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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Reading now: findings show how learners who used GenAI primarily through apps in mobile phones or chatbots embedded in social media platforms, tended to adopt a passive stance towards GenAI, accepting generated output without much critical evaluation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #eduskyAIv

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

hechingerreport.org/proof-points... Yet another example of researchers not seeming to understand that teachers are building AI assistants or apps that mitigate these biases. We don’t have to accept the trade offs presented in this paper.

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AI gives more praise, less criticism to Black students

A Stanford experiment found that AI feedback shifts on identical essays depending upon the identity and characteristics of the student.

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Granting that "Student Reflections on AI Use Doesn’t Work" Patrick Dempsey: open.substack.com/pub/thepatri... Here's an image of a revision process by a student on writingpartners.net. How to avoid Dempsey's closed loop? Escaping a Reflection Loop via AI - 1 of 4 #AIinEducation #eduskyAI #edusky

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

With breakfast, I read a new post in Psychology Today by John Nosta, "The Curvature of Thought - Personal Perspective: Can AI bend the geometry of human knowing?" www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-... From Blog Post to Peer-Reviewed Article Inquiry via AI 1 of 4 #AIinEducation #eduskyAI #edusky

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Let's start with a paragraph from "Animal Farm," Chapter V, which includes: "Of late the sheep had taken to bleating "Four legs good, two legs bad" both in and out of season, and they often interrupted the Meeting with this." From Literature to Inquiry via AI 1 of 4 #AIinEducation #eduskyAI #edusky

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

This Writing Partner (GPT) is really helping me to think about this Abstract. writingpartners.net/documents/85.... #eduskyAI #AIinEducation #edusky

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Educators Paul Allison, David Cole, and Sam Reed explore strategies for integrating AI into a reading and writing unit focused on Jackie Robinson and his values. 1/5 #eduskyai #aiineducation youtu.be/gqUTDEJLvRY?...

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TTT 10.22.2025 Sam Reed Integrating AI into a unit about Jackie Robinson: The Man Who Broke Barriers

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

“Generative AI should not be banned outright, nor should it be embraced without thought. What we really need is guidance, resources, and practice in how to utilize it wisely.” This is the most sensible (from experience) nuanced treatment of AI that I have read. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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ChatGPT Has Been My Tutor for the Last Year. I Still Have Concerns. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

This transition will be messy, and no policy will be perfect. But if we don’t agree on how to talk about AI, when to use it, and when to avoid it, we risk creating fragmented and inequitable experienc...

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Though it's a stretch for me to understand the metrics in this study, ever since I started reading, I keep returning to these ideas. Their "setup provides explicit estimates of uncertainty and benchmarks AI model by quantifying the synergy they provide to human interaction." doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

John Nosta unpacks the AI tool metaphor here: “This is the quiet revolution we’re living through. This is technology moving from external utility to internal participation.” www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-... #eduskyAI

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Maybe AI Was Never a Tool

Using artificial intelligence "responsibly" assumes it is just another tool—it isn't.

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I want to invite you to a conversation about AI through the lens of fiction. Gideon Dishon, the author of "From Monsters to Mazes" writingpartners.net/documents/85... in the abstract: "...fictional texts, can shape our shared imagination of possible and probable futures." #eduskyAI 1/3

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

We are reading and annotating together. We would love to see your marginalia on From Monsters to Mazes: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of AI Between Frankenstein and Kafka writingpartners.net/documents/85... before we meet on Wednesday evening, October 1, at 8E/7C/6M/5P in Kumospace.com/youthvoices.

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From Monsters to Mazes: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of AI Between Frankenstein and Kafka - Writing Partners

Writing Partners - Created By and For Teachers and Students

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Why social annotation:“Intelligence—whether human or artificial—is inherently interactive, contextual, and collaborative. Sophisticated thinking rarely occurs in isolation; it emerges instead through dialogue, feedback, refinement, and the integration of diverse perspectives.” osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

“What we really need are nuanced approaches that center human agency and experience about how new technologies complicate and alter our habits and skills.” Three cheers for nuance! youtu.be/Fgxf_EJnYEU?...

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TTT 09.24.2025 How many educators does it take to create an AI assistant?

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

“AI can… be the ultimate training partner, a sparring partner for the mind that forces us to level up. The essential challenge is to keep agency at the center of the interaction and to make sure we are directing the conversation rather than outsourcing it.” www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

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Human Agency in the Age of AI

When AI stands at the ready to do our work—and our thinking—for us, human agency is what keeps us drivers, not passengers, of the mind.

