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Teachers
were excited to have a choice of seven different workshops in
the afternoon sessions. Experienced teacher Early Evans said,
"This is a new beginning for us." New teacher Jody
Savage said, " I use the CIF curriculum all the time. It
has been a lifesaver for me." Anthony Cody spoke to the
gathered teachers and looked forward, saying "Curriculum
is incredibly important, but curriculum doesn't teach students;
teachers teach students. Teachers teach students through a process
of creativity and spontaneous decision-making that is informed
by our experience and our opportunities to collaborate with one
another, to challenge one another, to question one another. My
vision is that as we have a shared curriculum, that gives the
basis upon which to dig deeper into our practice, to look beyond
the activities and into the practices and real troublesome questions
that we have, that can't be answered with a science kit, the
things that can only be solved by a dialogue between each other,
by active investigation.This mini-conference space is one we
can begin to use for that purpose as well. I am hoping that some
of you who are doing teacher research, some of you who may be
interested in exploring some of these issues, take advantage
of the opportunity to present, or even pull together a group
of people who might have similar questions." If you are
interested in leading such a session, email me at 
