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6 months

A student being flagrantly rude to a teacher should be an earthshaking event. It is in other countries. We live in a teacher-despising culture.

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Disruptive students steal education from others, but they never make amends because they cannot restore learning. So the just thing is to prevent the theft by removing them from the classroom, no?

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School is about meeting students’ intellectual needs, not their emotional needs. We seem to have lost sight of this.

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Just because students like you doesn’t mean they’ll behave.

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It makes no sense for teachers all over the world to be writing curriculum. Shouldn’t there be at least one fantastic pre-fab curriculum for all subjects available by this point in human history?

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Is it just me, or is the concern for actual learning evaporating at an accelerating rate? The traditional notion of academics is seen as obsolete, replaced with a full ration of SEL, counseling, social justice indoctrination, and vaguely “skill building” projects. Revolutionary.

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Shouldn’t America be reaping the rewards of Common Core by now? Legions of incisive critical thinkers and problem solvers? Amazing readers, writers and mathematicians?

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2 months

Why are drills standard in sports but “joy killing malpractice” in the classroom?

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@edudissenter

4 months

Catnip for administrators who want to scapegoat teachers rather than tackle the real causes of school dysfunction:

AbingdonLT Reflect

@jmsreflect

4 months

Most exciting thing to happen in my office all year! @pauldixtweets

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2 years

I’ve been teaching for 25 years. I’m tired of building my own curriculum.

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6 months

What’s the unmet need that causes students to litter?

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5 months

Why do sports still issue penalties when we know there’s a better way—restorative conversations, examining root causes, etc? Barbaric, really.

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Dear education gurus, when I need to regrout my sink, I seek out a YouTube video where an expert tells me how to do it. Is this bad? It’s direct instruction, not inquiry, after all.

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5 months

What would happen in sports if we stopped issuing penalties? That’s what’s happening in schools now.

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2 years

I’m actually quite good at handling a very challenging middle school class. For three periods. We need to talk about the energy levels and psychological resilience necessary to function in an unruly school.

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2 years

When you’re redoing the seating chart and you realize you’re using the good kids as blockers.

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30 days

How can teachers, most of whom uncritically imbibe all the latest educational snake oil, credibly teach “how to detect misinformation”?

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Hot take: students should comply with teachers’ directions. Citizens should comply with police orders. Compliance with legitimate authority is the basis of civilization.

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There is more “social-emotional” learning in one Shakespeare sonnet than all the SEL programs in the world. Great literature, well-taught,is the grander, more beautiful, earlier version of SEL.

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With a few exceptions, my California middle school students do not know the cardinal directions and do not know that temperatures get hotter further south. They seem to have learned next to nothing k-5. “But they’ve learned skills!” Right.

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2 years

@sage_stage The owners need to develop better relationships with their teenage customers and make their stores more engaging. Also, have they tried talking to them?

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7 months

Where is the anti-discipline version of Michaela that invites visitors from around the world to see its happy classrooms?

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2 years

Why can umpires give kids summary punishments but teachers can’t? It’s ok to enforce rules on the playing field, but it’s oppression of you do it in a classroom.

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Here’s a truth no one wants to admit: many kids learn next to nothing between 4th and 12th grades.

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All the humans before now had it wrong: there is no laziness, malice, cruelty, spite or any other vice. There is only dysregulation and it is the teacher’s job to cure it.

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Players who incessantly breaks rules have to be ejected because they ruin the game. So why are we forced to keep rule breaking students in class? Do we care more about sports than education?

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It’s now an unwritten rule that the only legitimate mechanism for rule enforcement is teachers’ ability to charm students into compliance.

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1 year

Coaches at my school demand and expect a great deal of effort from their players. Teachers cannot do the same with their students. Is this just my school?

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@GavinSauer Wrong (mostly).

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The problem with low-discipline schools is that the hundreds of daily pleas to behave suck the life force out of the adults.

