<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from paulareed.blog-city.com</title><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2008 paulareed.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:59:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from paulareed.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Memoir, Cont.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/memoir_cont_11.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/memoir_cont_11.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=memoir%5Fcont%5F11</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The FallOur building became the site of a major crime scene investigation.&nbsp; We had no access to it or anything inside it, like the purses we&rsquo;d left behind, our materials, our grade books, any of that, for the rest of the year.At first, cen]]></description><category>columbine high school</category><category>school shootings</category><category>teaching</category><category>ptsd</category><category>state testing</category><category>trauma</category></item><item><title>Memoir, Cont.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/memoir_cont_10.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/memoir_cont_10.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:42:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=memoir%5Fcont%5F10</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[View from the Top (cont.)I went home and watched the news.&nbsp; That&rsquo;s when I saw Dylan and realized who he was.&nbsp; That&rsquo;s when Oprah Winfrey&rsquo;s producer called and asked me if I would meet a cameraman in the park for an intervie]]></description><category>columbine high school</category><category>school shootings</category><category>post traumatic stress disorder</category><category>oprah winfrey</category></item><item><title>Memoir, Cont.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/memoir_cont_9.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/memoir_cont_9.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=memoir%5Fcont%5F9</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The View from the TopSo I guess we&rsquo;re here, aren&rsquo;t we?&nbsp; For those of you who come from states without mountains (or from states you only think have mountains), let me explain to you what happens when you climb your first peak.&nbsp;]]></description><category>columbine high school</category><category>april 20</category><category>school shooting</category><category>teaching</category></item><item><title>Memoir, Cont.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/memoir_cont_8.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/memoir_cont_8.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=memoir%5Fcont%5F8</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Belaying For those unfamiliar with the term &ldquo;belaying&rdquo; in mountain climbing, it refers to supporting another climber with a rope.&nbsp; Belaying is not done to haul climbers up with no effort on their part.&nbsp; It is simply a safety pre]]></description><category>teaching</category><category>atrisk education</category><category>columbine high school</category><category>trench coat mafia</category><category>the power of one</category></item><item><title>Memoir, Cont.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/memoir_cont_7.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/memoir_cont_7.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=memoir%5Fcont%5F7</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I should clarify that I actually ran out of prewritten material a while ago, back when I mentioned Marti visiting and saying she was going to assistant coach at Mullen.&nbsp; That was all my critique group ever saw, and all I had planned on attemptin]]></description><category>memoir</category><category>teaching</category><category>school deans</category><category>school discipline</category><category>forensics</category><category>columbine high school</category></item><item><title>Memoir, Cont.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/memoir_cont_6.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/memoir_cont_6.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=memoir%5Fcont%5F6</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Detour&ldquo;Good teaching is good teaching.&rdquo;&nbsp; My elementary methods teachers all assured me of this.&nbsp; The school district assured parents who were worried about their little ones getting stuck with mean high school teachers.&nbsp; Ev]]></description><category>teaching</category><category>elementary school</category><category>sixth grade</category></item><item><title>Memoir, Cont.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/memoir_cont_5.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/memoir_cont_5.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=memoir%5Fcont%5F5</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Hills and ValleysThe first time I actually used a substitute myself was that semester at Douglas County.&nbsp; I was to be absent for three days on school district leave so that I could help grade student writing samples.&nbsp; Remembering how I hate]]></description><category>education</category><category>teaching</category><category>douglas county high school</category><category>challenger</category><category>chernobyl</category><category>columbine high school</category><category>forensics</category></item><item><title>Memoir, Cont.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/memoir_cont_3.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/memoir_cont_3.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=memoir%5Fcont%5F3</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Stalled at the Trail Head, cont.In the spring, I finished my class, sent off my application to be a &quot;real teacher,&quot; and said good-bye to Schmidt.&nbsp; For Garth, I drifted out of his life like a butterfly.&nbsp; It didn&#39;t faze hi]]></description><category>memoir</category><category>substitute teaching</category><category>teaching</category><category>inner city substitute</category><category>murder</category><category>suicide</category></item><item><title>Memoir, Cont.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/memoir_cont_2.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/memoir_cont_2.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=memoir%5Fcont%5F2</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Stalled at the Trailhead&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I finished my student teaching in December of 1984.&nbsp; Just as I was gathering up what I needed to send in the required documents for my license, my university advisor discovered a glitch.&nbsp; I hadn&#3]]></description><category>special education</category><category>teachers aide</category><category>emotional disability</category><category>memoir</category><category>teaching</category></item><item><title>Memoir, Cont.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/memoir_cont_1.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/memoir_cont_1.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=memoir%5Fcont%5F1</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Gearing Up (cont.)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Classroom observations had genuine value for me.&nbsp; More, really, than the coursework attached.&nbsp; Probably the most valuable education coursework that I did in college was in my methods class&mdash;a two-we]]></description><category>student teaching</category><category>education student observation</category><category>rubrics</category></item><item><title>Memoir, Cont.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/memoir_cont.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/memoir_cont.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:19:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=memoir%5Fcont</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Gearing Up&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I have come to realize that I was born a teacher, but it certainly wasn&#39;t immediately apparent.&nbsp; Years in education have taught me that most teachers were one of two kinds of students: hard-workers who loved scho]]></description><category>education</category><category>teachers</category><category>special education</category><category>college</category></item><item><title>Memoir</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/memoir.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/memoir.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:27:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=memoir</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As I&#39;m sure many of you can relate to, I often find myself at a loss for blogging fodder.&nbsp; A while ago, I thought I&#39;d try my hand at a memoir about teaching.