Transformation Meeting Transcript for April 28, 2011

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1 2 T. C. WILLIAMS HIGH SCHOOL 3 ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA 4 TRANSFORMATION MEETING 5 APRIL 28, 2011 6 7 The following transcript is a verbatim 8 report of the T. C. Williams High School Transformation 9 Meeting held in the Media Center on April 28, 2011. 10 BCH-11.065 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Anita B. Glover & Associates, Ltd. 10521 West Drive Fairfax, Virginia 22030 1
1 PARTICIPANTS: 2 Group One: Marty Brooks, Bena Kallick, Margee 3 Walsh, Meesuk Ahn, Amy Yamashiro, Pierrette Hall, Dean 4 Munson, Susan Kaput, Suzanne Maxey, Tammy Ignacio, Kathy 5 Taylor, Steve Wilkins, Marya Runkle, Mercedes Huffman, 6 Jasmine Jennings. 7 Group Two: Marty Brooks, Bena Kallick, Margee 8 Walsh, Meesuk Ahn, Amy Yamashiro, Pierrette Hall, Susan 9 Kaput, Suzanne Maxey, Tammy Ignacio, Kathy Taylor, Steve 10 Wilkins, Marya Runkle, Katherine Fleming, Kelly Church- 11 Connolly, Jackie Gorski, Chris Gutierrez, Jen Loftus, 12 Mercedes Huffman, Lester Schonberger, Sarah Kiyak. 13 Group Three: Marty Brooks, Bena Kallick, Margee 14 Walsh, Meesuk Ahn, Amy Yamashiro, Pierrette Hall, Susan 15 Kaput, Suzanne Maxey, Tammy Ignacio, Peter Balas, Kathy 16 Taylor, Steve Wilkins, Greg Forbes, Dee Mararra, Marya 17 Runkle, Bernardine Pearson, Michael Cohen. 18 Group Four: Marty Brooks, Bena Kallick, Margee 19 Walsh, Meesuk Ahn, Amy Yamashiro, Pierrette Hall, Susan 20 Kaput, Suzanne Maxey, Tammy Ignacio, Peter Balas, Kathy 21 Taylor, Steve Wilkins, Marya Runkle, Greg Forbes, 22 Danielle Wierzbicki, Suzanna Courrand, Bethany 23 Nickerson, Mark Eisenhower, Carol Kiodrowski. Anita B. Glover & Associates, Ltd. 10521 West Drive Fairfax, Virginia 22030 2
Page 1: In The Matter Of: TRANSFORMATION ME
Page 5 and 6: 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 (The conf
Page 7 and 8: 1 work on behalf of the students wh
Page 9 and 10: 1 DR. KALLICK: They're all coming i
Page 11 and 12: 1 go to them. And so her proposal a
Page 13 and 14: 1 variety of things, and also may b
Page 15 and 16: 1 you know, that for years. When yo
Page 17 and 18: 1 what individual kids, what they,
Page 19 and 20: 1 So I think if we're looking at tr
Page 21 and 22: 1 12th graders who need to pass an
Page 23 and 24: 1 would work. 2 See, that's why the
Page 25 and 26: 1 simply an extra class. I think we
Page 27 and 28: 1 DR. MAXEY: Same thing with tenth
Page 29 and 30: 1 identifying a core group of stude
Page 31 and 32: 1 formulas, some teachers do songs,
Page 33 and 34: 1 on that function. 2 MS. KAPUT: As
Page 35 and 36: 1 DR. MAXEY: I think a lot of this
Page 37 and 38: 1 refusing to leave their elective
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Page 45 and 46: 1 that, because our math teachers h
Page 47 and 48: 1 And it's a teacher issue, not an
Page 49 and 50: 1 common assessments next year, you
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1 DR. BROOKS: -- and here's where w
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1 wise, next year. In other words,
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1 from that. And I think that, beca
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1 and Gwen Carroll and Susan, and T
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1 encourage people to continue to u
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1 students who would, you know, fan
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1 DR. KALLICK: What happens in the
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1 start more with that next year al
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1 for science, psychology, certain
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1 organized in terms of, if I can f
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1 MS. LOFTUS: Yeah, I could put tha
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1 are making themselves available b
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1 kids getting extra -- just a whol
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1 DR. KALLICK: Would there be a way
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1 going into the classrooms and off
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1 the mandated volunteers, but that
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1 the math center when the kids com
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1 this is just, it would be nice if
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1 that for every student. It took a
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1 DR. KALLICK: Yeah, I was asking t
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1 responsible, because we got lots
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1 things that were new this year ar
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1 we ended up doing was combining t
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1 MR. FORBES: But that's been extre
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1 how to write a -- they've been gi
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1 doing, I think Greg is going to g
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1 version two of the IAP scores. 2
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1 (Laughter.) 2 MS. MARARRA: The co
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1 or triple booked, because it does
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1 DR. KALLICK: Then I hearing that
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1 the most exuberant, successful, m
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1 helpful, to have every student ha
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1 counselors don't have time to mon
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1 busiest months of the year for te
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1 the students were assigned a new
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1 DR. BROOKS: So let me ask another
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1 MS. IGNACIO: Right in the English
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1 DR. BROOKS: Right. 2 MR. COHEN: A
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1 MR. FORBES: That's right. 2 DR. K
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1 move into the next class, we will
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1 DR. KALLICK: Yeah. Then there's t
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1 think can be pushed up to the div
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1 (Participants speak over each oth
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1 DR. MAXEY: And that's what we hav
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1 Quality Teaching for English Lear
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1 And we'd have all kinds of things
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1 know? 2 MS. WIERZBICKI: Some of t
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1 see what their level of support i
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1 already behind because they're ol
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1 So it's really not grade level as
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1 invisible, and that's the word th
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1 MS. KIODROWSKI: Because if we wer
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1 that's already bulging at the sea
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1 what's going in the ELL classes,
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1 you would like to have everybody
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1 young kid standing out, feeling -
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1 coming up eventually, I mean the
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1 this year, every year our numbers
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1 12? Then you've got the issue of
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1 by kid, where's the best program
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1 past. 2 MS. IGNACIO: Yes, it has.
