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		<title>New Model Unveiled</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Unified Research Model has been unveiled.  After announcing the update at a faculty meeting, we have begun convening with smaller groups of teachers to look at it in more detail. Teachers especially liked the metacognitive pieces, learning teams, personal choice, emphasis on inference in research, the use of bibliography generators, and encouraging real audiences. Click [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwyn.wordpress.com&blog=1349780&post=19&subd=pwyn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taking It to the People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At our last Research Model meeting, the group came together to edit the latest draft of the model.  As we were aligning our language with that of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, we began talking about our own children.  Some are in college, others a few years out into the workforce.  We began asking, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwyn.wordpress.com&blog=1349780&post=18&subd=pwyn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting in the Zone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Basketball is one of my favorite sports.  When a player is having a really great day, he enters the &#8220;zone&#8221; where everything he learned from coaches, teammates, watching the NBA, and personal practice, mesh seamlessly.  Focus is razor sharp.  Confidence is supreme. He owns the game.
Recently, I had been &#8220;coaching&#8221; a  seventh grade team as they wrote [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwyn.wordpress.com&blog=1349780&post=17&subd=pwyn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pwyn.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/getting-in-the-zone/</link>
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		<title>Do It Yourself Projects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a teacher I admire who never assigns a major research project to her students unless she has already done it herself.  By going through the expectations she has for her students, she can better prepare them for the pitfalls and challenges they might face.  She can understand the support they will need to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwyn.wordpress.com&blog=1349780&post=16&subd=pwyn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Background Knowledge Booster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How to gain more depth in inquiry projects? Increase background knowledge.  As a science teacher and I were collaborating on the Research Model, I showed her the latest title in the Scientist in the Field series. In this series, scientists doing fascinating research on such topics as trash, volcanoes, and tarantulas are presented with details [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwyn.wordpress.com&blog=1349780&post=11&subd=pwyn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pwyn.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/background-knowledge-booster/</link>
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		<title>Notetaking: Active and Differentiated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Research Model Committee spent a good deal of time on the subject of notetaking.  We decided we need to better prepare our students over the the three years to differentiate types of notes and grow independent in their uses.  We are looking to begin with the Cornell method and T-charts, then three-column response notes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwyn.wordpress.com&blog=1349780&post=10&subd=pwyn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pwyn.wordpress.com/2007/12/09/notetaking-active-and-differentiated/</link>
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		<title>Watch out: Unified Shouldn&#8217;t Mortify</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Working on a unified research model can cause stress within a school or district if it becomes too regulated.  For example, one of the important skills that students should learn, especially in the era of Web 2.0, is that there are many ways to demonstrate learning or findings.  Whenever possible, students should be given the opportunity [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwyn.wordpress.com&blog=1349780&post=9&subd=pwyn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pwyn.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/watch-out-unified-shouldnt-mortify/</link>
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		<title>Thinking about a Product: Now or Later?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we looked at our steps to research, our URM group pondered whether thinking about a final product should begin earlier or later in the process.  Occasionally, teachers who do research in the library feel students worry too much about getting a product finished to the detriment of immersing themselves in the literature of the topic.  I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwyn.wordpress.com&blog=1349780&post=8&subd=pwyn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pwyn.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/thinking-about-a-product-now-or-later/</link>
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		<title>Buiding a Community of Researchers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the powerful images that came out of our discussions on research last year was the pervasive nature of research.  We want students to see that we are constantly doing research in our everyday lives (buying a shirt at the mall, etc.).  But we also want them to see how people in jobs, also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwyn.wordpress.com&blog=1349780&post=7&subd=pwyn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pwyn.wordpress.com/2007/08/08/buiding-a-community-of-researchers/</link>
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		<title>Updating Research Model</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The focus of this blog will be primarily on the discussions members of our faculty are having about research, as we look to update our model. We have been looking at research as a topic for a year now and will continue through 2007-2008.  Whenever we update the model, it is important to reflect with the people who will help implement the changes.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwyn.wordpress.com&blog=1349780&post=6&subd=pwyn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pwyn.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/updating-the-research-model/</link>
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