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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:red">PLEASE do not reply to this email, contact </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Mark
Coplan, <a href="mailto:markcoplan@berkeley.net">markcoplan@berkeley.net</a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">After a five-year hiatus, Berkeley
Research, Evaluation and Assessment (BREA) is hosting the return of the BUSD
Research Symposium on Friday, </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">November 6, 2015</span></span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">The Symposium will bring leading thinkers in current innovative educational research together with Berkeley community members, BUSD educators and parents to rethink the role research can play to improve our educational practices. The Research Symposium is of particular importance to parents and others in our community, because educational research informs future educational policies that hold the promise to improve the educational outcomes for all our students, particularly those who are caught in the opportunity gap. The 2015 BUSD Research Symposium aims to reach more than 200 community members from Berkeley and the greater community.</span></span></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Childcare
will be provided</span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">.</span></span></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">WHEN:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>Friday November 6, 2015. 5:45-8:30 p.m. - Registration begins at 5:15 p.m.</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">WHERE:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>Longfellow Middle School, 1500 Derby Street</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://www.berkeleyschools.net/2015/10/19/2015-busd-educational-research-symposium-friday-november-6/" target="_blank"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Find the list of presenters, link for registration, and all the event details here.</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><br style="mso-special-character:line-break" clear="all">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Mark Coplan, Public Information Officer</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Berkeley Unified School District</span></p>



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