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		<title>Handle With Care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[                Against all odds, the high school I’ve been working with is not only up and running, it is establishing itself as a unique and desirable place for students to prepare for their futures.  They opened the enrollment period last week for the 2010-11 school year, and almost one third of the available spaces are filled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zen and the Art of Parenting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In one day I heard about the sudden deaths of three people I barely knew.  One was a local woman in her 80&#8217;s who lived alone and the other was a young couple just starting out in life.  The death of anyone&#8217;s child sends me reeling&#8211;my greatest fear is the late night phone call where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vickiegill.com/archives/97</link>
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		<title>Teachers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had the oddest experience the other day.  I was walking from my office to my next class and passed the open door of a fourth grade classroom.  I saw a room full of children busily engaged in a task and their teacher leaning over a student&#8217;s desk offering words of encouragement.  As I hurried to meet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tenure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[School will start in a few weeks&#8211;there&#8217;s always that mixture of excitement and dread, the known and the unknown.  I&#8217;m concerned this year because when we left in June, we were shocked by the cuts to the budget but we also had a sense that the worst was over.  Not so.  No one is sure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vickiegill.com/archives/88</link>
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		<title>Teaching to the Tests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Cynthia asked me to do a presentation in her SCWriP workshop for teachers who work with students on their writing.  I knew none of the participants but they were all familiar&#8211;over the years I&#8217;ve taught with every one of them.  There was the enthusiastic English teacher who loves to write and is hungry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vickiegill.com/archives/84</link>
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		<title>No Teacher Left Behind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No Teacher Left Behind]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vickiegill.com/archives/75</link>
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		<title>Being Out of Touch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about how accessible we&#8217;ve become as we develop more sophisticated technological tools.  I wonder if it&#8217;s the fear of being forgotten or the fear of being out of touch.  We just got back from a week in Mexico.  When the plane took off from LAX, I turned off my cell phone and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vickiegill.com/archives/56</link>
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		<title>Greed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while I will read about something that happens in the world that either makes me feel helpless in the face of such sorrow or disgusted.  Lately I decided that if I had the power to reprogram human nature, the one trait I would delete would be greed.  I used to focus on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vickiegill.com/archives/55</link>
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		<title>Teaching with Passion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I choose the books/stories/articles my students will read, I try to find seemingly disparate works and ask the kids to make connections.  We just finished linking the themes of The Odyssey to Rushdie&#8217;s Haroun and the Sea of Stories.  The kids understand that these (and all stories) are about the myths on which we base [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vickiegill.com/archives/54</link>
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		<title>From a Distance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been thinking about the fact that I&#8217;ve lived most of my life at a distance from those I love.  I moved out of my parents&#8217; house the day after I graduated from high school.  I attended college in the same city, but I would drop by only when I was feeling hungry or [...]]]></description>
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