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		<title>The Professional Development Dilemma</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Landeck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All K-12 employees need to receive professional development in their field. Teachers need to learn about new and better ways to deliver instruction. Classified staff needs to learn about the new programs and district initiatives. Administrators need to learn about ways to manage their staff and facility in a more effective and efficient manner. Technical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Axing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 14:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Landeck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every couple of years I see the lush, green field across from the picturesque, cliff-hanging lighthouse in my town brought to the city council for development.  Activists turn out in force and, with passion and voice, quell the development of this unique field for a few years until another developer sees the chance to triumph [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Critical Issues for 1:1 Programs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Lieux</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking to move to 1:1?  Learn from the experience of this Arkansas district. Educators who promote the use of technology to improve learning almost always have visions of students engaged in exciting projects and solving challenging problems by collaborating and researching via the Internet. We in the Fort Smith (Arkansas) Public Schools have definitely had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Creative Partnership for Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Skip Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last November, as we were revising our Tech Plan, we noticed that the amount of hardware and software available in our district had increased fourfold during the previous four years, yet there was not much change or innovation in the types of software being used in the classrooms.  We decided to make the creation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>View teaching through a new lens—literally!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Vaughn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s quality teaching?  Depends on your point of view.  When you ask a teacher, &#8220;Are you doing a good job?&#8221; they answer, naturally, through their filter of reality.  Ask me the same question and I&#8217;ll do the same thing: answer through my own filter.  We all do this; that is the point.  To determine the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Just Say No</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Blackney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should we allow students to bring electronic files to school?  Every district faces this question.  What&#8217;s more, it&#8217;s an issue that does not warrant a simple yes or no answer because it pits two foundational goals against one another. On one hand, we are educational institutions.  Our base purpose is to foster our students&#8217; learning.  There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staying afloat&#8212;and on course!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Landeck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With so many cuts to education budgets, how can the cost of supporting the technology infrastructure be justified?]]></description>
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