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STEM Education with NASA (Eileen Moening) 

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This site offers a lot. It is well organized and let you easily find what you are looking for. Some of the engineering challenges look more like crafts but I really use the read it section. It also has videos that are kid friendly and build background knowledge.

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NASA for Students in Kindergarten to 4th Grade

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Fun Activities To Do @ Home. Launch rockets, build a Moon Habitat, solve spacey puzzles and more! These science, technology, engineering and math activities are fun for kids, adults and the whole family.

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Coding with ISTE Standards (Eileen Moening) 

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Cublet robots have a scope and sequence and lesson plans that aline to ISTE Standards. This is very helpful for teaching Coding to students in grade K - 5.

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Modular Robotics | Cubelets robot blocks

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Introducing Computer Science Unit - Modular Robotics | Cubelets robot blocks

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The following scope and sequence contains 9 x 45-minute lessons designed for students of all ages to begin associating their Cubelets play with core

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99 Math is a free website that helps with math fluency and fast facts. You can either assign to students or host a live game. For the live game, students log in like they would for Kahoot or Blooket. The host picks a math skill for them to do, set a desired amount of rounds and minutes for each round. When the game starts, students are to answer as many of the math problems as they can in the time frame. A live leaderboard of progress can be displayed by the host as they play. My students love this and serves as a great was to warm up before a math lesson.

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Flocabulary is a fantastic resource for engaging students in learning. This website produces beautiful music videos with animated visuals to the tune of hip-hop. There is a massive database of subjects from math concepts to social-emotional and history lessons. Each video comes with a quiz for students, teacher resources and lesson plans. They are also flagged with the recommended grade ranges for each video. I use this regularly in my classroom and it is a huge hit.

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This website gives you strategies on what to do and not what to do when planning curriculum for the gifted child. It discusses planning difficult curriculum that is meeting each individual learners needs and being risk takers when it comes to learning new material.

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Benchamark Universe is a meaty curriculum with various strategies for teachers and resources such as interactive songs and lessons for students to engage with. It also offers ELL strategies and differentiated instruction within the curriculum. A wide range of informational, fiction, and non fiction texts. There are a lot of balanced literacy instructions as well.

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Novice Language learning (Emily Anderson)

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Novice Language learning (Emily Anderson)

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When I read about language teaching, I am most often reading about the assumption that you are teaching secondary level, intermediate ability students that are capable of using and applying past learning to basic yet spontaneous conversation in the target language. As a k-6 teacher, it is challenging to support such novice and young learners in interactive and highly engaging activities besides "repeat after me..." I use blogs such as edutopia to spark new ideas on how I can better engage my young, beginning language learners through excitement and higher comprehensible input.

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Authentic images, readings, videos, and infographics are often perceived to be suitable solely for higher-level language classes. But with some exploration, a willingness to take risks, and a dose of reflection, it's possible to use such materials at the novice levels as well. Novice learners can take full advantage of authentic resources, as long as there are level-appropriate expectations, supports, and tasks in place.

Whether you bring in texts, songs, or video clips, authentic resources have the power to catch students' attention and spark their motivation. Over time, I've worked out some ideas for how to find and use authentic materials from the target language country in novice-level classes.

5 Tips for Using Authentic Target-Language Resources

1. Use a national tourism website associated with the target language country: Visit the official tourism website of a country whose language you teach for authentic texts-these sites have a lot of resources you can use. You'll likely find a myriad of short readings on popular places to visit, typical dishes, and cultural events in the country.

Create true/false questions based on a reading, or pose simple short answer questions. Use sentence starters or key words to have a whole-class discussion about cultural similarities and differences based on the text.

2. Research newspapers or news websites from the target language country: Gather a sampling of fairly straightforward headlines and ask students to predict what the articles are about, or to summarize the main idea of the headline. Select thought-provoking photographs or images to draw cultural connections.

For example, if a Spanish newspaper features a picture of a typical school lunch in Spain, ask students to identify the foods seen in the picture. Then have them discuss any similarities and differences between the lunch in the image and the typical lunch they eat.

3. Find commercials in the target language on YouTube: Browse YouTube to find commercials in the target language to strengthen listening comprehension skills. You can search specifically for the YouTube channels of well-known brands, companies, or retail stores within the target language country.

Commercials serve as a quick snapshot of a culture and expose beginner students to native speakers in a manner that's not overwhelming. Have questions for students to answer as they view a commercial, such as:

What is the product being advertised?

What are the people in the commercial doing?

Rate the quality of the commercial-why did you like it or dislike it?

4. Create a playlist in the target language with Spotify: Download Spotify and listen to popular songs currently trending in the target country. Create a class playlist and let the music flow as students enter the room at the start of class or as they work on an activity. This not only gives them cultural exposure but also creates an upbeat, positive atmosphere in the classroom.

