learning heights elementary school
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Learning HeightsElementary School
Learning Heights Elementary School is a K-5 School with 758 students. The
percentage of the free/reduced lunch is 91%. The school is made up of 60% Hispanic,
25% black, 10% white, and 5% other. The school is located close to the orange groves
outside of Belle Glade, Florida. Our school experiences a lot of mobility in attendance
since a big part of our students belong to migrant families. The school is located in a
farming community where the poverty level is extremely high. A big percentage of our
families are made up of parents who depend on their children to translate English to
Spanish, read and write for them and take care of siblings while parents work. Our
children have a lot of responsibilities at home and they also carry the responsibility of
helping out their family when they are expected to work in the fields. Learning Heights
Elementary has been a C school since it opened its doors 5 years ago. Last year, the
school dropped to a D. The teachers and staff and children were devastated since they
saw that the students tried their best. There was no consistency throughout the school
that year. A terrible winter caused a lot of the students to miss school every time a
freeze warning was in effect. The students had to help their parents cover up the crop
and try to save what they could. During that time, not only did the attendance drop,
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there were a lot of behavior problems going on as well. The students were not getting
enough rest and some were sleeping in class while others were acting out and getting
themselves in trouble. Since farming is a big part of our community, there are some
things that just cannot be prevented so a more structured and consistent approach is
what is necessary throughout the school so if the students miss a day, they know
exactly what to expect when they come back to school. As long as weather will be
unpredictable, the attendance of our students will be unpredictable as well. Math is a
weakness but not as much as reading. Reading is crucial for these students since the
population of ESOL students are well over 50%.
Our mission in Learning Heights Elementary School is to provide a stimulating
learning environment in order to prepare our students to meet challenges in education,
work and life. Our students are expected to help their families all throughout their
childhood as farmers but we would like to expose our students to the possibilities in the
world outside this farming community. We would like to expose the students to different
opportunities where they could go into other professions and venture the unknown with
confidence that they can succeed. Our students need the foundational skills in order to
become more fluent English speakers without losing their first language. We would
make sure that their proficiency in English is a priority but retaining their native language
is just as important. We work with different programs in the school to make sure that
this concern is addressed. We provide the students with bilingual teachers and teachers
who are already ESOL endorsed.
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According to the 2010-2011 FCAT, 45% of the 3rd to 5th grade students met high
standards in reading. In math, the same group of students had 39% meeting high
standard. 90% of 4th graders met the high standards in writing and 20% of the 5th
graders met the high standards in science. According to the Fall (AP1) Florida
Assessment for Instruction in Reading or FAIR results, it states that the students in
Kindergarten through 2nd grade are also showing that there is a weakness in reading.
The BS/PMT scores state that only 40% of the students scored an 85% or higher. The
listening and comprehension section results stated that 32% of the K-2 students scored
a 95% or higher. The fluency portion stated that only 33% could read 60+ wcpm (in 1
st
grade) and 90+ wcpm (in 2nd grade). 19 % of the 1st and 2nd graders scored an average
of 40-60% percentile in vocabulary. The data that was found in the Reading Running
Record also showed that a large number of students are working below grade level (1
year or more).
There is a sense of urgency to catch our students up especially in reading.
Once the students gain more confidence in reading, this confidence will trickle down to
the writing and the science and the math. Since this is a matter that we need to
address as soon as possible, the reading coaches along with some members of the
literacy team are going to get trained on a reading program called the National Literacy
Coalition. This would be three day training. Once the coaches are trained, the teachers
would have to be trained by the reading coach and the literacy team members
preferably over the summer. The teachers who will not be able to attend the summer
training would just have to go to training and would just have to implement this program
into their classrooms as soon as they are done with the trainings.
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In an article called How Proficient Readers Read it stated that there are six
qualities those proficient readers exhibit. These strategies are 1) understanding the
purpose for reading, 2) using prior knowledge, 3) having letter/sound correspondence,
syntactic structures, and semantic associations, 4) using metacognition or thinking
about thinking activities, 5) use reading strategies while reading, and 6) a love for
reading. All these qualities are addressed in the National Literacy Coalition reading
program on a weekly basis.
