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“Deep Reading: Building Motivation and Authentic Purpose for Reading”

Mindy Ahrens has been teaching elementary and middle school for 12 years. She is currently a resident in the High Tech High GSE Teacher Leadership M.Ed. program and is teaching 8th grade Humanities at High Tech Middle.

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Scaffolding Creativity Through Design Thinking

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