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	<title>Salmonberry School, Orcas Island</title>
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	<description>Educating children through their Hearts and Hands since 2001</description>
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		<title>To Walk A Mile in Their Shoes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Compassion, empathy, understanding, caring; these are a few of children’s capacities that are explicitly nurtured at Salmonberry School.  Salmonberry teachers look for opportunities to tune kids in to the difficulties faced by others in our community and around the world.  Students investigate these real world issues and injustices and learn some of the skills to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walk For Water</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Salmonberry students celebrated World Water Day with a walk for water through the village of Eastsound.  Preceding this walk-a-thon event students secured pledges from friends and family and then set out to walk to raise awareness of water resource issues around the world and to raise funds to drill wells in a draught stricken region [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students Study Human Body</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In recent weeks, third, fourth and fifth-grade students at Salmonberry School have explored many aspects of the human body with guidance from their teacher Paul Freedman and two Salmonberry School parents who are local physicians. “Dr. Jim Litch presented a terrific lesson on the structure and function of the human spine,” said Freedman. “He focused [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salmonberry Students Get Active and Go Public</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Salmonberry Elementary School students have launched a community-based civics curriculum that has recently brought them directly into the public spotlight, which has included a well-received presentation at a recent meeting of the San Juan County Council. These 13 students, age 8-11, have followed their own curiosity about some of the current issues on Orcas Island [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salmonberry is a &#8220;Showcase School&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, IDEA, the Institute for Democratic Education in America named Salmonberry a &#8220;Showcase School&#8221; and invited us to become a member of this organization as well.  This honor has moved me to explore further the meaning of the phrase &#8220;democratic education&#8221; as well as the work of IDEA. IDEA was founded a year and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul&#8217;s Back-To-School Chat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few people have asked if I could post the contents of my talk about the Salmonberry Program.  Here it is: Exciting Times These are exciting times to be involved at Salmonberry School.  I remember eight or nine years ago, when Lydia Miller and I both attended a PNAIS (Pacific Northwest Association of Independent Schools) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fall Festival 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again, Salmonberry School hosted our annual fall festival.  This year&#8217;s festivities included rides on the miniature donkeys, a fall journey walk, candle dipping, apple cider pressing, and pumpkin-roll relay races.  What a terrific day to connect with the entire Salmonberry community.  Happy Autumn to all. He&#8217;s up there!]]></description>
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		<title>A Tree Lives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Letting our everyday intelligence go mute: to feel the intelligence of what surrounds us. Take a tree, a flower, a blade of grass &#8211; and study their stillness.  Become their stillness; aware only of the air your imagining begins in. There is something in our learning &#8211; which begins and ends &#8211; without words Often the poetic must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salmonberry School: Decade 2; Week 1…aaand…ACTION!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Salmonberry officially began it’s second decade this week, and this milestone leads me inexorably toward reflection and introspection about this amazing project.  I remember so clearly the first gatherings of eight 3 and 4 yr-olds in rented and borrowed spaces around the island.  Now, I look around and see our three lovely classrooms, our incredible [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://salmonberryschool.org/759</link>
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		<title>Salmonberry Graduate School?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well&#8230;it&#8217;s not exactly a Salmonberry program, but&#8230;back in 2007, Salmonberry hosted it&#8217;s first Holistic Education Conference.  At that event, two dynamic speakers served as Keynote presenters.  The first was Brent Cameron, author of Self Design: Nurturing Genius Through Natural Learning. The other was Dr. David Marshak, author of Common Vision: Parenting and Educating for Wholeness. [...]]]></description>
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