National Literacy Coalition focuses on the most effective way for a teacher to
organize his/her 90 minute reading block. The program provides all the resources a
teacher needs to reach all of his/her students in whole group instruction. The whole
group instruction covers important tools in order to have an effective whole group lesson
in reading. Using prior knowledge, making an inference, vocabulary, word analysis,
comprehension, literary analysis and an exposure to so many different types of genres
are the skills make up the whole group activity. As an added bonus, the program takes
up one whole lesson to teach the students reading strategies to help with test taking
strategies. This would help prepare our students especially for the 3rd to 5th grade
students for the FCAT. The lessons are 5 days long for 15-20 minutes each day. A 45-
60 minute differentiated lesson is also a component of the program. The differentiated
instruction is where the teacher meets the needs of individual students. Resources for
this component are available through NLC and are provided during the training. The
program would provide the scripts for the lessons, the posters to guide the students on
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some test taking strategies and a guide on how to implement the small group
instructions effectively.
As each student becomes familiar with the routines that are embedded in this
program, our Saturday tutorial which is ran by the Assistant Principal and teachers
would start using this program as well. The Saturday tutorial teachers are expected to
have an open communication with the students reading teacher so they could use the
same forms to monitor each students progress. After school tutorial is also expected to
follow this program as well. Learning Heights Elementary School also offers after
school tutorials. This tutorial is intended for students in grades 3-5 who scored a level 1
and 2 in the previous FCAT. The teachers who teach after school tutorial are the K-2
teachers. These teachers are also expected to have an open communication with the
students reading teacherand share the same progress monitoring sheet. Having
consistency throughout all these interventions will help with a very transient population.
Although the NLC program seems to benefit all of our students, it really helps the
teachers to stay focused on what to teach and to spend more time on what the students
needs are. Often times, teachers get stuck on the lower level, recalling questioning
strategies trying to gradually get to the higher level thinking but when we get to the
critical thinking, theres not enough time. This program will briefly get the recalling
questions out of the way and then move to the more critical thinking questions. This is
how the scripts are written out to be. Through planning, teachers would make sure that
all their questions are essential.
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The NLC program is a valuable program but it comes with a hefty tag. The out of
state training for the coaches and staff would cost $1,500. Creating a book room with a
variety of books would cost around $12,500. Creating binders, copies of lesson plans
and poster and laminating all the posters for each classroom would be around $700.
The stipends for teachers to get paid to go to the training would be about and the
substitutes to cover when teachers observe other classrooms would add up to about
$9,000. The cost is high but once these costs are paid, it really doesnt cost any more
to implement the program after that. Title 1 funds set aside $15,000 for NLC to be
implemented. Our school received grants for literacy that added up to $7,000. The
literacy committee hosted numerous fundraisings to assist with the costs as well. Our
business partners also assisted to help pay for the out of state training that the coach
and some literacy committee members would attend.
Implementing this program will take the whole schools cooperation. The whole
school would have to make an effort in order for this program to succeed. There are a
lot of responsibilities and prep work before the program could be pushed out to the
classrooms. Posters would have to be created and laminated. Each teacher would
need to have a binder for the demonstrated lesson scripts and another binder for the
differentiated lessons scripts. The teachers would need to have an efficient support
system where the turnaround time for assistance is within a day or two. The reading
coach and the literacy committee members (who are not classroom teachers) would
have to be available for assistance. It would take a lot of walkthrough to make sure that
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the lessons are implemented correctly and effectively. A walkthrough sheet would have
to be created and handed out to the teachers. This would allow for the observers and
the teachers to know exactly what the expectations are. Administrators are responsible
for seeing to it that feedbacks from the walkthroughs are immediate. A Parent Literacy
Night would have to be organized to allow the parents to take a look at the new
program. This way, the parents will be able to use the same strategies in real world
settings and also when helping with their childrens homework. Not only will this night
help the parents familiarize themselves with the curriculum but it gives importance on
their role as a parent and their childs teacher outside of school. Implementing this
program with fidelity is crucial to the success of our students.