You can use these songs as lesson materials to introduce vocabulary and grammatical structures while exposing students to the pop culture associated with the language. As a song is playing, have students circle key vocabulary words they hear on a word cloud. You can also have them sing along for some fun practice with the language.

5. Tour a city in the target language country via Google Maps: Use Google Maps to introduce students to specific cities associated with the language of study. This gives you an opportunity to take them on a virtual field trip-they can enjoy 360-degree views of cities or towns.

You can introduce vocabulary associated with important places in the community using real pictures. Additionally, you can coach students on how to request and give directions.

Incorporating a variety of authentic resources into instruction will help to pick up the pace in your novice-level courses. It's possible to deliver captivating, culturally rich lessons to beginners with the help of authentic materials.

Students are often unmotivated to continue studying a world language when they feel the content is not applicable to their lives. Using real materials from the target language can halt this discouraging trend and reinvigorate your world language classroom.

Unleash your creativity, win back your students' interest, and remember why you fell in love with the language you teach in the first place.

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Authentic images, readings, videos, and infographics are often perceived to be suitable solely for higher-level language classes. But with some exploration, a willingness to take risks, and a dose of reflection, it's possible to use such materials at the novice levels as well.

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Core Practices in contemporary language  teaching (Emily Anderson)

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Core Practices in contemporary language  teaching (Emily Anderson)

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This is a longer interview with a language teacher but it includes a lovely image provided by ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) on the Core Practices. ACTFL has been my resource for directive and reminders of how I can do my job best in a language classroom for young students at novice levels. Whenever I catch myself thinking "why is this lesson/unit not clicking with my students?", I revert back to the Core Practices and note what I am missing in my teaching. Authentic resources and 90% comprehensible input are my biggest challenges at the moment.

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French class doesn't look the same as it did when you were in school. These six key shifts have changed world language instruction for the better.

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Eduham and Hamilton Cast Read-Alongs (Brittany Rawson Haeg)

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Eduham and Hamilton Cast Read-Alongs (Brittany Rawson Haeg)

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Gilder Lehrman has a lot of great resources for social studies curriculum development, but I especially loved this series they did where cast members from Hamilton read award winning children's books about a diverse selection of historical topics, and then had facilitated conversations with a GLI master-teacher. It's a great resource for in the classroom, but it's also a great resource for how to have conversations with young students about challenging topics.

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The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is excited to share its archive of Hamilton Cast Read Alongs. Hamilton Cast Read Alongs is a program that features Hamilton cast members reading award-winning children's books followed by a discussion of the history behind the story led by Gilder Lehrman Master Teacher Keisha Rembert.

A full list of Read Along sessions can be found below.

If you have any questions, please email hamilton@gilderlehrman.org

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Hamilton Cast Read Alongs | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

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Hamilton Cast Read Alongs | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is excited to share its archive of Hamilton Cast Read Alongs. Hamilton Cast Read Alongs is a program that features Hamilton cast members reading award-winning children's books followed by a discussion of the history behind the story led by Gilder Lehrman Master Teacher Keisha Rembert.

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Women and the American Story (Brittany Rawson Haeg)

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Women and the American Story (Brittany Rawson Haeg)

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This is an ongoing project of the New York Historical Society's education team, which is seeking to provide resources and curriculum to guide teachers in more fully incorporating women's experiences into the traditional US history survey course. They are aiming to move away from "contribution" curriculum where exceptional women (women who have primarily excelled in men's spheres) are added as sidebars to the narrative to a more gender-balanced curriculum that views women's experiences as equally essential to the understanding of America's past. The primary source resources are well-curated.

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Explore the Units Browse Highlights Early Encounters, 1492-1734 Daughters of the King The Filles du Roi moved to New France to marry eligible colonists in exchange for free passage and a small dowry.

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This is an app I have on my iPads - we are lucky to be one-on-one - but this could also work if you had just a few iPads for a listening center. In Kindergarten, my students are instructed to find books that have a green or purple button at the bottom; those books are read aloud to them. There are also fun instructional videos and how-to-draw art projects as well. I use this for stations at least once a week!

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Instantly access over 40,000 of the best books & videos for kids on Epic

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Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire - (Shea Bruce)

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Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire - (Shea Bruce)

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I reread this book every few years - Rafe Esquith, a middle school teacher, really drives home how important it is to a) really know your students and form relationships with them and b) keep. your day. moving! Give as little 'down time' as you can - if students are in your classroom, they are learning. Transitions should be quick, instruction should be fast-paced and fun, and your students' interests can be at the center of all of it

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Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56

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Buy Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56: Read Kindle Store Reviews - Amazon.com

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This is a TPT store of an amazing educator who is also on TikTok sharing a lot of information about the science of reading. She shares a lot of research behind SoR & is always making new products to use in the classroom.

