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SRI Fall Meeting 2018 will convene in San Antonio, November 8-10. At the center of our annual conference are collaborative learning groups, the experience that sets SRI Fall Meeting apart from other educational conferences.
Collaborative learning groups at Fall Meeting will provide opportunities for every learner to:
- engage in rich and meaningful conversations focused on equity, and specifically, racial equity;
- place themselves on their equity journey;
- articulate their identities, assumptions, and biases and how they can show up in teaching, learning, and facilitation;
- use SRI tools and practices to make their practice public and sustain challenging and complex learning.
Each collaborative learning group is lead by two co-facilitators. Facilitators create the conditions for authentic collaborative and reflective discourse to occur. At Fall Meeting we focus the work of the group through a lens of equity and hold space for conversations about racial identity. We plan and co-design agendas for our group, AND actively participate in the group’s learning. By reading verbal and nonverbal cues that might signify safety or danger, we manage potential anxiety and dissonance in ourselves and in our groups. Learning in these ways together demands that we facilitate for the success of the group without becoming the facilitator-as-expert. Less about us, more about others.
Please consider applying to co-facilitate a collaborative learning group this year. And, if you know someone who would be a terrific Fall Meeting facilitator and you’d love to co-facilitate with them, please reach out and ask them to apply!
Timeline and time commitment
May 15
Application deadline.
May 17
Webinar with Dr. Jamila Lyiscott — If you’ve applied to be a facilitator at Fall Meeting, we strongly recommend you join Dr. Lyiscott on this webinar. Dr. Lyiscott will offer an additional webinar in October exclusively for collaborative learning group facilitators.
May 21
Facilitator selections made, applicants notified.
By June 1
Virtual co-facilitator meetings (join one):
- Thursday, May 24 – 5 pm ET
- Wednesday, May 29 – 3 pm ET
- Thursday, May 31 – 7 pm ET
- another call TBD if necessary
Summer
Preliminary planning; resource-sharing
Aug. – Oct.
Join one (1) SRI planning call per month
Thursday, Nov. 8
Co-Facilitators’ Learning Experience, in San Antonio, 1-4 pm. NOTE: No Wednesday evening meeting this year!
Fall Meeting registration fee will be waived for co-facilitators. Co-facilitator duties will require you to be fully present on site from Thursday, Nov. 8, at 8 am through Saturday, Nov. 11, at noon.
Please request more information or direct questions and concerns to Beth Graham beth@schoolreforminitiative.org
Thank you, in advance, for applying to facilitate at SRI Fall Meeting. Our learning will be richer because you’ve stepped up.
