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DTSTAMP:20260921T043834Z
DTSTART:20270209T190000Z
DTEND:20270209T200000Z
SUMMARY:The Death of Critical Thinking
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CATEGORIES:KEYNOTE
LOCATION:Atlanta\, GA\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://27te.sched.com/event/4ab40c3d33a7cb2267a86c75ccacaccf
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DTSTAMP:20260921T043834Z
DTSTART:20270209T200000Z
DTEND:20270209T203000Z
SUMMARY:Break - Exhibits Open
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CATEGORIES:BREAK
LOCATION:Atlanta\, GA\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://27te.sched.com/event/2456af47502cad2e67058aa0da3d3a8c
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DTSTAMP:20260921T043834Z
DTSTART:20270209T203000Z
DTEND:20270209T211500Z
SUMMARY:Creating a Plan for Student-Led Learning Through Inquiry Based Approaches & Reflections
DESCRIPTION:Encouraging young students to take responsibility in the process of learning begins with conversation rooted in asking rather than telling. Provide a path for them to connect to learning and resources to which they can speak and share collaboratively with peers and parents. Help guide goals\, objectives\, and feedback for continued learning. This session provides an opportunity for teachers to gain insight into successful strategies that shape independence and build learners who understand the goals for producing\, transferring\, and leading their own learning.
CATEGORIES:BREAKOUT SESSION
LOCATION:Atlanta\, GA\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://27te.sched.com/event/e808546c650fd774c6f7217cf175a9d3
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DTSTAMP:20260921T043834Z
DTSTART:20270209T203000Z
DTEND:20270209T211500Z
SUMMARY:Future-Proofing Schools in the Age of Agentic AI
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CATEGORIES:BREAKOUT SESSION
LOCATION:Atlanta\, GA\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://27te.sched.com/event/b863590656f2e6ddd5dee025aadf6dc8
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DTSTAMP:20260921T043834Z
DTSTART:20270209T203000Z
DTEND:20270209T211500Z
SUMMARY:Student Disengagement as Design Feedback
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CATEGORIES:BREAKOUT SESSION
LOCATION:Atlanta\, GA\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://27te.sched.com/event/407dcf1374b02fda310002aa7913e26e
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DTSTAMP:20260921T043834Z
DTSTART:20270209T203000Z
DTEND:20270209T211500Z
SUMMARY:What Are We Building? Designing Early Learning Experiences and Environments That Shape the Brain
DESCRIPTION:Research from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University tells us that brain architecture is shaped over time by genetics\, relationships\, experiences\, and environments. Because brain development is especially rapid during the early years\, educators have a powerful opportunity and responsibility to build strong foundations for future learning and well-being.\n\nIn this interactive session\, educators and school leaders will examine how everyday interactions\, instructional choices\, and classroom environments shape young children’s developing brains. Participants will explore how to design deep\, complex\, collaborative learning experiences and environments that foster belonging\, connection\, beauty\, independence\, and exploration.\n\nDrawing on research\, reflection\, and real-world examples\, participants will evaluate their current practices and leave with a practical framework and actionable strategies to strengthen relationships\, deepen thinking\, cultivate curiosity\, and prepare young children for future learning.
CATEGORIES:BREAKOUT SESSION
LOCATION:Atlanta\, GA\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://27te.sched.com/event/d93ae5cab97c434ae3b91d3b7f68fb83
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DTSTAMP:20260921T043834Z
DTSTART:20270209T211500Z
DTEND:20270209T214500Z
SUMMARY:Break - Exhibits Open
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CATEGORIES:BREAK
LOCATION:Atlanta\, GA\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://27te.sched.com/event/72407d338037926cb4c522485d37cc22
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DTSTAMP:20260921T043834Z
DTSTART:20270209T214500Z
DTEND:20270209T223000Z
SUMMARY:Creativity Is a Teachable Skill!
DESCRIPTION:Creativity is often viewed as something reserved for artists and musicians\, but\, in reality\, it is one of the most valuable skills students can develop. This session will explore why creativity is a form of intelligence that strengthens critical thinking\, problem-solving\, innovation\, and resilience across every discipline. Discover practical\, classroom-ready strategies that intentionally develop creative thinking in students\, regardless of your subject area. Experience engaging exercises that encourage divergent thinking\, collaboration\, and thoughtful risk-taking\, and leave with adaptable resources that can be implemented immediately.