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

We invite you to meet Dr. Rachel Horst www.rachelhorst.ca with us on Wed. evening, September 17 at 8E/7C/6M/5P. We'll be meeting in Kumospace.com/youthvoices. www.kumospace.com/youthvoices?... Join us to engage in a collaborative inquiry that seeks to move beyond binary thinking about AI. #eduskyAI

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

In this conversation Chris Sloan shares insights on how students in his AP English classes interact with AI-generated feedback, emphasizing the importance of students maintaining agency over their writing. youtu.be/JT9wH-Z5ChY #eduskyAI

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TTT 09.10.2025 We explore the use of AI in aiding students with writing college admissions essays

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Demanding that we take a side: “Importantly, critical washing — encouraging AI use while being ‘aware of the risks’ — must be avoided: [R]eflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm.” zenodo.org/records/1706...

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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Okay, can one read with and against this? philarchive.org/archive/GUEATU

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Here’s another angle to consider: Will limiting access to “virtual interactions” while in school lead youth who are more prone to loneliness to “exert faster decisions to seek rewards”—behaviors that may bring more alcohol and drug use and sexual activity? www.nature.com/articles/s44... #eduskyAI

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

More AI metaphors “AI can extend our perception, but it must never become our compass. A lens clarifies what we see. A compass tells us where to go. The first enhances thought. The second replaces it, and true north may be a curiously human-centric direction.” www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Just getting up to speed with Dr. Rachel Horst: open.spotify.com/episode/48ym... www.linkedin.com/posts/rachel...

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Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Friends! Pencil in these dates for @edunowlab.bsky.social's Creatively Critical Tech series! #literacies 10/6 or 7 Kate Hennessy www.makingculturelab.com 10/15 6:30CT Roderic Crooks www.rncrooks.info 11/12 6:30CT Audrey Watters audreywatters.com 11/19 6:30CT Cynthia Bennett www.bennettc.com

Education Now Lab presents Creatively Critical Tech Research + Design + Practice

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

It’s not just your students: “As it stands, the benefits of in person education — socializing, engaging more thoroughly with the material, and learning how to conduct oneself in places where we have to speak publicly — can feel like they’re as good as gone.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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It’s Time To Ban Laptops at Harvard | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

Perhaps if students were actually forced to listen in class (or at least to not actively ignore), they’d end up taking more classes they find legitimately interesting, and embracing the sort of vulner...

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

This "Teachers Teaching Teachers" meetup involves a discussion on metaphors and Generative AI, where participants share their thoughts and experiences with AI in education. The group engages in an activity to create and analyze AI-generated images based on metaphors. youtu.be/fvcFl3EqAiI #eduskyAI

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TTT 09.03.2025 Fear and Awe: Making Sense of Generative AI Through Metaphor

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

We invite you to a workshop "that moves beyond technical ‘how-to’ discussions to explore the deeper assumptions and concerns that shape GenAI adoption in education." Join us in Kumospace.com/youthvoices Wed, 09/03, 8E/7C/6M/5P. We'll follow activities in this recent study: doi.org/10.5334/jime....

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Been thinking about metaphors and AI recently: “Metaphors are never complete, always potentially hazardous and open to reinterpretation. It is this very process of thinking through them in relation to the topic of interest—ed tech in our case—that makes them useful.” read.aupress.ca/read/metapho...

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I’m wondering how to have a discussion about metaphors and set up a gallery for more conversation. publications.ascilite.org/index.php/AP...

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Reading today: Isn’t this a great question? “How can metaphor assist in collective sensemaking of generative AI in higher education?” jime.open.ac.uk/articles/10....

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Fear and Awe: Making Sense of Generative AI Through Metaphor | Journal of Interactive Media in Education

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

While I appreciate the value of this binary for establishing a framework for study, I also think we need a wider range of descriptions for how students use AI. arxiv.org/abs/2508.00717

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

“AI consolidates multiple specialized tools into a single platform, making its benefits immediately apparent without requiring specialized training or organizational restructuring, unlike previous General Practice Technologies.” arxiv.org/abs/2508.00717 An observation to explore more. #eduskyAI

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Generative AI in Higher Education: Evidence from an Elite College

Generative AI is transforming higher education, yet systematic evidence on student adoption remains limited. Using novel survey data from a selective U.S. college, we document over 80 percent of stude...

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Often on TTT we introduce new AI assistants and ask for feedback. That feedback gets turned back into the prompts and the Writing Partners get revised. Come learn more about this honing and revising process. Join us on Wednesday, August 27 at 8E/7C/6M/5P www.kumospace.com/youthvoices?... #eduskyAI

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Kumospace | Virtual offices for remote and distributed teams

Kumospace is the leading virtual office platform for remote teams to communciate, collaborate, and meet online.

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Power of social annotation, reading w/ peers: “When students approach texts with the intent to debate and to truly understand and anticipate the counterpoints of others, they read more critically, retain more, and engage with the material at a deeper level.” www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/curi...

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3 Ways to Save Yourself From AI’s Critical Thinking Decline

AI makes thinking easier and our ability to do so weaker. Debate, philosophy, and creative problem-solving can save your brain from the critical thinking slide.

