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		<title>interviews, interviews, interviews</title>
		<link>http://eduvigilante.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/interviews-interviews-interviews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I sat in on screening interviews for our district.  Administrative candidates were invited to be interviewed and if they do well, they will be put into an administrative pool for schools to draw from if they are needing to &#8230; <a href="http://eduvigilante.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/interviews-interviews-interviews/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eduvigilante.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9894736&amp;post=85&amp;subd=eduvigilante&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mini-breakdown</title>
		<link>http://eduvigilante.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/mini-breakdown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know, to be a good administrator, you have to find that balance between too much work and doing and visiting classrooms and talking to parents and too much hanging out in your office hiding.   I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve got &#8230; <a href="http://eduvigilante.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/mini-breakdown/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eduvigilante.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9894736&amp;post=82&amp;subd=eduvigilante&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Surplus Teachers</title>
		<link>http://eduvigilante.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/surplus-teachers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It came to my attention that there was a teacher job listed in a nearby district.  The school is in a medium sized urban area hard hit by the economics.  Even when this area was doing well, it wasn&#8217;t the &#8230; <a href="http://eduvigilante.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/surplus-teachers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eduvigilante.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9894736&amp;post=79&amp;subd=eduvigilante&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Girl&#8217;s arrest for doodling raises concerns about zero tolerance &#8211; CNN.com</title>
		<link>http://eduvigilante.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/girls-arrest-for-doodling-raises-concerns-about-zero-tolerance-cnn-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Girl&#8217;s arrest for doodling raises concerns about zero tolerance &#8211; CNN.com. I&#8217;m not sure exactly where I stand on this, but it isn&#8217;t completely on one side or the other.  I can see zero tolerance and absolutes usually backfire at &#8230; <a href="http://eduvigilante.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/girls-arrest-for-doodling-raises-concerns-about-zero-tolerance-cnn-com/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eduvigilante.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9894736&amp;post=77&amp;subd=eduvigilante&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maturation</title>
		<link>http://eduvigilante.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/maturation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year&#8217;s maturation presentation has come.  Boys in one room.  Girls in another room.   They still show slides that talk about changes in the body.  They talk about puberty and how that affects kids and how they will become adults &#8230; <a href="http://eduvigilante.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/maturation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eduvigilante.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9894736&amp;post=74&amp;subd=eduvigilante&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So Proud</title>
		<link>http://eduvigilante.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/so-proud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Teachers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I know I have pretty much nothing to do with it, but today a teacher made me so proud.  So I guess I&#8217;m proud because we hired her.  And I guess we&#8217;re proud because she&#8217;s part of the family so &#8230; <a href="http://eduvigilante.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/so-proud/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eduvigilante.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9894736&amp;post=72&amp;subd=eduvigilante&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher Evaluation</title>
		<link>http://eduvigilante.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/teacher-evaluation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure what the answer is, but I don&#8217;t like our teacher evaluation program.  It is too vague and there is too much room for us principals to make things up as we go.  We mean well, but I &#8230; <a href="http://eduvigilante.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/teacher-evaluation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eduvigilante.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9894736&amp;post=68&amp;subd=eduvigilante&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is possible</title>
		<link>http://eduvigilante.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/what-is-possible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently attended a seminar that included a keynote by Dr. Joseph F. Johnson, Jr., the Executive Director of NCUST (National Center for Urban School Transformation).  He had some great things to say and I felt he had experience with &#8230; <a href="http://eduvigilante.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/what-is-possible/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eduvigilante.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9894736&amp;post=65&amp;subd=eduvigilante&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Team Meetings</title>
		<link>http://eduvigilante.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/team-meetings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still trying to get a focus on team meetings.  We are creeping forward, but I found this link to Mike Schmoker&#8217;s team norms which outline how to spend this time.   This is Mike here.  Doesn&#8217;t he look positive, like &#8220;we &#8230; <a href="http://eduvigilante.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/team-meetings/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eduvigilante.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9894736&amp;post=63&amp;subd=eduvigilante&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We talked about Teaching!</title>
		<link>http://eduvigilante.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/we-talked-about-teaching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK.  OK.  I know this shouldn&#8217;t be such a big deal, but I felt like we were on the right track today with one of our collaborative grade level meetings.  This grade came together for our collaborative meeting with their &#8230; <a href="http://eduvigilante.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/we-talked-about-teaching/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eduvigilante.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9894736&amp;post=58&amp;subd=eduvigilante&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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