Kurt Ostrow English Teacher B.M.C. Durfee High School Fall River, MA Ken Macrorie Fellow Last year, inspired by Nancie Atwell’s 2017 Drew Lecture at Bread Loaf Vermont, I dove deeply into the field of independent reading. I have grown, laminated, labeled, and sorted a classroom library of well over 400 high-interest books. I have built

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