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		<title>What a Lawnmower Teaches Us About Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s rewarding to have time to work in our yard, which after reseeding has begun to thrive in the rocky soil of our patch of land at the foot of Mt. Baldy Road.
Ours is a tricky yard: a third of an acre of shifting sunlight and shadow that seems to change to direct sunlight by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Classroom management isn&#8217;t easy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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A recent article in the Los Angeles Times about the difficulty of managing a classroom struck me as being spot on.
The article was right in mentioning that among the top reasons teachers fail and eventually leave the profession is their inability to manage their classrooms. In fact, according to the Times findings, the vast majority [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creativity is a Thing of the Past</title>
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Last summer I came across a TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson titled Do Schools Kill Creativity in which Sir Ken makes the case for reintroducing creativity into our lessons. Watching his video lecture made me feel that magic would soon happen in my classroom.  Robinson&#8217;s argument is simple: the most effective workers of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Crucible Page</title>
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		<title>A boy and his skateboard</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
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A student of mine, Julio, wanted me to post this video of him and his friends demonstrating their skateboarding skills. That way, as he put it, &#8220;everyone can look at it and say &#8216;damn that guy is so sexy.&#8217;&#8221; I  have to admit there&#8217;s real joy in this video. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introspective Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was one of those days. Teachers know what I mean by that.
It was the sort of day that might have found me sitting at a coffee house writing in my journal&#8230;if I had a journal and if I had the time to stop on the way home.
The gist of what&#8217;s bugging me can be [...]]]></description>
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