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		<title>Target Practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 21:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;ve been doing lots of thinking lately, apparently storing food for thought. After reading many studies and literature reviews I wanted to explore some new perspectives and this post reflects some of my current thinking. The process of trying on new perspectives interests me. It would be helpful to me, if you have any reactions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ripplingpond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=626787&amp;post=862&amp;subd=ripplingpond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Predictions for 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Are Essential Questions really essential to students?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day as I was listing several EQ&#8217;s on the board for students to copy into their agendas, a student inquired, &#8220;Why do you have to write these questions every day?&#8221; I wanted to know exactly what he meant. It seemed to me that I had been following the charge set for by our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ripplingpond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=626787&amp;post=836&amp;subd=ripplingpond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking of Socialism</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Three branches and three levels of government&#8221;, I explain, diagraming the hierarchy of national state and local government on the interactive whiteboard. &#8220;Now you try. Match the roles with their positions in this table. Yes, Governor is in the executive branch of state government, just as President is in the executive branch of the national [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ripplingpond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=626787&amp;post=825&amp;subd=ripplingpond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inspired Classroom Upadate &#8211; Wiki for Texting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last December I started a classroom wiki. I kept it private and controlled and asked parents to request memberships to join as a viewer only. For me this worked well because I needed to feel in control and comfortable with the tool as a part of my Inspired Classroom model. Students responded very well but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ripplingpond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=626787&amp;post=820&amp;subd=ripplingpond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Refrain from Critical Thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 18:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too much critical thinking may cause you to crash and burn in your teaching career. Think less and enjoy life more. Teachers learn to over analyze everything and everyone to the point of exhaustion. Like too much sun soaking up every drop of moisture in a sponge, STOP drying out of your own thirst for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ripplingpond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=626787&amp;post=817&amp;subd=ripplingpond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Education or National Healthcare</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When people are sick they go to the doctor and when they need education they go to a teacher. The difference lies in the treatment plans and the way we pay for these services. Healthcare is considered by some to be a right, just as education is. Well for those who think a national healthcare [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ripplingpond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=626787&amp;post=806&amp;subd=ripplingpond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Define Textbook</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How will the Georgia Senate define textbook? The future of our students&#8217; backpacks hang in the balance! clipped from www.ajc.com Well, maybe. On Tuesday, the Georgia Senate voted 45-5 to expand the definition of “textbook” to include computer hardware and technical equipment to support the use of digital content. &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ripplingpond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=626787&amp;post=802&amp;subd=ripplingpond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am sitting in a session with the notable Bernajean Porter who is expertly guiding a small group of 30 or so Fulton County teachers to a new understanding of tranformative learning I have had an epiphany! Ms. Porter has devloped a grid for understanding a hierarchy learning and it occurred to me that most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ripplingpond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=626787&amp;post=799&amp;subd=ripplingpond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inspired Classroom &#8211; Inspiration and Persperation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Inspired Classroom is now part of an experiment for a handful of teachers in my elementary school. Thanks to our innovative principal, Matt Rogers, our focus will be to provide greater and more timely access to web based tools, data and opportunities for interaction, for our students. The model, pioneered back in &#8217;06 by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ripplingpond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=626787&amp;post=790&amp;subd=ripplingpond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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