Apply now through the SRI Affiliate Site
SRI Fall Meeting 2019 will convene in Boston, November 7-9. At the center of our annual conference are reflective learning groups, the experience that sets SRI Fall Meeting apart from other educational conferences.
Reflective 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 reflective 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 reflective 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
July 12
Application deadline.
July 26
Facilitator selections made, applicants notified.
Aug. – Oct.
Join one (1) SRI planning call per month
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. 7, at 8 am through Saturday, Nov. 9, at noon.
Please request more information or direct questions and concerns to Deirdre Williams deirdre@schoolreforminitiative.org
Thank you, in advance, for applying to facilitate at SRI Fall Meeting. Our learning will be richer because you’ve stepped up.
