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	<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not so bad being Queen</title>
		<link>http://today.newenglandconservatory.edu/blog/2007/02/27/its-not-so-bad-being-queen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah</dc:creator>
		
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The minute hand now swings easily around the clock on my Monday afternoons at Paraclete, and each class whizzes by at a speed I never could have anticipated a month or two ago. And somehow now that the boys are playing the violin the entire time, now that they are handling these violins that still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A String, D String, and Don&#8217;t Serve Pizza</title>
		<link>http://today.newenglandconservatory.edu/blog/2007/02/13/a-string-d-string-and-dont-serve-pizza/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah</dc:creator>
		
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I don’t need to see Terrence’s furrowed brow to know how hard he is working, but it is a sweet addition to his straight bow and sometimes-good sound, his tendency to forget to begin each bow “near the frog,” and the way his knees spring on every beat, keeping his rhythm with his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bach and Beethoven for Breakfast</title>
		<link>http://today.newenglandconservatory.edu/blog/2006/12/07/bach-and-beethoven-for-breakfast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This past Sunday morning the skies shone a brilliant blue, the air was crisp and cold (winter, finally! For better or for worse&#8230;), and I headed over to the Paraclete Center with my quartet to play in a “Music Brunch” collaboration between the “Kids Can Cook” class and myself. Sister Ann and I had talked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Twinkle&#8221; is fun, but TACKLE is better</title>
		<link>http://today.newenglandconservatory.edu/blog/2006/11/28/twinkle-is-fun-but-tackle-is-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Another class has gone by without casualties, but there were certainly a few moments today when I had my doubts&#8230;. Everyone was back from the holidays and full of energy, so I thought that the prospects for a good class playing “Musical Cranium” were promising. Right and wrong. As usual. The game was a big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>no expectations are good expectations</title>
		<link>http://today.newenglandconservatory.edu/blog/2006/11/16/no-expectations-are-good-expectations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 05:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I certainly had no problem with discipline this week! I also only had one student show up. Good news: he’s my favorite. Bad news: teachers aren’t supposed to have favorites. And yet, even a few weeks ago I found myself struggling with this concept – it is just so hard to treat each kid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>getting inside their heads</title>
		<link>http://today.newenglandconservatory.edu/blog/2006/11/08/getting-inside-their-heads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was certainly an exercise in patience, but I suppose we need those kinds of days to balance the picture perfect ones (wait, picture perfect ones? Do those exist?). However, there is a lesson to be learned in everything – and I learned today that Mr. American Man is the favored hero of the class, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Escaping the conservatory bubble</title>
		<link>http://today.newenglandconservatory.edu/blog/2006/11/02/escaping-the-conservatory-bubble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Part one! NEC meets blogging, boys from South Boston, and the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship
Today I learned that stickers do not impress boys. I also learned that saying “I said so because I’m the teacher” does. And, as it turns out, this is quite a powerful tool when you are a 25-year-old girl trying to control [...]]]></description>
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		<title>games are good</title>
		<link>http://today.newenglandconservatory.edu/blog/2006/10/31/games-are-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[And another month has flown by! And with each day and week that passes, I find myself learning an unbelievable amount – about how to teach and what to teach, how to approach kids and how to read them, even about what things I do and don’t want in my future as a musician and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>welcome to teaching</title>
		<link>http://today.newenglandconservatory.edu/blog/2006/09/28/the-first-class/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[September is already drawing to a close! It has been an exciting month, filled with Schweitzer Fellowship activities and project progress at Paraclete. Before my first class, I attended eight hours of teacher training at the Paraclete Center, which was a fantastic, overwhelming experience – two of the other new volunteer teachers and myself met [...]]]></description>
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		<title>just beginning</title>
		<link>http://today.newenglandconservatory.edu/blog/2006/09/09/welcome-to-teaching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2006 20:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My first class at Paraclete is coming soon, but I admit to an entire dinner party of mixed feelings about it – everyone that I have talked with at the Center has been incredibly enthusiastic and supportive, and everyone has reassured me not to worry, and that things will work out, that basically I should [...]]]></description>
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