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1 year

This is so damning. Our schools are such a fraud. Some of us teachers are too blockheaded to even suspect that something is gravely wrong. How in the world can the US stand up to China with such a corrupted education system?

Ling Huang

@FightFuzzyMath

1 year

@dajmeyer Chinese scholars' observations of American college students' math ability.

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@sage_stage Kids aren’t learning anything, in part, because of the way we teach. Packets and projects don’t impart real learning. I call it the Doing Without Learning curriculum. Old fashioned direct instruction and distributed practice is what cognitive science supports.

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Giving kids activities and claiming it’s teaching “skills” is far easier than imparting knowledge well. Yet another reason we’ve abandoned the knowledge-building project.

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2 years

It’s interesting that the least intellectual teachers are the ones who carry on about higher order thinking and the most intellectual teachers who want to teach facts.

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6 months

The root cause of much teacher misery is trying to teach things that are unteachable.

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1 year

Public education has a huge quality problem. Off the shelf curricula are crap. Teacher made curricula are generally crap too. No one seems to grasp how much labor it takes to create even one excellent lesson. Kids get an unending stream of the half-baked, untested and unrefined

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2 years

If certain kids misbehave because of our “failure to build relationships and create engaging lessons” why do the other 95% of students behave?

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Ironic how teachers are eager to teach how to detect misinformation, yet abjectly fail to detect misinformation about education.

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Administrators: let’s design our schools so that students can excel without making any effort!

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Do teachers at your school ever ask skeptical questions at professional development sessions? If not, why not?

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I love how “compliant” is used as a slur. Polite hard-working students are recast as contemptible collaborators with an unjust regime; bullies and vandals are borderline heroic for smiting the oppressive establishment.

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How can one have a Masters degree in Curriculum and Instruction and not know E.D. Hirsch?

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6 months

“Trauma informed” policies are trauma-creating policies insofar as they unleash aggressive kids on the rest of the school population.

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@edudissenter

7 months

Wasn’t Common Core supposed to improve literacy and math?

Stefan Schubert

@StefanFSchubert

7 months

"Between 2007 and 2020 the average graduation rate at public high schools in America leapt from 74% to 87%...Yet SAT scores fell. Results from the latest PISA test show that maths and reading literacy are flat or down."

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@MathsNinja24 Agree. And it seems wrong that they’re not held accountable for the real damage they do—not just to learning, but to the teacher’s psyche. Forget microaggressions, it’s often psychological assault. But this is unsayable, isn’t it?

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I’ve been saying this for years. The problem is kids don’t have background knowledge, not that they don’t activate it.

Zach Groshell

@MrZachG

6 months

The prompt, "Use your prior knowledge to..." works great, unless students have insufficient prior knowledge. And if they already have the knowledge, the prompt is sort of redundant, although nice to remind students that they don't have to make stuff up in their answers.

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But it seems so irrational for each teacher in America to have to do this. Why aren’t there more truly excellent kits of teaching materials out there? Kits that are rigorously classroom tested.

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Education schools have to cultivate prejudice against veteran teachers because they’re the ones who have the wisdom to call BS on the profs’ harebrained ideas.

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What’s so demoralizing about the activities curriculum is that it leaves kids empty minded—very little sticks. Direct instruction plus drill and practice actually *gives* kids something.

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2 years

@KSommerlot Kathryn—could it be you were ripped off by your own education if you never gained an appreciation of any classics?

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Education professors: it’s fine if you disagree with E.D. Hirsch, but it is cowardly and unprofessional to shield your students from his ideas. He is a central player in the education debates across the globe.

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9 months

@ERobbPrincipal Discussions like these are such a waste of time. Raise the bar. Stop lowering it.

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10 months

Inquiry is all the rage in CA social studies circles. But whenever a presenter tries out one of these lessons on me, I’m left with nothing but fuzzy notions in my head. Am I alone?

