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		<title>End of the Wasteland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shortly after World War I, American expatriate T.S. Eliot published The Wasteland, a work that came to embody the feelings of the age. The lights had gone out all over Europe, and there was a sense that nothing had changed, that the future didn&#8217;t promise hope, but more of the same.
It&#8217;s one of my favorite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.morecoffeeplease.com/2009/11/04/end-of-the-wasteland/</link>
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		<title>Pathetic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zero tolerance = zero thought.
When even school officials admit it&#8217;s ridiculous, there&#8217;s a problem.
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		<link>http://www.morecoffeeplease.com/2009/10/12/pathetic/</link>
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		<title>We Do that Really Well</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We don&#8217;t have this challenge. The cooks in the cafeteria rock, and though much of it might be reheated, a ton is made by hand, and there&#8217;s usually something tasty made by someone with talent.
It matters. You would be amazed at the number of kids who walk into school hungry. When parents are gone before [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.morecoffeeplease.com/2009/09/30/we-do-that-really-well/</link>
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		<title>MRHS v.s. Milford</title>
		<description><![CDATA[6-2 Us. A solid game. 



Varsity Field Hockey didn&#8217;t do as well. I needed to head home before the game was over, but they looked competitive&#8230; though what I know about field hockey could be counted on one hand. 


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		<link>http://www.morecoffeeplease.com/2009/09/29/mrhs-vs-milford/</link>
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		<title>In Other News&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last twelve days have been spent dealing with the fallout of the last major assignment&#8212;and &#8220;fallout&#8221; is the best word for it. I was not at all pleased with the after effects of my experiment in assigning real work to my students. 
For my college prep students&#8212; which is full of kids who represent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.morecoffeeplease.com/2009/09/29/in-other-news/</link>
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		<title>That was Encouraging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So my students either missed a beat, or they&#8217;re feeling more confident about the material than they&#8217;re letting on.
For the last week and a half we&#8217;ve been dealing with two main ideas&#8212;Aristotle&#8217;s Rhetorical triangles, and looking at the Early Colonial period of American literature. We&#8217;ve used one to practice the other, with my kids struggling&#8212;and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.morecoffeeplease.com/2009/09/16/that-was-encouraging/</link>
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		<title>They Say a Picture is Worth&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing schools give their community is a common place to come together, to remember that which we should. We forget, sometimes, how much we need a place for us to remember the things that unite us.


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		<link>http://www.morecoffeeplease.com/2009/09/11/they-say-a-picture-is-worth/</link>
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		<title>Computers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Throughlines:
A group of teachers was discussing Daniel Pink&#8217;s TED Talk on motivation, in which he argues that the key factors in motivation are autonomy, mastery, and purpose. It occurred to me as we were talking that the laptops that our students carry around with them are uniquely powerful devices for encouraging and facilitating exactly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.morecoffeeplease.com/2009/09/09/computers/</link>
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		<title>Yeah, That&#8217;s How it Works</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It applies to high school, too.
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		<link>http://www.morecoffeeplease.com/2009/09/08/yeah-thats-how-it-works/</link>
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		<title>Voices From College</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the wonderful things about teaching is that students don&#8217;t stop being students in June. They stick around for far, far longer than that&#8212;fortunately. 

Student: &#8220;Hale, you will be happy to know that my English class in college reminds me of the way you ran your classes&#8230;minus the stories about killing animals. =)&#8221;
Me: &#8220;I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.morecoffeeplease.com/2009/09/07/voices-from-college/</link>
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