2018 Fall Meeting – Call for Collaborative Learning Group Facilitators
SRI Fall Meeting 2018 will convene in San Antonio, November 8-10. At the center of our annual conference are collaborative learning groups, the experience that sets SRI Fall Meeting apart from other educational conferences.
Collaborative 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 collaborative learning group is lead 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 collaborative 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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2018 Fall Meeting – Call for Learning Experience Proposals
Do you have a great idea for a Learning Experience at Fall Meeting? Are you using SRI tools and practices in exciting ways that you’d like to share with others? Then we invite you to offer up a Learning Experience on Thursday afternoon, November 8, 2018 at the Fall Meeting in San Antonio.
Each year, we utilize a portion of our conference for Learning Experiences. These sessions, either 90 minutes or 3 hours, allow affiliates to learn new skills, dive deep, and explore different concepts, all within the framework of the SRI Mission and Guiding Principles. We are accepting proposals for Fall Meeting Learning Experiences now until May 23. If you are interested in proposing an experience, please utilize the Learning Experience proposal form.
Questions? Email or call Kari (kari@schoolreforminitiative.org or 303.586.1169)
2018 Fall Meeting – Register Today!
Registration is now open for the 2018 Fall Meeting! Please join us in San Antonio, TX, November 8-10, 2018.
Fall Meeting is a unique experience, different than most educational conferences, in that we spend most of our time in small learning communities, having conversations about the complexity of teaching and learning, with a primary focus on educational equity. In order to make schools better places for every student, the foundation of SRI’s work asks us to:
- Work in ways that challenge assumptions and bias about race and equity, and question how these assumptions are enacted in practice;
- Be accountable to colleagues to continually improve practice that benefits every learner;
- Engage in and learn from collaborative & reflective practices that intentionally focus on teaching and include close, public examination of the work learners produce.
The Fall Meeting will continue to be a place for connection, community and renewal. San Antonio lends itself to exploration and reflection and we know this will be an experience you won’t want to miss! We hope you will join us on the Riverwalk! Register now!
Thank you,
Kari Thierer, Heidi Vosekas, Chris Jones, and Beth I Graham
On behalf of School Reform Initiative
