Hello SRI Community,
If you or a colleague has been curious about where to start with SRI tools and collaborative and reflective practices, we have an upcoming virtual Introduction to Reflective Learning Communities Institute. It is a great jumping off point to learn how to use structured protocols to focus working in a group, to guide reflection and feedback, and to create community and investment in outcomes.
If you have some experience in collaborative and reflective practices and want to build your facilitation capacity the virtual Leading Reflective Learning Communities Institute is a way to deepen your practice.
You can also attend both Reflective Learning Communities Institutes in the series to jump start your professional learning around SRI tools and practices.
Registration closes Friday for Introduction to Reflective Learning Communities!
Introduction to Reflective Learning Communities Institute – Registration Closes Friday!
April 13-14, 2021, 10am-2pm EST (new time!)
Facilitator: Pedro Bermudez
Cost: $350 for non-affiliates, $325 for affiliates, and $300 for groups of 3 or more
This two-day institute is geared to educators new to the work of SRI and prepares educators to be full participants in collaborative learning teams, professional learning communities, or other professional communities of practice. We will work together to create a reflective learning community, learning the concepts, habits, tools, and skills that lead to more reflective practice and increase student achievement. The Introduction to SRI Institute supports participants to take up issues of educational equity in schools, to learn to be in conversation about race and identify and interrupt instances of systemic oppression and inequity in their schools. Workshop participants have the opportunity to present authentic work from their practice for review and feedback under the guidance of a highly-skilled SRI facilitator. Participants leave this workshop with tools and strategies to:
- Use protocols to build the skills and culture needed for reflective dialogue and collaboration;
- Engage in collaborative examination of student and educator work, and manage school dilemmas;
- Give and receive constructive feedback; and
- Work in ways that challenge each other’s assumptions about educational excellence and equity.
This session is not required to attend the Leading Reflective Learning Communities Institute, but is a recommended first step in the series for new practitioners.
More Information and Registration
Resources to Support Social and Emotional Learning
A new blog post on Applied Coaching for Projects by Alicia Peletz has a list of resources (including some of ours!) to support Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in education. I offers a path to develop your SEL practic-es, ways to identify growth areas, and offers tools to grow.
It also has a helpful chart of conditions that support and undermine SEL culture.
Read the full post: Resources (and a New Course) to Support Your SEL Journey!
Leading Reflective Learning Communities Institute
May 4-6, 2021, 10am-2pm EST (new time!)
Facilitator: Beth Graham
Cost: $475 for non-affiliates, $450 for affiliates, and $425 for groups of 3 or more
This three-day institute is designed for educators who are often called upon to facilitate meetings or deliver professional development and need support in designing, implementing and supporting adult learning. Using research-based tools and strategies, participants learn how to nurture ongoing conversations designed to improve teaching and learning. The Institute provides in-depth study of protocols; introduces adult learning theory; builds explicit connections between adult learning and student success; supports participants to ask for and receive feedback critical to their success; and enables participants to design action plans that facilitate the improvement of teaching and learning through the lens of educational equity and excellence. By the conclusion of the 3-day institute, participants will:
- Gain an understanding of adult learning theory;
- Understand the connection between adult learning and school transformation;
- Understand core considerations when leading with SRI reflective tools and processes;
- Explore themselves as leaders; and
- Begin to develop and/or deepen the facilitative skills needed to lead educators’ learning.
Attending Introduction to Reflective Learning Communities Institute is not required to attend this session, but it is the recommended first step in this series of institutes for new practitioners
More Information and Registration
Are You Looking for Professional Development for Your School or Organization?
SRI invites your team to the sessions in our upcoing Reflective Learning Communities Institute series. They support educators to learn about and practice the skills, habits, and dispositions of SRI’s Collaborative and Reflective Practices.
Both sessions have group registration discounts. Send a team of 3 or more to a session to receive special pricing. Please email Chris Jones, chris@schoolreforminitiative.org, about group registration.
You can also have your group attend both Reflective Learning Communities Institutes in the series to scaffold their professional learning from learning SRI tools and practices to having facilitation capacity.
If you would like us to run a session just for your group or want a custom session, you can learn more about our professional learning services: https://www.schoolreforminitiative.org/services/
#KeepingEquityFirst2021
Our goal for 2021 is to help educators remember why they became educators, and to do whatever we can to not only help them to ‘feel’ supported, but to actually ‘be’ supported, and work together to create the schools our students deserve. I hope you will join me and continue to support SRI!
SRI is fiercely committed to educational equity and excellence, and we cannot do this work without your support!
Thank you for your commitment to students, families and communities!
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,
Chris Jones and Patrena Wright
On behalf of School Reform Initiative