CATEGORIES:BREAKOUT SESSION
LOCATION:Atlanta\, GA\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://27te.sched.com/event/6e0aa877c33608d4ba07fe57895b1913
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DTSTAMP:20260921T043834Z
DTSTART:20270209T214500Z
DTEND:20270209T223000Z
SUMMARY:Rethinking Assessment In the Age of AI
DESCRIPTION:We are at a turning point in education\, where artificial intelligence is reshaping the classroom. Students are reading less\, and the temptation to rely on AI as a shortcut is growing. At the same time\, teachers are often working in isolation and need meaningful&nbsp\;data to assess student growth.\n\nWe must respond with urgency and intention. Rather than resisting AI\, we can use it as a tool to enhance instruction\, increase efficiency\, and improve student outcomes.\n\nIn this session\, discover strategies and resources used to rethink assessment practices\, including AI prompts that have been helpful\, as well as resources/articles to think through the philosophical and pedagogical implications of active AI use in the classroom. We'll discuss how to shift a school’s culture around AI use\, both for students and for faculty.&nbsp\;
CATEGORIES:BREAKOUT SESSION
LOCATION:Atlanta\, GA\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://27te.sched.com/event/c0f502cec22ff01cc6b568daff39ae44
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DTSTAMP:20260921T043834Z
DTSTART:20270209T214500Z
DTEND:20270209T223000Z
SUMMARY:Rooms that Teach: Learning via Embodied Cognition
DESCRIPTION:Explore how embodied cognition research and John Dewey's philosophy of experience converge to reshape instructional design in elementary classrooms and libraries. Examine spatial layout\, tactile engagement\, and movement-based routines as engines of deeper\, more personal learning\, not peripheral management choices. Investigate the difference between learning done&nbsp\;to&nbsp\;students and learning done&nbsp\;with&nbsp\;them\, using real classroom and library spaces as working case studies. Practice translating abstract concepts into embodied\, hands-on routines that build metacognitive awareness and visible thinking. Leave with a framework for auditing your own instructional space through an embodied-cognition lens\, plus concrete strategies for redesigning instruction\, so students physically participate in constructing meaning rather than passively receiving it. Ideal for teachers\, librarians\, and instructional coaches ready to rethink how bodies\, spaces\, and minds work together in learning.
CATEGORIES:BREAKOUT SESSION
LOCATION:Atlanta\, GA\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://27te.sched.com/event/2275c5ecbdc6334bed084dcbdcb310ac
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DTSTAMP:20260921T043834Z
DTSTART:20270209T214500Z
DTEND:20270209T223000Z
SUMMARY:The Lifelong Language of Competency-Based Learning
DESCRIPTION:When it comes to giving academic feedback\, how do schools craft and share an assessment “language” that reduces perfectionism\, increases agency\, and fosters growth in students\, teachers\, and families?&nbsp\;\nAt Durham Academy Middle School\, we have ceased using traditional grades and transformed our teaching and learning to a competency-based approach that focuses on skills and growth over perfection. We’ll share how the vocabulary and systems we use for this model prepare our students to succeed even as we send them to an upper school with letter grades. Of course\, there have been hard lessons we’ve learned as well\, particularly when it comes to finding a learning management system that worked for us. We’ll pass those insights along too.\nParticipants in the session will leave with the big picture of why a focus on skills and proficiency helps students improve their&nbsp\;metacognitive learning skills and how competency-based rubric design helps students and teachers keep skills and progress at the center of their practice. We will provide strategies for teachers to implement small and meaningful changes in their assessment approach\, changes that can be used both in traditional numerical grading and competency-based assessment systems. Finally\, we’ll show the ways that adopting competency-based language for even a few years can benefit students through graduation and beyond.
CATEGORIES:BREAKOUT SESSION
LOCATION:Atlanta\, GA\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://27te.sched.com/event/f95fafa550ef5eb105628657b405ef21
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DTSTAMP:20260921T043834Z
DTSTART:20270209T223000Z
DTEND:20270209T233000Z
SUMMARY:Reception - Exhibits Open
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CATEGORIES:MEALS & NETWORKING
LOCATION:Atlanta\, GA\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://27te.sched.com/event/cbd1baace16ac616fa23ffe2ce021739
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DTSTAMP:20260921T043834Z
DTSTART:20270210T130000Z
DTEND:20270210T140000Z
SUMMARY:Breakfast - Exhibits Open
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CATEGORIES:MEALS & NETWORKING
LOCATION:Atlanta\, GA\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://27te.sched.com/event/7da9fceaba6d05c1deb4dda14716041d
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DTSTAMP:20260921T043834Z
DTSTART:20270210T140000Z
DTEND:20270210T150000Z
SUMMARY:Relational Intelligence in the Age of AI
DESCRIPTION:\n
CATEGORIES:KEYNOTE
LOCATION:Atlanta\, GA\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://27te.sched.com/event/ce5294394a27187c415d1ae97644e19a
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DTSTAMP:20260921T043834Z
DTSTART:20270210T150000Z
DTEND:20270210T153000Z
SUMMARY:Break - Exhibits Open
DESCRIPTION:\n
CATEGORIES:BREAK
LOCATION:Atlanta\, GA\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:47415daba4886362d5854a4ef2e672e0
URL:http://27te.sched.com/event/47415daba4886362d5854a4ef2e672e0
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DTSTAMP:20260921T043834Z
DTSTART:20270210T153000Z
DTEND:20270210T163000Z
SUMMARY:Decisions by Design\, Not by Demand
DESCRIPTION:Anticipate learner variability by designing flexible pathways rooted in Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Provide multiple means of engagement\, representation\, and action to dismantle systemic barriers before they interrupt the learning process.&nbsp\;Cultivate deep conceptual understanding by pivoting away from rote memorization toward core\, transferable ideas. Master actionable strategies to engineer inquiry-based challenges that force students to anchor facts to overarching disciplinary frameworks. Activate visible thinking routines to make internal cognitive processes explicit\, structured\, and highly collaborative. Acquire dynamic protocols to easily document and assess how student ideas evolve. Leave equipped to transform hidden thinking into an accessible ecosystem\, empowering independent\, expert learners who actively own their conceptual growth.