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Browse over 40 educational resources created by Droppin’ Knowledge with Heidi in the official Teachers Pay Teachers store.

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Empower - Math Expressions (Taylor Zweber)

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Empower - Math Expressions (Taylor Zweber)

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This is a great resource if you teach Math Expressions Curriculum. I found myself struggling the first year with parts of the curriculum but found Shannon has a TON of great free resources, videos, trainings that have helped me the past 2 years become a better math teacher!

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I believe in changing math stories one teacher, one student, one experience at a time. Here you can find everything from free instructional tools, to multi-week courses. If you're ready to see your student's lives transformed and become the teacher you always knew you could be, you're in the right place!

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I believe in changing math stories one teacher, one student, one experience at a time. Here you can find everything from free instructional tools, to multi-week courses. If you're ready to see your student's lives transformed and become the teacher you always knew you could be, you're in the right place!

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With my students, I also love to do Fridays where we use the lessons Scholastic News has prepared and talk about things that are actually happening in the world. It's leveled to be appropriate for them, and the variety of topics seems to catch the eye of all of my students at one point or another. There's extended lessons for G/T learners, there's help for ELL students, and it also tests comprehension. It does require a subscription though.

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Freckle is one of my favorite places to assign online easy lessons for kids, at their own levels. It allows students to work on reading, writing, and math. They take a pretest and it levels them, and then they can do the assignments and earn coins that they can use to customize their avatars they choose at the beginning of their time on Freckle.

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Practice Math and ELA in your Freckle account and earn coins for the piggy store.

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Another one-stop-shop for lesson ideas is Edpuzzle.com.  Anytime you have a video you would like your students to watch, you can plug it into Edpuzzle and turn it into an interactive experience.  You can add notes, questions, and suggestions to your students.  On top of that, there are many videos already created by other educators available for free.  You can often find what you are looking for already exists.  I love this tool and my students in grades 5-12 love it, too.  A time to consider using it is on a sub day. You can add your own voice-over to lessons, and even upload your own lessons!

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Easily create beautiful interactive video lessons for your students you can integrate right into your LMS. Track students' progress with hassle-free analytics as you flip your classroom!

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My go-to curriculum tool this year is ¡Colorín Colorado! It is at the top of my bookmarks lists as I navigate my first year of EL teaching. Personally, it is helpful, but it also helps my colleagues when they need help with emergent English learners in their classroom. I can send them a link or an article that pertains to their specific needs. There are strategies, tools for families and schools, articles, and so much more.

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Superkids and the Science of Reading Research (Kelly Sweere)

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Superkids and the Science of Reading Research (Kelly Sweere)

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This brochure is from the Superkids reading program that our school uses for K-2. I really like how the Superkids program focuses on essential foundational skills like phonemic and phonological awareness as well as the dual formation of decoding and vocabulary skills.

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This is a fantastic website for ideas on lesson plans that get students actively doing science.

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Open-and-go lessons that inspire kids to love science.

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Mystery Science offers open-and-go lessons that inspire kids to love science. The hook, visuals, and activity have all been prepared for you. Less prep, more learning.

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Every Kid Needs a Champion (Kelly Sweere)

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Every Kid Needs a Champion (Kelly Sweere)

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This is one of the most powerful and inspiring TED Talks I have ever seen. I watch it at the beginning of every school year because it is an amazing reminder of how crucial understanding, empathy, and relationships are in the set up and running of a classroom. You can deliver the most well organized math and reading lessons, but as Rita Pierson says in the video, "Kids don't learn from people they don't like." This video reminds me that the most important thing I can do for my students is listen, cultivate relationships, and be a champion for each kid who walks in my room.

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Rita Pierson: Every kid needs a champion

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Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, "They don't pay me to like the kids." Her response: "Kids don't learn from people they don't like.'" A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect with them on a real, human, personal level.

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Too often schools are focused on test scores and preparing students to do well on standardized tests. Curriculum should be focused on preparing students for life long learning and hands-on problem solving, not doing well on tests. This video speaks to this idea very well!

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Prepare Our Kids for Life, Not Standardized Tests | Ted Dintersmith | TEDxFargo

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EL Education is the curriculum we use at my school for ELA. It is based on common core standards and has a diverse selection of texts. What I like about it is that it breaks up your class into small activities and encourages peer discussion as well as group work. My school has a number of students with ELL services and there is a really great companion book that works well with students with IEPs as well. It is also very affordable. No curriculum is perfect, and many times my co-teacher and I have to supplement resources and develop hands on activities. Overall, I have been impressed with it as a foundational curriculum.

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This website has been the most impactful in my teaching. They have everything you need to teach inclusion and diversity. There are plenty of resources to educate yourself as well. Some of the best lessons that I have modified to teach to my students have been their lessons about the impact of hate speech and the true history of Thanksgiving. Truly an amazing resource.

