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	<title>Christa Allan</title>
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		<title>Bloopers and bloopees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These are not mine. . .these have been collected over the years from various sources in my teacher universe. 

I saw one of my former students working at a local clothing store and  asked
about college and her future plans.  She replied that she was attending a
local junior college but had plans to transfer to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christaallan.com/bloopers-and-bloopees/</link>
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		<title>Doing nothing is something</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m reading Experiencing God by Henry T. Blackaby and Claude T. King because I want to (experience God, that is) and because someone on some blog I frequent recommended it highly. I wish I could remember the name of that  blogger person  so I could thank him/her.
Highlighting and note-jotting my way through Chapter 3, my eye-brakes slammed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christaallan.com/rest-for-the-weary/</link>
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		<title>LARRY FERLAZZO: Did You Know That THE Key To Saving American Education Is Firing Bad Teachers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because I couldn&#8217;t say it better myself:
Newsweek’s cover this week proclaimed that “The Key To Saving American Education” was that “we must fire bad teachers.”
Now, that’s what I call a sophisticated analysis of a complex problem….
Yes, there are bad teachers. But, as the saying goes, if the only tool you have is a hammer, than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christaallan.com/larry-ferlazzo-did-you-know-that-the-key-to-saving-american-education-is-firing-bad-teachers/</link>
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		<title>Accidental learning doesn&#8217;t require insurance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Overheard: &#8220;I have Mrs. Allan. We don&#8217;t learn anything in that class.&#8221;
Well, if you learned you didn&#8217;t learn anything, wasn&#8217;t that learning?
Too many students measure learning using the following formula: student + worksheet = assignment of worthwhile consequence.
Sad. How did that happen?
Recently, one of my students, writhing in her desk, alternately moaning and whining, groaned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christaallan.com/when-yes-means-know/</link>
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		<title>Sewing my life together</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it seems like the creatures in my head are unraveling stories, like Penelope who stitched by day and unwove by night to ward off obnoxious suitors anxious for Odysseus&#8217; treasures&#8211;both in his bank and in his bed.
But the threads fray when I&#8217;m frantic to shove them all through the eye of the needle of [...]]]></description>
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