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	<title>Backbone America &#187; Kathleen Kullback</title>
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		<title>Teacher&#8217;s Desk: Cognitive Lightning Bolt</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/12/23/teachers-desk-cognitive-lightning-bolt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Kullback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much has been said about the dumbing down of America. One look at the “Let’s Make A Deal” health-care reform process in Washington shows we are not teaching problem-solving skills. Indeed, helping students learn to problem-solve and “learn to learn” is something almost all schools are failing to do, according to Jack Elliott and Larry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher&#8217;s Desk: Astroempires Winner</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/12/06/teachers-desk-astroempires-winner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Kullback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My loveable thug, the one I wrote about before, called me this week. When he left our school a month ago, I knew he had an upcoming trial. He called me to let me know he was okay, won his trial, and could I help him find a GED program? Working with the type of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher&#8217;s Desk: Charter Blame Game</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/24/teachers-desk-charter-blame-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Kullback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two recent education pieces have me thinking, and the second with much concern, because I had not thought of our misguided youth in quite the way the author presented. The first article was published in last Sunday’s Denver Post’s Perspective section under My Turn by Spencer Weiler, an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher&#8217;s Desk: We Don&#8217;t Just Teach</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/10/28/teachers-desk-we-dont-just-teach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Kullback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank goodness for B12, or I might’ve collapsed last Friday. My principal and I both discovered that the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing; the state and local bureaucracies have no clue what it’s like to work a school building or classroom, so deadlines are mounted on top of each other. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher&#8217;s Desk: Support Seawell for DPS</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/10/16/seawell-for-denver-school-board/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Kullback</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elections 2009]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[IEP meetings continue, and I may soon turn into a pumpkin. Meanwhile, Denver Public Schools are holding a school board election and I have an endorsement for the at-large seat: Mary Seawell. The reason I am endorsing Mary is simple. She supports doing whatever it takes to ensure student academic success. This includes programs and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher&#8217;s Desk: When parents cop out</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/10/08/teachers-desk-when-parents-cop-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Kullback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here I am, back to blogging. Why the hiatus? Partly because of how many special education students without current IEPs (Individual Education Plans) showed up on my school’s doorstep. Over 20% of our student population has an IEP and most of them are due now! Suffice to say, I’ve been too exhausted to even write [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher&#8217;s Desk: Tough Kids</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/08/22/teachers-desk-tough-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Kullback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First week back in the classroom. Our new math teacher is fresh out of college and trained by Teach America. Our returning students aren&#8217;t what you&#8217;d find at most high schools. I saw two this year that I hadn’t seen for two years. One of the young men spent the last two years incarcerated. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher&#8217;s Desk: Measuring Better</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/08/14/teachers-desk-measuring-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Kullback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Colorado Department of Education recently unveiled a new measuring tool and made its results available to the public. Without going into a lot of mumbo jumbo, it shows three years’ growth of students, individually, as a school, and as a district. I say hurray. When I ran for the State Board of Education back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher&#8217;s Desk: Special Ed &amp; Charters</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/19/teachers-desk-special-ed-charters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Kullback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a controversy over the enrollment disparity of special education students in charter schools vis-a-vis district schools. The Denver Post editorialized about this on June 15, based on an earlier story by their own Jeremy Meyer. He found that charter schools average 7% of student enrollment identified as special education and whereas the figure for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher&#8217;s Desk: Proving Up</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/06/05/teachers-desk-proving-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Kullback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talk big and you&#8217;d better prove up. After blogging recently about year-round school, I lamented to my principal that we help our students make major strides in literacy all year long, then summer comes and it all goes out the window. So my own summer then got a little more complicated, but why not? What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher&#8217;s Desk: Degree in Three?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/05/24/teachers-desk-degree-in-three/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 14:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Kullback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The soon-to-be graduates marched into the World Arena in Colorado Springs while the organist played &#8220;Pomp and Circumstance&#8221; and we parents watched proudly. It was amazing that so many degrees were conferred by the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. As usual, the most undergraduate degrees were conferred in the colleges of nursing, education, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher&#8217;s Desk: Grads but Barely</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/05/17/teachers-desk-grads-but-barely/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 03:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Kullback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May means seniors looking forward to impending graduation, and we teachers looking forward to no more of their “senoritis.” Maturity blooms at last; what a relief! The sad thing is for me, that many of our graduating seniors are 19, 20, and 21 years-old. While their peers are finishing up their sophomore or junior year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher&#8217;s Desk: Seasoned Subs</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/05/07/teachers-desk-seasoned-subs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 22:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Kullback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cool: I now recruit as well as teach. At my urging, the mother of one of our previous students became a substitute teacher at our school. I thought if she got a license and tried substitute teaching, it would give her flexibility and income. Lo and behold, it worked. She now earns more and can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher&#8217;s Desk: Year-Round Yes</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/05/04/teachers-desk-year-round-yes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 02:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Kullback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why does the performance of 16- and 17-year olds stagnate in both reading and mathematics, amid a 40-year trend of rising academic achievement for all ethnicities? (See Vincent Carroll&#8217;s column in the 5/3 Denver Post.) Tom Boasberg, Denver’s new superintendent, is convinced we need to move away from the status quo, top-down, one-size-fits-all monopoly to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher&#8217;s Desk: Tuition Break Nada</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/04/23/teachers-desk-tuition-break-nada/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Kullback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a personal angle when I read a story like the one today about 20 colleges and universities asking the federal government to allow illegal immigrants in-state tuition rates. I know three high school seniors where I teach whom this would help. Two of the students are special education students who will probably limit their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher&#8217;s Desk: Hurray for Rhee</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/04/20/teachers-desk-hurray-for-rhee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Kullback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heckuva week with grades due, service learning for a day, new students, training, ACT planning, substitute plans, coffee with a school board member, and oh yeah, teaching. I had planned on attending the event with Michelle Rhee, Washington school superintendent, discussing her shakeup of DC public schools, but the weather and the end of Passover [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher&#8217;s Desk: Secretary Snubs Us</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/04/11/teachers-desk-snubbed-by-duncan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Kullback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is too obvious why Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visited Denver public schools this week: to boost Michael Bennet, Colorado’s newest U. S. senator and former DPS superintendent. But why were Bruce Randolph and Montclair Elementary singled out as exemplars of school reform? Not to take away from their attempts at reform, but their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher&#8217;s Desk: Sticks &amp; stones</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/04/03/teachers-desk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Kullback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Sticks and stones can break my bones and words can really hurt me!” That&#8217;s my update on the old schoolyard saying after I received an email message from the Facebook cause, Special Olympics, asking me to help them eradicate the casual use of the word “retard.” I abolished that word from my vocabulary a long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher&#8217;s Desk: Feeling Feisty</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/03/26/teachers-desk-feeling-feisty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Kullback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Hilton Head, SC – Mar. 25) Once at the Comedy Club, sitting up front, the comedian asked me why I wasn’t laughing. “I’ll laugh when you say something funny.” was my reply, to which he became annoyed. I remembered that scene yesterday when my husband asked me a similar question, then became annoyed when I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher&#8217;s Desk: Conracks of Colo.</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/03/20/teachers-desk-conracks-of-colo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Kullback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe I need to eat my words, or at least nibble them, when the Denver Post now informs us the DPS board and superintendent support new charter school proposals, as well as, innovative schools. Although I am a strong supporter of innovation, the funny thing with innovation schools is that the district still pays for [...]]]></description>
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