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		<title>Advisory Programs Help Improve Academic Performance and Postsecondary Planning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The benefits of implementing school-wide advisory programs are well documented.  Advisory programs can play a critical role in a school’s overall academic and student support services plan.  Advisories are a primary way to create a more personalized learning environment where all students are well known by at least one adult.  Moreover, advisory provides a structure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://esrnational.org/2012/02/advisory/</link>
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		<title>New Resources to Support Student Advisory Programs from ESR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Getting Advisory Right: Tools for Supporting Effective Advisories is an essential resource to provide &#8220;just-in-time&#8221; professional development for teachers in schools that are committed to improving and sustaining high-quality student advisory programs.  Each segment includes scripted professional development guides, videos of real advisories in action that align with the PD guides, an annotated guide of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://esrnational.org/2011/10/new-resources-to-support-student-advisory-programs-from-esr/</link>
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		<title>2011-2012 ESR Resource Catalog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Download the new ESR Resource Catalog here!  If you would like to be added to the mailing list for next year&#8217;s catalog, please email your postal address to dwolk@esrnational.org. ESR 2011-2012 Catalog (PDF) //]]></description>
		<link>http://esrnational.org/2011/06/2011-2012-esr-resource-catalog/</link>
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		<title>A New Annotated Guide to Young People&#8217;s Literature with Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution Themes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Book by Book: An Annotated Guide to Young People’s Literature with Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution Themes is a valuable resource for librarians, teachers, guidance counselors, and parents to find books to complement the standard language arts curriculum for teaching important peacemaking and social and emotional learning concepts.  Written by a veteran peace educator, Book by Book [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://esrnational.org/2010/06/a-new-annotated-guide-to-young-peoples-literature-with-peacemaking-and-conflict-resolution-themes/</link>
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		<title>SEL Curricula Are for School Counselors Too</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ESR author Ken Breeding is featured in an article on social and emotional learning called School Counseling Curriculum Objectives on the School Counselor website.  &#8220;Breeding said that it’s evident that when students are taught SEL skills, violence, acting out and other disruptive behaviors are &#8216;tremendously curtailed.&#8217; And it’s no surprise that students who lack these [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://esrnational.org/2009/10/sel-curricula-are-for-school-counselors-too/</link>
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