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Introduction to Youth Speaks."
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    dc:title="Not thinking about what does not matter"
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    dc:subject="Gardening"
    dc:description="&amp;lt;span class=&quot;img&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/umphrey/2469905446/&quot; title=&quot;Daffodil in front of tulips and hyacinth by Michael Umphrey, on Flickr&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2016/2469905446_d41b717191.jpg&quot; width=&quot;377&quot; height=&quot;500&quot; alt=&quot;Daffodil in front of tulips and hyacinth&quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;A garden is quite civilizing, in the sense that it invites attention to the sort of slow knowledge easily forgotten in the zany precincts downtown. An hour or so after work wandering from&#8230;"
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    dc:title="Nez Perce Aesthetic"
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    dc:description="The Rural School and Community Trust has published &amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ruraledu.org/site/c.beJMIZOCIrH/b.1418337/k.B596/Achieving_Academic_Goals_Through_PlaceBased_Learning.htm&quot; title=&quot;Rural School and Community Trust&quot;&amp;gt;profiles&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; of five place&#45;based learning programs. The curriculum I&apos;ve been working on this year has kept me farther than I want to be from place&#45;based approaches, but last week&apos;s Montana Indian Education Association Conference restored me to my better self. I&apos;ve been thinking quite&#8230;"
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    dc:title="Early tulips restore what faded in winter"
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    dc:title="New Montana history text makes signficant contribution to education"
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    dc:description="Significant progress is being made in Indian Education in Montana. Many of the sessions at the latest &amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2008/04/26/news/mtregional/news08.txt&quot; title=&quot;Missoulian&quot;&amp;gt;Montana Indian Education Association Conference&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; featured high quality content ready for classroom use. To be sure, the important people with important offices were there as well&#8212;doing what political leaders often do: speaking in abstractions calculated to affect power and control&#8212;but&#8230;"
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    dc:title="Speaking of beauty"
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    dc:subject="Sense of Place"
    dc:description="&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/polsonhigh/2425363033/&quot; title=&quot;Polson HIgh School Concert Choir by Polson High School, on Flickr&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3230/2425363033_71e6e7e4e5.jpg&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;296&quot; alt=&quot;Polson HIgh School Concert Choir&quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; I helped the adjudicators at the District Music Festival held in Polson this past weekend. It was like climbing out of a slummy little village into an alpine meadow. After each performance, the adjudicators talked with students&#8230;"
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    dc:title="April gardening: more winter"
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    dc:description="&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/umphrey/2427469598/&quot; title=&quot;Fritillaria&#45;yellow crown imperial by Michael Umphrey, on Flickr&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2092/2427469598_764b8ec216_o.jpg&quot; width=&quot;525&quot; height=&quot;828&quot; alt=&quot;Fritillaria&#45;yellow crown imperial&quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;Spring was doing nicely. My yellow &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Fritillaria Imperialis&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; (Crown Imperial) isn&apos;t in full bloom yet but it&apos;s getting there. It&apos;s been a cold, snowy spring, and most weekends when I&apos;ve had time to pay attention to&#8230;"
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