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

“Students…learning how to customize an AI model, will be able to walk into any business [or school] and identify clear areas where AI implementation would meaningfully impact their operations.” Mark Cuban www.inc.com/ben-sherry/m... I like the idea of making a difference with their skills. #eduskyAI

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Mark Cuban Says Young People Should Learn This Crucial AI Skill

The former 'Shark Tank' star has some pretty smart AI-related career advice.

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

“In educational contexts, rapid technology adoption can create or exacerbate inequalities between early and late adopters, particularly if the technology confers significant learning advantages.” arxiv.org/abs/2508.00717 Given schools’ jagged adoption AI, this is worth considering. #eduskyAI

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Generative AI in Higher Education: Evidence from an Elite College

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Important study! “Blanket prohibitions may disproportionately disadvantage students who benefit most from AI augmentation, while unrestricted use may encourage automation practices detrimental to skill development.” arxiv.org/pdf/2508.00717

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Paul Allison facilitated a discussion among educators, Debbie Abilock, David Cole, Andrea Zellner, and Jenell Krishnan, on August 20th, focusing on a tool called the Explorations Coach, an AI assistant designed to guide students through a journaling process. youtu.be/itQFFQt3lcI #eduskyAI 1/3

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TTT 08.20.2025 Writing with an Explorations Coach

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Will this teacher let students to use straw man fallacies like this: "Artificial intelligence, we are told, will solve everything! It will create assignments, grade student essays and teach your students better than you, a mere human being, ever could." www.startribune.com/no-laptops-p... #eduskyAI

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Opinion | I’m ditching computers in my public school classroom this year

"For one, brief hour each day, in the English classroom, my students will interact with paper, using real books, loose-leaf paper and pens," Maureen Mulvaney writes.

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

This feels good to remember as the semester starts: “We tell stories to understand where we've been—and to discover where we're going.” www.gouldfarm.org/post/telling... I wonder if there might be some interest in this Writing Partner: writingpartners.net/partners/421... Explorations Coach #eduskyAI

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Telling Our Stories, Finding Ourselves: The Healing Power of Narrative Therapy

Recently, our Fellside Skills Group completed a deeply moving series of life-story sharing sessions. Participants spoke openly—some about mental health and recovery, others with humor or reflection. A...

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

What a thought-provoking essay: "Reinforcement learning has helped enable computers to drive cars, solve complex math problems, and defeat grandmasters in games like chess and Go [by supercharging] the simple associative processes of the pigeon brain." www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/18/1...

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Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs

The bird has never gotten much credit for being intelligent. But the reinforcement learning powering the world’s most advanced AI systems is far more pigeon than human.

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Pretty wild provocation: “AI can reflect and magnify what's within us. When we approach it skillfully—outside tribe, ego, and the attention economy—it becomes a "maieutic" mirror (from the Greek word for "midwife"), helping us birth truths already within us.” www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/tech...

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The One Question We Need to Ask to Save Humanity

You're not broken. The world is. Four AIs confirmed what you already sense—and converged on one question that shows the path home. Meet us in the Field, beyond tribe and ego.

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Great conversation last night with Sam Reed medium.com/about-me-sto... playing with making an AI coach to support the emergent readers in his upcoming 9th and 10th grade English classes at the U School in Philadelphia. youtu.be/R1b2j5t8HAs?... #eudskyAI

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TTT 08.13.2025 What if you had a co-teacher? How would you coach them to work with your students?

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

A student-centered variation on this prompt idea is exciting to explore. Instead of asking an AI assistant for feedback, a student could ask the assistant to ask them questions about their work. www.techradar.com/ai-platforms... #eduskyAI

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

This is what we are doing at writingpartners.net. Teachers and students design AI tutors, coaches… “to serve our thinking rather than replace it,” we co-“design our interactions so that we remain active participants, not just passive recipients of results.” www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

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Writing Partners

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

RE: Friction: “When we send signals that learning has to hurt, that AI is bad because it can mitigate confusion, we make learning a chore instead of a privilege—we inadvertently undermine learners’ trust in their own cognitive processes to learn on their own.” open.substack.com/pub/terryu/p...

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Learning Isn’t Supposed to Hurt

Instructional theories are often considered learning theories.

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

This has me wondering how students who get AI feedback on their writing might see their teachers differently. “The more we perceive social and emotional capabilities in AI, the more likely we are to see real people as machine-like—less deserving of care and respect.” www.psypost.org/assimilation...

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Assimilation-induced dehumanization: Psychology research uncovers a dark side effect of AI

As AI becomes more empathetic, a surprising psychological shift occurs. New research finds that interacting with emotionally intelligent machines can make us see real people as more machine-like, subt...

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Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

So I created, tested and iterated on another "helpful" AI Writing Partner yesterday, an Annotating Coach writingpartners.net/partners/690... All good, but the real question is how a reluctant reader and resistant annotator would actually care enough or be encouraged enough to use a partner like this

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Writing Partners - Created By and For Teachers and Students

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