So when we met with the state, we fought to have direct instruction as part of our charter.

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And direct instruction is a research-based, a reading program that worked well for us when we were a public school.

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Mr. MARTIN: Well, like for instance we fought with the state when we wrote our charter because they said we could not have direct instruction.

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And because we knew during registration that we just had a number of kids who were out of school for three months, six months, were not in any school at all, we needed it to bring back direct instruction.

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Without rehashing every point, in one example, as software increasingly handles direct instruction, this will create big opportunities for teachers to facilitate rich and rewarding project-based learning experiences for their students to apply their learning into different contexts and gain meaningful work in the so-called 21st-century skills.

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An example of this is in the Pilates program at Pixar Animation Studios that I direct we have three levels of instruction, beginning, intermediate and advanced.

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Unlike Mr. Abdulmutallab, who traveled to Yemen for instruction from Mr. Awlaki, investigators haven't found evidence of direct contact between the Tsarnaevs and the radical cleric, the U.S. official familiar with the suspect's statements said.

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