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		<title>The Progressive Education Summit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 22:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday over 300 folks gathered at City Neighbors to hear Alfie Kohn speak, to share best practices, and to create new possibilities for partnerships at the 3rd Annual Baltimore Progressive Education Summit. The Summit has grown these past three years into an event where folks from across the many worlds of education gather to work [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityneighborsfoundationblog.org&#038;blog=29199698&#038;post=284&#038;subd=cityneighborsfoundationblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Does Great Education Reform Rarely Look Like Great Education?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 03:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine if education reform actually mirrored the ideals of great education. In my almost 20 years as an educator, I’ve been in many amazing classrooms in a variety of settings.   In the most effective ones (the ones where the most learning and growth happens) children are engaged and empowered.   They are joyful about their work.   They find their work [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityneighborsfoundationblog.org&#038;blog=29199698&#038;post=268&#038;subd=cityneighborsfoundationblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sophie is Searching for Truth and Justice</title>
		<link>http://cityneighborsfoundationblog.org/2013/01/07/sophie-is-searching-for-truth-and-justice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 02:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was interviewed last Friday by a senior from the Park School in Baltimore.  Sophie came out to City Neighbors to ask me a few questions as part of an independent study she is doing for her senior project.  She asked me questions like, &#8220;How do you think City Neighbors connects to stories of desegregation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityneighborsfoundationblog.org&#038;blog=29199698&#038;post=252&#038;subd=cityneighborsfoundationblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Countdown to the Progressive Ed Summit:  Week #6</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 05:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Progressive Education Value #6 &#8211; Social justice #6.  Social justice: A sense of community and responsibility for others isn’t confined to the classroom; indeed, students are helped to locate themselves in widening circles of care that extend beyond self, beyond friends, beyond their own ethnic group, and beyond their own country. Opportunities are offered not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityneighborsfoundationblog.org&#038;blog=29199698&#038;post=224&#038;subd=cityneighborsfoundationblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Countdown to the 3rd Progressive Education Summit:  Week #7</title>
		<link>http://cityneighborsfoundationblog.org/2012/12/10/countdown-to-the-3rd-progressive-education-summit-week-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Progressive Education Value #7 &#8211; Intrinsic Motivation #7.  Intrinsic motivation: When considering (or reconsidering) educational policies and practices, the first question that progressive educators are likely to ask is, “What’s the effect on students’ interest in learning, their desire to continue reading, thinking, and questioning?” This deceptively simple test helps to determine what students will and won’t be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityneighborsfoundationblog.org&#038;blog=29199698&#038;post=178&#038;subd=cityneighborsfoundationblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Countdown to the 3rd Progressive Ed Summit:  Week #8</title>
		<link>http://cityneighborsfoundationblog.org/2012/12/05/countdown-to-the-3rd-progressive-ed-summit-week-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 05:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Save the Date!  January 26, the 3rd Annual Progressive Education Summit is coming our way.  Every year at the Summit, educators and community gather  to attend workshops, hear a great keynote speaker, and eat some good food together. At the Summit we learn from eachother about progressive education for Baltimore City students. This year our keynote [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityneighborsfoundationblog.org&#038;blog=29199698&#038;post=130&#038;subd=cityneighborsfoundationblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Baltimore is Determined to Have Every School Be Beautiful.</title>
		<link>http://cityneighborsfoundationblog.org/2012/11/19/why-baltimore-is-determined-to-have-every-school-be-beautiful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I went with Aisha Isackson (school designer of Isackson Design Group) to Arlington Elementary Middle School, where parents and teachers and community leaders like the Park Heights Renaissance folks, Delegate Sandy Rosenberg, Michael Sarbanes of City Schools, and  others, gathered to work on their building initiative.  The folks over there at Arlington have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityneighborsfoundationblog.org&#038;blog=29199698&#038;post=155&#038;subd=cityneighborsfoundationblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Love Baltimore City Schools</title>
		<link>http://cityneighborsfoundationblog.org/2012/11/13/why-i-love-baltimore-city-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 04:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love Baltimore City Schools because of the people in them. You know in my work I have had the great opportunity to get to know folks. I have worked alongside so many people who care about education, who love this city, who have great ideas. I&#8217;m a charter starter.  I&#8217;ve worked for about ten [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityneighborsfoundationblog.org&#038;blog=29199698&#038;post=111&#038;subd=cityneighborsfoundationblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Revolution Won&#8217;t Be Televised</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Testimony to the Education Committee of the Baltimore City Council November 1, 2012 The mission of the Coalition of Baltimore Charter Schools is to protect and defend the autonomy of charter schools leading to great public education for Baltimore city children.  The charter movement in Baltimore is a story of a grassroots revolution, limited autonomy, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityneighborsfoundationblog.org&#038;blog=29199698&#038;post=145&#038;subd=cityneighborsfoundationblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is your vision of the child?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; What&#8217;s your vision of the child? This past semester I had an opportunity to pose this question to a class of graduate education students at Johns Hopkins University. My colleague Mike Chalupa, Principal of City Neighbors Charter School and Academic Director of City Neighbors Schools, and I designed and taught a new class called [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityneighborsfoundationblog.org&#038;blog=29199698&#038;post=13&#038;subd=cityneighborsfoundationblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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