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	<title>George E. Salazar</title>
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	<description>Less matter, with more art: ramblings of an educator seeking his own guide to this thing called life</description>
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		<title>NJ ASK Pep Rally</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The NJ ASK is the standardised assessment for New Jersey elementary schools. With the high stakes that go along with these tests, it&#8217;s natural for many parents, teachers, and students to become far more stressed than they need be. I was rather fatalistic about the whole thing: I taught my students what I could; now, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gemsalazar.com/2012/04/nj-ask-pep-rally/</link>
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		<title>Smile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I need to relax, I just browse through my image folders to reflect on what I&#8217;ve seen and done. Each time, I reconnect with an old photo that just recalibrates my brain and gets me going again. It&#8217;s been a stressful year, so it&#8217;s good to be reminded to just smile and take it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gemsalazar.com/2012/03/smile/</link>
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		<title>Teaching Portfolio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got a job offer from the principal of a school I had applied to! Considering how quickly I got the job (just two weeks of actual job hunting), I thought I&#8217;d share some of the things I did in hopes of helping some of you still seeking positions. One of the most important [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gemsalazar.com/2011/08/teaching-portfolio/</link>
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		<title>The Hiring Process</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no doubt that times are hard, especially for teachers. If you&#8217;re an educator and have not been keeping up with current affairs, best to mosey on to any paper&#8217;s site and browse through their education section. With all the debates regarding data, merit-pay, and contracts, the field of education has become far more complicated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gemsalazar.com/2011/08/the-hiring-process/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s your favourite book?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday I had a job interview in Bayonne, NJ. I had gotten a call instructing me to avoid the building that housed the Board of Education, and instead enter the high school itself, where the interviewer&#8217;s office was located. Needless to say, I made the every mistake the interviewer warned me about, parking in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gemsalazar.com/2011/08/whats-your-favourite-book-2/</link>
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		<title>Mat Kearney</title>
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		<link>http://gemsalazar.com/2011/08/mat-kearney/</link>
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		<title>And so on and so forth&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thomas O&#8217;Shaughnessy, my high-school English II teacher, died on Thursday, after two years of fighting colon cancer. I heard it through our high school&#8217;s Facebook page, which shows that social networks still serve some of their core purposes: to inform and to stay connected, rather than become detached and caught up in farming games and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gemsalazar.com/2011/07/and-so-on-and-so-forth/</link>
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