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Educators from Cambridge’s public schools voiced their approval as Suzanne Bouffard, a researcher and writer with the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), spoke about the galvanizing power of helping students believe that college is a goal they can not only pursue, but can master and achieve. “Students need to believe that they can go to college,” she said. “It’s having the opportunity to master that experience, not simply being told that they’re able to do it.” Bouffard, the co-author of “Ready, Willing, and Able: A Developmental Approach to College Access and Success” with Mandy Savitz-Romer, the director of the Prevention Science and Practice Program and senior lecturer on education at HGSE, addressed the crowd March 14 as part of a professional development class through Harvard’s Project TEACH. Created 25 years ago as a way to connect Harvard with the Cambridge public schools (CPS), Project TEACH now involves sharing a research-based approach with...