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  • Chronological Reading Guide (ESV Bible Online) on 2009-12-07
    •  He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking [7] and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.
    • For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
  • Google Reader on 2009-12-07
    • Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods. But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God,
    • “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.”
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  • Google Reader (602) on 2009-12-01
    • So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved
  • Tony Blair Defends Obama On Israeli-Palestinian Conflict on 2009-11-30
    • urged, above all, patience in resolving a problem that has confounded so many previous administrations. noting, also, how long it took to resolve the discord in Northern Ireland. More subtly, he contrasted Oba
  • CI8132_1F9: Help Out or Get Out! on 2009-11-25
    • In order to combat the rising tides of student disengagement and apathy, our educational systems must alter our practices and entertain a curricular infrastructure that has moral and ethical implications woven throughout so that values can be taught and restored.
    • Maybe because we have lost the importance of family and morals.
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  • CI8132_1F9: Empower Teachers instead of Blaming Them on 2009-11-25
    • At the same time, school choice has created consumer parents who show a preference for teachers and schools using “traditional” practices.
    • wo Visions for the Future,” and his September 15, 2009 article “As Charter Schools Grow in the Suburbs, Critics Raise Red Flags,” Patterson describes three rapidly growing suburban charter schools with the same common purpose: “delivering classical, private school education for free.” At a time when the American public demands that teachers reform their practices and become innovative, that same public tends to show a preference for “traditional” instruction.
  • CI8132_1F9: Too Many Standards on 2009-11-19
    • eframing the question means not starting with the teacher but the student.  We should ask ourselves what kind of student and what kind of learning we value?  Then we must follow that up by determining what qualities, knowledge and understandings a teacher must have to produce that kind of student and learning. 
  • CI8132_1F9: Reflection 3 on 2009-11-19
    • As an educator who has both worked with teachers before they get evaluated by the system (designed around Danielson's framework) and as a teacher observed and evaluated by this system, I struggle with how little teachers gain from it professionally and how little it works to lead to improved teaching.
    •  I question this because “bad” teaching is seemingly easy to define. 
  • CI8132_1F9: Teachers who are ready on day one? on 2009-11-19
    • There are however questions that arise, with such a statement: What is the minimum knowledge that teachers need in order to teach?
  • CI8132_1F9: What do teachers need to know? on 2009-11-19
    • Like Gemma, I take issue with the notion that we can be truly objective in our evaluation of what constitutes excellence in teaching. 
    • In fact, I believe part of the reason why there's such a trend toward charter schools is because of our flawed public system for the removal of teachers. 
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