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====**Polly Parker - Co-Chair - Lower Pioneer Valley Educational Collaborative (LPVEC):** Polly Parker, along with Greg McVerry (Southern Connecticut University) and five other content experts, created the curriculum of the //2011 Massachusetts New Literacies Institute//. Polly also served as a co-chair for the teacher leaders for the //2010 Massachusetts New Literacies Institute//. She presented at the Massachusetts DESE Curriculum Summit (2010) on //Preparing Students for the 21st Century with New Literacies//, MassCUE and METAA’s 6th Annual Technology Leadership Symposium – 2011 on the //201////0 Massachusetts New Literacies Institute//, and the MassCUE/MASS conference for the Massachusetts DESE in 2010 on //Online Learning for At-Risk Students//. Polly has a master’s degree in Educational Policy, and she is currently a doctoral candidate in the Research and Evaluation Methods Program (REMP), which is a division of the Educational Policy, Research and Administration (EPRA) department at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst (UMASS). She is the Director of Curriculum and Professional Development at the LPVEC.====

=How the new Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks translate to the use of digital tools in the classroom.= =This is the way of the Common Core.......=

=**IS THERE A YOUNG CHIEF ALMIR SITTING IN YOUR CLASSROOM?**=

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