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		<title>Exercise and the Brain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can Exercise Make Kids Smarter? The New York Times reports that two separate recent studies from the University of Illinois indicate that aerobic exercise has demonstrable positive effects on brain development in children.  At a time when many school Physical Education programs are being slashed because of budget issues or time constraints, more and more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learningmix.org/2010/09/22/exercise-and-the-brain/</link>
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		<title>The Need for Downtime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent New York Times article, &#8220;Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime,&#8221; has gotten me thinking a lot about the effects of constant, immediate access to media and information. As more and more people fill downtime by pulling out their smart phones to make a call, send a text, or check their e-mail, Twitter, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learningmix.org/2010/09/07/the-need-for-downtime/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts about Delegation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have come to realize that I am not a good delegator, or at least that delegating doesn&#8217;t come naturally to me. As I reflect on this, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s so much that I don&#8217;t trust others to do the job or think that I can do it better. It&#8217;s really more that I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learningmix.org/2010/05/21/thoughts-about-delegation/</link>
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		<title>Milestones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I met my cohort in the Fellowship for Aspiring Heads program at NAIS 2010 in San Francisco. What a varied and interesting group of people! I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing them all again in Atlanta in July. During the first meeting, we were asked to take a moment to jot down five milestones that brought [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learningmix.org/2010/03/08/milestones/</link>
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		<title>A Journey Begins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently accepted into the 2010-2011 cohort of the NAIS Fellowship for Aspiring Heads. I&#8217;m very excited to have this opportunity and am thrilled that Dane Peters, Head of the Brooklyn Heights Montessori School, has agreed to act as my mentor in the program. I have known Dane for a number of years through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learningmix.org/2010/02/21/a-journey-begins/</link>
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		<title>Essential Questions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been rereading Heidi Hayes Jacob&#8217;s thoughts on the importance of essential questions in curriculum development. We&#8217;re currently in the throes of curriculum mapping at my school, so I was originally approaching the ideas from the perspective of my role as Computer Science department head. As I read, however, I&#8217;ve realized that the points she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learningmix.org/2008/03/06/essential-questions/</link>
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		<title>Tech Evaluation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When my Head of School and Board asked me last year to do an evaluation of academic technology use at the school, I asked that we bring in an outside group to assess us because I&#8217;m just too close to it all to be objective. I was afraid I would only find what I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learningmix.org/2008/02/12/tech-evaluation/</link>
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		<title>Martial Arts: The Model Classroom?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For ten years I have run Taekwondo programs for students and faculty at the schools where I have worked. While I have long believed that martial arts training can be incredibly valuable for children and adults alike, some of my conversations at and since Educon have gotten me thinking about how the dojang (training hall) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learningmix.org/2008/02/11/martial-arts-the-model-classroom/</link>
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		<title>Photo Storage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re currently using personalized wikispaces and edublogs at my school. While we&#8217;re getting more and more folks interested and on board, the handling of media on the sites is raising some challenges. For example, some uses are uploading photos (often huge, unoptimized photos) directly to their wikis and blogs while others prefer to link to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learningmix.org/2008/01/31/photo-storage/</link>
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		<title>Motives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three times in the last week I&#8217;ve heard people argue that teaching doesn&#8217;t change because teachers are afraid &#8211; or have too much ego &#8211; to give up control in their classrooms. While those teachers no doubt exist in the wild, I&#8217;m reminded of a quotation I stumbled across some years ago (but I&#8217;m afraid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learningmix.org/2008/01/30/motives/</link>
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