ITEMS OF INTEREST November 28, 2005 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

with contributions from Sandy Cullen, Dan Wooding, Wess Stafford

"JAMES HARTWICK, coordinator of the secondary social studies program at UW [University of Wisconsin]-Whitewater, believes that prayer enhances his relationships with students when he was a social studies teacher at Burlington High School, near Lake Geneva.

" 'Opportunities arose that I just couldn't explain,' said Hartwick, who also believes praying made him more patient, understanding, and receptive in his dealings with students. They in turn, 'reacted to me better.'

"For his dissertation—'An Investigation into the Spiritual, Religious, and Prayer Lives of Wisconsin Public School Teachers: The Inner Life of the Teacher'—Hartwick set out to discover if other public school teachers pray and whether they believe it makes them better at their job.

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