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2 years

One of the great services Emily Hanford performed is demonstrating that just because “everyone is doing” x doesn’t mean x is a valid educational practice.

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5 months

Sometimes I feel like a fool for actually caring about whether my students learn history. It seems no one else does.

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1 year

Without putting up much of a fight, we adults are allowing students to opt out of effort, aren’t we?

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Asian schools teach math slowly and solidly with lots of rote memorization in elementary school so that kids can go faster and think creatively in the upper grades. We botch it.

Anna Stokke

@rastokke

1 year

My interview with Lucy Crehan here. She wrote the book Cleverlands.

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Here’s what I see: the teachers who try to teach the fancy standards (NGSS, CC) are miserable, as are their students. The teachers who teach straightforward knowledge are happy—as are their students.

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@edudissenter

8 months

Building a year’s worth of good lessons is a Herculean task. It’s irrational to ask each teacher to do this himself.

Kareem J. Weaver

@KJWinEducation

2 years

Many glamorize teachers making materials, lessons, and assessments. Not glamorous. Knowing you're the frontline servant asked to build w/o tools is an ungodly pressure. I did it, but it cost me. Not glamorous... especially if you serve in a high- needs school. #CurriculumMatters

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@TheHarrisSultan How can these actions be defended?

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American teachers, in general, are ignorant of and incurious about education in other countries. I’ve never understood why.

Doug Lemov

@Doug_Lemov

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@S_Oberle This is the single most important difference between schools in the US & schools in England right now. A head teacher said to me: it's hard to find a newly qualified teacher these days who doesn't know about working memory, retrieval practice etc. what a sea change. and one that

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I’m always astonished by my liberal friends’ utter certainty that the failure of inner city schools can be accounted for by inequitable funding.

Daniel Buck, “Instruction Geek”

@MrDanielBuck

1 year

You know all those media narratives about unequally funded schools (rich districts are supposedly swimming in money while urban schools get nothing) and decades of ruthless budget cuts? Yeah. Lies. All of it.

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We have a norms problem in American schools. Disrespect to adults and slovenly work school not be normal.

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9 months

@tetheredtoed1 And some teachers are not there to teach but to obtain emotional gratification from their students.

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2 years

@teachbk I’ve been convinced by the research and my own experience that inquiry is inferior to direct instruction for most learners. If you want to learn how to fix a broken faucet, do you want group work and readings, or watching an expert show you in a five minute YouTube video?

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Decades of passionately insisting there’s “a better way” and yet not a single proof-of-concept school that opens its doors to the world. If this isn’t a red flag, I don’t know what is.

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There should just be one incredibly well crafted curriculum for the entire United States.

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@TalkingTier1 PBIS is pernicious because it conveys the false sense that discipline can be safely dismantled. We are entering a very dark phase of American education.

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Administrators think teachers cause misbehavior (bad vibes; boring lessons). Do they also think cops cause crime?

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I struggle to read Greek, not because I lack reading skills, but because I don’t know what the words mean. Kids struggle to read, not because they lack reading skills, but because they don’t know what the words mean. A textbook is Greek to them until we teach them the words.

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6 months

If your principal likes the cliche “Maslow before Bloom’s”, it means they don’t really care very much about academics.

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9 months

My goal in teaching world history is to firmly implant in students’ minds a rough idea of what has happened. Is this the wrong goal?

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@sage_stage We had only one applicant for an open science position recently. No one wants to be a teacher anymore.

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@teacher_woke @deb_fillman @MrDanielBuck @rpondiscio @pauldrossi @educatedandfree @Rieffian Ice breakers are boring and unproductive. We need to stop treating the teaching of subject matter as something icky and emotionally harmful.

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@MrZachG It should be mandatory for all administrators and teachers to do it at least once.

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I want to do this but it’s just too much to juggle. This is why we need teams of geniuses to design brilliant k-12 curriculum for all subjects and distribute it for free. Education solved.

