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	<description>Educating children through their Hearts and Hands since 2001</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>
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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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		<title>UKULELES FOR ALL!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Salmonberry&#8217;s intermediate class introduced ukuleles to all students as the newest part of our expanding music program.  Teacher, Anita Orne, spent a good deal of the first class helping everyone get tuned up.  Though the kids did manage to learn their first three chords and play a rousing rendition of &#8220;Skip to My Lou.&#8221; &#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intermediate Class Plants Trees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an effort to fulfill our school&#8217;s pledge to plant trees for each Christmas tree sold at our December fundraiser, Salmonberry&#8217;s intermediate class made a journey to San Juan Island to continue our work with the San Juan County Land Bank.  The SJCLB is engaged with its largest habitat restoration project in the Beaverton Valley [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early Childhood Program Open House and Tea January 20th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A “catered” tea, and an “expert”-led afternoon of crafts and fun for 2-5 year olds and their parents.  The “experts” and “caterers” will be Salmonberry School’s Kindergarten class.  These children (along with their teacher, Linda Ellsworth) invite the Orcas community to an open house on Thursday afternoon, January 20, from 3-5 PM.  Salmonberry School is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Spiral Walk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Winter Candlelight Spiral Walk December 11th at 3:00 pm Oddfellows Hall Eastsound Co-hosted by Salmonberry School and Orcas Montessori School Come walk the evergreen spiral, light a candle and transform the darkened room into a tableau of light. This is an opportunity for children and adults of all ages to experience a quiet reverence for [...]]]></description>
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