Proposed Curriculum Area of ImprovementThe area of improvement is in reading. In the recent years, Learning Heights
Elementary School teachers had the option to go with the districts focus calendar when
planning for their lessons. Some teachers followed it and some went with strictly the
anthology. We believe that once we have a consistent curriculum in reading from
Kindergarten to 5th grade, we will see improvement in science, math and writing. There
are so many different areas where students need to be proficient in, in order for them to
become good readers. Students will need to work on phonemic awareness, phonics,
fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. The students will also need help with
strategies to help with reading comprehension which will lend itself to test taking
strategies to help with the FCAT. All students from grades K-5 will need a reading
program that will meet the needs of all our students and focus on the foundational skills
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in order to transform them to become better readers. According to an article on
Readingrockets.com titled, What Principals Can Do to Help Students Become Good
Readers principals need to create a school framework for success to help with student
achievement.
Relationship of the proposal with the vision and mission statement of
Learning Heights Elementary SchoolOur mission in Learning Heights Elementary School is to provide a stimulating learning
environment in order to prepare our students to meet challenges in education, work and
life. This proposal will allow the students to improve their reading scores. Reading is a
foundational skill that is necessary in order for our students to succeed in life. Our
vision is to have all our students leave Elementary School having the knowledge and
independence that is necessary for them to succeed in Middle School, High School and
in life. Student achievement is our number one goal. If we see the students are making
those learning goals and their scores are creeping up to the rest of the students in the
district, then mission accomplished.
Data used to select this programThere have been numerous studies that showed huge learning gains in schools that
had the same socioeconomic make up at Learning Heights Elementary School. One of
these schools is C.A. Moore in St. Lucie County, Florida.
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These data showed how learning gains were seen during the first three years. We took
a hard look at what the school did in order to show these kinds of results. We also
looked at other schools that had the same make up we had and their growth progress.
C.A. Moores success story got our attention and thats when we looked at their journey.
We learned that a reading program called National Learning Coalition or NLC was
implemented with fidelity in their schools since 2003. It was evident that there was a
drastic change in the reading curriculum. The lowest 25th percentile had a 47%
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proficiency in 2002. Once they switched to NLC, the lowest 25th percentile had a 51%
proficiency in 2003. In 2004, the proficiency went up to 61% and in 2005, the number
increased to 84%! This is a success story that Learning Heights Elementary School
would like to one day be able to share with others as well.
We looked at our data to help us make accurate decisions.
1. The FCAT results. The FCAT results showed that 45% of the 3rd to 5th grade
students met high standards in reading. In math, the same group of students
had 39% meeting high standard. 90% of 4
th
graders met the high standards in
writing and 20% of the 5th graders met the high standards in science.
2. FAIR Diagnostics results for Spring- students in Kindergarten through 2nd grade
are also showing that there is a weakness in reading. The BS/PMT scores state
that only 40% of the students scored an 85% or higher. The listening and
comprehension section results stated that 32% of the K-2 students scored a 95%
or higher. The fluency portion stated that only 33% could read 60+ wcpm (in 1st
grade) and 90+ wcpm (in 2nd grade). 19 % of the 1st and 2nd graders scored an
average of 40-60% percentile in vocabulary.
3. The Fall Diagnostics district wide test
4. Reading Running Records through Fountas and Pinnell.
5. The Diebels for Kindergarten students.
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Improvement program with a name and describe the projectThe program that will be implemented in Learning Heights Elementary School is the
National Learning Coalition Model otherwise known as NLC. This is a reading program
that gives students the whole group (demonstrated) and small group (differentiated
skills) that they need in order to succeed. The students will learn how to inference,
learn new vocabulary words and apply this to the real world, learn word analysis, literary
analysis, test taking strategies and comprehension skills. The demonstrated component
gives the students a chance to read one story or poem for a five day long lesson.
