Waching daily May 7 2018

Good Morning Everyone, Ron Benham here.

I'm on Cambridge Common this is for a little historical lesson uh George Washington actually

encamped here July 3rd 1775 as part of the American Revolution.

And what I would like to say to all of you is this honor to be part of the revolution

that occurred in Massachusetts for very young children, and the work of the all of us certainly

the Massachusetts Early Intervention Consortium which I am a proud founding member.

That I believe that we have done revolutionary work especially with parents leading us and

the work of the Consortium all the staff that are there and I want to say both Hello and

Thank you for all the work that you do everyday.

As well as the Department of Public Health Colleagues I believe that we have tried to

be good advocrates which is a combination of Advocates and Bureaucrates at the same

time. and over the 35 years at the Department of Public Health and 5 more tacked onto that

at the Cape Cod Child Development Program as the as Executive Director I have done 40

years within the Early Intervention community and it has been the absolute highlight of

my life.

So THANK YOU ALL and have a great conference thank you for the opportunity to let me speak

to you by video and have a great conference and keep up the great work.

THANK YOU ~ Ron Benham

For more infomation >> Ron's Video - Duration: 1:25.

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Ignite Landing Video - Duration: 2:13.

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good grades that feel like just a hoop to jump through.

That's not how education has to be.

I know this from my five years as an English and social studies teacher in small private

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