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Learning for Justice is a community education program of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) that centers civic and political action education for everyone.

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This article is a great explanation of Bloom's Taxonomy and its purpose surrounding curriculum planning. Much of what I read in this article can be connected to what we've heard so far in this course. Especially connecting with what Grant Wiggins spoke about in understanding by design.

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How to Use Bloom’s Taxonomy for Curriculum Planning

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Bloom’s taxonomy gives educators the ability to construct a curriculum to assess objective learning outcomes. Learn how you can use it when curriculum planning...

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This website goes into details describing the blended learning program that we use at Nativity of Mary. Lessons are essentially broken up into three parts: teacher direct instruction, independent practice, and technology-based adaptive software. The students rotate in these groups to experience all three levels of learning within a class period. The purpose of blended learning is to reach the students where they are, and help push and challenge each student individually to grow.

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Personalized Education, Empowered Teachers

Higher-Powered Learning is an initiative of the University of Notre Dame's Alliance for Catholic Education. The Higher-Powered Learning team utilizes a blended-learning approach to personalize education for students and empower teachers with actionable data about student performance. This method combines technology and high-yield instructional practices to differentiate learning, ensuring each student receives an education that reflects their dignity as a unique child of God.

What is Blended Learning?

One of the most promising new initiatives in K-12 education is blended learning, a model of education in which students use adaptive, online software in classrooms to master material at levels that match their skills as teachers use the rich data from these programs to personalize their instruction and make targeted interventions. The "blend" in "blended learning" is the combination of the benefits of learning through adaptive software with the salient aspects of traditional schools to create an authentically new form of education.

What is Higher-Powered Learning?

Powered learning is "a form of learning in which students use adaptive software in a classroom setting to personalize their engagement with content, while teachers employ high-yield instructional practices and optimize their role by utilizing data from the software in regular and thoughtful ways to make targeted interventions" (Wills, 2015).

The approach of the Higher-Powered Learning Program is to give students the ability to work at their just-right reading and math levels while equipping teachers and leaders with actionable data in order to make targeted interventions and smart ability groupings. This empowerment, implemented in the context of a Catholic school, is what we call "Higher-Powered Learning."

Though we have not replaced the term "blended learning" with "powered learning" in our own work or discourse, we think that the concept of "powered learning" emphasizes the critical features of the blended-learning programs we create and promote. In our schools, adaptive software programs are intended to empower teachers and students and to drive more personalized, higher-order learning than would occur otherwise.
Learn more about the Higher-Powered Learning Program >>

Our Approach

Higher-Powered Learning Program

The Alliance for Catholic Education's (ACE's) Higher-Powered Learning Program is a three-year program guiding teachers and school leaders through the implementation of excellent and sustainable blended-learning programs. This cohort-based model includes three to five schools from a diocese ( read more about how we select our schools) and each school creates a Blended Learning Advancement and Strategy Team (BLAST), comprised of the school leader(s) and three to four teachers, to lead the higher-powered learning initiative at their schools. BLAST members embark on a path that includes four to seven days of professional development each year as well as coaching calls, professional learning communities, and guided projects throughout the course of the program. This intensive professional development and support empowers the BLASTs to implement school-wide blended-learning programs by the end of the program.

Thanks to the generosity of the GHR Foundation and Bush Foundation, five schools from the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis comprise the first cohort of the Higher-Powered Learning Program, which began in 2018.
Learn more about the Higher-Powered Learning Program >>
NDAA

The Higher-Powered Learning team supports the Notre Dame ACE Academies by providing professional development on blended and personalized learning, data-informed instruction, and using technology in the classroom. The team supports several blended-learning teachers in Holy Angels Catholic School, Central Catholic School, and St. Philip Neri Catholic School.
Read more about our work with the Notre Dame ACE Academies and get other resources on the Higher-Powered Learning blog >>

The Higher-Powered Learning Team

The Higher-Powered Learning Program

The Alliance for Catholic Education's (ACE's) Higher-Powered Learning Program is a three-year program guiding teachers and school leaders through the implementation of excellent and sustainable blended-learning programs. Three to five schools from a diocese are selected to participate as a cohort and each school creates a Blended Learning Advancement and Strategy Team (BLAST), comprised of the school leader(s) and two to four teachers. The BLAST teams then lead the higher-powered learning initiative at their schools.

For BLAST members, the Higher-Powered Learning Program includes 4-7 days of professional development each year as well as coaching calls, professional learning communities, and guided projects throughout the course of the program. This intensive professional development and support empowers the BLASTs to implement blended learning school-wide by the conclusion of this three-year program.

What Makes the Higher-Powered Learning Program Unique?

We believe in the efficacy of this implementation model for three key reasons.

