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Ryan Reed

6/7th Grade Social Studies Teacher in Maine

I am a member of the Class of 2009 from the University of Maine at Farmington (pound-for-pound the best education school around, IMHO) and am currently in my first year of teaching after spending a year as an Ed Tech in Special Ed. I feel my biggest challenge today is fitting progressive ideals within the archaic status-quo of modern American schools.