To understand Patrick Tutwiler's career in education, from teacher to superintendent to Massachusetts secretary of education, you have to start with a book.
Unlike many people who knew from a young age that they wanted to become teachers, Tutwiler, Ed.M.’00, was set to graduate from college, with no plans to enter the classroom, when he stumbled upon Jean Anyon’s Ghetto Schooling — a troubling chronicle of the life of teachers and students trapped in a failing school system in Newark, New Jersey.
Tutwiler saw much of his own educational experience in the pages. “That’s when I received my calling,” he says. “I felt my heartstrings pulled and felt like I could make a contribution.”
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