2. Table of Contents
CEO Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Our Programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Customised Professional Learning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Our Scheduled Programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Short Programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
All School and Education Leaders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Teacher Leaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Middle Leaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Deputy, Assistant and Associate Principals and Heads of School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Principals, Executive Principals and Headmasters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Sector and System Leaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Supporting International Educational Leadership. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Feel Confident You are Working with the Best . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Facilitators, Ambassadors and Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
QELi’s Nine Core Principles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Developing leaders
Changing lives

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Welcome to the 2016 QELi prospectus and program guide.
At the heart of all QELi’s endeavours is a commitment to supporting and elevating school
leaders’ leadership skills and ability. You can feel confident that when you work with QELi, you
will receive the highest-quality professional learning experience: we partner with an exceptional
community of experts, utilise up-to-the-minute evidence-based research, and connect with
industry bodies and universities, to make sure you have access to first-class resources.
This year, QELi celebrates its fifth year of operation - a significant milestone in the remarkable journey
of this unique and cutting-edge organisation. The QELi story, to date, is a very impressive one.
During the past five years, QELi has developed an exceptional reputation for quality. We have
been proud to support almost 7,500 education leaders, in more than 250 programs, across
all sectors. More importantly, QELi program participants are impressed and have given our
programs an outstanding rating of 4.5 on a five-point scale.
This year, we are excited to be able to offer you QELi’s signature programs, scheduled
throughout the year, including our Middle Leadership program, Emerging Principals program,
Executive Leadership for School Principals program, and our Practical Resilience program. We
have listened to your feedback and developed several exciting new offerings. Each of these
programs builds on your experience as an education leader, and elevates your capability, skills
and confidence.
Our scheduled programs sit alongside our on-demand and customised programs. Our team
can work closely with you to tailor a program that responds to specific challenges within your
school, cluster or system. You can choose to develop specific skills and competencies, within
a format that suits your budget and schedule. Our facilitators and presenters can come to you
and deliver your program at a convenient location, to the highest standards, which you have
come to expect from all QELi programs.
Whether you’re at the start of your career or have years of experience, QELi is the perfect
partner to support your leadership development journey.
Dr Stephen Brown
CEO

4. Our
Programs / 7
Our leadership development programs
empower teachers and school leaders by
providing the critical skills, knowledge and
confidence necessary to progress, both
personally and professionally.
When you join a QELi program, you will gain access to
a network of passionate, professional and dedicated
experts to support you through your leadership journey.
All of our programs are able to be customised for groups
within schools, systems and sectors.

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Customised
Professional Learning
When you, your leadership team, region, system
or sector need to develop critical leadership
skills or build on knowledge around specific
content areas, you can rely on QELi to create a
customised program to suit your needs.
We work with you to customise and
contextualise one of our existing programs, or
create an integrated leadership development
solution specifically for you.
Perhaps you would like support:
æ Improving your educational leadership skills
æ Building effective, strategic, and high-
performing leadership teams
æ Developing coaching skills and creating a
culture of explicit feedback
æ Becoming a change agent in your school
to lead improvement
æ Creating strong networks with peers and
leading professional educators
æ Developing practical resilience strategies.
Convenient
Professional Learning
Our customised approach means that you can have
a tailored QELi program, delivered in your school or
town, at a time that suits you and your team. We
are proud to have supported a number of leadership
teams in metropolitan, regional and rural areas of
Australia and internationally, including:
æ Brisbane, QLD
æ Cairns, QLD
æ Mackay, QLD
æ Normanton, QLD
æ Rockhampton, QLD
æ Toowoomba, QLD
æ Townsville, QLD
æ Bathurst, NSW
æ Lismore, NSW
æ Melbourne, VIC
æ Wangaratta, VIC
æ Hobart, TAS
æ Port Augusta, SA
æ Darwin, NT
æ Republic of Nauru
æ West Papua Province

