The mission of the School Reform Initiative is to create transformational learning communities fiercely committed to educational equity and excellence.
The School Reform Initiative is a mission driven organization. SRI’s programs and practices are guided by a set of principles that articulate SRI’s approach to creating and sustaining transformational learning communities. SRI believes that the achievement of educational equity and excellence requires educators to engage in a continuous process of collaborative transformational learning through which they dare to:
- Be accountable to their colleagues to continually improve their practice for the benefit of their students and to share their actions with their colleagues;
- Engage in public, collaborative assessment of student and adult work;
- Work in ways that challenge each other’s assumptions about educational excellence and equity; and
- Examine their beliefs and question how these beliefs are enacted in their practice.
SRI aims to transform teaching and learning. In transformational learning communities, educators engage in constructive discourse to persistently and intentionally question one another’s practice in a challenging and supportive environment characterized by respect, trust, and learning. To this end, educators in SRI transformational learning communities aspire to:
- Work with determination to ensure equal access to quality learning in a way that achieves equitable outcomes for each student;
- Know students well and to engage them in relevant, meaningful, and demanding work that will make a difference in their lives and communities;
- Commit to becoming culturally proficient practitioners so they can effectively connect with every one of their students, no matter the differences in background.
