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	<title>Carol Steele welcomes you!</title>
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	<description>a site for inspired and aspiring teachers</description>
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		<title>&#8220;Good teaching is about hard work, not a halo.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we approach fall with all the hopes, anxieties and excitement that accompany it,  have a listen to this interview with Doug Lemov, on NPR&#8217;s Talk of the Nation.
Lemov, a teacher himself, believes passionately that champion  teachers are made, not born.  He studied successful teachers, and  describes specific classroom management techniques that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carolsteele.net/?p=189</link>
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		<title>Common &#8220;Sense&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently listened to Sir Ken Robinson again, this time on an online TED video. Robinson is known for his focus on creativity and the individual differences of students.  A memorable comment from the speech was the recommendation that we need to escape from “the tyranny of common sense.” That line has been haunting me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carolsteele.net/?p=184</link>
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		<title>Never Walk Alone: 5 Ways to Create the Support System You Need</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Only one teacher in ten can go to a traditional professional development offering—an expert talking to a room full of strangers—and successfully implement the new method all  by themselves when they return to the classroom.*
This struggle makes sense.  How many pilots fly a new plane without a training flight? How many surgeons use a new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carolsteele.net/?p=182</link>
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		<title>Take Your Pick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Teaching is a lot like being a marathon runner. There are great physical and mental demands over a long period of time. 
Teachers have to pace themselves, make the most of their energy in the light of continuous challenges.  Like runners, they also benefit from trained coaches to give them objective information that they may  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carolsteele.net/?p=177</link>
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		<title>An Inspiring Teacher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out this great article and video about Rob Stephenson, Michigan Teacher of the Year and a nominee for National Teacher of the Year.  http://bit.ly/d5sYiP
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		<link>http://www.carolsteele.net/?p=170</link>
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		<title>Ruling Classes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every classroom has its own feel and its own patterns. In some rooms they are not overtly stated; in most classrooms, however, they are the result of specific efforts by teachers to make students aware of “the way we do things here.”
As I visit classrooms, it appears that most teachers plan and enact various activities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carolsteele.net/?p=167</link>
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		<title>Upcoming Events!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Book signing: I&#8217;ll be at Barnes &#38; Noble in Holland, Michigan on April 8th from 6:00-8:00pm. If you have graduating teachers in your family, a copy of The Inspired Teacher makes a great gift! If you&#8217;re a teacher yourself, please come by to say hi.
If you&#8217;re interested in learning about the important role communication plays [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carolsteele.net/?p=163</link>
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		<title>Living in the Questions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When someone asks me a question, I notice that I have predictable patterns of response. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carolsteele.net/?p=159</link>
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		<title>Lifetime Resolutions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Resolutions again. We make them; we break them. Does any good come of this? Annual attempts reveal, perhaps, that we all sense we are in need of improvement, while February reports of failed resolutions suggest that quick fixes rarely cause permanent improvement.
If you’d like to think about resolutions in a new way, look at Benjamin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carolsteele.net/?p=156</link>
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		<title>Steele&#8217;s Elevator (with thanks to Lev Vygotsky)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, let’s compare learning to an elevator car in a very tall building.
Below us are all the floors our car has already passed—in other words, the things we’ve mastered, the things we have down cold, those things we no longer need help understanding or remembering. Once we know the definition of perambulation, or the square [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carolsteele.net/?p=152</link>
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