SRI Executive Director Keynote at National Literacy Institute Conference
Our Executive Director, Dr. Deirdre Williams, served as the keynote speaker at the National Literacy Institute’s Bridging the Gap conference June 11, 2019. he event’s theme — “Education is a Team Sport” — provided learning opportunities that promote literacy, social emotional learning, and equity for all students. In her talk she shared how schools can vision and create a school of promise to successfully educate the students whom we label as at-risk, and oftentimes do not see hope or potential in their future. Over 200 educators were in attendance.
SRI Summer Learning Events
Leading SRI Reflective Learning Communities Institute – July 29-31 San Antonio
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.
Using Protocols in the Classroom – Creating a Reflective Learning Community for Students – August 15-18 Olympia
This two-day session is designed specifically for classroom teachers who are interested in utilizing SRI tools and practices to create a classroom reflective learning community. We will focus on how to create the conditions for community to flourish, while also utilizing and focusing on how to introduce and regularly use protocols to support holistic student learning. Please Join Kari Thierer August 15-16, 2019 in Olympia, WA. Each participant will receive a copy of the SRI Resource and Protocol Book, along with a copy of Protocols in the Classroom. Early-bird registration is $500 before June 30th, regular rate is $575.
2019 Fall Meeting – Boston, MA November 7-9, 2019
Hotel Reservations
Our meeting and sleeping rooms this year will be at the Royal Sonesta in Cambridge, 40 Edwin Land Boulevard, Cambridge, MA 02142. Our hotel room rate is $239/night for a single/double
To get this rate, please book online
Call for Reflective Learning Group Facilitators
SRI Fall Meeting 2018 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.
Each reflective learning group is led 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!
Read More and Apply to Facilitate
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, Kari Thierer, and Chris Jones
On behalf of School Reform Initiative
