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		<title>A Dog in the Barn: Parallels in Teaching and Parenting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previously published here on the Huffington Post and on Arnold Aprill&#8217;s blog here. Sandra, my two year-old-daughter, has a wooden puzzle in front of her with a series of doors. Behind the doors sit magnetized objects, each corresponding to the image painted on the front: the cow rests in the barn, the turkey cooks in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurtwootton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12052316&#038;post=1392&#038;subd=kurtwootton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Throw Out the Desks! Planning On Your Feet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Reason to Read]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Augusto Boal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eileen Landay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week at Habla we&#8217;ve had several extraordinary educators from around the world visiting: Anne Thulson, Arnold Aprill,  and Terry Blackhawk. Along with the formal presentations for the community that are part of our &#8220;Pedagogy of Creativity&#8221; series, we created an informal opportunity for our visitors and local educators to share an &#8220;aha moment&#8221; over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurtwootton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12052316&#038;post=1031&#038;subd=kurtwootton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Stories a Classroom Tells</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Wootton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Gladwell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Previously published here on the Harvard Graduate School of Education blog, &#8220;Voices in Education.&#8221; Many years ago when I was a student in a teacher certification program, one of our daily requirements was to observe the classroom of a different teacher in the school. Many of my colleagues complained about this assignment—sitting in someone else’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurtwootton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12052316&#038;post=1016&#038;subd=kurtwootton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bonus Material: Kurt Wootton and &quot;Teach Your Children Well&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Holly Korbey: Tuesday night's Parent Book Club on "Teach Your Children Well" was so packed with information that Kurt and I decided to cut a part of his terrific essay, "Dance Like No One's Watching." But after re-reading the parts we cut, and talking with my father, who (also) taught public school for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurtwootton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12052316&#038;post=1014&#038;subd=kurtwootton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parent Book Club: Intro to &quot;Teach Your Children Well&quot; with Guest Moderator Kurt Wootton</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 01:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Holly Korbey: Welcome to the real-time Parent Book Club chat! To have access to all the comments and replies, please click on the title of this post; the post will go to a new page, and comments will be located at the bottom of the post. To see new comments/replies, just hit your refresh [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurtwootton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12052316&#038;post=1003&#038;subd=kurtwootton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Listen to the Teacher</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previously published here on the Huffington Post. During the Great Depression Myles Horton and a group of committed educators founded Highlander Folk School. Based on Dutch models of adult education centers, Horton built the school to provide a place where adults who shared a common cause could meet to hash out their ideas regarding how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurtwootton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12052316&#038;post=978&#038;subd=kurtwootton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How many continents are there?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Wootton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovating Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previously published here at the Huffington Post. As my wife and I were driving home one night on the highway from Merida, Mexico, the capital city of the Yucatan where we work, to our home in Cholul, the small pueblo right outside of the city, we somehow stumbled onto the topic of how many continents [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurtwootton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12052316&#038;post=887&#038;subd=kurtwootton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching to Learn</title>
		<link>http://kurtwootton.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/teaching-to-learn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Wootton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Language and Literacy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Frank Adams]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my English class in Mexico we&#8217;ve been reading To Kill a Mockingbird while examining the history and legacy of slavery in the United States. We came to the part in the novel where Calpurnia, the African-American maid, takes the two white children she cares for, Scout and Jem, to her church in her community. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurtwootton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12052316&#038;post=840&#038;subd=kurtwootton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Beauty of Failure</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Wootton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Bisaccio]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Steve Jobs Standford Commencement Address]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Published previously here at The Huffington Post. In the now widely-shared commencement speech Steve Jobs gave at Stanford, he shares the story of three moments in his life that were transformative: his dropping out of college, his being fired from Apple, and his first diagnosis of cancer. We might perceive each of his examples as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurtwootton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12052316&#038;post=806&#038;subd=kurtwootton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Elegant Teaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Wootton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Collage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cynthia Weiss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Habla Teacher Institute]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since my years first as a student and then as a teacher, I always have had the feeling that summer is a time for rest and relaxation. However, in the years since I was the director of The ArtsLiteracy Project and then of Habla, summer has been the busiest time of the year. In the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurtwootton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12052316&#038;post=755&#038;subd=kurtwootton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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