Thread by @TracyNovick

Commissioner Jeff Riley now up at #MASBOinstitute2018

"We've had 25 years of so-called 'education reform' and we've seen some good things...but I think people are tired" #MASBOInstitute2018

"We need to get people talking again, so we can figure out what comes next." #MASBOinstitute2018

(this is really interesting...Riley's telling the story about his student Michael and theater, which he told in his interview, and the Secretary pushed back on.) #MASBOinstitute2018

Riley notes that this year's teacher of the year had 15 former students there who are also math teachers #MASBOinstitute2018

importance of good teaching: "Don't worry about the test scores; good teaching will lead to that."

But as important enrichment "because we believe it is important to a child's developement" #MASBOinstitute2018

"Let's track the kids twenty years from now, and see where the kids are."
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hard work
and
critical thinking

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"how we can together do better"
"I think the education system in Massachusetts in the past 25 years has been test and punish, and I think we need to get away from that."
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#MAEdu

"Personal relationships matter."
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Riley closes with the story "Three Letters from Teddy" by Elizabeth Silance Ballard catholiceducation.org/en/faith-and-c…
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