 Hi everybody so as I'm taping this I have begun my 35th year in the classroom and I'm really looking forward to coming out on September 30th on behalf of the Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium and you know really kind of getting at this idea of really elevating student reading and writing. I think first and foremost it's really a volume issue, a volume problem. Kids are not reading enough. They're not writing enough. There's a lot of fake readers. If you agree with me on that then I think this day coming up will be really valuable because what we're gonna do is we're gonna look at moving kids from sort of compliant reading and writing to engaged reading and writing. There's a big difference right between reading and writing that's sort of task oriented and reading and writing that's more more generative and so I really do believe even after all these years that all my kids really do like to read and they really do like to write and I look forward to sharing some of that thinking with you. So please come and join us teachers in Alberta, teachers across Edmonton. Come and see us September 30th at the Fantasyland Hotel and we'll have a very rich day discussing you know elevating adolescent reading and writing.