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		<title>A word from the NC State Board of Ed President</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the on-going battle over the state budget in North Carolina, it&#8217;s become more and more clear that the Republican controlled legislature is more interested in dismantling our state education system than in making any real reform. Here&#8217;s the latest from the NC State Board of Education President: Breaking an Improving System June 2, 2011...<a href="http://helpingteachersgrow.com/blog/2011/06/?y%/a-word-from-the-nc-state-board-of-ed-president/">&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A short message from NC State Superintendent on our looming budget disaster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a quick note from our state super on the looming budget disaster here in North Carolina. Make no mistake. The Republican controlled legislature is working to dismantle public education. If you have children in North Carolina, contact your representative now and tell them how much you value education and that our schools should receive...<a href="http://helpingteachersgrow.com/blog/2011/05/?y%/a-short-message-from-nc-state-superintendent-on-our-looming-budget-disaster/">&#187;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://helpingteachersgrow.com/blog/2011/05/?y%/a-short-message-from-nc-state-superintendent-on-our-looming-budget-disaster/</link>
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		<title>The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a link to a great article in the New York Times about the sad state of teacher salaries nationwide, especially when it&#8217;s compared with three countries that are currently outperforming nearly every other nation. Want to guess what the teachers&#8217; salaries are in those countries? You won&#8217;t believe it! Here&#8217;s the link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/opinion/01eggers.html]]></description>
		<link>http://helpingteachersgrow.com/blog/2011/05/?y%/the-high-cost-of-low-teacher-salaries/</link>
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		<title>North Carolina&#8217;s Republican Legislature Setting Its Education Sights Very Low</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a short letter from our state superintendent on the impending budget disaster in the NC government. It&#8217;s worth a read, if for now other reason than to see how our legislature values the state public education system (or not values in this case&#8230;) http://www.ncpublicschools.org/stateboard/ What do you think of these new priorities?]]></description>
		<link>http://helpingteachersgrow.com/blog/2011/05/?y%/north-carolinas-republican-legislature-setting-its-education-goals-very-low/</link>
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		<title>Class Management &#8211; What to do if your lesson is short?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You and I both know that one of the keys to solid class management is solid planning. But sometimes, things just don&#8217;t work out the way you&#8217;d planned. Sometimes our lives outside of teaching intrude (lives outside of teaching? Unheard of, right?) and we just don&#8217;t manage to fill the class with a complete lesson....<a href="http://helpingteachersgrow.com/blog/2011/03/?y%/class-management-what-to-do-if-youre-lesson-is-short/">&#187;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://helpingteachersgrow.com/blog/2011/03/?y%/class-management-what-to-do-if-youre-lesson-is-short/</link>
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		<title>Connecting with Your Students from Day One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much of the latest conversation on effective teaching deals with differentiating your teaching for the varied needs, personalities, and learning styles of your students. These practices are designed to overcome the cookie-cutter approach to education, the sort of one-size-fits-all model of teaching. I agree that in order for our school system to become more effective...<a href="http://helpingteachersgrow.com/blog/2011/03/?y%/connecting-with-your-students-from-day-one/">&#187;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://helpingteachersgrow.com/blog/2011/03/?y%/connecting-with-your-students-from-day-one/</link>
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		<title>Classroom Management without a Voice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of year again when it seems everyone&#8217;s getting sick &#8211; including me. Just last week, I caught one of those little chest colds that started as a tiny cough and transitioned into such a painful throat that I couldn&#8217;t speak. I didn&#8217;t feel too bad. It just hurt to speak. So I...<a href="http://helpingteachersgrow.com/blog/2011/03/?y%/classroom-management-without-a-voice/">&#187;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://helpingteachersgrow.com/blog/2011/03/?y%/classroom-management-without-a-voice/</link>
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		<title>Grouping Students by Ability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My school just recently has purchased the EVAAS testing and tracking method of student performance. It was quite eye-opening, to say the least. While I&#8217;ve always been a good manager of student behavior and a good motivator of students, these results showed me that my top students were performing above what was expected, but my...<a href="http://helpingteachersgrow.com/blog/2010/11/?y%/grouping-students-by-ability/">&#187;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://helpingteachersgrow.com/blog/2010/11/?y%/grouping-students-by-ability/</link>
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		<title>Teacher vs. Students Part Two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned in my last post using the Teacher vs. Student tactic to get an unruly class to cooperate. I just wanted to post a quick update on my third block and how things have changed since I implemented this plan. I introduced TvS on Tuesday, and it&#8217;s absolutely amazing how things have changed. The...<a href="http://helpingteachersgrow.com/blog/2010/11/?y%/teacher-vs-students-part-two/">&#187;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://helpingteachersgrow.com/blog/2010/11/?y%/teacher-vs-students-part-two/</link>
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		<title>A New Class Management Trick that Works Like Magic!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year has been quite challenging, which is good in a way since I need to continually work on improving my class management strategies. The last two years were so sweetly simple since I had one of those magical groups of students who really bought in to what I was teaching, and I looped with...<a href="http://helpingteachersgrow.com/blog/2010/11/?y%/a-new-class-management-trick-that-works-like-magic/">&#187;</a>]]></description>
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