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	<description>The blog of the Head of School at Poughkeepsie Day School</description>
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		<title>&#8220;Parents needed as Play Agents?&#8230; Surely You&#8217;re Joking PDS!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been to the webpage, read your email,  looked at Facebook or been on campus you will know that the  FFR (Fall Festival Reimagined) wing of the PA is actively recruiting older students and parents to be Play Agents for the big event on Saturday, November 19th. Readers of this blog will know that...]]></description>
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		<title>A year in pictures</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
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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>The wild front ear</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 03:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If blogging is supposed to have an element of timeliness then  I have given up on that ideal.  After all &#8211; I am still writing about stuff from the NAIS annual conference  in February. Fess Parker died in March and while my mind went instantly to the Davy Crockett craze of my childhood, it&#8217;s only...]]></description>
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		<title>Childhood has Changed: Playtime is Over</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an article to read by David Elkind in the NYTimes Playtime is Over It&#8217;s an important topic. It&#8217;s an interesting article. And it&#8217;s one well worth reading and talking about. There is one piece though, that I have to comment on right away: For children in past eras, participating in the culture of childhood...]]></description>
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