CATEGORIES:BREAKOUT SESSION
LOCATION:Atlanta\, GA\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://27te.sched.com/event/f319ce32cddad00c5745c7538f828160
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DTSTAMP:20260921T043834Z
DTSTART:20270210T153000Z
DTEND:20270210T163000Z
SUMMARY:Designing Learning That Lasts
DESCRIPTION:Explore how transformational learning experiences can be intentionally designed\, not just delivered. Apply the Learning Design Framework\, developed through the collaborative work of the Fine Arts Leadership Consortium (FALC)\, a network of independent school Fine Arts Directors from across Georgia\, Tennessee\, North Carolina\, and South Carolina. Discover how instructional practices long honed in arts classrooms (creation\, connection\, critique\, reflection\, public demonstration\, and transfer) can strengthen student agency\, meaningful assessment\, interdisciplinary learning\, and real-world application in every classroom. Analyze examples from independent schools\, redesign a learning experience with colleagues\, participate in a collaborative gallery walk\, and leave with a practical planning toolkit and adaptable strategies that can be implemented immediately across grade levels and disciplines.
CATEGORIES:BREAKOUT SESSION
LOCATION:Atlanta\, GA\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://27te.sched.com/event/51c31dcd83615d2ec653af6133e565e7
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DTSTAMP:20260921T043834Z
DTSTART:20270210T153000Z
DTEND:20270210T163000Z
SUMMARY:Empowering Student Voice in Math
DESCRIPTION:Explore how teachers' discretionary power shapes both their own professional growth and students' opportunities to imagine in math. This session blends reflective metacognition with practical strategies\, helping participants examine where they exercise choice\, where they default to compliance\, and how those decisions impact student agency. Walk away with actionable tools to foster radical imagination for yourself and your students.
CATEGORIES:BREAKOUT SESSION
LOCATION:Atlanta\, GA\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://27te.sched.com/event/fbe9fcf6b27aaaf402c47493d7c1b6f7
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260921T043834Z
DTSTART:20270210T153000Z
DTEND:20270210T163000Z
SUMMARY:Want Better Discussions? Teach Attention Management
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CATEGORIES:BREAKOUT SESSION
LOCATION:Atlanta\, GA\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://27te.sched.com/event/696cb612d869302615ca0d6fd58d5ee9
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260921T043834Z
DTSTART:20270210T163000Z
DTEND:20270210T173000Z
SUMMARY:Lunch
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CATEGORIES:MEALS & NETWORKING
LOCATION:Atlanta\, GA\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://27te.sched.com/event/b2e91e3b9e40868cd9a342716ec979fa
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DTSTAMP:20260921T043834Z
DTSTART:20270210T173000Z
DTEND:20270210T181500Z
SUMMARY:Member Voice Spotlight: Empowered Action & Student Agency
DESCRIPTION:Student agency and AI adoption don't have to compete with rigorous assessment. They can strengthen it.\n\nIn this interactive session\, Connie White and Elizabeth Helfant will share real examples that are putting Empowered Action and Creative Reasoning into practice. You'll see multiple approaches to two connected challenges: giving students more agency as they work alongside AI and adjusting assessment practices to match.\n\nThis is a working session for the whole group\, built around real decisions school leaders have already made and the thinking behind them.\n\nYou'll leave with concrete models to adapt\, not just ideas to consider.
