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		<title>Advice for new teachers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advice (random and very incomplete) for new teachers: Please round out the list with your thoughts: Sign on to Twitter. Follow the smartest people you can find in your areas of interest. Build a great PLN &#8211; personal learning network &#8211; of the wisest and most helpful people you can find. Follow people with whom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A year in pictures</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps I am having a hard time saying goodbye to the year. I spent part of the day putting this rather long sideshow together. Already I can think of all the many people and events I have left out. A year in school goes so fast. This is some of what I saw in 2009-2010. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life on the farm</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 23:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning about Sprout Creek Farm is a big part of the kindergarten curriculum but what exactly are they learning?  Readers of this blog know I am a  supporter of all things kindergarten but some things just go too far. Take this morning for instance. In the active play area hay bales and straw were being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pete Seeger and A Hudson River Journey</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 21:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pete Seeger came to PDS yesterday. He came for the lower school musical &#8211; an original production on a subject dear to his heart &#8211; the magnificent Hudson River for which he has done so much. The show &#8211; A Hudson River Journey - was written and produced by lower school drama teacher Dorothy Penz [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital literacy across the curriculum</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 01:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not about the tools and the testing, it&#8217;s about the learning and the thinking. Digital literacy is an important entitlement for all young people in an increasingly digital culture. Every school should have an organized policy for language across the curriculum… Two documents, two eras. The first from FutureLab (UK) &#8211; a wonderful introduction [...]]]></description>
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