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	<title>Teacher and Learner</title>
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	<description>every person is a learner and everyone is a teacher</description>
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		<title>Summer 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Maher</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A vague but persistent inner voice makes me contemplative on this foggy morning, while my fingers skim the keyboard, waiting for directions from my brain. The deck table is strewn with books, my journal, and my computer; the almost-empty coffee cup waits to be refilled when two paragraphs are composed. That is the deal I have apparently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presentation at NSTA National Convention, March 2010 in Philadelphia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carmen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Leveled nonfiction tradebooks that align with the National Science Education Standards and state-designed grade level expectations are not available from mainstream publishers, such as National Geographic and Millmark. Six-to-Six Interdistrict Magnet School in Bridgeport, CT has integrated carefully selected, quality leveled nonfiction readers into its science pacing guides in grades K through 5. This approach ensures reading that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resuming the Conversation - 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Maher</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our website has been dormant for quite a long time, while life has taken Carmen and Ann in new directions. Happily, Carmen&#8217;s husband Peter has kept TAL in a safe, nurturing location, waiting for the day when our lives once again create time and opportunity for discussion. As I write this, wintery weather swirls about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STUDENT VOICES WELCOME!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Maher</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A very bright high school freshman shared the following opinion with me  a few months ago:
&#8220;Schools are confining destiny. I have been taught well by many teachers and horribly by others. I disliked school the fifth week into high school because of the boring same old routines. Classes are hard and believe me, it is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching and Learning Today’s Technology</title>
		<link>http://www.teacherandlearner.org/?p=19</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Maher</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Technology in Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Wikis. URLs.  Facebook. MySpace. Blogs. Email. IM (Instant Message). Spreadsheets. Graphs and charts. Word processing. Flash.  And the list goes on…
How confident are you about your own technology literacy? Are you a confident risk taker in exploring the new world of electronic organization? Or does the mere thought of using a computer make you want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Learn to Wiki Together!</title>
		<link>http://www.teacherandlearner.org/?p=20</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Maher</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you ready to Wiki? It took a deep breath and a challenge from a student to push me into the Wiki World. But like so many other &#8220;things that seemed hard&#8221;, once explored, Wikis have become a new fascination for me. I offer this as a &#8220;work in progress&#8221; , to prove that making the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did You Know? Here&#8217;s a discussion starter&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.teacherandlearner.org/?p=18</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Maher</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[21st Century Education]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[twenty-first century]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our conversations about positive change need fuel to keep them headed in the right direction. Sharing information about the reality of our world today may be just the spark to light a fire of discussion. Click on this link to view a powerful educator presentation entitled &#8220;DID YOU KNOW&#8221;? The people who designed it are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Education into the Twenty-first Century and Developing “Whole New Minds”</title>
		<link>http://www.teacherandlearner.org/?p=17</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Maher</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[21st Century Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind – creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers. These people – artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers –will now reap society’s richest rewards and share its greatest joys.&#8221; (Daniel Pink – author of A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Narrowing Curriculum: Are We Inadvertently Narrowing Students’ Minds?</title>
		<link>http://www.teacherandlearner.org/?p=16</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carmen Andrews</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Douglas Reeves]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Grant Wiggins]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Making Standards Work]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[NCLB]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[teachers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Understanding by Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s time to pause and take a clear-eyed look at an evolving and powerful determinant of what students are being taught in American public schools. This time, instead of filtering curricula through a lens of high stakes state exams, NAEP and other testing barometers, we need to look at societal norms and realities, and examine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Has Happened to Schools?</title>
		<link>http://www.teacherandlearner.org/?p=14</link>
		<comments>http://www.teacherandlearner.org/?p=14#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Maher</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[School Climate]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[A Whole New Mind]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Pink]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[schools]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[students]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The World is Flat]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Friedman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What has happened to school in our society? It has become something to be endured, seemingly by both students and teachers, in many cases. We recoil from measuring success by test scores, but lack consensus on how to prepare our students to succeed in today’s global society. Research tells us that if learning is “joyful, [...]]]></description>
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