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Mariah Mercil is the Literacy Implementation Lead for the Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement at the University of Minnesota. She is also a certified Minnesota Department of Education sponsored facilitator of Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling (LETRS). She worked as a teacher, instructional coach, and administrator at one of the two sites in the MN Transformation Zone project. She has a BA in Psychology and Elementary Education with a 5-8 Literature and Communication Arts specialty and MA in Educational Leadership.