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Recent examples of our customised work for
clients include:
Assistant Regional
Directors
For the second year, 20 Assistant Regional
Directors from Queensland’s Department
of Education and Training completed the
mixed-modality Leadership Development
Program for ARDs program. The first phase
was a four-day workshop which focussed
on developing critical leadership capabilities
needed for high-level supervision of school
performance. For the second phase, QELi
assisted ARDs to establish a Community of
Practice, for an ongoing 12 months. Through
the program, participants have experienced
increased depth of discussion, sharing of
knowledge, support and peer mentoring, and
collaborative work projects.
Executive Development for
Education Leaders
Catholic Education Leaders
Twenty-three Catholic education leaders from seven dioceses across Queensland and New
South Wales, participated in the customised Executive Development for Education Leaders
program. This exceptional new program has been customised to suit the Catholic sector,
and exposed participants to current research, policy and benchmarking tools in education.
A highlight of the program was a 10-day educational benchmarking tour of schools and
colleges in Los Angeles, USA and Ontario, Canada. Participants channelled their learnings and
experiences into independently researched position papers, which have been presented to their
respective dioceses.
As a result of the exceptional outcomes and feedback, QELi are delighted to offer a second
program for Catholic leaders in 2016.
Northern Territory Leaders
Executive Development for Educational Leaders is about developing a strong, positive vision
for the Northern Territory schools and system, and improving the framework for improved
student outcomes. Together with Charles Darwin University, QELi provided 11 participants, from
schools and educational institutes around the region, with heightened knowledge and skillset to
contribute to policy and educational reform. This included a 10-day educational benchmarking
tour of Hong Kong and China. Participants developed and presented position papers on
systemic and localised issues effecting their contexts.
You can also refer to our support for System Leaders on page 27.

7. Our
Scheduled
Programs / 13
You may be looking for exceptional
leadership skills, coaching and mentoring
expertise, or specialist leadership
development to fast-track your career.
QELi’s calendar of scheduled programs
align to specific educational roles, including:
æ Teacher Leader
æ Middle Leader
æ School Business Manager
æ Deputy, Assistant or Associate Principal
æ Principal or a Head of School
æ Principal, Executive Principal or Headmaster
æ System or Sector Leader.

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Our short-format programs allows you to re-
energise your team with fresh inspiration and
learning on a range of topics. Enjoy a high-
quality presenter or thought leader who will
deliver specialised content to your team, to
help them build critical skills. Short-format and
special event programs include:
æ Student-free days
æ Thought-leaders speakers and MC
responsibilities
æ Student and staff health and well-being
(in partnership with the Resilience Institute)
æ Mentoring programs
æ Boardroom lunches.
SHORTPROGRAMS
COACHINGSKILLS
Coaching skills are essential for
education leaders at any stage
of their career. A professional
learning strategy, coaching
recognises and responds to the
unique context and issues of each
leader’s work.
QELi partners with a number of high-quality,
nationally and internationally accredited
coaches and strategic consultants who can
support you if you are new to coaching,
need follow-up or advanced training, team
coaching for particular projects, or would like
to create a coaching culture in your school.
Coaching
Accreditation Program
This program is designed for leaders and
managers in the education sector who want
to build their leadership skills to manage
themselves and others toward greater
performance. It develops a higher level of
coaching knowledge and skill, leading to an
industry-recognised credential in coaching.
The program runs over three to five months
and includes a mixture of workshop contact
days and flexible external learning modules.
Peer Coaching:
Conversations about
Teaching Practices
This program is designed for pairs of teachers
who are already working collaboratively and
want to extend themselves and each other.
It will help you support each other in your
learning, enabling rigour and establishing
classroom success. It provides a balance of
theory and practical tools to build trust and
enable professional teamwork and dialogue. If
you successfully complete the program, you
may be eligible for recognition of academic
credit at several Australian universities.
Performance Conversations
This program is for leaders who have
line management and/or performance
management responsibilities for others. It
uses an innovative way of building solutions
into performance management conversations.

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In the Coach’s Box ™
In the Coach’s Box™ is executive coaching
for school leaders, and is unique to QELi.
It helps school leaders, who are facing a
range of pressures, step outside their day-
to-day responsibilities and focus on their
development. Through In the Coach’s Box™,
principals will connect with an experienced
executive coach, to assist in building your
confidence and enact your vision for your
school or system.
COACHINGSKILLS
Practical Resilience
The Practical Resilience program is offered in partnership with The
Resilience Institute and will give you insights into steps you can take
every day to develop a more resilient outlook, and help you bounce
back when things don’t go the way you planned.
You will gain:
æ Individual resilience strategies and skills to enhance personal
well-being and performance
æ Enhanced ability to contribute to team performance and
organisational outcomes.
Women in Leadership AllianceTM
High-achieving women at all levels of leadership in the education
sector will benefit from this unique women’s leadership program,
developed in collaboration with Women and Leadership Australia.
It combines a leadership development workshop with peer-group
networking, to create an unprecedented forum for professional
development and on-going support.
You will gain:
æ Key knowledge, skills and capabilities required to lead schools
and your communities
æ Confidence to move into high-level leadership roles
æ A network of colleagues dedicated to leadership growth.
ALLSCHOOL&EDUCATIONLEADERS

