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		<title>We Don’t Need More SEL Lessons…</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the recent years after the Covid pandemic, schools have focused on SEL and trauma based instruction. This is a welcome shift away from the obsession of the past few decades on standardization and testing toward seeing students as humans. Yet in many places this has meant checking off a box&#8211;&#8220;Yes, of course we teach [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>How to AI Proof your PBL Project</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The AI Problem Years ago, in Project Based Learning workshops, I used to say that a good Driving Question shouldn&#8217;t be &#8220;googleable.&#8221; The DQ should not be something answered in a simple search, but students should have to take a deep dive into content before answering it. I would advise teachers to make the context [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How to Stay Grounded in Turbulent Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 18:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Teaching is challenging right now. There is constant pressure from politicians, pundits, and sometimes the community. The promise of the demise of standardized curriculum and testing after Covid was premature. Teachers are still navigating a top-down world where meeting metrics is prioritized over the needs of the children in front of them. Society says that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hawkins Lab Circumcenter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 12:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t be the only teacher to get a bit excited to see Dustin Henderson break out circumcenter to figure out the source of the wall in the final season of Stranger Things. Side note: yes, I sighed when he said Algebra I instead of Geometry. It just so happens that the first week back [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Direct Instruction without Lecturing</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Kaechele]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2025 14:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Misconceptions of Student Voice and Choice An old misconception of Project Based Learning is that PBL is all student choice and inquiry without any teacher input. Students choose any topic they are interested in and then do whatever they feel like with it; basically unschooling on a large scale. This misconception paints the teacher as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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