain.
Starting in sixth grade I struggled in school; by the time I was in high school I was bottoming out as a C student.  So one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educationshortlist.com/2010/03/the-curse-of-the-yellow-highlighter/</link>
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		<title>Bringing Civics, and Social Studies, Back into Focus at School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don’t like to admit it, but when I was a classroom teacher, I didn’t spend as much time as I wanted on social studies.  It wasn’t because I didn’t have available materials; I just didn’t have the time.  I knew that I was cheating my students by not teaching them about their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educationshortlist.com/2010/03/bringing-civics-and-social-studies-back-into-focus-at-school/</link>
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		<title>Making word problems out of real life math, OR, Erasing the fear and frustration of word problems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ahh, math word problems – the nemesis of every K-12 student.
The three things I get the most tutoring calls for is handwriting, study skills, and math, specifically math word problems.
I totally get it – word problems are difficult.  It’s only been in the past three years that I have felt comfortable with them.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educationshortlist.com/2010/03/making-word-problems-out-of-real-life-math-or-erasing-the-fear-and-frustration-of-word-problems/</link>
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