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Good morning! It's Ann Schimke with Chalkbeat Colorado.

In our featured Q&A today, you’ll meet an award-winning Denver teacher named Shawn Hann. In a couple weeks, she’s taking several dozen students to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a massive theater festival where her group will perform the musical Legally Blonde, Jr. Read on to learn what motivates Hann.

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