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		<title>And we came to the end</title>
		<link>http://chronicallyimpulsive.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/and-we-came-to-the-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summer seemed like it would never come, but it eventually arrived as it reliably does. This was an interesting year and and I definitely learned a lot about teaching and a lot about kids. My intent was to have a one year experiment in a middle school and then move back to high school, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicallyimpulsive.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5244716&amp;post=150&amp;subd=chronicallyimpulsive&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Drugs Do Work</title>
		<link>http://chronicallyimpulsive.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/the-drugs-do-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 1997 the band the Verve released the song &#8220;The Drugs Don&#8217;t Work,&#8221; clearly they never taught middle school. A few weeks ago Josef, one of our trouble makers from previous posts, started taking medication for ADHD. It was like magic. Within a few days his behavior was completely changed. He started asking for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicallyimpulsive.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5244716&amp;post=146&amp;subd=chronicallyimpulsive&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The hair is the window to the soul</title>
		<link>http://chronicallyimpulsive.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/the-hair-is-the-window-to-the-soul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing I did not remember about middle school was how important a hair cut can be. In the past few weeks, I&#8217;ve had several young gentlemen get haircuts that they considered to be less than perfect. The tip off as to when a student thinks their haircut sucks is when they begin wearing the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicallyimpulsive.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5244716&amp;post=142&amp;subd=chronicallyimpulsive&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Officer Larvell Jones</title>
		<link>http://chronicallyimpulsive.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/officer-larvell-jones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 15:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you ever see that movie Police Academy? The answer is yes. You may have actually seen one of Police Academy&#8217;s six redundant sequels (including that Cold War icebreaker Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow, yes a real movie with the official tag line &#8220;Kicking buttski. Making you laughski. The Academy is backski!&#8221;) and confused [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicallyimpulsive.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5244716&amp;post=140&amp;subd=chronicallyimpulsive&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Locker Room Beat Down</title>
		<link>http://chronicallyimpulsive.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/locker-room-beat-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had an intense girl fight in the locker room the other day. It pitted the a fairly run of the mill student against the hardcore girl from school. It was the hard girl who attacked, and we as teachers probably should have know that something was up because she actually showed up to school [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicallyimpulsive.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5244716&amp;post=138&amp;subd=chronicallyimpulsive&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Civility in the Classroom &#8212; two articles</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently talking (gmail chatting really) with a colleague of mine about my previous post on putting students into groups without them totally destroying each others self esteem, and she mentioned that she had a very similar problem with her 12th graders.  This seems to be a common problem in schools, and we probably [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicallyimpulsive.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5244716&amp;post=133&amp;subd=chronicallyimpulsive&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The pain of group work</title>
		<link>http://chronicallyimpulsive.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/the-pain-of-group-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editors note: School got really busy after winter break, so I apologize for the extended break. I&#8217;ll try to do better to have more frequent updates. The issue with Middle School kids that has really struck me lately is group work. It&#8217;s not so much what they do in groups (or don&#8217;t do in many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicallyimpulsive.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5244716&amp;post=129&amp;subd=chronicallyimpulsive&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Middle School Dance</title>
		<link>http://chronicallyimpulsive.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/middle-school-dance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I had the opportunity to chaperone my first middle school dance, and let me tell you that it was gold—awkward, awkward gold. Since most middle school kids aren’t supposed to stay out late and can’t legally drive, though some do, middle school dances are held directly after school. Our dance was on a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicallyimpulsive.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5244716&amp;post=124&amp;subd=chronicallyimpulsive&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day #3</title>
		<link>http://chronicallyimpulsive.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/quote-of-the-day-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s quote of the day is actually, the note of the day—meaning this is the best note that I intercepted this week. As it turns out, middle school kids are caught in an awkward place because they aren’t good at passing notes yet, but most of them don’t have cell phones so they can’t text. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicallyimpulsive.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5244716&amp;post=117&amp;subd=chronicallyimpulsive&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day #2</title>
		<link>http://chronicallyimpulsive.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/quote-of-the-day-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the day: Said to me by a failing student, in detention, when I asked what homework he was going to work on. “None, it’s called HOME-work.” Sure it is, and I’m guessing he’s not going to do much of it at HOME. Posted in Quote of the Day Tagged: Detention, Education, Impulsive, Middle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicallyimpulsive.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5244716&amp;post=114&amp;subd=chronicallyimpulsive&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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