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level of the people who can make a real difference in schools. Thank you very much.

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Thank you so much, Andreas, for your presentation, for your speech. I'm going to ask you to

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give the floor to the Director General of Cooperation, Territory and Evaluation of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, José Luis Blanco.

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I just want to tell you that the PowerPoint presentations will be available on our website

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in the General Direction of Innovation, Scholarships and Aids, translated into Spanish, so that you can download them and consult them easily.

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Thank you. Whenever you are ready, José Luis.

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Good morning. Thank you very much, Ismael. Mr. Councillor, Mr. Director of the OECD.

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Well, speaking at this time, after the two speeches of the previous speakers, both the Director General of the Community of Madrid and the Director of the OECD,

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it is a challenge. It seems to me that practically everything that had to be said has already been said about the document that is now presented to all of you.

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However, I am going to make a brief reflection. In addition, it will be brief, because as we approach the time for lunch, I am sure that all of you will thank me for the brevity.

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Well, I think we will all agree that human capital is probably the main capital that a country has.

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It is the main element of progress. And education is the instrument we have to increase that human capital.

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We cannot have a good educational system, on the other hand, if we do not evaluate it.

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And the commitment of the Ministry of Education has always been with the evaluations of the educational system.

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With the evaluations not only of PISA, but also of TIMSS and PILS, with all the international diagnostic evaluations.

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These evaluations allow us to make an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the systems and, in addition, to make decisions by the political leaders.

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From these international evaluations, I would like to draw perhaps two conclusions.

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The first of all, which I like to point out as a teacher, because I am a teacher in a situation of special services,

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exercising a political responsibility now, is that the key to the quality of an educational system lies in the teacher and in the professionalism of the teacher.

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And in this we have a serious responsibility of the educational administrations.

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I will not repeat here the reflections made by Andreas Slaeser on our system of public teaching function, particularly.

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We all know it. Certainly, our system is a system in which practically the mere passage of time is the only progression in that teaching profession.

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This is sad and not very hopeful and not very motivating for the teacher to improve.

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However, I also want to break a spear in favour of the teacher of our educational system.

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He is a magnificent teacher and we, the political leaders, are the ones who have the responsibility of guaranteeing the conditions

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in which this magnificent teacher will be able to develop his function.

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Therefore, the exhibitions that the two responsible people who preceded me have just carried out place me in the serious responsibility of taking note of them,

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of taking note, which we should have already taken many years ago, of the results of the international tests, to take the appropriate measures.

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The Minister of Education has recently proposed, as one of the main axes of the educational policy in this country,

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precisely the teaching function and he has recently proposed to all autonomous communities in sectoral conferences a white book on the teaching function.

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Perhaps this is the instrument on which we must build precisely the quality of our educational system,

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because, as I said before, the progress of a country and the main capital of a country is human capital.

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The main asset of an educational system, without a doubt, is its teacher.

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But, apart from this element of teaching, for me a fundamental element, obviously, is to equip the centres of autonomy

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and to the autonomy it is necessary to equip the centres with the appropriate evaluation instruments.

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As Andreas Schleser has said, perhaps the educational systems or the teaching organisation systems of educational centres

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that produce the worst results are usually, according to international studies, those systems that focus only on autonomy.

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Autonomy without responsibility, without accountability, does not produce better results.

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That is why it is especially important in today's meeting that we present a fundamental instrument to achieve this improvement of the results,

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to unite autonomy, which is not but an expression of confidence in the professionalism of the teachers,

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who know how to solve the problems of the educational communities.

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They are the teachers who attend and provide the public education service.

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However, we must equip the autonomy of the correlation of evaluation.

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Therefore, PISA for School is an expression of this confidence in the teachers

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and of the necessary correlation of evaluation and to equip those teachers with the appropriate instrument

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that allows us to develop a culture of evaluation and continuous improvement in the centres

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and, on the other hand, that allows us to evaluate the results of the educational programmes that we develop in the centres.

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In this work, the leadership of the teams present here is also fundamental.

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Without pedagogical leadership, without the leadership of these educational communities,

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the educational communities become cages of crickets.

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It is necessary a strong pedagogical leadership of you, representatives of your educational communities,

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to achieve the quality that we all expect.

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However, the tools are not perfect.

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During the next months, I know that you will try to collaborate to improve the tool that we are currently using.

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A survey will be carried out to all the 19 educational centres in the Madrid community, 213 in all of Spain,

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a tool to consult you about your degree of satisfaction and your opinion about the tool used to evaluate the centres.

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And this is key.

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If we have said that evaluation is the key element of the improvement of the educational system,

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nothing improves if it is not evaluated.

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We also have to evaluate the tools of the OECD, the proposals of the Director Slazer here.

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I hope that you will contribute with depth in this work, because it is extremely important to give this feedback.

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Well, I want to finish now. I will not bore you any longer.

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I have promised to do it briefly and I will do it.

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I would like to thank all of you for your participation in this experimental application in Spain,

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for the first time, of the proofs of the Peace After School,

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and I wish that we continue on this path of constant improvement of the educational system.

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I also announce that we are studying in the Ministry of Education to apply in the centres that depend on the Ministry of Education,

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in a generalized way, the Peace After School tool.

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Thank you all very much.