Although this might sound tedious, research shows that students who used the method
of repeated reading improved in their fluency and comprehension (Samuels, 403).
DEMONSTRATED LESSON:
This program is what the 90 minute reading block is all about. The 90 minute reading
block would start out with a 20 minute whole group demonstrated lesson. The
Demonstrated lesson is a 5 day lesson. Each week, the whole class is exposed to a
story or a poem. On day 1, the students would predict the story just by looking at the
title and the illustration. Then, the poem is read by the teacher. The teacher models
the correct way of reading. Then the students would be introduced to the vocabulary
words that go with this story or poem. On day 2, the students would review the
vocabulary words from the previous day and then the teacher would model the reading
once again followed by the echo reading with the students. New vocabulary words will
be introduced this day through context clues. The students would have a vocabulary
target skill that day as well. On day 3, the review of the vocabulary from the previous
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days would be reviewed once again. The review of the vocabulary words would be
applied in real world situations. As soon as the vocabulary review is done, the teacher
and students would echo read the poem or the story for the week. A comprehension
target would be taught after chorally reading. On day 4, the students will start creating
their own sentences or talk about things that they have experienced based on the
vocabulary words that they have learned. Then the class chorally reads the story along
with the teacher. An activity that talks about the elements of a story is introduced on
this day. The students would also be introduced to a graphic organizer to help organize
their thoughts and ideas. This is where the metacognition is encouraged for all the
students. The 5th day is the cumulative day. The whole class would read the story on
their own without teacher assistance. The story or poem is read with accuracy, fluency
and with expressions just like the teacher modeled all week. As a cumulating activity,
the students would create a project to show their knowledge and interpretation on their
poem or story. Lesson Plans are provided for the teachers in order for them to stay
focused. The language used in the lessons carries on from one grade level to another
so when the students move from one grade level to the other, there is consistency. The
language do gradually becomes more complex as the student moves from grade level
to grade level.
DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION:
The Differentiated instruction will take up the bulk of the 90 minute reading block. The
differentiated instruction would last around 60 minutes.
Differentiated instruction will first and foremost start with leveling the students. A quick
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phonics assessment would be administered to quickly get the students in groups
according to their reading levels and needs. The teachers would need to set up a
reading response journal for the students where they can input only activities done
during small group instructions. Small group instructions will explicitly teach the
students phonemic awareness, phonics, and reading comprehension and vocabulary
words that they will come across while reading the story. The students are also
introduced to many different types of genres such as narrative text, informational text,
descriptive text, persuasive text and explanation text. The teachers are highly
encouraged to meet their students in small group instruction on a daily basis. A blank
template will be provided for the teachers in order to create their differentiated lessons.
The process and the terminology are similar from one grade level to another so the
students will become familiar to them. The teachers would start using the same
terminology as well so the school is united in using a common language. Using a
common language is very important since a big part of this program is consistency. The
teacher would pick a book that the students would read for 2-3 days depending on the
length of the book. The students are given a specific skill to master within the 2-3 days.
Once the lesson comes to an end, the students would take their reading response
journal and independently use that new skill with another text. This routine would have
to be second nature for the students. When working with the students who have the
most needs, peer mentoring would help these students accomplish this task.
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Persons responsible for implementing the programThe Literacy Committee which is headed by the reading coach will be the responsible
party for training the teachers on this program. The reading coach and literacy team
members will get the training over the summer. The literacy team is divided into 2
groups: the non instructional team and the instructional team. The non instructional
team is going to be assisting the reading coach with fidelity checks. The instructional
team would see to it that they have the program fully implemented in their classrooms
since these are the classrooms where the teachers would come and observe to see
best practices. The whole committee would then train the teachers over the summer,
around August. The teachers will be expected to implement NLC to their students
while going over rules, routines and expectations in the beginning of the school year.
