September 28, 2018
Fall Meeting early bird pricing ends at midnight on Monday, October 1, and Fall Meeting is less than 6 weeks away! Are you registered? If not, be sure to do so in the next 3 days for reduced registration fees! Click here to register.
Our meeting this year is taking place at the San Antonio Marriott Riverwalk, located on beutiful San Antonio Riverwalk 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 16th, or when the hotel fills up. Click here to visit the hotel conference site and make your reservation today!
Highlights of Fall Meeting 2018
- Dr. Jamila Lyiscott, social justice education scholar, nationally renowned speaker, and spoken word artist, will open Fall Meeting on Thursday. Dr. Lyiscott plans to frame themes that we’ll weave throughout the conference, and will join us again on Saturday to sound our call to action;
- Collaborative learning groups — the centerpiece of SRI Fall Meeting is what distinguishes Fall Meeting from other educational conferences. In these groups, we’ll use SRI protocols to hold us as we engage in complex, challenging, and sometimes, difficult conversations about teaching, learning and leading;
- Through Learning Experiences, in-depth explorations designed and facilitated by SRI colleagues, we’ll hone skills, learn new strategies, and interrogate what it means to lead for educational equity and excellence;
- Pre-conferences will be offered the day before Fall Meeting, and are open to all participants. Please consider registering for a pre-conference this year! Sessions include facilitating through a lens of equity; and an introduction to SRI tools, practices, and resources for participants new to the work of SRI or Fall Meeting.
Highlighting Learning Experiences
Each year at Fall Meeting, we offer a variety of learning experiences. 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:
- Liberation Literacies: Multiple literacies for Social Justice in Your Classroom
Presented by: Dr. Jamila Lyiscott, Fall Meeting 2018 Keynote - Changing the Narrative: Telling Our Stories about Transformational Learning
Presented by: Gene Thompson-Grove, Consultant, Facilitator, Coach – Transformational Learning for Equity and Excellence and Tiffany Ballard - “Woke” Buzzword or Bold Commitment to Racial Equity?
Presented by: Dr. Kelly Brown and Deirdre Williams - Improving Teacher Preparation & New Teacher Support
Presented by: Dan Condon, Michael Soguero & SRI PreService participants - Building Language Equity through Literacy and Play
Presented by: Ruth Whalen Crockett – Director of New Teachers Collaborative and Mandy Levine – Spanish Domain Leader, Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School - Dyslexia Advocacy in Schools: Structures, Supports, and Obstacles to Equity
Presented by: Terra Lynch, Austin-based facilitator and learning specialist - Teacher Unions: From Professional Associations to Social Justice Activism
Presented by: San Antonio Alliance of Teachers and Support - Leveraging Technology to Enhance Intentional Learning Communities
Presented by: Mike Kalin, English & History Teacher
We’ll see you at the Fall Meeting in San Antonio!
Thank you,
Kari Thierer, Chris Jones, and Beth I Graham
On behalf of School Reform Initiative
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Please keep in mind, early Bird Pricing ends at midnight on Monday, October 1; Register now!
