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	<title>Carol Steele welcomes you!</title>
	<link>http://www.carolsteele.net</link>
	<description>a site for inspired and aspiring teachers</description>
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		<title>Facts and Feelings: The Challenge of Moving from Darkness to Light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the time of year when darkness surrounds us; it is also the time when richly varied strands of American society celebrate light, birth and rededication to the values of community.  
These days I am spending one evening every week with a small community of learners who are working to master a new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carolsteele.net/2011/12/facts-and-feelings-the-challenge-of-moving-from-darkness-to-light/</link>
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		<title>The Swiss Cheese Syndrome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went to a conference recently. The first speaker was from the state department of education and I was ready to listen; in fact, I did listen, but I could not follow her remarks. Why? I simply could not understand what she was saying.  
In her first sentence, she used two unfamiliar acronyms. While [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carolsteele.net/2011/11/the-swiss-cheese-syndrome/</link>
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		<title>Helping Young People Find Their Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three times in the last three weeks, I have asked this question:  “So, how did you decide to go into this line of work?”  All three times, I got essentially the same answer. “I spent time with someone who was doing it and I realized right then that it was what I wanted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carolsteele.net/2011/08/findtheirway/</link>
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		<title>Summer Explorations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is an approach to planning absolutely terrific units and projects: Develop at least one every summer. 

Although I wanted every unit to be great from the start, I never had the energy during the school year to upgrade all of them to my imagined perfection—too much grading, supervising, attending, meeting and recording got in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carolsteele.net/2011/06/summer-explorations/</link>
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		<title>Ends and Beginnings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The end of the school year. 
For teachers in some schools, it has already happened.  In other places it is just days away. Whenever it happens, finishing the school year is accompanied by feeling of pressure to finish things up, anticipation of summer and, almost certainly, exhaustion. 
We have just run our own kind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carolsteele.net/2011/05/ends-and-beginnings/</link>
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		<title>If I Were Queen&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you seen this phrase: “Teachers’ working conditions are students’ learning conditions “? Today, I’ve decided to list some of the physical learning conditions I would change for America’s students, if only I had the power.

Chairs – Almost every time I have taught adults in training sessions, using chairs from average classrooms, they have commented [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carolsteele.net/2011/03/if-i-were-queen/</link>
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		<title>Saving Our Breath</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I talk a lot.  Just ask my children, my students, anyone really.  I have opinions and information to share and can barely keep myself from chiming in at every opportunity.
I suspect that many other educators talk a lot too. It is a profession that is attractive to the loquacious, as I imagine that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carolsteele.net/2011/02/saving-our-breath/</link>
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		<title>When you are down&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Teaching is a profession that contains days of great satisfaction, even exhilaration, as well as days of frustration and deep disappointment.  No one is immune to this. In the world beyond the classroom every human finds that external conditions beyond their control sometimes threaten to overwhelm. At such times, the only resource may be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carolsteele.net/2010/12/when-you-are-down/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Inside</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have heard of ArtPrize, a downtown event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, that invites everyone to make art, look at art, talk about art and vote for art.

The event really does include everyone. Any person, from any place, can enter their art; any downtown location can display entered art; anyone over 18 can vote [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carolsteele.net/2010/11/whats-inside/</link>
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		<title>Radio Interview!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was interviewed on Lansing, Michigan&#8217;s WILS on November 12th. Not long ago the interview would have been a fleeting moment in time, available only locally, that disappeared into the ether. No longer! Click here to listen to the interview online.

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		<link>http://www.carolsteele.net/2010/11/radio-interview/</link>
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