The reading coach and the non instructional literacy team members will be observing
and doing fidelity checks in the classrooms to make sure that the teachers are properly
implementing the demonstrated and differentiated lessons and to give the support
needed by the teachers.
Involvement of the student body in the programEvery student in the school will be using this program during their 90 minute
uninterrupted reading block. Each student (after the quick phonics assessment) will be
placed in their groups depending on their level. The lowest level would be the
phonemic awareness level. After the students have mastered all the skills necessary
for the phonemic awareness, the students will move up to the decoding 1 level. In
decoding 1, the students will be able to decode 1st grade level text. In decoding 2, the
students will be able to decode 2nd and 3rd grade level text. In decoding 3, the students
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will be able to decode 3rd grade level text. After the students have mastered all the
skills in the decoding level, the students will be able to move up to the comprehension
level. Comprehension 1 is where the students will take a look at 2nd and 3rd grade level
comprehension skills. Comprehension 2 is where the students will work with 3rd and 4th
grade level text and Comprehension 3 is where the students will work with 5 th and 6th
grade level text.
When a student does not master a certain skill by the end of a school year, the results
in the small group instruction could be a universal tool used by all teachers to
communicate to the next years teachers as far as what level the students need to be.
Dealing with very transient students, it is important to have the consistency so the
teachers could start where the students had their last instruction in.
Goals and/or objectives of the programThe goal of the program is for our students to become proficient readers. By the end of
the first year of fully implementing the program, our goal is for our proficiency
percentage of our 3rd to 5th grade students to increase from 45% to 55% in the reading
FCAT.
How the goals and/or objectives were establishedOnce the data showed that the school dropped a letter grade, we had to come up with a
plan to make sure that we are meeting the needs of our students. The literacy team,
administration, team leaders and coaches all came together to come up with a plan.
We contacted the reading department at the district level to see if they could share
some resources that have been proven to be a good addition to the curriculum. Our
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team narrowed down the reading programs that the district shared. We took a hard look
at what all the different programs had to offer and because the NLC had a strong
emphasis on repeated reading, differentiated instruction and consistency from one
grade level to another. The NLC program also showed a lot of success stories with
learning gains. This reading program was the only one that integrated all the qualities
that good readers exhibit on a day to day basis. After looking at all these qualities, we
decided that NLC was the best program for our school. This was the program that was
going to meet the needs of our students.
Community involvement in the development of this planOur business partners helped out tremendously through funding for trainings and
training expenses. Our business partners also helped with the costs of the binders for
all the teachers. The community also supported our school with numerous fundraisers
such as the sale of coupon books, candles and participation in our school garage sale.
Through all these community involvement, we were able to pay for the remaining
balance that was not funded through the title 1 funds. The parent volunteers also
helped with the compilation of the binders along with the laminating of the posters.
Parents are involved through the Parent Literacy Night so they could be aware of the
new curriculum. At the Parents Literacy Night, our business partners would also help
with a spaghetti dinner for all attendees.
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Teaching techniques/strategies of the proposed programTeachers would be utilizing numerous strategies when implementing the program in
their classrooms. The teachers would have to start with good classroom management
skills so the students know the expectations in every component. The teachers would
have to set routines for both demonstrated and differentiated instructions. He/she would
also have the scripts for each lesson in order for the topics to be focused and structured
but still allowing for teachers to personalize the lessons depending on the students prior
knowledge. During the demonstrated instruction, the teachers will be using a lot of
thinking maps and graphic organizers for the metacogniton part of the lesson. The
teachers will be asking lower level to higher level thinking in every lesson which
encourages critical thinking. The teachers will also be celebrating the students success
because the day 5 comprehension project will be displayed in the hallway for all
students and visitors and staff members to see. Some of the teaching strategies that
are evident in the differentiated component are meeting the needs of each individual
student through differentiated instruction, using prior knowledge, making inferences,
and utilizing the gradual release of responsibility when students leave the teacher
center to work on their individual reading response journal. The immediate feedback
that the teacher gives the students is also a strategy that will be beneficial for all the
students.