CATEGORIES:KEYNOTE
LOCATION:Atlanta\, GA\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:ff075bd4f35dd6073bfe3a70f95b1778
URL:http://27te.sched.com/event/ff075bd4f35dd6073bfe3a70f95b1778
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DTSTAMP:20260921T043834Z
DTSTART:20270210T181500Z
DTEND:20270210T183000Z
SUMMARY:Break
DESCRIPTION:\n
CATEGORIES:BREAK
LOCATION:Atlanta\, GA\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://27te.sched.com/event/221a14c1222940632566ddd330420eda
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DTSTAMP:20260921T043834Z
DTSTART:20270210T183000Z
DTEND:20270210T193000Z
SUMMARY:Defeating Outsourcing: Redesigning Curriculum With Metacognition and AI
DESCRIPTION:Review&nbsp\;work from Randolph School teachers in History\, Science\, English\, and World Language classrooms who redesigned curriculum to incorporate a 4-level integration spectrum and ROLE Model to teach students to be more mindful of how to prompt engineer and use AI effectively.&nbsp\;\n\n-Audit and categorize current assignments using the 4-level AI Integration Spectrum to protect foundational thinking.&nbsp\;\n-Equip students with the hands-on ROLE Model to teach them how to prompt intentionally and evaluate AI outputs critically.&nbsp\;\n-Embed process-based\, accountability strategies directly into assessments and grading process to protect cognitive processes.&nbsp\;\n-Walk away with turnkey lessons and practical design templates to redesign curriculum in any secondary classroom.\n\nLeave this interactive workshop ready to shift your students from passive consumers to metacognitive co-pilots\, ensuring the core thinking in your classroom stays distinctly human.\n\nBuild new systems and frameworks at your school to give teachers actionable support to manage AI challenges.
CATEGORIES:BREAKOUT SESSION
LOCATION:Atlanta\, GA\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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DTSTAMP:20260921T043834Z
DTSTART:20270210T183000Z
DTEND:20270210T193000Z
SUMMARY:Experiential Learning In an AI World
DESCRIPTION:In this session\, we will explore how experiential learning can help students build deeper thinking in an AI-supported classroom. We will look at how authentic tasks create opportunities for students to make decisions\, test ideas\, explain their reasoning\, revise through feedback\, and apply learning in new situations. The session will introduce judgment\, synthesis\, reasoning\, and transfer as key markers for designing and assessing meaningful student work. Participants will use a practical framework to rethink an assignment so the learning process becomes more visible\, measurable\, and connected to real cognitive development. Educators will leave with a clear tool for designing experiences that move students beyond polished products and toward demonstrated thinking.
CATEGORIES:BREAKOUT SESSION
LOCATION:Atlanta\, GA\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://27te.sched.com/event/c3acc3330c434b2c02809f98ea815e52
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DTSTAMP:20260921T043834Z
DTSTART:20270210T183000Z
DTEND:20270210T193000Z
SUMMARY:Leveraging Brain Science for Device-Altered Classrooms
DESCRIPTION:Today’s students are showing up differently. Fueled by smart technology\, schools face unprecedented spikes in student inattentiveness\, emotional dysregulation\, and learning differences. Designing for neurodiversity is no longer the exception\; it must be the baseline for all learners.\n\nThis interactive session bridges the cultural insights of Jonathan Haidt’s&nbsp\;The Anxious Generation&nbsp\;with the practical Mind\, Brain\, and Education (MBE) science of Glenn Whitman's&nbsp\;Neuroteach. We will examine what is physically happening to children’s developing brains in a device-driven world and pivot immediately to solutions.&nbsp\;\n\nAttendees will explore concrete instructional and classroom management shifts to address dysregulation at the core level. Finally\, we will discuss how embedding opportunities for healthy\, low-stakes risk-taking inside and outside the classroom can rebuild student confidence\, agency\, and resilience.
CATEGORIES:BREAKOUT SESSION
LOCATION:Atlanta\, GA\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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DTSTAMP:20260921T043834Z
DTSTART:20270210T183000Z
DTEND:20270210T193000Z
SUMMARY:Tracing Human Learning: An AI-Age Workshop
DESCRIPTION:When AI can generate summaries\, explanations\, drafts\, feedback\, reflections\, and polished products\, teachers need learning designs that value the human learning behind the product. In this hands-on workshop\, participants will use a cross-disciplinary TRACE protocol for human learning: Target the learning aim\, Retain human learning moves\, Apply support intentionally\, Capture meaningful evidence\, and Explain choices and growth\, to redesign tasks around student agency\, metacognition\, ethical support\, and meaningful evidence of understanding.\n\nParticipants will work through classroom AI-use scenarios\, classify them as support\, substitute\, or dependent\, and redesign a task or assessment from their own context. The session will emphasize that the goal is not to collect more artifacts or move assessment toward surveillance. The goal is to identify which human learning moves deserve attention as the sites of learning.\n\nParticipants will leave with a redesign template\, an AI-use decision protocol\, assessment guidance\, and reflection/disclosure language adaptable across disciplines.
CATEGORIES:BREAKOUT SESSION
LOCATION:Atlanta\, GA\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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