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All teachers are leaders and
can benefit investing in their
leadership skills, which can
support their professional and
personal development.
Future Leaders Program
This program will introduce you to innovative leadership evidence and
research, and will provide you with practical learning about you as a
leader, leading a team and leading a school. Consider this program if
you are a teacher interested in extending your leadership effectiveness
and influence, or you are moving into a formal or informal leadership
position within your school.
You will gain:
æ More effective leaderships skills for your classroom, and with
your peers and colleagues
æ A collaborative network dedicated to your leadership growth
æ Improved confidence gained through practical advice, skills and
access to influential leaders
æ Recognition for prior learning from a number of universities
towards masters degrees and other courses.
TEACHERLEADERS
Leaders who benefit the most
from these programs include,
heads of department, heads
of curriculum, heads of special
education services, year level
coordinators, and positions of
added responsibility.
MIDDLELEADERS
“I can’t recommend
highly enough the value
I’ve got out of QELi’s
professional networks,
throughout Australia.
I’ve met some great people who have a wide
variety of experiences. It has also given me a
greater understanding of leadership theories
and tools I can implement straight away.
Working with QELi has added a new energy
to my teaching, and hopefully it will add new
energy to my students as well.
”Joseph Fumar
Moreton Bay Boys College, Brisbane Queensland
Independent sector
Middle Leadership Program

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Introduction to
Middle Leadership Program
Teachers considering moving, or have recently
moved, into middle leadership roles will gain
the leadership skills and confidence necessary
to effectively support and contribute to their
school’s success. The program will equip you
with the skills to demonstrate you have the
capacity and capability to be a competent
and effective middle leader.
You will gain:
æ Skills to assist in enhancing the quality
of teaching and learning in your school
æ An ability to understand and build
emotional intelligence in relation to
yourself and your team
æ Confidence to contribute to your school
mission and goals
æ Flexibility to respond to and support
change initiatives
æ An understanding of the importance
of effective communication and timely
feedback.
Middle Leadership Program
The Middle Leadership program will give
you exposure to, and help you learn from,
high-quality teaching and learning practices.
It supports school leaders with formal or
informal middle leadership responsibilities to
build their leadership skills and become highly
effective leaders of teaching, learning and
school improvement.
You will gain:
æ An improved ability to lead change and
improve the quality of teaching and
learning in your school
æ Tools to motivate others to work
cohesively to improve teaching and
learning outcomes
æ A greater understand of the relationship
between personal effectiveness and
leadership development
æ Confidence having led a key initiative in
your school
æ Recognition for prior learning from a
number of universities towards masters
degrees and other courses.
MIDDLELEADERS
Advanced
Middle Leadership Program
This program supports experienced middle
leaders’ ongoing pursuit for excellence. The
program builds on the skills and knowledge
fostered during QELi’s Middle Leadership
program, to explore and develop skills around
the more challenging aspects of leadership,
relating to vision, strategy and school-wide
improvement.
You will gain:
æ Tools to build a high-performance culture
that dives employee productivity and
engagement
æ An improved ability to lead and manage
change seamlessly and sustain
improvement in schools
æ A greater ability to build effective teams
and trust within the organisation.
MIDDLELEADERS
Business Service Managers
Business service managers, school registrars,
and those with operations and finance
managerial positions in schools will gain
skills and confidence to lead diverse teams,
adapt to change, and work collaboratively to
achieve improved governance and business
deliverables for your school.
You will gain:
æ An increased understanding of yourself
and your impact on others
æ Tools to harness and develop the skills
and talents of a diverse team
æ Improved skills in leading and
influencing others
æ An improved ability to effectively manage
change to align to the improvement of
school systems and processes
æ Recognition for prior learning from a
number of universities towards masters
degrees and other courses.