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Timeline for the total projectThe preplanning stages for this project will probably take about 3 months. The project
will start off with the literacy committee attending the workshop. Once they are done
with the workshop, books would have to be ordered. Once the books are in, each book
would have to be labeled according to the format that NLC provides. The teachers
would have to attend a 2 day training for the demonstrated component and 2 day
training for the differentiated component. These trainings would take place over the
summer. The teachers would then take a day to observe a teacher who went to the
training and watch the actual program implemented in the classroom preferably in the
2nd week of school. Once the 5 day training is completed by the teachers, he/she would
be expected to start using it in their classrooms. A staff development would have to be
scheduled two times throughout the school year for the demonstrated component and
another staff development schedule would have to be created for the differentiated staff
development which will be held once a trimester.
Funding for materials/suppliesThe funding for this project came from several sources. The majority of the funding
came from the Title 1 funds. $15,000 was set aside for NLC. A total of $7,000 came
from grants through various foundations. $3,500 out of the $7,000 came from the Dollar
General Back Literacy Foundation Back to School Grant. Even though the grant was
intended for the media center, it funded the book room which is an extension of the
media center for the teachers. Another grant was awarded to Learning Heights
Elementary School through the Migrant Education Grants.
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Involvement of schools personnelThe clerical staff would help compile the volunteers and getting the security clearance
for the volunteers. They would also be laminating the posters that would be used by the
teachers. The administrators and reading coaches are going to be taking some fidelity
walk through just to see if the program is implemented correctly. They are also there to
give support and to model the program for all the teachers. The literacy committee will
be the key to using this program with fidelity. The teachers are expected to follow the
guidelines and the lesson plans accordingly. The teachers are to display the objectives
so the students know exactly what they are learning every day for both demonstrated
and differentiated instruction.
Implementing schools vision of learningBeing that our schools mission is to provide all our students leave Elementary School
having the knowledge and independence that is necessary for them to succeed in
Middle School, High School and in life, we have to make sure that we remind the
students every day in the morning announcement our schools expectations. The
students would all recite their goals before they start their day.
Staff development components of the programTwice a year, the teachers are going to be offered staff development on the
demonstrated part. This is where the teaches will get an update on changes and just a
reflection on what is working and what is not working in the classrooms as far as
teaching strategies. The teachers will also be able to share their success stories and
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bring products to show mastery on the skills. Aside from the demonstrated staff
development, the teachers would also be given a differentiated instruction staff
development.
The teachers would be given a refresher on the differentiated piece on writing clear
goals for the lesson plans that they would need to create. This is a staff development
that would be available for the teachers in order for them to reflect on their strategies
and get new ideas and new stories from the book room. The teachers would visit other
classrooms and work on peer evaluation and then brainstorming and give feedback on
what works and what doesnt work. This would be done at least once every trimester.
For accountability, explain the process that will be used to evaluate
the success of the programIn order to find out that the program is making a difference in our students, fidelity
walkthroughs are going to be administered by the reading coach and the non
instructional literacy team. A pre conference would take place between the observer
and the teacher. In this walkthrough, there would be a checklist that states all the
expectations needed in order to make this program effective. In this walkthrough, it will
show different categories that the teachers would have to exhibit and the subcategories
in order for it to be more specific. A post conference would be where immediate
feedback is given to the teachers. Walkthroughs are not the only way to evaluate the
success on the program. Looking at the data trends in the future FCAT results, winter
diagnostics, Fair results for the AP2 and AP3 will be a great indicator of progress.
Comprehension activities from the day 5 demonstrated lessons posted in the hallways
for all to see will be the most evident way to evaluate the success of NLC. The
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students reading response journal will also be a good indicator of the success of the
program. In these reading response journals, the progression or the lack of progression
of thinking of the students will be evident
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