1. A School-Level Nucleus: Unlike traditional professional development in which individual teachers attend programs or enact interventions alone, this program recognizes that a small core of individuals in any organization is necessary to reach a tipping point of change. The shared language and support that each team experiences will increase the probability of the intervention's success. Developing a school's internal capacity will allow it to sustain the blended learning initiatives at the conclusion of this program.

2. Longitudinal Intervention: In contrast to typical one-off professional development sessions, this implementation model operates longitudinally over three years with multiple in-person and virtual touch points throughout the program, holding teachers accountable for their own growth and keeping them engaged in a supportive and mission-driven professional community of learning.

3. Rigorous Evaluation: ACE is fortunate to be located within a top-tier academic university with more than 80 interdisciplinary faculty members contributing to the University's Institute for Educational Initiatives. The Higher-Powered Learning team calls upon many of these faculty to contribute to research and evaluation in order to ensure that the program effectively serves students and teachers. ACE documents the impact of blended learning on students' interest and achievement in the hopes of using these results as national proof points for blended learning and for this particular model of expansion.

Higher-Powered Learning Program: Twin Cities, Minnesota

Thanks to the generosity of the GHR Foundation and the Bush Foundation, five schools in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis comprise the first cohort of the Higher-Powered Learning Program:

Ascension Catholic School

Community of Saints Catholic School

Nativity of Mary Catholic School

St. Alphonsus Catholic School

St. John Paul II Catholic Preparatory School

Contact Us

If you have any questions about the program or our website, please contact our team at higherpoweredlearning@nd.edu. We look forward to hearing from you!

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This YouTube video introduces that curriculum that I have been implementing this year in my classroom called Amplify ELA. This is an excellent curriculum that teaches ELA standards in fun and engaging ways for middle school students. That's what drew me to this program in the first place; they have put in a lot of research and work to providing lessons and activities that will keep middle school students engaged and eager to participate.

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This Integration Matrix was published in the book Differentiating Instruction in the Regular Classroom: How to Reach and Teach All Learners, Grades 3-12 by Diane Heacox. I took a class with Dr. Heacox during my undergrad elementary education program at St. Kate's, and I found this matrix so helpful that I have used it in my unit planning throughout my teaching career so far. The columns of the matrix are made up of the Bloom's Taxonomy levels, and the rows are Gardner's Multiple Intelligences. If you make sure your unit includes activities and assignments that fit into different boxes, then you will know you are reaching a wide variety of learning styles while teaching a unit. It is a helpful resource as you begin to figure out how you are going to teach various topics/standards, and then you can figure out your sequencing and make more detailed lesson plans from there.

This link is only going to show you a preview of the Integration Matrix. I have the book with the complete matrix, but I loaned it to another teacher at my school. I can replace this link with a complete image of the matrix once the book is returned from my colleague.

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Unit/Theme: _____________________________________________________________________________________________________
Unit Questions:

Blooms Taxonomy

Knowledge
tell, list, define, label,
recite, memorize, repeat,
find, name, record, fill in,
recall, relate

Gardners Multiple
Intelligences

Comprehension

Application

Analysis

Evaluation

locate, explain, summarize,

identify, describe, report,
discuss, review, paraphrase,
restate, retell, show, outline,
rewrite

demonstrate, construct,
record, use, diagram, revise,
reformat, illustrate,
interpret, dramatize,
practice, organize,
translate, manipulate,
convert, adapt, research,
calculate, operate, model,
order, display, implement,
sequence, integrate,
incorporate

compare, contrast, classify,

critique, categorize, solve,
deduce, examine,
differentiate, appraise,
distinguish, experiment,
question, investigate,
categorize, infer

judge, predict, verify, assess,

justify, rate, prioritize,
determine, select, decide,
value, choose, forecast,
estimate

Synthesis
compose, hypothesize,
design, formulate, create,
invent, develop, refine,
produce, transform

Verbal/Linguistic
poetry, debate, storytelling,
essay, checklist, journal

Visual/Spatial
drawing, model, poster,
photograph, storyboard,
illustration, board game

Logical/
Mathematical
diagram, outline, timeline,
chart, critique, graph

From Differentiating Instruction in the Regular Classroom: How to Reach and Teach All Learners, Grades 312 by Diane Heacox, Ed.D., copyright 2002. Free Spirit Publishing Inc., Minneapolis, MN; 800/7357323; www.freespirit.com. This page may be photocopied or printed for individual or classroom work only. Since Free Spirit Publishing allows educators to adapt this form to their needs, it may have been modified from
its original format and content.

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From Differentiating Instruction in the Regular Classroom: How to Reach and Teach All Learners, Grades 312 by Diane Heacox, Ed.D., copyright 2002. Free Spirit Publishing Inc., Minneapolis, MN; 800/7357323; www.freespirit.com. This page may be photocopied or printed for individual or classroom work only. Since Free Spirit Publishing allows educators to adapt this form to their needs, it may have been modified from
its original format and content.

