SRI’s “Teaching & Leading for Student Equity” Educator Institute
Part of Pegasus Springs Education Collective’s Summer Institute 2020 Walt Disney World’s Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, FL / June 21-24, 2020
In addition to the Pegasus Springs’ “Building our Leaders of Tomorrow” (BOLT) student program, our Summer Institute 2020 will also feature SRI’s “Teaching & Leading for Student Equity” Educator Institute, facilitated by Dr. Deirdre Williams, Executive Director of the School Reform Initiative (SRI). Pegasus Springs Education Collective is proud to partner with SRI, a non-profit organization serving thousands of educators and students. SRI’s mission is to create transformational learning communities, fiercely committed to educational equity and excellence.
Educator Institute / Overview
For schools to become places of educational equity and excellence, improvement in several areas of leading, teaching and learning are required. SRI’s Teaching and Leading for Equity Institute engages and supports educators as they seek culturally proficient ways of leading, teaching, and learning to interrupt and eliminate inequities. Using SRI tools, participants will engage in complex conversations that will help us learn from our own cultural proficiency journeys, examine our school data for current school structures and inequitable practices that lead to gaps in student outcomes, and create equity action plans to address those gaps within our own spheres of influence. This institute is excellent for individuals or for school and district teams interested in engaging in data discourse and collaborative action planning.
Framing Questions
- How can we use cultural proficiency as a framework for change in our schools and classrooms?
- What are the systems operating in my school that have a negative impact on student outcomes?
- What keeps us from making schools places where all children learn regardless of the internal or external social and cultural contexts?
- How do biased based beliefs show up in my school’s leadership and pedagogical practices?
- What story does my data tell about existing disproportionality problems in my school?
Registration information available at: http://bit.ly/PSECsummer2020
Leading Reflective Learning Communities Institute
Chicago, IL
April 22-24, 2020
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
Equity First Institute – Tier 2
Burlington, VT
May 14-15, 2020
This two-day institute deepens the “Who am I?” identity work from the Personal Awareness Institute by exploring how our identities influence the way we walk in, interact with others and make sense of the world. As a reflective learning group, we address several key questions: What do we mean by power and privilege? Do we all have some level of privilege? How can I identify unintended harm I’ve created in the past due to my privilege, and determine what I would do differently to make sure that I don’t make those mistakes again? With an explicit focus on equity, participants gain skills for using SRI tools and processes to:
- Participate in reflective conversations about equity;
- Successfully manage dissonance, disequilibrium and anxiety in a reflective learning group; and
- Make explicit connections among educational practice, student learning & barriers to educational equity
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SRI affiliates genuinely care about the students and communities we serve and recognize that schools as they currently exist need to improve so that all students have the chance to succeed. Our affiliates are passionate about making such change. Loving and caring about all students is at the center of where we start. Our goal for 2020 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,
Deirdre Williams and Chris Jones
On behalf of School Reform Initiative
