September 14, 2017
Fall Meeting is less than 8-weeks away! Are you registered? If not, be sure to do so in the next 17 days as the Early Bird Pricing ends on September 30th. Click here to register.
Our meeting this year is taking place at the J.W. Marriott Atlanta Buckhead, conveniently located on the MARTA line and close to a variety of restaurants for lunch and dinner options.
For our out of town guests, we have negotiated a discounted conference rate for the hotel. The deadline to take advantage of the discount is Monday, October 9th, or when the hotel fills up. Click here to visit the hotel conference site and make your reservation today!
New to Fall Meeting? Not sure what it’s about?
Anastacia Galloway-Reed from Eagle Rock School and Professional Development, and an SRI affiliate, shares her experience as a planning team member and facilitator for our conference in Denver. Click here to read more about her experience, and be inspired to join us in Atlanta!
Learning Experiences
Each year at Fall Meeting, we offer a variety of learning experiences on Friday morning. This year we will have both 90-minute sessions as well as longer 3.5 hour sessions. Beginning in October, registered participants will be invited to sign-up for their learning experience choices.
A few sneak peeks of some of the sessions being offered:
- An Uncommon Theory: Deep Change and the Work of the School Reform Initiative facilitated by Kevin Fahey, Frances Hensley & Angela Breidenstein
- Providing Job-Embedded Support to Sustain Effective Teacher Leadership facilitated by Kim Jones
- Protocols: The Floor, not the Ceiling facilitated by Greg Peters & Folami Prescott-Adams
- The Stories We Tell Ourselves: How Stories about Teaching and Learning Impact Teaching and Learning facilitated by Jay Korreck
- The Constructivist Protocol: What Makes Teachers & Learners Really Care about the Quality of their Work? Facilitated by Daniel Baron
- White Teachers Teaching about Race facilitated by Kristen Iverson
- Self-Care for Educators: Contemplative Approaches to Strengthening Resilience, Reducing Bias, and Cultivating the Caring Heart facilitated by Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT) facilitators
There are many more that are being finalized. Start checking the website in the next week for an update of the different learning experiences, and be ready to sign-up in October to get your first choice!
2017 SRI Board Election – Call for Nominees Deadline Tomorrow
The annual SRI Board election process is an important way for you to be actively engaged in the governance of our organization. We are now accepting nominations for the 2018 SRI Board of Directors! Please consider nominating a colleague, a member of the SRI community whose work you admire, or even yourself!
If you would like to nominate someone, the deadline is Friday, September 15th, 2017 at 8pm EST.
To nominate a candidate, please provide the contact information on this web form. SRI Board Member, Jeffrey Galaise, chair of the election nominating committee, will reach out to each nominee to confirm their interest in being a candidate and will help them start the process of gathering their nomination materials.
This year the SRI Board is seeking four new members who have (1) considerable experience with, (2) a strong commitment to, and (3) a positive record of working with schools and students around educational excellence and equity. The Board seeks candidates who have worked in transformative ways especially with students of color as well as students with language diversity. We particularly encourage candidates who identify as people of color to apply. SRI works to support educators in addressing the equity issues required for school transformation. Ideally, our new board members will be well positioned to help advance this important effort of our organization.
Board members serve a four-year term that will begin January 2018. The monthly time commitment is approximately 4-5 hours working virtually, and then 10-12 hours (1-2 days) of in-person time each year.
If you have the passion, time, and desire to support SRI’s mission, we want you!
To stand for election or to be eligible to vote in the upcoming election, you must be an Affiliate of SRI. Click here to learn more about SRI affiliation.
Questions? Please email Jeffrey Galaise (jgalaise@schoolreforminitaitive.org)
Do you have news to share? Interesting things happening in your area? Please let us know so we can share with our community! Email Chris Jones, chris@schoolreforminitiative.org.
Thank you,
Kari Thierer, Heidi Vosekas, Chris Jones, and Beth I Graham
On behalf of School Reform Initiative