Justin Skycak

@justinskycak

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To understand spiral curricula, spaced repetition, and the difference between these things, it helps to visualize the corresponding forgetting curves. In the default mode of instruction, large groups of related material are covered all at once and are not systematically

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@hepbot This is the stale cliche, repeated endlessly as gospel truth. But is it really true?

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@dajmeyer @FightFuzzyMath They’re too high. We zip along from topic to topic and kids don’t master any of them. We’re addicted to pretentious goals.

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Hey, let’s make following school rules optional and see what happens!

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Math is a dumpster fire nowadays. Solution: teach the standard algorithms til the kids are aces, and forget “mathematical reasoning” —that’s nothing but normal reasoning and that’s a built-in feature of our brains.

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@MrZachG It’s so bad. We refuse to stop the chaos. And we’re trying to teach things that cannot be taught directly (SEL; all-purpose skills) while completely neglecting the humble but necessary and very feasible work of transmitting knowledge.

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@feelsdesperate In the end, all acts of friendliness will be revealed as microaggressions.

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I went though what I call my promethian period where I did the heavy lifting of building dozens of pretty good lessons. That took long hours of reading , drafting and redrafting. I still rely on these and they’re the basis of my course. But my energy for new creation is waning.

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@rpondiscio @LeslieLaud @DrMPaff @mmoriarty61 @FaithBorkowsky @BoksnerJudy @EminaMcLean @melbrethour @1in5advocacy @mattw009 @AshSRoberts @ashanock @MJ18912000 @ged10 @CreditFlex @MrLitEdu @maureen_ruby @HollyLanePhD @HKorbey @4TiffanyJustice @tiffanyphogan @reading_league @LindsayKemeny @KJWinEducation @GarforthEduc @NateJoseph19 It’s bonkers to ask teachers to design and build all their own lessons. It’s like asking actors who perform 7 new shows a day to also write the scripts for those shows.

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@teachbk It sounds like you think I should devote myself to the emotional healing of the one severely disruptive boy while the other 29 kids cower and wait for instruction rather than send the disruptor out. Am I misreading you?

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Having an anti-discipline principal is like having a pacifist conduct a war.

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I thank Twitter for finally introducing me to others who respect E.D. Hirsch as much as I do. For 13 years I searched and could not find a single one (except Robert Pondiscio when he was doing the Core Knowledge Blog).

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1 year

@RichardHanania Would you like to live under Putin?

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I teach 7 high impact classes of 7th graders everyday. That consumes all my energy. If I only taught 3-4, I’d happily build and rebuild curriculum. I do enjoy it when I have the time and energy.

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@didier_paul I was simply taught that littering is wrong and I’ve never done it.

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@WindedVoyage He must be joking

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@RaquelMTeaches I was just thinking the same thing today. I’d go further: the only thing that matters is discipline until discipline is consistently excellent. It is by far the administrator’s most important job.

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@g_shullenberger I used to fret about this. Now I fret about Woke brainwashing of the youth.

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American education: inane, fruitless activities dressed up in pretentious language.

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@ITeacher16 When a student takes a pencil from another student, is tha theft? Taking his education is much more serious, isn’t it?

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“Many teachers feel that they are being held hostage to an ideological experiment that harms them and their ability to teach, that harms innocent students who are trying to learn, and that in the end harms the very people it is meant to help by not holding them accountable.”

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9 months

99% of teachers accept progressive pedagogy. Fine. What’s alarming to me is that they have no clue there’s a legitimate alternative.

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@edudissenter

24 days

Depressing evidence of misguided groupthink:

Anna Stokke

@rastokke

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1/3 Interesting anecdote from Scott Hill about student teachers describing themselves on "guides on the side" in job interviews.

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American schools have been emphasizing thinking skills over knowledge for decades now. Has it borne fruit?

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@supertolerant Yes, it’s victim blaming. But teachers are loathe to call it out; they’ve been conditioned to accept it. Someday they’ll have their #MeToo moment.

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