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I try to stay focused in each post on highlighting or emphasizing an idea, very often not my own, that could be useful to teachers and a principal on a site to think about literacy instruction in a classroom as it links to learners advancing through subsequent classrooms. The power of school is in its culture and its equity.

Teachers took us by the hand and, one by one, brought us out of the cave into the light.

My satisfaction comes from knowing I gave something back to my earliest teachers and paid it forward.

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Terry Underwood

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