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		<title>New Study Underscores the Importance of Arts Education Programs</title>
		<link>http://therightbraininitiative.org/2012/05/new-study-underscores-the-importance-of-arts-education-programs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 19:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Holland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent post from the Creative Advocacy Network (CAN) highlights a new national study on arts education from the US Department of Education. The study found that art opportunities in schools are declining nationwide. While this study confirms what many of us already know, it does highlight the struggles schools in the City of Portland [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wear your right brain on your shirt! While supplies last.</title>
		<link>http://therightbraininitiative.org/2012/04/wear-your-right-brain-on-your-shirt-while-supplies-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re thrilled to have been selected as the April non-profit partner for tanQ, a fascinating altrustic t-shirt production project. Working with Threadless artist ilovedoodle, they produced a delightful, customized t-shirt to raise awareness for our cause, and 25% of the sales go directly to our program! Satisfied customers have told us that wearing their tanQ t-shirt has opened up incredible conversations about arts education [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher illustrates impact of a Right Brain residency at State of the Arts presentation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Watch Marcela Arredondo&#8217;s compelling testimony. On March 21st, Right Brain joined the Regional Arts &#38; Culture Council for its annual State of the Arts presentation, a moving report to City Council on the indispensable value of the City&#8217;s investment in our region&#8217;s cultural pursuits. Over 200 members of the community &#8212; among them artists, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>By popular demand! Second Austin Kleon talk now scheduled this Tuesday.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WHEW! You&#8217;ve blown us away with your enthusiasm for Austin Kleon, artist, internet crackerjack and New York Times best-selling author. Within a week you booked all the seats (and more) for the first talk we scheduled with Austin to discuss his brand new book Steal Like an Artist and its unconventional perspective on creativity. Because we&#8217;re an arts education program, we&#8217;re not one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students can&#8217;t stop imagining.</title>
		<link>http://therightbraininitiative.org/2012/04/students-cant-stop-imagining/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennie Palmer Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is like a seed? A spark? A fuse? A jumping off point? A jolt? A full-on Right Brain residency, of course. So, picture this: Visual artist Addie Boswell, in partnership with Right Brain, spent five sessions in Sue Turner’s kindergarten class at Spring Mountain Elementary School in Happy Valley. She taught 5 year-olds the art [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hear Jonah Lehrer Dissect Creativity</title>
		<link>http://therightbraininitiative.org/2012/04/hear-jonah-lehrer-dissect-creativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join us at Jonah Lehrer&#8217;s lecture on creativity. A lecture by Jonah Lehrer &#8220;Creativity and the brain: What is it, who has it and how do we achieve it?&#8221; Tuesday, April 10, 2012  &#124;  7 pm Oregon Convention Center 777 NE Martin Luther King Blvd.  &#124;  Portland 97232 map Is creativity a gift bestowed on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I used to think kids learned sitting down, but now&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://therightbraininitiative.org/2012/03/i-used-to-think-kids-learned-sitting-down-but-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Measuring Our Impact]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working closely with educators is fundamental to our vision of making a permanent impact on our local school systems through the arts. Three times each school year, we bring together classroom teachers, music and art teachers, principals from all our partner schools and Right Brain teaching artists to take in a full day of new arts-based instructional strategies and other educational [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last chance to visit The Brain Food Lab</title>
		<link>http://therightbraininitiative.org/2012/02/last-chance-to-visit-the-brain-food-lab/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; We continue to be impressed by how eager Museum of Contemporary Craft visitors have been to participate in  The Brain Food Lab, a hands-on activity that we&#8217;re presenting on-site at the Museum in partnership with our friends at AIGA Portland. Tomorrow from 2-4pm in The Lab will be your last opportunity to work directly with designers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fine-tuning literacy (and much more!) at Woodlawn</title>
		<link>http://therightbraininitiative.org/2012/02/fine-tuning-literacy-and-much-more-at-woodlawn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Hayes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[EDITORS&#8217; NOTE: We are pleased to introduce guest blogger Monica Hayes of the Oregon Symphony. For the past couple of months, Monica and several musicians and volunteers from the Symphony have been working at Woodlawn School in Northeast Portland with Pre-Kindergartners, Kindergartners and 1st graders in a dynamic residency that connected music to literacy, foreign language, and even a bit of science [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attend our outreach volunteer training</title>
		<link>http://therightbraininitiative.org/2012/02/attend-our-outreach-volunteer-training/</link>
		<comments>http://therightbraininitiative.org/2012/02/attend-our-outreach-volunteer-training/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Are you interested in getting out into the community with The Right Brain Initiative? We depend on the help of incredible volunteers to conduct our outreach efforts, representing our program at street fairs, art gatherings, family arts nights at our partner schools, and much more! If you are interested in getting started, or expanding your ability to [...]]]></description>
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