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These programs will be of interest to
senior leaders interested in extending
and strengthening their leadership
skills and capabilities, or those
preparing for a role as principal.
Emerging Principals Program
This program is designed to support high-
performing deputy, assistant and associate
principals, who may also be aspiring to the
position of principal. It provides participants
with practical and research-based tools and
strategies.
You will gain:
æ Extended and strengthened strategic
leadership capabilities, to support your
move into the role of principal
æ Greater ability to lead effective teaching
and learning, lead self and others, and
lead improvement, innovation and
change, and help you work with your
school community
æ Recognition for prior learning from a
number of universities towards masters
degrees and other courses.
DEPUTY,ASSISTANT
&ASSOCIATEPRINCIPALS&HEADSOFSCHOOL
Resource Management
for Educational Leaders
The program will give individuals and
multi-disciplined teams (including school
principals, school business managers,
assistant principals, middle leaders and
those aspiring to educational leadership
or governance positions) responsible for
resource management within your school,
insight into education leadership, business
and governance matters, and holistic
resource management within schools and the
education sector.
You will gain:
æ Financial management skills for
schools, including short and long-term
budgeting, and asset and infrastructure
management
æ Skills in workforce planning and
management
æ Skills in outsourcing, pricing, purchasing
and investment in school resources
æ Knowledge of governance
requirements.

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Creating Superb School
Leadership Teams™
This program is delivered on-demand
and online. It will increase principals and
leadership team’s capability to work
effectively together to achieve whole-
school improvement. It will provide you with
strategies to develop a shared vision, and
establish group protocols. It will also help you
shape team learning and build a coaching
culture within your school.
You will gain:
æ A refocused and re-energised attitude
æ A more cohesive and high-performing
leadership team
æ A collegial network of like-minded
principals to share and exchange key
challenges and learnings
æ Recognition for prior learning from a
number of universities towards masters
degrees and other courses.
QELi’s range of programs for
principals have been specifically
designed to focus on individual
advancement, as well as
team leadership development.
Executive Leadership
for School Principals
Program
This program supports experienced principals
who have recently transitioned to complex
and challenging contexts, or are about
to undergo a significant transition in their
leadership journeys.
You will gain:
æ Confidence to transition into new
educational contexts and settings
æ A broadened awareness and
understanding of policy
æ A strengthened ability to lead key
educational initiatives
æ A deeper capacity to deal with
ambiguity and uncertainty associated
with change and transition.
PRINCIPALS,EXECPRINCIPALS&HEADMASTERS
Small School
Leadership Program
Principals from small rural, regional and
metropolitan schools will benefit from this
intensive program. A key focus of the program
is the development and implementation of a
collaborative learning project with business,
industry and the broader community.
You will gain:
æ Improved learning opportunities and
outcomes for young people
æ Strengthened links to the education
community
æ Greater understanding of your role in
enhancing economic and community
development through educational
leadership
æ Potential for collaborative partnerships
between education, community
and business to enhance education
opportunities and outcomes.
PRINCIPALS,EXECPRINCIPALS&HEADMASTERS
“The program was
outstanding.
The pre-work preparation and ongoing
coaching and support was first-class, and
amplified the impact of the time we actually
were together.
”Iain Belot
Calvin Christian School, Tasmania, Catholic sector
Executive Leadership for School Principals
program

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QELi has extensive experience
supporting leadership
development at a sector and
system level. Our team has
worked with sector, system,
regional and diocese leaders,
policy makers, and heads
of peak associations and
professional bodies wanting to
develop larger teams and affect
wide-scaled change.
SECTOR&SYSTEMLEADERS
Communities of Practice
The Communities of Practice framework is
a leading innovative model for developing
professional networks, which can be adapted
to suit a particular cluster, region, sector or
system.
Teams will benefit from:
æ A defined purpose and specific working
parties
æ Promoted information, best practice
and innovation sharing amongst leaders
æ Knowledge management
æ Collegial relationship building between
schools and districts
æ Improved consistency of practice within
an identified discipline.
For examples of our programs we have
developed to support system leaders, see
page 10.
“It was refreshing to be
actively engaged in
problem-based learning
in a collaborative way.
The speakers each spoke with authenticity
and contextual experience, and each of the
workshops aligned perfectly. It was obvious
that they had a deep understanding of our
role, context and challenges.
It was an essential part of us forming early
connections and sharing solutions, and has
developed into ongoing work in our ARD
community of practice.
”Matthew Johnson
Brisbane, Queensland
Leadership Development program for Assistant
Regional Directors and ARD Communities of Practice
(customised programs)