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1 this meeting is terrific, and we
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1 issues to work through. 2 DR. MAX
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1 DR. BROOKS: It's still leaves par
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1 MS. IGNACIO: For ninth graders. A
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1 that conversation. 2 DR. BROOKS:
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1 DR. MAXEY: So once again we've pu
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1 we're, you both have strengths, l
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1 student's IAP to see who needs a
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1 this is a big data collection yea
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1 MS. QUENNEVILLE: It depends. 2 DR
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1 DR. MAXEY: So we're going to have
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1 have a disproportionality issue h
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1 didn't have many students in thei
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1 teacher this year whose caseload
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1 If you were to cycle through -- 2
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1 they wanted it, they wanted to ro
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1 to use that class to help us impr
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1 for themselves? 2 MS. QUENNEVILLE
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1 compromise. But if there's a way
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1 you have data that you can share
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1 what's important about it. What's
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1 few who -- 2 MS. IGNACIO: Huh? 3
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1 strictly a teacher, this is how i
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1 believe that you've made signific
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1 A F T E R N O O N S E S S I O N 2
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1 looked at what it would look like
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1 pull the kids out, it's still bee
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1 (Laughter.) 2 DR. MAXEY: And even
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1 would be enough motivation, but -
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1 MS. HALL: Sure. 2 DR. MAXEY: I'm
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1 been overwhelming in terms of the
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1 exam week. 2 DR. MAXEY: Why don't
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1 going to test with me. That was a
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1 take a look at this, there are th
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1 issues that -- 2 DR. TAYLOR: We h
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1 MS. IGNACIO: Well, and we, in our
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1 what happens is the social worker
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1 top issues followed by assignment
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1 long term or administrative leave
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1 senior math classes and I have tw
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1 we are holding kids accountable f
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1 all of -- you know, it took us so
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1 maybe it was just too far away. 2
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1 where they are to go to wherever
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1 coming from driver's ed. That's a
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1 going to be -- they're banking on
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1 convinced that that year was the
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1 what is the -- 2 MS. RUNKLE: Is i
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1 specifically how, you know, what
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1 MS. KAPUT: No, I think it's withi
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1 chance for them to sort of talk a
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1 stuff, and the ELL stuff, and I d
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1 he's getting his high school dipl
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1 But the seniors program is for se
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1 school and you would take that as
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1 So here I have, showing 40 studen
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1 Moore can probably talk a little
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1 things to talk about. Mary Fluhar
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1 courses, we have a ninth grader i
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1 We have an on-line tutoring servi
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1 youngsters who right now, you kno
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1 And we do it, but it's not someth
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1 school, if they're not considered
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1 and so that keeps them there for
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1 different content areas with a re
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1 last year at science leadership.
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1 MR. COHEN: Oh, yeah, thank you, s
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1 (Group Eight convenes at 2:56 o'c
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1 specifically to identify any othe
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1 beginning in August. And our goal
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1 actually find out what the kid re
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1 be some data for -- 2 MR. THORPE:
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1 if we talked to you guys about th
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1 they were teaching in the classro
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1 the beginning of the year was kin
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1 and listening to what we were tal
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1 conferences in September scared t
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1 will tell the story, that still b
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1 (Brief interruption.) 2 DR. BROOK
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1 (Whereupon, at approximately 3:25
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TRANSFORMATION MEETING $20 (1) 285:
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TRANSFORMATION MEETING 287:5;297:12
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TRANSFORMATION MEETING 71:17;73:15,
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TRANSFORMATION MEETING 65:13;80:4;8
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TRANSFORMATION MEETING driver's (1)
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TRANSFORMATION MEETING 77:16;124:2;
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TRANSFORMATION MEETING 196:22 indep
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TRANSFORMATION MEETING lack (5) 99:
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TRANSFORMATION MEETING 8,15;46:8,22
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TRANSFORMATION MEETING 97:20,23;99:
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TRANSFORMATION MEETING pairing (1)
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TRANSFORMATION MEETING 57:16 repeat
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TRANSFORMATION MEETING team (11) 25
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TRANSFORMATION MEETING 12:11;34:4;3
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