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		<title>Shakin&#8217; Like a Polaroid Picture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chew, Sades, and Hipstamatic: a reminder that not everything worth blogging has to come with throat-clearing gravitas.]]></description>
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		<title>Really?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And this is how we&#8217;re going to respond to this? Really?]]></description>
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		<title>Because I’m Teaching L.A.’s Kids: Thoughts on Today’s Front Page Article</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can’t say I’m all that surprised by today’s LA Times article addressing teacher effectiveness; it said nothing surprising about the importance of effective teachers; LAUSD sent out a phone blast to its employees on Friday essentially warning us of the impending article; a union-related listserv I subscribe to hotly debated the level of vitriol [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YA and &#8220;the rigors of navigation&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mentioned by Peter more than a year ago, I&#8217;ve just started reading The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing. M.T. Anderson&#8217;s prose is consistently impressive. Check out these two sentences as an example of the consistent gymanistics he pulls off throughout: He worked with me word by word, leaning over my shoulder as I parsed my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes and Disclaimer about being a Department of Education Teaching Ambassador</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago I was announced as one of the Department of Education’s Teaching Ambassadors. I spent a week in Washington D.C. with an impressive cohort of other Fellows and I can’t be more excited for what I think this national collective can accomplish. As a Classroom Fellow, I’ll still continue to teach at Manual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life Turned into a Database</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Information systems need to have information in order to run, but information underrepresents reality. Demand more from information than it can give, and you end up with monstrous designs. Under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002, for example, U.S. teachers are forced to choose between teaching general knowledge and “teaching to the test.” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sent Friday, July 9, 2010: Dear Smucker&#8217;s, Please put less peanut butter in your Uncrustables. Please put in more jelly than peanut butter. It would also be nice if you made them bigger. As a class at Manual Arts High School, we think it&#8217;s unfair that the Uncrustable was not what we expected. Because it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>QFTB #12: Loading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[- It&#8217;s not done loading yet? - It&#8217;s gotta take time, we&#8217;re at Manual Arts not some suburban school.]]></description>
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		<title>Discussing Teacher Quality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re already going to be at UCLA for the Paulo Freire conference on Saturday afternoon, consider also checking out this morning workshop on teacher quality. I will be speaking on the morning panel about my experiences with innovative teacher assessment at Manual Arts.]]></description>
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		<title>Immortality, Vampire Novels: What is Travis Teaching?</title>
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