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Good morning. This is Melanie Asmar with Chalkbeat Colorado.

Chalkbeat Ideas Editor Matt Barnum recently spoke with Leadville teacher Dylan Kane, whose seventh-grade classroom went screen-free. Dropping ed tech has been harder, he told Barnum. But that might be why it’s working.

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