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	<title>Vickie Gill</title>
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		<title>The Lottery of Birth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago one of my daughters said, &#8220;Mom, the worst thing you did when we were little was make us think that life was fair.&#8221;  I remember thinking, &#8220;Wow, slap on the cuffs.&#8221;  
I grew up in a house where might won over right, so with my own children I tried [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vickiegill.com/archives/226</link>
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		<title>Unschooling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend sent me a link to an article about unschooling&#8211;I think he thought I&#8217;d applaud the concept, but all it did was make me mad.  Not at my friend; he&#8217;s a gifted teacher fighting the good fight on a daily basis.  No, my anger was directed at the growing gap between the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vickiegill.com/archives/214</link>
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		<title>The Art of Selling your Product</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working with a young teacher who is struggling in the classroom.  It&#8217;s the same old problem&#8211;the students are rude and refuse to learn; the teacher is trying to survive until the end of the school year.  This is a dance I&#8217;ve watched over the years both as a student and as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vickiegill.com/archives/205</link>
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		<title>The Times They Are a&#8217;Changing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t felt this in a long while &#8212; change is in the air.  The news is full of images of citizens around the world taking to the streets to tell the powers that be that they&#8217;re mad as hell and just won&#8217;t take it anymore.  I&#8217;ve always felt lucky that I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vickiegill.com/archives/192</link>
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		<title>Why, why, why?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I often annoy teachers by asserting that the main business of teachers is sales and performance art.  It still startles me to talk with a frustrated teacher and discover that he/she does not have an answer to the most basic question a student will ask:  &#8220;Why do we have to learn this stuff?&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vickiegill.com/archives/188</link>
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		<title>Unleash the Baby Boomers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been spending a great deal of my time reading Jonathan Kozol and trying to rethink public education (I highly recommend the website Rethinking Schools).  It comes down to money and control&#8211;how can we give our kids the best education possible as cheaply as possible, and how can we evaluate the effectiveness of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vickiegill.com/archives/183</link>
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		<title>Waiting for Superman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These are tough times for education, especially in California where the state is about bankrupt.  It drives me crazy because the schools will be hit with budget cuts again and they&#8217;re about as close to bare bones as it can get.  As is always true when finances get tight, people start feeling insecure and try [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vickiegill.com/archives/170</link>
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		<title>The Joy of Teaching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, my Introduction to Teaching students had a chance to visit the elementary school classrooms where they&#8217;ll be helping out a couple of days a week for the rest of the school year.  I asked them to just sit and observe master teachers at work and to notice the physical lay-out of the classroom.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vickiegill.com/archives/167</link>
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		<title>Introduction to Teaching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been trying to retire for 3 years now, but my school district&#8217;s leaders, in particular Dr. Kenneth Parker, keep finding tasks for me to do that I just can&#8217;t resist.  The idea of starting a school from scratch was irresistible, and I&#8217;m happy to say the charter high school is up and running&#8211;wonderful teachers, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vickiegill.com/archives/161</link>
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		<title>Singapore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just returned from a remarkable trip to Singapore.  The director of Trainix Corporation read one of my books and contacted me two years ago.  He wanted me to fly to Singapore to conduct two, 8-hour workshops for teachers and school personnel.  When he wrote to me in 2008, I just shook my head and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vickiegill.com/archives/155</link>
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