SRI Fall Meeting Learning Experiences – Your Chance to Dive Deep
Fall Meeting participants will select a learning experience from a variety of compelling topics designed to provide participants the opportunity to delve deeply into a particular topic of interest.
Each learning experience will align to SRI’s Achieving Educational Equity and Excellence Learning Framework, with session offerings designed to meet the varied needs of participants fairly new to SRI work as well as those with longevity.
Here are some of our confirmed Learning Expereinces, with more to come!:
3-hour sessions
Culturally Inclusive Recruitment, Retention, and Responsibility
Presenter: Liza A. Talusan, Ph.D., Strategic Partner and Facilitator
Leadership for Equity and Excellence: The Deep Dive into School Reinvention
Presenters: Kevin Fahey,Frances Hensley, Angela Breidenstein, and Jacy Ippoltto
NYC DOE Yoga and Mindfulness Intensive – An Introduction
Presenters: Lauren Levine, Counseling Manger and De-Escalation Specialist, Steven Strull, Director Student Services, Denise Lanier, Counseling Manager, and Leo Macias, School Culture and Climate Manager
90 minute sessions
And How Are the Children? Addressing Student Hurt Through Trauma Informed Practices and Crisis Awareness
Presenter: Chaney Ledet, Primary Facilitator, Harris County Department of Education Curriculum and Compliance Officer
Empowering Teams to Challenge Privilege: School Quality Inquiry as a Tool for Transformation
Presenters: James Noonan, Assistant Professor, Salem State University & Judy Evans, Superintendent, Winchester Public Schools
The Secret Sauce to Instructional Rounds: Mash up with Asset Based Community Development & Improvement Science
Presenters: Sonia Mathew, Program Officer at Robert R. McCormick Foundation & Dan Condon, Associate Director of Professional Development at Eagle Rock
UP for Learning: Youth-Adult Partnership for School Change
Presenters: Lindsey Halman, Helen Beattie and 2-4 youth from UP for Learning programs
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2019 Fall Meeting – Boston, MA November 7-9, 2019
Fall Meeting Early Bird Registration ends in less than 2 weeks, September 30, 2019!
Will you be joining us in Cambridge? Be sure to register ASAP – we do have limited capacity. Right now we have registrations from CO, CT, FL, GA, IL, ME, MN, NH, NJ, NY, NC, 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!
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 are likely to sell out. Be sure to make your reservations ASAP!
To get this rate, please book online
Upcoming Webinars
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/
Culturally-Relevant Recruitment, Retention, and Responsibility Webinar
Join SRI and Dr. Liza Talusan (LT Coaching and Consulting, LLC) for a 3-part series on culturally relevant attitudes, behaviors, and actions that support recruitment, retention, and responsibility towards employees from institutionally underrepresented backgrounds.
- Part 1 will focus on why diversity, equity, and inclusion matters in the hiring process. We will go over the big questions that you and your institution should be asking itself about why you would engage in a culturally relevant process.
- Part 2 will focus on creating a more inclusive process that pays attention to the foundation of why we do this work together.
- Finally, Part 3 will explore the big questions around whether the culture, climate and behaviors of your institution are prepared to support and authentically engage with communities from institutionally underrepresented backgrounds.
Dates: September 24, October 11, October 22, 2019
Time: 12:15-1:45PM Eastern
Cost: $125 for non-affiliates and $95 for affiliates.
More Information and Registration
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
2019 SRI Board Election – Call for Nominees
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 o 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)
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
