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		<title>Rigor, Relevance and Relationship</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our students need a new vision of the three “R’s” – Rigor – Relevance and Relationship. Our children need to be prepared to excel and master the art of learning to learn. As educators, we need to provide students with the skills that prepare them to solve real world problems while engaging in the art [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning Community – Cooperation &amp; Collaboration</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LeeAnn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not sure if you caught the 60 Minutes interview of Hrabowski and the learning community transformation he has accomplished on his college campus. If you haven’t watched it, I highly recommend it. At the heart of learning communities is the belief that learning to learn together is an essential part of becoming a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Courage to Engage Learners</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LeeAnn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven’t read Parker Palmer’s book, The Courage to Teach, I highly recommend reading it before this school year is completed. In our mad dash to improve, transform, or reform the educational experience for students we seem to have missed the mark in the role and purpose of education as well as the role [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rewards of Staff Engagement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LeeAnn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With tight monetary resources, now more than ever, schools need teachers who can and will engage with each other, with their students, with their parents and with ideas and content. Reading this you may say “well of course.” However the culture of education, -the “school of origin,” &#8211; if you will, has not valued nor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>21st Century Collaboration &amp; Coaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LeeAnn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[coaching]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While education has started to embrace collaboration, as a whole the idea of coaching in education has been slow to take off. Understanding how coaching impacts developing real and functional collaboration amongst educators IS the necessary skill set for leadership no matter what the role – classroom, building leader or superintendent. The skill set required [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Role of a Learning Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LeeAnn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time in the day of the little red school house, the role of learning community seemed more clear&#8230;to teach children how to read, write and do math. Then came along the Industrial Revolution and Ellwood Cubberley  who viewed education as an assembly line; children as the raw material and those unable to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>System Thinking for Learning Organizations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LeeAnn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to develop a functioning learning community; system thinking must be part of the reflection for the classroom, grade level teams and whole learning community. System thinking reflection begins by clarifying the role and goal of each part we play within the system. Beginning in the classroom, what is the role of the teacher? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Engaging the Power of Adult Learners</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LeeAnn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the heart of adult learning communities are adult learners. Often professional development in school districts for adult learners consists of “sit &#38; get” programs. Instead of engagement and participation, the “staff developer” simply “tells” adult what they need to know. Often I hear about how badly a staff “behaved” in district trainings. All the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to Learn Together</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LeeAnn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.  ~Clay P. Bedford Learning to learn together is a process rather than a task. In order to be part of a learning community, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building Parent Advocacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LeeAnn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advocacy - Building parent advocacy requires first understanding the role of an advocate. While it seems obvious, education has not really known how to develop and collaborate with advocates. In most cases the idea of advocacy has resulted in more adversarial relationships with parents rather than developing powerful partnerships with educators that result in student [...]]]></description>
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