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		<title>I Have Traveled a Long Road</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Michael Seifert, Class of 2003
Thinking, feeling and willing; these are words we have heard many times by the third year of the teacher training. I thought I knew what each of these were&#8211;after all I think and feel and have will or determination in my life. But in the third year we are reading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Circle Time in Nursery School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Amy Van Der Wyk, Class of 2002
For my research, I was interested in deepening my own understanding of the festivals celebrated in Waldorf schools, the spiritual significance of the seasons and the annual rhythm. I currently teach at a Waldorf-inspired nursery school in San Francisco. In nursery school, circle time is a prime opportunity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bacwtt.org/circle-time-in-nursery-school</link>
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		<title>The Will at Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Amanda Sanfilippo, Class of 2002
For eight years I was a tile maker. Then, after three years of training under the direction of Dorit Winter I became a Waldorf teacher. Now, as both teacher and human being, I study many things, including words. Words and their echo in the world interest me, as well as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bacwtt.org/the-will-at-work</link>
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		<title>The Teacher as Artist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Maribeth Lockhart, Class of 2005
The idea that &#8220;Waldorf school education is not a pedagogical system but an Art-the Art of awakening what is actually there within the human being&#8221; resonates very powerfully for me. The thought that &#8220;the Waldorf school does not want to educate, but to awaken&#8221; &#8211;to nourish&#8211; is especially compelling when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bacwtt.org/the-teacher-as-artist</link>
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		<title>In the Face of Nothingness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Todd Krake, Class of 2005
In The Younger Generation, Steiner makes a moving case for the decline and loss of the living spirit in our culture, how it&#8217;s been superseded by a veneration of the disembodied intellect, and how we as a culture have become stranded without recourse to our souls in the face of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karma and Reincarnation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Christine Margetic, Lauren Burger, Ximena Sierra, and Mike Ro, Class of 2004
[ Editor's Note: After reading selections from Karma and Reincarnation and Manifestations of Karma, the second-year class worked on their personal biographies. they focused on the defining events of each seven-year cycle in their life. In class, students sat in order of age [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bacwtt.org/karma-and-reincarnation</link>
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		<title>A Christmas Address</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Given December 2001 by Dorit Winter, Director of the Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training
The sun continues to shine even on a cloudy day. At this moment of human history, the clouds are particularly dense and thick and they are gathering. How can we prepare for the storm to come? For such darkness surely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bacwtt.org/a-christmas-address</link>
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		<title>Courage to be a Class Teacher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Meg Weber-Gil, Third Year
[ Ed. The following is an interview with Deborah Krikorian, currently teaching Class 6 at the East Bay Waldorf School. Deborah also teaches Curriculum Studies to third year students in the Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training. ]
MEG: Tell us something about your biography.
DEBORAH: When I look back on it, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bacwtt.org/courage-to-be-a-class-teacher</link>
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		<title>Activity of the Will</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Lauren Burger, First Year
[ Ed. In The Younger Generation Rudolf Steiner describes how the teacher must draw out the inner abilities of the children. First year students were asked to write an essay based on their reading. ]
Before the fifteenth century, teachers viewed education as an art form and strove to impart a sense [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bacwtt.org/activity-of-the-will</link>
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		<title>Frequent Flyers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Robin Theiss, First Year
People are often amazed when we tell them that we are commuting to teacher training by plane. It doesn&#8217;t seem amazing to us. What is amazing, however, are the circumstances that allowed each of us to find this teacher training program. Each reason, unique on its own, led us to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bacwtt.org/frequent-flyers</link>
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