2019 Fall Meeting – 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.
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 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!
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Leading SRI Reflective Learning Communities Institute – San Antonio, July 29-31
As the School year ends, we invite you to join SRI this summer for some high-quality Professional Development that will help you plan for and kick start your next school year. Please join SRI in San Antonio this summer at our Leading SRI Reflective Learning Communities Institute July 29-31, 2019.
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
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SRI Leadership Academy – Two Days Left to Join the Inaugural Cohort
Applications for the inaugural cohort of SRI Leadership Academy Fellows are open now, and close June 7th. Please consider joining this unique learning experience that will help you design and implement the changes needed to ensure that all students are successful. You will meet both in-person and virtually with your fellow cohort members in a customized reflective learning community. We will learn together, utilizing an improvement science framework combined with the SRI Educational Equity and Excellence Learning framework. Not only will you grow your leadership, but you will design and implement new practices that move your school or organization into specific action to disrupt student inequities.
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
