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		<title>Adversity, Hardship, and Teachable Moments</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do we make sense of adversity? We all face daunting intellectual, physical, emotional, interpersonal and spiritual challenges. Many of us rail against the pain associated with the challenge. We lament that it is too difficult, too overwhelming, too upsetting to handle. We interpret related experiences through this lens as we continue to spiral downward [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Brainer: What we can learn from teachers who create in their classrooms</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past week, I traveled to the Upper Grand School Board in Ontario to provide feedback and guidance on the development of their curricular units. One of the most powerful moments happened on the fifth day with the Vocational Technology Education teachers. Now, I want to give a disclaimer right up front — I met [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[My son is a fifth grader now, dancing on the precipice between childhood (wanting to tell me every last detail about his day) and adolescence (where shrugging as he says, “nothing really happened”). He has seen over ten teachers or so in his career as a student, plenty of experience to develop his perspective about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Designing Homework to Open the Lines of Communication</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[My children have been in school for several weeks now and they are accustomed to their daily routine: do their homework right after they get home from school because, “that is their most important job.” While parents may use this refrain throughout the year to get their children to do the work, there is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Connection between Yoga and Teaching</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been going to a hot yoga class for two years now. As I move from one pose to another, the instructor keeps talking about moving with grace, about pushing to the point where strength and breath meet. Typically there are thirty or more folks in this class of all ages, fitness levels, and sizes. [...]]]></description>
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