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GRIFFITH — In a year where education has completely changed, one of Indiana’s top teachers is still figuring it out. Merv Barenie, a seventh-grade teacher at Griffith Middle School, is teaching this year with about two-thirds of his students in his classroom with the other third learning remotely. Griffith Public Schools, like many of its neighboring districts, has navigated a mix of in-person and remote learning options during the coronavirus pandemic, in some weeks experiencing full building closures as the pandemic continues. For Barenie — an educator inspired by William Wirt’s work-study-play model of teaching — the 2020-21 school year has been “pretty tough.”

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