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	<title>Gretchen Wegner</title>
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	<description>Playing with intention. Learning with abandon!</description>
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		<title>Outstanding Organizational Skills</title>
		<link>http://www.gretchenwegner.com/2012/03/21/outstanding-organizational-skills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gretchen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academic Coaching]]></category>
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		<title>Adult Going Back to School Benefit from Academic Coaching</title>
		<link>http://www.gretchenwegner.com/2012/03/14/adult-going-back-to-school-benefit-from-academic-coaching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 06:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gretchen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academic Coaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adult learner]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I met with another adult client. What a surprising turn my business is taking: that I&#8217;m attracting more and more adult learners who are going back to school. It is so impossibly sweet to see these grown-ups sincerely wanting to learn and feel competent, but feeling so stuck as they relive the learning trauma [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Your Theme Song For Organizing?</title>
		<link>http://www.gretchenwegner.com/2012/03/12/whats-your-theme-song-for-organizing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gretchen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week one of my 6th grade coaching clients spontaneously started singing James Brown&#8217;s &#8220;I Feel Good&#8221; while we were cleaning out his binder: &#8220;I feel good! nuhnuh, nuhnuh, nuhnuh nuh&#8230; &#8220;So organi-ized nuhnuh, nuhnuh, nuhnuh!&#8221; We sang together while he purged, hole punched, and filed. I couldn&#8217;t help but think how much I love [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artful Systems Make Organizing More Fun</title>
		<link>http://www.gretchenwegner.com/2012/03/10/2430/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gretchenwegner.com/2012/03/10/2430/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 06:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gretchen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academic Coaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creativity & Edges]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished collaging the cover of a new spiral notebook, and now I can&#8217;t wait to write in it! Art makes such a difference in our lives. I often have my academic coaching clients decorate their planner covers for this very reason. Just yesterday a senior in high school told me that she has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet-Blocking Software Provides Freedom from Distraction</title>
		<link>http://www.gretchenwegner.com/2011/12/14/internet-blocking-software-provides-freedom-from-distraction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gretchenwegner.com/2011/12/14/internet-blocking-software-provides-freedom-from-distraction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gretchen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academic Coaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ADD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ADHD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[distraction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gretchenwegner.com/?p=2301</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During my in-take interviews with new families, their child’s distractibility is one of the most common complaints. How do we get them to FOCUS?! Especially when they&#8217;re on the internet? I totally get it, partially because I experience the same distractability in my own life, and I know many adults who do as well. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Comprehension Tips: How to Find Main Ideas in a NonFiction Book</title>
		<link>http://www.gretchenwegner.com/2011/12/11/reading-comprehension-tips-how-to-find-main-ideas-in-a-nonfiction-book/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gretchenwegner.com/2011/12/11/reading-comprehension-tips-how-to-find-main-ideas-in-a-nonfiction-book/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gretchen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academic Coaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comprehension]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[main ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meta cognition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading comprehension]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading for comprehension]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several seniors with whom I work have recently been assigned their first nonfiction (read: non-textbook) book: The Future of Freedom by Fareed Zakaria. This is not light reading, and several of them feel lost. It&#8217;s a big jump to go from a textbook that force feeds you main ideas and subheadings, to a nonfiction book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Makes Homework Different Than Studying</title>
		<link>http://www.gretchenwegner.com/2011/12/08/what-makes-homework-different-than-studying/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gretchenwegner.com/2011/12/08/what-makes-homework-different-than-studying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gretchen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academic Coaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[studying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[test-taking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tips]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gretchenwegner.com/?p=2275</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of my academic coaching clients have a devil of a time studying for tests.  The reasons are varied, but one major stumbling block I&#8217;ve uncovered is this: students do not understand the purpose that homework plays in preparing them for tests! Our current education system rewards students for mindlessly following teacher&#8217;s instructions, rather than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MuseCubes Help Stave Off Cancer?!</title>
		<link>http://www.gretchenwegner.com/2011/11/30/musecubes-help-stave-off-cancer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gretchenwegner.com/2011/11/30/musecubes-help-stave-off-cancer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gretchen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MuseCubes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[break]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sitting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stress]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gretchenwegner.com/?p=2272</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sitting might cause cancer?! It sounds extreme, doesn&#8217;t it? That&#8217;s the announcement in a growing body of research. According to the American Institute for Cancer Research: As many as 49,000 cases of breast cancer and 43,000 cases of colon cancer occurring in the U.S. every year are linked to a lack of physical activity.&#8221; Furthermore, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forget Learning Styles&#8230;Here Come the Study Senses</title>
		<link>http://www.gretchenwegner.com/2011/11/27/forget-learning-styles-here-come-the-study-senses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gretchenwegner.com/2011/11/27/forget-learning-styles-here-come-the-study-senses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 01:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gretchen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academic Coaching]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gretchenwegner.com/?p=2266</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many educators &#8212; myself included! &#8212; have espoused learning styles as an important factor in increasing student motivation and performance. When I was a classroom teacher, I had students take learning inventories, and then I would use the results of this inventory to help individualize student learning. As an academic coach, I used to have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harvesting Joy Stories (or Why Is The Bad Easier to Remember Than the Good?)</title>
		<link>http://www.gretchenwegner.com/2011/10/10/harvesting-joy-stories-or-why-is-the-bad-easier-to-remember-than-the-good/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gretchenwegner.com/2011/10/10/harvesting-joy-stories-or-why-is-the-bad-easier-to-remember-than-the-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gretchen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academic Coaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creativity & Edges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[InterPlay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember the first time you realized that everything is connected to everything else? For me, it was first semester of freshman year at Macalester College. I was shocked to discover that each of my classes, disparate as they were (Theatre With a Global Perspective, The Biology of Conservation) kept on resonating with each [...]]]></description>
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