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  • Hayes Jacobs encourages teachers to step outside their comfort zones

Hayes Jacobs encourages teachers to step outside their comfort zones

Rebecca Vukovic
By Rebecca Vukovic
Published June 4, 2015

The best way to predict the future, according to Dr Heidi Hayes Jacobs, is to invent it.

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