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		<title>Innovation Portal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking a lot about innovation as we participate in the Department of Education Innovation Portal 
We submitted two ideas:

LiteracyCenter.Net –completing our FREE  Prk-1 curriculum and making it available  in more than ten home languages; and
The Adolescent Nation Project –a middle school curriculum that supports reading through music, cooking, and project-based experiences and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://literacylady.com/blog/2010/03/department-of-education-innovation-portal/</link>
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		<title>Twitter Chats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My best ideas come from Twitter these days. Each week I participate in three Twitter chats&#8211;#EllChat, #PTChat, and #BlackEd. Each group provides me with new  inspiration and keen insights into the challenges our children face in a badly broken school system. My only regret is there is no easy way to harness the power of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://literacylady.com/blog/2010/02/twitter-chats-rock-in-the-river/</link>
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		<title>Finland: A Love Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have often been told I should work for the Finnish tourist bureau. Truth of the mater is I fell in love with Finland the way some people fall in love with people over the Internet&#8211;sight unseen.  I was in my final year of graduate school, at Washington University in St Louis, when I decided [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://literacylady.com/blog/2010/02/finland-a-love-story/</link>
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		<title>Linda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In September 2001, shortly after the terrorist attacks in New York City, I drove to the Hunters Point area of San Francisco. I was scheduled to read to small children at a daycare center. Even though the city was frozen by fear, I felt it was important to keep my date. I drove through streets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://literacylady.com/blog/2010/02/linda/</link>
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		<title>Ardis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have had the same best friend since I was eleven years old. We are about as much alike as any two people could be.  Our birthdays are both in December, so we have always told people: “we are twins born eight days apart”, which usually gets a laugh.  We met the first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://literacylady.com/blog/2009/06/ardis/</link>
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