Blooms Taxonomy

Knowledge

Comprehension

Application

Analysis

Evaluation

Synthesis

Naturalist
classification, collection,
solution to problem,
display, observation,
forecast, investigation,
simulation, exhibit,
identification

Musical
song, rap, lyrics,
composition,
jingle/slogan, melody

Bodily/Kinesthetic
role play, skit, pantomime,
dance, invention, lab,
improvisation, prototype

Intrapersonal
journal, log, goal statement,
belief statement,
self-assessment, editorial

Interpersonal
discussion, roundtable,
service learning,
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From Differentiating Instruction in the Regular Classroom: How to Reach and Teach All Learners, Grades 312 by Diane Heacox, Ed.D., copyright 2002. Free Spirit Publishing Inc., Minneapolis, MN; 800/7357323; www.freespirit.com. This page may be photocopied or printed for individual or classroom work only. Since Free Spirit Publishing allows educators to adapt this form to their needs, it may have been modified from
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Responsive Classroom Graphic Organizers (Jessi Majestic)

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Responsive Classroom Graphic Organizers (Jessi Majestic)

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This is a list of free graphic organizers from Responsive Classroom. My school did the 4-day RC training this summer and we are in the process of incorporating both Responsive Classroom and PBIS as a means of creating a more positive and consistent culture in our school. These graphic organizers are very helpful for visual learners, although I think they are pretty universal in that they can benefit a lot of different learning styles. I like using the 3-2-1 reflection form in my middle school social studies class. It's great for teaching students how to looking for the most important takeaways when reading an article or looking at primary source material.

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KEYS to Great Teaching - Gradual Release of Responsibility

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Gradual Release of Responsibility (Kate Larson)

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Gradual Release of Responsibility (Kate Larson)

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I’ve read a few books by Fisher and Frey and I would highly recommend looking into them. This is a video on the gradual release of responsibility when teaching. I use this method daily in my class because it really sets the students up for success. This is a great way to model and practice skills and can easily be incorporated into your lesson plan. It’s an I do, we do, we do together, you do model of teaching skills.

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Free, fun educational app for young kids | Khan Academy Kids

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This has been a great addition to my teaching this year. This website allows you to assign tasks to students in various subjects and skills. I have been using it to reinforce the skills I have been teaching. When students finish an assignment, they enjoy going on this app and completing the tasks that I have assigned. They are able to do it independently because we have already gone over the skill and they are getting more practice.

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Free, fun educational app for young kids | Khan Academy Kids

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Inspire a lifetime of learning with our educational app for kids ages 2-8. Kids can learn reading, writing, math, counting, ABCs, addition, subtraction, social-emotional skills, & more. 100% free on iPhone, iPad, Android, and Amazon

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A Balanced Literacy Classroom Approach (Kate Larson)

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A Balanced Literacy Classroom Approach (Kate Larson)

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This is a great introduction idea to setting up a balanced literacy program in your classroom it shares the many components to balanced literacy and how it can provide differentiation in your classroom.

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IXL is a wonderful resource to use as a practice tool after the completion of a lesson. This is one way to informally assess students and gain an understanding for what they know. I usually use this for Math practice (especially to practice basic multiplication and division facts) and Language. What's so great about this resource is you're able to see student's records of their work as well as address those grade level standards.

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IXL | Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Spanish

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IXL is the world's most popular subscription-based learning site for K-12. Used by over 15 million students, IXL provides personalized learning in more than 10,000 topics, covering math, language arts, science, social studies, and Spanish. Interactive questions, awards, and certificates keep kids motivated as they master skills.

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I show this video on the first day of school every year. As a class we discuss the differences between a growth mindset and fixed mindset. Once our discussion has come to a close, I inform my students that this is my expectation for the year. I personally love this video because it's presented by a student who is similar in age to my fifth graders, therefore making it relatable to them. Lastly, I think this allows for my students to gain an understanding for my expectations of their efforts as we continuously address growth and fixed mindset as the year proceeds.

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The Mindset of a Champion | Carson Byblow | TEDxYouth@AASSofia

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This is a person who speaks all over America about Human Connection and how our students need that in order to learn. My school actually had him speak to us and it was amazing. He is also an author and I highly recommend his book, Just Look Up.

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If you teach littles, Kindergarten-2nd grade. This is a great blog to follow and she has curriculum and articles of why she does things the way she does. Lots of resources and she even posts activities for free. If you follow her and sign up for her emails you also get free activities. Usually themes, holidays lots of fun things.

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A favorite activity to do the first day of school is from the book, "The Kissing Hand". Preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten students can easily relate to this book. The free printable for the kissing handcraft goes great with the book and is fun for the kids to take home after their first day of school.

