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		<title>SAM process:  Kappan, Marshall, Hargreaves and Fullan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The SAM process is featured in several publications this month.   In the May, 2013 issue of the Phi Delta Kappan, Editor Joan Richardson reveals how the process has changed an Iowa school.  Congratulations to SAM Pam Schulz, Principal Marilee McConnell and Time Change Coach Carol Lensing.  You can read editor Joan Richardson’s column, below.  In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TimeTrack Update &#8211; Email Functions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Timetrack has been updated to include email functions! View the video below for more details.]]></description>
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		<title>7th Annual National SAM/Principal Conference</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; NSIP is pleased to announce that the 7th Annual SAM/Principal Conference will be in San Diego next January at the amazing, historic and iconic Hotel Del Coronado. The general session space is round, larger than any we’ve ever used, and has windows facing the Pacific.  All the Victorian rooms in this historic 5 star [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAM Teams attending the 6th Annual NSIP Conference share their experience with changing time.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Explore the Use of SAMs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A major newspaper in Iowa published an editorial lauding the SAM process. School Administrators of Iowa, SAI, is the state level affiliate and has been very successful in implementing and supporting SAM teams throughout the state. The Iowa legislature included the SAM process in law last year and the governor is expected to include funding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is it like to be a SAM Principal?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 14:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A SAM Principal explains what the process has been like for her: Principal Beth Thompson now spends more than 60% of her day instructionally engaged. See how she did it. Click below to see her SAMs comments &#8211; SAM Renee Golz Click below to see her Secretary&#8217;s Comments &#8211; Secretary Latisha Alexander Click below to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSIP Program Board Recognized</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the 5th Annual NSIP Conference in Phoenix, AZ, the founding members of the National SAM Innovation Project Program board were recognized and awarded a plaque for their work. The members of the board are (left to right) Paul Katnik &#8211; MO, Carol Lensing &#8211; IA, Nathan Roberts &#8211; LA, Bert Hendee &#8211; IL, Mark [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAM Principals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAM principals spend the majority of each day on instructional leadership work: activities designed to improve teaching and learning. Hear these principals tell their stories.]]></description>
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		<title>First in Arizona</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RRHS Principal Shelly Vroegh joins in national development project  Nogales International &#124; Posted: Tuesday, October 23, 2012  Rio Rico High School Principal Shelly Vroegh is the first Arizona principal chosen to participate in a program that seeks to enable principals to spend more time on instructional leadership tasks and less time on management tasks. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wallace Foundation Surveys SAM Teams</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Wallace Foundation professional learning community is exploring teacher evaluation and how districts and principals make time to complete the process in a meaningful way. SAM principals have a unique perspective that interests the PLC: they have increased your instructional leadership time significantly as documented by external and independent research. One hundred and five of [...]]]></description>
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