2019 Fall Meeting – Early Bird Registration Ends Monday!
Boston, MA November 7-9, 2019
Will you be joining us in Cambridge? Be sure to register ASAP – we do have limited capacity, and early bird ends Friday! Right now, we have registrations from CO, CT, FL, GA, IL, ME, MN, NH, NJ, NY, NC, OR, PA, RI, TX, VT, London, Panama and of course Massachusetts! Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from, and with, other educators who are committed to educational equity and help us celebrate our 10th anniversary.
Register Today for Fall Meeting 2019, Early bird registration ends Monday, September 30th!
SRI Fall Meeting is an educational conference like no other; a conference where educators create a community of learners who share their professional practice and learn from its close, public examination. Come to Fall Meeting to practice the skills, habits, and dispositions of professional collaboration and reflective discourse using SRI protocols and resources.
In Boston we’ll renew our fierce commitment to educational equity and excellence, and together, we’ll rekindle our passion for teaching and learning. Through our collective wisdom, we’ll find the courage and comfort needed to bring our best selves back to our schools and our students. Together with colleagues, we’ll access, engage, and be challenged through sustained conversation about what matters most – improving teaching and learning experiences, through a lens of equity, to make schools better places for every learner.
Fall Meetings in Boston sell out; register now!
You can also get a preview of Fall Meeting by joining the webinar with our Fall Meeting Ketyote: So You Want to Talk About Race with Ijeoma Oluo – Fall Meeting Keynote Webinar
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. Rooms are limited and will sell out. Be sure to make your reservations ASAP!
To get this rate, please book online
2019 SRI Board Election – Nominations Close Today!
We are now accepting nominations for this year’s Board of Directors Election! If you would like to nominate someone, the deadline is September 25, 2019 at 8pm EST. The candidate materials are due September 30, 2019.
To nominate a candidate (could be yourself!) please provide the contact information on this web form. Jeffrey Galaise, chair of the election nominating committee, will reach out to each nominee to confirm their interest in being a candidate and will help them start the process of gathering their materials.
This year the SRI Board is seeking four new members who have (1) considerable experience with, (2) a strong commitment to, and (3) a positive record of working with schools and students around educational excellence and equity. The Board seeks candidates who have worked in transformative ways particularly with students of color as well as students with language diversity. We particularly encourage candidates who identify as people of color to apply. SRI works to increasingly focus on issues of school transformation especially around issues of educational equity, and, ideally, our new members will be able to help advance this important effort.
Board members serve a four-year term that will begin January 2020. SRI board members meet monthly via Zoom Platform, along with at least one in-person meeting each year, either at the conclusion of our annual SRI Conference or during a separate board retreat. SRI board members also serve on committees. The monthly time commitment is approximately 4-5 hours working virtually, and then 10-12 hours (1-2 days) of in-person time each year.
If you have the passion, time, and desire to work with us, we want you!
The Nominating Committee will contact nominees to explain the process and to answer questions, and to help them prepare their materials. Voting in the election is anticipated to begin the Week of October 7th and culminate on Friday, November 8th, to align with our annual Fall Meeting conference.
To stand for election or to be eligible to vote in the upcoming election, you must be an Affiliate of SRI. Click here to learn more about SRI affiliation.
Do you have questions or would you like to join the Board Election Nomination Committee? Please email Jeffrey Galaise (jgalaise@schoolreforminitaitive.org)
Thank you for your commitment to supporting and sustaining the School Reform Initiative!
Jeffrey Galaise (NY)
Chair, Election Committee
On behalf of the 2019 Board Election Nomination Committee:
Niya Randall (GA), Lauren Levine (NY)
Upcoming Webinars
Facilitating Virtual Learning Communities Webinar
Participants in these sessions will engage in a variety of SRI protocols and practices to explore how SRI critical friendship can foster and sustain transformational learning communities in a virtual space. Ample time will be reserved to debrief the virtual experience, examine implications for our work, and develop next steps in using virtual transformational learning communities to engage more teachers and students in SRI’s Mission and Guiding Principles. Participants will need a web-enabled device (desktop or laptop with camera preferred) to use during these sessions.
Dates: October 3, 10, 17, 24 2019
Time: 8-9:30PM Eastern
Cost: $135 for non-affiliates and $95 for affiliates.
More Information and Registration
So You Want to Talk About Race with Ijeoma Oluo – Fall Meeting Keynote Webinar
Join 2019 SRI Fall Meeting Keynote Ijeoma Oluo, a Seattle-based writer, speaker, and Internet Yeller, on this webinar around her book, So you Want to Talk About Race. We will spend about an hour together, and it is a very good idea to read her book ahead of time. You can get it at your favorite book seller.
Dates: October 1 at 4:30pm Eastern
Cost: $45 for non-affiliates and $25 for affiliates.
More Information and Registration
You can find more about her and selected writings on her website: http://www.ijeomaoluo.com/
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