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Handwriting in a Modern World (Bailey Breiter)

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Handwriting in a Modern World (Bailey Breiter)

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I recently read this article, and found it informative and helpful. It provides research on the importance of handwriting instruction and its direct correlation with reading skills. It also provides tips and tricks on how to work on these skills in the classroom. It's a quick read and was a good refresher for something that often gets pushed aside when daily life in the classroom gets busy.

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Prodigy is an adapted learning math website. It presents engaging math practice in a video game format, all while giving the teacher valuable information on their adaptive level. My students love playing on Prodigy, and I love that they're getting math practice at their level and giving me data.

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Here's how nearly one million teachers use Prodigy in the classroom at no cost!

Help students master math standards with a fun and engaging gameplay experience

Adjust and align Prodigy's in-game math content with your lesson plans

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Here's how nearly one million teachers use Prodigy in the classroom at no cost! Help students master math standards with a fun and engaging gameplay experience Adjust and align Prodigy's in-game math content with your lesson plans Track student development to decide where to best spend your time No trial period, no hidden costs for educators.

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Wonderopolis is an informational website that has a question and answer for almost everything! As a science teacher, I absolutely love this website and use it often in my classroom. Every day, a new 'wonder' is posted and is written in very kid-friendly language. While highlighting and emphasizing key vocabulary and providing definitions. There is many ways this can be used in the classroom. One additional resource that partners with this website is a trifold freebie on TpT found here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Wonderopolis-Activity-Sheet-Trifold-638032?st=ec0b40992d2058d23358ba44da8c7d2e

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Where the Wonders of Learning Never Cease | Wonderopolis

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Where the Wonders of Learning Never Cease

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Student agency, or a students’ ability to make key decisions about their learning experience, is an essential aspect of blended learning. Student agency requires that we design our lessons to offer students meaningful choices. These choices can help us universally design learning experiences that strive to remove barriers and invite students to decide how to engage with information, make meaning, and demonstrate their learning.

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InterventionCentral.org is a great resource when behavior and academic interventions are being sought for students. Our school uses it when searching for interventions at the child find team (cft) meetings. The website has many ideas for individuals and classrooms. It also includes planners that can be used to help implement the interventions as well as videos on various issues that teachers face and how to face them effectively.

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Response to Intervention | RTI | RTI Resources | Intervention Central

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Intervention Central is the leading resource for Response to Intervention (RTI) tools and resources, including academic and behavior interventions for classroom management.

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ReadWriteThink.org is a website chock full of ready made reading and writing lesson plans and interactive resources designed by a "diverse group of educators" for Kindergarten through twelfth grade. The plans are aligned with common core standards and individual state standards. The website also includes professional development related to the language arts. A teacher can explore by lesson category and grade level which makes the website a handy tool for reading educators.

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We have hundreds of standards-based lesson plans written and reviewed by educators using current research and the best instructional practices. Find the perfect one for your classroom.

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Teach Teachers how to Create Magic (Lisa Rhoda)

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Teach Teachers how to Create Magic (Lisa Rhoda)

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Our system for educating teachers is flawed. Educators are taught in a way that does not follow best practices, therefore creating teachers who do not follow best practices for teaching students. If we want to reach our students we have to create magic.

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Christopher Emdin: Teach teachers how to create magic

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What do rap shows, barbershop banter and Sunday services have in common? As Christopher Emdin says, they all hold the secret magic to enthrall and teach at the same time - and it's a skill we often don't teach to educators. A longtime teacher himself, now a science advocate and cofounder of Science Genius B.A.T.T.L.E.S.

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Engaging ELA Practice for Pre-K to 8th Grade (Lisa Rhoda)

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Engaging ELA Practice for Pre-K to 8th Grade (Lisa Rhoda)

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This is a resource I use often to bring the element of technology into my classroom for ELA. Many of the activities from this resource are favorites of my students and I have had success with keeping them engaged when using these activities.

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Use creative technology tools to engage struggling readers and writers

Technological innovations continue to make the world a smaller place, changing the nature of work and communication. In order to fully participate and thrive in a world steeped in information, students must be able to effectively locate and qualify information, apply it to solve problems, and effectively communicate ideas and solutions.

While today's classrooms may be full of digital natives, we still face the challenge of engaging those students who are not prepared for work at grade level and who are not interested in traditional activities.

The instructional response to at-risk students is often the application of more drilling, which further depletes their interest in school. Rote practice may seem like the fastest way to improve students' reading scores, but this tactic does nothing to foster an essential lifelong love of learning.

Like all students, at-risk learners yearn to express themselves creatively, to do things in non-traditional ways, and to demonstrate successes. Students who are struggling with literacy are rarely asked to create literacy products, eliminating important opportunities for them to demonstrate their abilities and mastery.

