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		<title>Looking for America in Arizona &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>On a Mission</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne watterson</dc:creator>
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		<title>Documented Dreams Revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne watterson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I encountered a former student, an earnest young woman who wants to be a nurse. Hardworking and resilient, her ambition almost breaks my heart. Her mother cleans hotel rooms for a living, for a boss who takes advantage of the fact that she is without the papers the rest of us take for granted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=principledchat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8454733&amp;post=34&amp;subd=principledchat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making room for manga &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne watterson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I admit it. I&#8217;m a snob when it comes to what is and isn&#8217;t literature. The stack of books I take to the beach isn&#8217;t, while the collection of aging hard-backs in my bookcase undeniably is, its spines bearing the names of Wordsworth, Keats, Trevor, Yeats, Joyce et al &#8211; for all intents and purposes, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=principledchat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8454733&amp;post=28&amp;subd=principledchat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Living the Dream &#8230; an Irish immigrant in Phoenix, AZ</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne watterson</dc:creator>
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		<title>An acceptable immigrant?</title>
		<link>http://principledchat.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/an-acceptable-immigrant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne watterson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent most of today with a resilient young woman, a former student, who is trying to do what she can to pursue a nursing degree. Several scholarships in hand, she is still short $5,000 a semester. She lacks the nine digits of a social security number that would make it possible for her to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=principledchat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8454733&amp;post=24&amp;subd=principledchat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harvard Crimson</title>
		<link>http://principledchat.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/harvard-crimson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne watterson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Six months into this new chapter, and the summer-time nervousness is kicking in. I should know better, having worked in &#8216;charter land&#8217; since 1995. It&#8217;s June, and we have 140 freshman students on our estimated count list. Unlike traditional public schools, so much of what is done in charter land requires projections, best guesses of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=principledchat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8454733&amp;post=23&amp;subd=principledchat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wait Time</title>
		<link>http://principledchat.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/wait-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne watterson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On silence, T.S.Eliot wrote, &#8220;And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness &#8220; Bob Dylan, a decade or two later, said that &#8216;experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.&#8217; Were Bobby to spend some time observing teachers in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=principledchat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8454733&amp;post=20&amp;subd=principledchat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Reading</title>
		<link>http://principledchat.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/summer-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne watterson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was one of those children who preferred staying inside with my nose stuck in a book to watching television or playing on the field outside our house on the Dublin Road. I borrowed books from the North Eastern Education and Library Board van that parked around the corner every couple of weeks. The newspaper [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=principledchat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8454733&amp;post=17&amp;subd=principledchat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>taking the he(art) out of education</title>
		<link>http://principledchat.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/taking-the-heart-out-of-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 14:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne watterson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[arts in education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When Greg, my trusty side-kick, (erstwhile Student Success Liaison) go out to recruit students, we always find ourselves having to come up with disheartening responses to the barrage of questions about music and the arts. &#8220;Will there be band?&#8221; &#8220;What about art?&#8221; &#8220;Will you offer chorus?&#8221; As someone who has always had easy access to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=principledchat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8454733&amp;post=13&amp;subd=principledchat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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