&nbsp; I ran the first few chapters by my critique group who said they didn&#39;]]></description><category>memoir</category><category>theater major</category><category>beginning teaching</category><category>education</category><category>vocation</category></item><item><title>Parenting Pet Peeve</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/parenting_pet_peeve.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/parenting_pet_peeve.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:48:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=parenting%5Fpet%5Fpeeve</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I have to vent a frustration I have with the parents of other people&rsquo;s children.&nbsp; Really and truly, I wish I could start a pact among all parents that under no circumstances will they give a child what he or she wants when the child whines]]></description></item><item><title>Blogger Help</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/blogger_help.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/blogger_help.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:10:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=blogger%5Fhelp</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Phillip+Tetlock, teen+paralysis, gardasil]]></description></item><item><title>Race in America</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/race_in_america.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/race_in_america.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:23:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=race%5Fin%5Famerica</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Happy Father&rsquo;s Day to my father-type readers.&nbsp; As I listened to commercials telling me to call my dad and asking whether I had bought his gift yet, I have thought more than once that I wish I could call him.&nbsp; He sure would have enjoye]]></description><category>racism</category><category>no safe place</category><category>atlanta georgia</category><category>kim reid</category><category>violence</category></item><item><title>Chillin&apos;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/chillin.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/chillin.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:17:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=chillin</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The summer is off to a slow start.&nbsp; The first week of break, my daughter caught the stomach flu (compliments of me&mdash;I had it during finals), so we laid low for a while.&nbsp; We went to the library today, so it&rsquo;s feeling more official]]></description></item><item><title>The Games People Play</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/the_games_people_play.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/the_games_people_play.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:45:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fgames%5Fpeople%5Fplay</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So life reminds me again that sometimes you just have to let things play out.&nbsp; I&rsquo;ve worried more about this primary season than any before.&nbsp; There are a number of reasons for that: Usually, the democratic nominee is obvious long befor]]></description><category>obama</category><category>politics</category><category>liberals</category><category>immigration</category><category>health care</category><category>terrorism</category><category>economy</category></item><item><title>Whew!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/whew.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/whew.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:18:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=whew</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I pulled out of the parking lot at school today as I generally like to do after the last day of the school year&mdash;playing Queen&rsquo;s &ldquo;I Want to Break Free&rdquo; and singing at the top of my lungs.But maybe it&rsquo;s not as true this ye]]></description></item><item><title>The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/the_devil_and_the_deep_blue_sea.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/the_devil_and_the_deep_blue_sea.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 19:45:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fdevil%5Fand%5Fthe%5Fdeep%5Fblue%5Fsea</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tell me, what&rsquo;s a person of good conscience to do if Hillary Clinton wins the nomination?&nbsp; I know most of us have breathed a sigh of relief, believing this to be out of the realm of possibility, but what if she actually manages to get her]]></description><category>mccain</category><category>hillary clinton</category><category>barack obama</category></item><item><title>Memorial Day</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/memorial_day_1.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/memorial_day_1.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 14:41:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=memorial%5Fday%5F1</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s a cool, gray Memorial Day in Colorado.&nbsp; I am thinking of my former student, Luke, who was killed in Afghanistan last year.&nbsp; I am worried about another former ACE kid, Dan, who has served two tours of duty in Afghanistan and is he]]></description><category>memorial day</category><category>iraq</category><category>afghanistan</category><category>vets</category><category>war</category></item><item><title>Teacher Learns Some Lessons</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/teacher_learns_some_lessons.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/teacher_learns_some_lessons.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 19:08:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=teacher%5Flearns%5Fsome%5Flessons</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Yesterday was an interesting day.&nbsp; I had graduation in the morning, which was actually not so much interesting as predictable.&nbsp; I mean, it was graduation.&nbsp; A couple of days before, I got a phone call from the State Democratic Party ask]]></description><category>obama</category><category>democrats</category><category>politics</category><category>books</category></item><item><title>It&apos;s May!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/its_may.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/its_may.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 18:58:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=its%5Fmay</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For Lerner and Loewe, May is a lusty month, but for teachers and mothers, it&rsquo;s just busier than hell.As you know, my mom was diagnosed with cancer, but what I haven&rsquo;t had time to blog about is that she got into a car accident a week ago l]]></description></item><item><title>A Little Clarity</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/a_little_clarity.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/a_little_clarity.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 02:33:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Flittle%5Fclarity</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I put blog-type stuff on the back burner while I took care of the usual business I do every week and finished the electronic edits and revisions of my book.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m asking a couple more people if they will give me some input, plus reading it]]></description></item><item><title>36 Hours</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/36_hours.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/36_hours.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:11:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=36%5Fhours</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[You know how some time periods can seem a whole lot longer than others?&nbsp; Especially if you&rsquo;ve been transitioning from one very different thing to another.Yesterday was a staff development day.&nbsp; First, my department assembled a potluck]]></description></item><item><title>A Little Standardized Test Ditty</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://paulareed.blog-city.com/a_little_standardized_test_ditty.htm</guid><link>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/a_little_standardized_test_ditty.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:14:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://paulareed.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Flittle%5Fstandardized%5Ftest%5Fditty</comments><dc:creator>Paula Reed</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I just administered my last standardized test of the year, the ACT.&nbsp; 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