Creative multimedia tools allow for multiple forms of representation, providing an opportunity for students to demonstrate understanding while practicing literacy skills through writing (text), reading (audio), and illustration (picture walks and visualization). "When students publish their own books, you tap into their innate desire for recognition as they learn to connect to literature, play with language, and beam with pride at their accomplishments," shares California educator Linda Oaks.

Publish student-created eBooks

Younger students are often asked to retell stories. We can use the same strategy for struggling readers and writers. Instead of requiring students to complete a fistful of worksheets or to order the scenes of a story in a workbook, have students publish their retellings as electronic books. Once students are masters of basic comprehension, push them to develop storytelling and linguistic skills by creating new endings or developing completely different variations of the same story.

Students can use tools like Wixie to create their own version of books like Mary Wore Her Red Dress by Merle Peek. Such adaptations give students an opportunity to include themselves in the story as well as practice new vocabulary or descriptive writing. Publishing an eBook motivates them not only to work hard during the process, but encourages them to practice when they revisit their very own eBooks at home.

Combining visuals with text gives students an opportunity to demonstrate learning without struggling to tell their story solely using words. Recording student narration provides an opportunity for nonthreatening practice as they record, listen, record again, listen, and finally save. The recordings also provide performances you can use to assess fluency.

Have students "flip" the classroom with their own how-to tutorials

In a flipped classroom, students explore a variety of resources such as videos, web sites, and simulations at home and return to class to address misconceptions and explore additional questions with their teacher. Having students create flipped class resource videos helps them grapple with the content they are learning while providing an opportunity to for expository writing in a format they most likely have seen or used before, such as Khan Academy-style videos in school or how-to online videos about Minecraft or making rubber band bracelets.

Second-grade teacher Katy Hammack found that after innumerable worksheets and countless review activities, many of her Title I students still lacked mastery over grade-level grammar and language skills. After creating her own grammar tutorials for student review, she began to ask her students to create them instead. She immediately noticed her students more quickly internalize grammar concepts and found that they were also "so proud when they saw their work being used by other students!"

Create as a response to literature

There are lots of ways to evaluate student comprehension beyond character trait charts, plot summary worksheets, and stereotypical book reports.

Students can show what they know by creating scrapbooks or developing social media-style profiles for characters they are reading about. These projects can include plot summaries as well as direct quotes. Regardless of the exact format, students' deliverables are intended to demonstrate their understanding of point-of-view in ways that go beyond a simple copy and paste.

You can also ask students to design covers for books they have read or create book trailers to encourage other students to try a title in the school library. To connect to a potential reader, students need to understand the book and connect the story to their own experiences, helping them see how the content is relevant to them and the people who will view their projects.

The visual nature of these products allows students who struggle to read and write to demonstrate understanding by utilizing pictures and music as well as text. As they learn to think about audience and utilize the tools of propaganda and methods of persuasion, they build powerful skills in argument and media literacy.

The Big Picture

Regardless of the activities you choose to do with your students, keep the following ideas in mind.

Read and write in authentic ways

Students need (and want) to practice reading and writing in real-world situations. Technology helps us make this connection by asking students to use tools to create the types of products they see in the world around them.

Try to make sure every day includes time to apply literacy skills in projects that also have value and meaning beyond a specific learning goal.

Publish for a real-world audience

At the very least, make sure students are doing work that is similar to work done by people outside of the classroom or would have value to someone outside of the classroom. Even better, ask students to do work that will actually be seen by, evaluated by, and used by someone outside of the classroom.

All of these things indicate to students that their work has value and meaning. Technology makes it easy to share student work with a wider audience, whether they are creating eBooks, comics, cartoons, or public service announcements.

Give students a voice

Student work should reflect the creator, not the instructor. One student's final work should not look the same as another student's. Sure, we can scaffold early work with templates, but too much structure focuses student work solely on "correct" content, not representation or meaning. If our projects assume there is only one right answer for content and delivery, we aren't asking the right questions.

Take some time with a process like Understanding by Design to ensure you are clear on the goals for student learning. Many district lesson plan templates include great questions like: What will students know as a result of completing this lesson? Also include questions like: What will students be able to do as a result of completing this project? Sometimes this is simply a matter of remembering to focus on process learning, as well as content learning.

Asking open-ended questions and using open-ended and creative technologies can help you engage your students in important reading and writing practice as well as help them develop powerful literacies that will serve them in our rapidly changing world.

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I am taking part in a personalized learning group within our district and it is changing how I see the classroom. This is a short video that may ignite some passion in you to see school differently.

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I wanted to add this example of "Finger Spelling" that I use in my second grade classroom. It has really helped this year with my learners who struggle reading and spelling. Once they finger spell it, they are able to read or spell the word. Works like magic. Pop-its are so huge right now and my learners think it is really cool to use them in my small groups and its helping them learn!

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