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	<title>Chalkboard: Ready Set Teach</title>
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		<title>Re-energized by Youth: How Students Keep Teachers Young</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Draw a crazy picture, Write a nutty poem, Sing a mumble-gumble song, Whistle through your comb. Do a loony-goony dance &#8216;Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain&#8217;t been there before.” ― Shel Silverstein I have officially been observing and teaching in a high school classroom for nearly three weeks now. I <a href="http://oregonteacherblog.chalkboardproject.org/professional-development-for-educators/re-energized-by-youth-how-students-keep-teachers-young/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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        <authorThumb><![CDATA[<img src="http://chalkboardproject.org/wp-content/uploads/userphoto/46.thumbnail.jpg" alt="Jamie Kimmes" width="49" height="49" class="photo" />]]></authorThumb>
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		<title>4 Strategies that Improved my Teaching Practice (and one to avoid)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Observe other teachers. Good or bad, in your content area or out, at your grade level or not, observing other teachers is the single best way I invigorate my teaching practice.  After a particularly disastrous transition from rural Mississippi to Oakland, California, I dedicated my prep period once a week to observing strong teachers around <a href="http://oregonteacherblog.chalkboardproject.org/professional-development-for-educators/4-strategies-that-improved-my-teaching-practice-and-one-to-avoid/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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        <authorThumb><![CDATA[<img src="http://chalkboardproject.org/wp-content/uploads/userphoto/49.thumbnail.jpg" alt="Cassie Duprey" width="38" height="49" class="photo" />]]></authorThumb>
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		<title>E-I-E-I, Ohhhh!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Emotional. Inspirational. Exhausting. Invigorating. And most of all, OHHH SO MUCH FUN! These are just a few adjectives that describe my first week as a substitute elementary school teacher. Emotional: The week started off with heart-breaking news. One of our first grade students had fallen into the Clackamas River over the weekend while playing in <a href="http://oregonteacherblog.chalkboardproject.org/early-learning/e-i-e-i-ohhhh/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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        <authorThumb><![CDATA[<img src="http://chalkboardproject.org/wp-content/uploads/userphoto/47.thumbnail.jpg" alt="Aika Krecek" width="49" height="49" class="photo" />]]></authorThumb>
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		<title>Thawing Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a teenager, there was nothing I hated more than icebreakers. I used to dread the first week of school; it was inevitable that we’d be slogging through some folksy getting-to-know-you activity in every one of our six periods. You know the ones—Two Truths and a Lie, toss a ball, learn a name. Couldn’t we <a href="http://oregonteacherblog.chalkboardproject.org/professional-development-for-educators/thawing-out/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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        <authorThumb><![CDATA[<img src="http://chalkboardproject.org/wp-content/uploads/userphoto/45.thumbnail.jpg" alt="Kristie Stevens" width="49" height="49" class="photo" />]]></authorThumb>
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		<title>Teacher Interview: Sam Leach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sam Leach is a third grade teacher at James John Elementary School in St. Johns. He is an extremely passionate individual, who through empathetic listening and creativity, aims to equip his students with the ability to identify and develop their strengths as they uncover new and unique pathways to learning. Mr. Leach uses his classroom blog <a href="http://oregonteacherblog.chalkboardproject.org/teaching-strategies/teacher-interview-sam-leach/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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        <authorThumb><![CDATA[<img src="http://chalkboardproject.org/wp-content/uploads/userphoto/39.thumbnail.jpg" alt="Michelle Morico" width="49" height="49" class="photo" />]]></authorThumb>
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		<title>Try, try again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the daughter of a teacher (and a closeted perfectionist), organization and preparation have always been at the heart of my professional success. If I am well prepared, I have no fear of failure. Scratch that, had no fear of failure. Earlier this month, I began teaching a unit on relief printmaking with a seventh <a href="http://oregonteacherblog.chalkboardproject.org/teaching-strategies/try-try-again/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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        <authorThumb><![CDATA[<img src="http://chalkboardproject.org/wp-content/uploads/userphoto/48.thumbnail.jpg" alt="Emily Hensley" width="49" height="49" class="photo" />]]></authorThumb>
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		<title>The best made [lesson] plans often go awry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, there are lessons to be learned as a teacher that can only be learned the hard way, and no amount of wonderful mentoring can truly prepare you for it. As a student-teacher at a high school in southwest Washington, I was recently given the reins to lead my first series of lessons in a <a href="http://oregonteacherblog.chalkboardproject.org/teaching-strategies/the-best-made-lesson-plans-often-go-awry/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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        <authorThumb><![CDATA[<img src="http://chalkboardproject.org/wp-content/uploads/userphoto/44.thumbnail.jpg" alt="Stephanie Taylor" width="49" height="49" class="photo" />]]></authorThumb>
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		<title>Rock, Paper, Scissors: How NOT to Bore Your Students with a Lecture on Communism, Socialism, and Capitalism!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it was my own personal experiences in high school that jaded my opinion of the fascinating world of communism, socialism, and capitalism. I vaguely remember drone voices muttering things like, “private ownership of industry,” “classless society,” and “economic competition.” Although, when I was a freshman, those phrases only served to wake me from my <a href="http://oregonteacherblog.chalkboardproject.org/teaching-strategies/rock-paper-scissors-how-not-to-bore-your-students-with-a-lecture-on-communism-socialism-and-capitalism/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://oregonteacherblog.chalkboardproject.org/teaching-strategies/rock-paper-scissors-how-not-to-bore-your-students-with-a-lecture-on-communism-socialism-and-capitalism/</link>
        <authorThumb><![CDATA[<img src="http://chalkboardproject.org/wp-content/uploads/userphoto/43.thumbnail.jpg" alt="Joshua Tabshy" width="49" height="49" class="photo" />]]></authorThumb>
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		<title>5 Things I Learned from a Bad Teacher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the first days of 2012 unfold, I have been eager for the many changes taking place in my life. I recently moved to a new neighborhood in SE Portland, have been reacquainting myself with my yoga practice, and classes are back in session at Concordia University, where I am pursuing my Master’s in Teaching. <a href="http://oregonteacherblog.chalkboardproject.org/teaching-strategies/5-things-i-learned-from-a-bad-teacher/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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        <authorThumb><![CDATA[<img src="http://chalkboardproject.org/wp-content/uploads/userphoto/46.thumbnail.jpg" alt="Jamie Kimmes" width="49" height="49" class="photo" />]]></authorThumb>
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		<title>Teacher Tips: Welcoming New Students to the New School Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here it comes…the first day of school! Walking through the doors, you can feel the exhilarating mixture of excitement and nervousness in the air. Kids will be meeting new teachers, seeing old friends, and showing off their stylin’ new clothes. It’s fantastic fun for some, but for students with high geographic mobility, the prospect of yet <a href="http://oregonteacherblog.chalkboardproject.org/student-achievement/teacher-tips-welcoming-new-students-to-the-new-school-year/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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        <authorThumb><![CDATA[<img src="http://chalkboardproject.org/wp-content/uploads/userphoto/35.thumbnail.jpg" alt="Jennifer Singleton" width="80" height="80" class="photo" />]]></authorThumb>
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