Mike, thanks for the thoughtful e-mail. I, along with a team of folks) are working on expanding a current JK-8 school to include a High School. We open 9th grade in a year from now. Your point about great questions comes at a time where I am personally trying to ask more and more powerful questions to get to the heart of what school is about. I can&#39;t help but share a valuable resource that I have come to rely on that came via a colleague, and that is &quot;The Art of Powerful Questions&quot; by Vogt, Brown and Isaacs. It is a short article available via the World Cafe site as a PDF: <a href="http://www.theworldcafe.com/pdfs/aopq.pdf">http://www.theworldcafe.com/pdfs/aopq.pdf</a>.<br>
<br>It encourages a constant revisioning questions to make them more and more powerful. This &quot;power&quot; allows the person asking to take the issue farther without limiting the view. A simple training for teachers and/or students could create a vision of the kind of thinking we want in all of our community members.<br>
<br>There are big questions to be answered, and there are small tools to use to help us along the way. I&#39;d put &quot;The Art of Powerful Questions&quot; in the essential tools category.<br><br>Looking forward to discussing this more,<br>
arvind<br><br>-- <br>arvind s grover<br>Dean of Faculty<br>Grace Church School<br>212-475-5610 x804<br><a href="mailto:agrover@gcschool.org" target="_blank">agrover@gcschool.org</a><br><a href="http://www.gcschool.org">www.gcschool.org</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Michael Wesch <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mike.wesch@gmail.com">mike.wesch@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">I always love/hate this time of year - gearing up for the semester and</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">doing some really deep thinking about what our students *really* need</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">to learn (or more broadly, the type of person they need to become) and</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">how we can help them.  I&#39;m actually not teaching this year, but 7</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">years of this kind of thing and I seem to have fallen into a pattern.</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">I just can&#39;t go through August with out getting my head all messed up</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">over these questions.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">This year I have reached some tiny bit of clarity.  Not that I have</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">&quot;the answer&quot; - but I have come to realize that I have been spending</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">the past 7 years of teaching trying to do one thing (hereafter known</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">as &quot;THE GOAL&quot;) while struggling with five basic observations about</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">learning and education today.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">So first, THE GOAL: Inspire great questions.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">Since all good thinking begins with a good question, it strikes me</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">that if we are ultimately trying to create “active lifelong learners”</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">with “critical thinking skills” and an ability to “think outside the</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">box” it might be best to start by getting students to ask better</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">questions. Unfortunately, we can find a great deal of advice on how to</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">ask good questions of students – non-rhetorical, open-ended, etc. –</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">but we rarely share ideas on how to get students to ask good</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">questions.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">When I talk about “good questions,” I mean the kind of questions that</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">force students to challenge their taken-for-granted assumptions and</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">see their own underlying biases. Oftentimes the answer to a good</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">question is irrelevant – the question is an insight in itself. The</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">only answer to the best questions is another good question. And so the</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">best questions send students on rich and meaningful lifelong quests,</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">question after question after question.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">A great question is at the heart of Maxine Greene&#39;s Social</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">Imagination: &quot;the capacity to invent visions of what should be and</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">what might be in our deficient society.&quot;  Really great questions are a</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">step beyond what normally passes for &quot;critical thinking&quot; and become</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">the generative source for finding solutions (and of course, new</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">questions.)</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">So, on to the</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">5 observations:</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">1.  This is hard. Our formal learning environments and structures make</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">it difficult to inspire great questions.  Inspiring great questions is</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">*really hard.*   &quot;Great Teachers&quot; often get by with being called</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">&quot;great&quot; and even &quot;the best ever&quot; on teaching evaluations without ever</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">inspiring the kinds of questions that inspire life long learning.  (I</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">have come to hate getting effusive positive evaluation comments that</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">somehow indicate that the student loved me, but there was clearly</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">little or no growth for the student involved)  There are many</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">structures working against us - from tenure structures that restrict</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">experimentation and time-commitment, to grading procedures and and</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">curriculum standards (often requiring standardized testing of the</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">multiple-guessing sort).  The most common questions in this</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">environment are often mundane administrative questions: &quot;Can I use</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">Wikipedia?&quot;  &quot;How long does this paper need to be?&quot;  &quot;What do we need</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">to know for this test?&quot;  Such questions illustrate the 2nd</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">observation:</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">2. Students are tuning out.  Large numbers of students are disengaged</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">altogether or engaged in nothing more than the &quot;getting by&quot; game</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">(doing just enough for a class to &quot;get by&quot; and get the grade they</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">want).  It is rare that students hold the same lofty goals of</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">learning, critical thinking, etc. that their teachers hold for them.</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">Students have very different goals, which is the 3rd observation:</font></div>

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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">3. Students are struggling to figure out who they are, and who and</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">what they want to become.  This is what Anthony Giddens has called the</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">&quot;core project&quot; of people in late modernity.   As Charles Taylor and</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">others have pointed out, the modern world is one in which identity and</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">recognition are not givens.   Social networking and other online tools</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">provide a platform for much of this quest.  They tune out of class and</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">logon to Facebook, which leads to the 4th observation:</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">4.  There is something in the air.  In most of our classrooms (those</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">with WiFi, 3G, or 4G access), 2 billion people are connecting and</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">collaborating in the air all around us, building a vast digital</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">archive that represents a hefty portion of the entire body of human</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">knowledge ever created.   But thinking about this in terms of</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">information and knowledge misses the 5th observation that</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">5. We increasingly live in a network society.  Many of our</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">institutions, organizations, and social processes are operating less</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">and less through stable groups and hierarchies and more through</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">flexible networks and network logic.  This transformation has been</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">happening for several decades and precedes the Web.  Technologies of</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">mobility, transport, and communication provided the infrastructure for</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">these changes.  We have labeled such changes &quot;globalization,&quot;</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">&quot;flexible accumulation,&quot; &quot;postmodernism,&quot; etc.   All are aspects and</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">descriptions of this change to a network society / network logic.</font></div>

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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">New media enter this stream to create new types of conversation,</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">exchange, and collaboration. But the promise of these media are not</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">without disruption and peril. While new media bring with them new</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">possibilities for openness, transparency, engagement, and</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">participation, they also bring new possibilities for surveillance,</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">manipulation, distraction, and control. The negative side of this</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">ledger seem especially eminent in the face of widespread ignorance</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">about the uses, misuses, power, and (sometimes unintended)</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">consequences of new media. If we do not quickly raise our digital</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">literacy rates we stand to lose much more than we gain from the</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">promises of new media.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">Indeed, depending on what date one would fix as the beginning point of</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">the network society, it would not be hard to argue that we are more</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">self-absorbed, less empathic, more unequal, and in overall worse shape</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">than we were when this all began.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">Which makes it especially critical and disheartening that  (1) our</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">schools are not inspiring big questions, (2)students are disengaged,</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">and (3) pursuing their own interests in the pursuit of finding</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">themselves, while embracing (4) the ubiquitous network for</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">entertainment and distraction while failing to see and harness it as</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">the most remarkable collaboration and creation machine ever created</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">that they could use to create a better world if they can come to</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">understand (5) networks and network logic.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">Hopefully by the end of this conversation I&#39;ll have a bit more clarity</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">on some solutions, but I thought I should start out first by clearly</font></div>

<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">outlining the goal and the challenges as I see them.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">Looking forward to the conversation!</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">~ Mike</font></div>
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