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	<title>The RCEF Blog 博客 &#187; Programs</title>
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		<title>Sweet Potato Project</title>
		<link>http://blog.ruralchina.org/2010/07/08/sweet-potato-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>孙 会苗</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Integrative Rural Education Program]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the course of this school year, fourth and fifth graders at Guan Ai learned all about sweet potatoes. Past lessons in this year-long unit included explorations into the history and culture of the sweet potato and how it is eaten and used in the village: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]. Principal Sun of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Little Boy on the Phone</title>
		<link>http://blog.ruralchina.org/2010/06/07/the-little-boy-on-the-phone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>胡 拉贤</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Integrative Rural Education Program]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sara Lam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teachers should provide students with opportunities to complete tasks independently so that they build self confidence. Students will be more active and take the initiative more frequently when they receive attention and appropriate encouragement from the teacher. Their confidence accumulates gradually. Around noon on May 20t, we observed an Integrated Practice Class at Xiaochao Primary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egg Selling Experience</title>
		<link>http://blog.ruralchina.org/2010/06/07/egg-selling-experience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>孙 会苗</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[chickens]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Selling eggs may just be an ordinary thing in the eyes of villagers but it can be an exciting learning experience for the students from Guan Ai Primary School. Five of our students, Sara Lam and I (Principal Sun) went to the marketplace as an out-of-school educational experience to sell the eggs from the chickens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on Exchange with American Librarian</title>
		<link>http://blog.ruralchina.org/2010/04/27/reflections-on-exchange-with-american-librarian/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ruralchina.org/2010/04/27/reflections-on-exchange-with-american-librarian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 03:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>胡 拉贤</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academic Discussions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adult Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Integrative Rural Education Program]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Trinity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On April 7th, RCEF was fortunate to invite 26 teachers, students, and parents from Trinity School in Menlo Park, California to the city of Yongji to visit Guan Ai School and Xiaochao School. The experience that made the deepest impression on me was my discussion with Librarian Becky Zeren. From that conversation I gathered some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on a reading conference in Hangzhou</title>
		<link>http://blog.ruralchina.org/2009/12/02/reflections-on-a-reading-conference-in-hangzhou/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ruralchina.org/2009/12/02/reflections-on-a-reading-conference-in-hangzhou/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Geng</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adult Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Curriculum Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post was written by Xiaochun Li, a first grade teacher at Guan Ai Primary School. She is part of a team of teachers and RCEF staff who work on the library and reading program at the school. 以下的博客是关爱小学的李晓春老师写的。她是学校图书和阅读项目的一名负责人。 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beekeeping Journals</title>
		<link>http://blog.ruralchina.org/2009/10/05/beekeeping-journals/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ruralchina.org/2009/10/05/beekeeping-journals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Geng</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Integrative Rural Education Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Programs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quality Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guan Ai has a group of very inquisitive and energetic fifth grade boys. Last semester, they took an interest in the bees which buzzed around the school yard and crawled around water droplets on the faucets. For several days in a row, one or more of these boys would rush into the RCEF office, exuberant, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Speakers at Guan Ai</title>
		<link>http://blog.ruralchina.org/2009/09/28/guest-speakers-at-guan-ai/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ruralchina.org/2009/09/28/guest-speakers-at-guan-ai/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara Lam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seven teachers from the Yuncheng Preschool Normal School came to visit Guan Ai School on September 27th. (A &#8220;Normal School&#8221; means a school that trains teachers, in this case to teach in preschools.) They included several artists, a calligrapher, a singer and a professional emcee. The guests went to different classes to teach students about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bookmaking Class Reflection</title>
		<link>http://blog.ruralchina.org/2009/09/17/bookmaking-class-reflection/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ruralchina.org/2009/09/17/bookmaking-class-reflection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marco Flagg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Integrative Rural Education Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libraries and Reading]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Developing and teaching a bookmaking class at Guan Ai School this past summer was an incredibly rewarding experience for me. I love teaching and took advantage of the summer vacation to develop a ten day activity class at the school. Though I developed the curriculum, most important to the class was my partnership with two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nature Camp for Children of Rural Migrant Workers</title>
		<link>http://blog.ruralchina.org/2009/09/14/nature-camp-for-children-of-rural-migrant-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ruralchina.org/2009/09/14/nature-camp-for-children-of-rural-migrant-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Geng</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation Grants]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Miyun]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nongmin Zhizi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the mountains of Miyun County outside of Beijing, there is a nature retreat which serves as the base of operations for the Peasant&#8217;s Children Cultural Development Center, a NGO that pioneers nature education in China. Every summer a group of children from the dusty, crowded migrant neighborhoods in Beijing get to go to this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New School Year, New School Training</title>
		<link>http://blog.ruralchina.org/2009/09/04/new-school-year-new-school-training/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ruralchina.org/2009/09/04/new-school-year-new-school-training/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Liu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Integrative Rural Education Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maths]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RCEF differs from lots of education-focused NGOs in that we primarily offer not material support such as desks, blackboards and the like, but instead provide long-term teacher training. As part of this ongoing effort just before the new semester began we conducted a training at Guan Ai Primary School for the existing and newly incoming [...]]]></description>
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