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Choose a Strategic International Educational
Benchmarking Experience to China and Hong
Kong, or USA and Canada.
Sector leaders can also consider:
æ Coaching programs
æ Creating Superb School Leadership
Teams
æ Executive Leadership for School
Principals
æ Small School Leadership
æ Practical Resilience
æ Women in Leadership Alliance
æ Customised programs that support
key initiatives or outcomes for specific
contexts.
Strategic International
Educational Benchmarking
Experience
A unique opportunity to explore a number
of high-performing international educational
institutes with a world-renowned facilitator
and guide. On the 10-day tour, you will
observe and explore themes for comparison,
including school reform, schooling
approaches and teaching practices.
Teams will benefit from:
æ Comparing their school’s performance
against others in a global marketplace
æ Experiencing first-hand insights into
international processes, approaches
and pedagogical practices
æ Observing and collaborating with
colleagues in other jurisdictions on
school improvement measures
æ Exploring and reflecting on personal and
school and/or your sector’s values
æ Drawing on experiences to develop
action plans to address significant local
issues.
SECTORANDSYSTEMLEADERS
“I want the best teacher
for your children and I
want each classroom to
have the best teacher.
The once-in-a-lifetime educational
benchmarking tour of schools in
California, USA, and Ontario, Canada,
helped fuel my independent research
and position paper, looking at teacher
quality and building teacher capacity
through collaboration.
” Michele McDonald
Teaching and Learning Consultant (K-12)
Catholic Schools Office, Diocese of Lismore
Executive Development for Education Leaders

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Supporting International Educational Leadership
QELi’s strong commitment to supporting educational leaders grow and develop their leadership
skills extends past our shores. Over the past five years, QELi has built a solid reputation for
delivering relevant, customised and high-quality programs and services, and contribute to
improved school and student outcomes in schools and regions in overseas markets, including
China, Hong Kong, Scotland, West Papua-Indonesia, The Philippines, the Republic of Nauru,
United Arab Emirates and Sri Lanka.
QELi’s international training experience includes working with international foundations and
not-for-profit organisations, governments, private and international schools and their related
associations, donor agencies, and universities and higher education organisations.
QELi’s international work includes:
æ Leadership development
æ Organisational renewal
æ System development
æ Strategic planning/development
æ Building effective partnerships
æ Governance
æ Teacher development
æ School improvement.
“I loved every minute of it!
The entire program
has been extremely
thought-provoking and
challenging.
It has been a tremendous experience
participating in this QELi program in
Australia. It was rewarding to learn
from such an experienced team, and in
turn share my leadership experiences.
I am excited to start implementing all I
have learned with my leadership team
in Nauru.
” Floria Detabene
Nauru Secondary School, Nauru
Executive Leadership
for School Principals
INTERNATIONALEDUCATIONALLEADERSHIP

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We work with the best and align ourselves with the best, to
deliver the best. Some of our partners are:
Partners
Australian Catholic University
Charles Darwin University
Charles Stuart University
Flinders University
Griffith University
Queensland College of Teachers
Queensland University
of Technology
The Resilience Institute
University of Southern Queensland
Women and Leadership Australia
Ambassadors
Dr Lyn Bishop
Mike Byrne
Peter Foster
Bev Fluckiger
Wendy Graham
Margaret Gurney
Cathy Jackson
Ben Kidd
Michael McCusker
Stephen Paul OAM
Chris Rider
James Sloman
Facilitators
Phil Billington
Dr Stephen Brown
Emeritus Professor
Patrick Duignan
Maggie Farrar
Wendy Graham
Elizabeth Jameson
Bernie Lloyd
Peta Sigley
Dr Barbara Watterston
Amanda Ypinazar
Feel Confident
You are Working with
the Best
“QELi have leadership
solutions of all stages of my team’s
leadership journey.
Leaders need opportunities to explore outside their
immediate environment, and to reflect and learn with
colleagues in similar situations. The advantage of
working with QELi is they have the breadth and depth to
provide quality leadership solutions that build into more
advanced programs, and support each member of our
team as they grow and develop.
”Bill Dixon
Diocese of Cairns, Queensland
System Leadership Development
Executive Development for Education Leaders and Small School
Leadership program

18. QELi’s program development is guided by nine core principles
QELi believes that highly successful school-based leadership is:
1. Contextual: it recognises, respects and enriches the school’s contextual values. These
include spiritual, indigenous, cultural, ethnic, historical, geographic and social dimensions
2. Inseparable from personal qualities, particularly a passion for educational enhancement,
deep convictions regarding societal betterment, resilience and positivity
3. Distributed, encompassing the principal, teams and individuals in a range of
organisational and pedagogical functions
4. Able to enhance student achievement and well-being through systems that are both
direct and indirect
5. A way to ensure the sustainability of quality teaching and learning
6. Connected to systems, networks and alliances
7. Able to recognise the strengths of different leadership styles and approaches
8. Characterised by versatility, in recognition of the complexity of schools and of the various
phases of longitudinal school improvement and sustainability
9. Able to facilitate and nurture leadership development across the school, community
and systems.

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