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		<title>Snow Days and Disruption: An open letter to families</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear PDS Families: A few lines (with minor edits)  from division in-boxes and my twitter feed: Student: I just wanted to say how I&#8217;ve never been so productive or so academically aware on a Snow day. I&#8217;ve been working all day today and yesterday making up work for the D day and other classes. I feel home schooled. I...]]></description>
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		<title>NPR and Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just before the break there was a message on the head&#8217;s listserve from Myra McGovern of NAIS. NPR journalist Tovia Smith was working on a story about what schools are doing to relieve the growing pressures and stresses on students and was looking for input. This happens to be a topic close to my heart....]]></description>
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		<title>High School Climate Report: More grim than glee</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bullying, violence, discrimination and the ethical climate of high school. Charles Blow wrote about what he termed the Private School Civility Gap in the OpEd pages of the NYTimes last Friday. He was drawing on the study issued last month by the Josephson Institute Center for Youth Ethics. It surveyed over 43,000 students on a...]]></description>
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		<title>Connect Joy to Learning</title>
		<link>http://www.pdscompasspoint.com/organize-for-joy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I  rewrote Seth Godin&#8217;s blog entry for today: Organizing for joy. I hope he doesn&#8217;t mind. The word &#8220;joy&#8221; made it irresistible. Traditional schools, particularly large-scale high schools, are organized for efficiency. Or consistency. But not joy. Traditional schools crank it out. Students show up. They pay attention. They get grades and awards to measure...]]></description>
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		<title>We asked&#8230;they told: 100% feel safe in school</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[100% of PDS high school students agreed with all of these statements on the HSSSE : I  feel safe in this school I am treated fairly in this school There is at least one adult in this school who cares about me I feel supported by the teachers in this school Adults in this school...]]></description>
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