Events

Recent Event

Condition of Education 2025

January 30, 2025

UMass Club, One Beacon Street, 32nd Floor, Boston

On January 30 we held our annual summit on the state of education in Massachusetts, bringing together education leaders, policymakers, and practitioners to talk about the future of our education system. The event featured a keynote address from Massachusetts Secretary of Education Patrick Tutwiler and a panel discussion with all three state education commissioners—Early Education and Care Commissioner Amy Kershaw, Elementary and Secondary Education Acting Commissioner Russell Johnston, and Higher Education Commissioner Noe Ortega.

Rennie Center Helps Design Healey-Driscoll Administration’s Literacy Launch Institutes

May 29, 2025

Last year, the Healey-Driscoll Administration kicked off Literacy Launch, a new approach to improving early literacy that aims to ensure Massachusetts schools, educators, and students have access to high-quality, evidence-based reading instruction. A core component of this initiative, the Literacy Launch Institutes offer free training opportunities focused on preschool through third grade literacy. HILL for Literacy will run the institutes with support from the Rennie Center. Our team will help to design and implement the statewide professional learning institutes and follow up with targeted support for educators on effectively implementing evidence-based practices.