July 8, 2020
Keeping it Fierce: Affirming our Commitment to Equity and Excellence
August 5, 2020 – Opening and Keynote 10am EST
August 6-7, 2020 – Virtual Reflective Learning Groups 8am-1pm (with breaks)
We invite you to join us virtually August 5-7 for an educational conference like no other — SRI Summer Virtual Meeting 2020 — a conference where educators create a community of learners who share their professional practice and learn from its close, public examination. Join the virtual Summer Meeting to practice the skills, habits, and dispositions of professional collaboration and reflective discourse using SRI protocols and resources.
Highlights of Summer Virtual Meeting 2020
- Reflective learning groups — the centerpiece of SRI Summer Virtual Meeting is what distinguishes our meeting from other educational conferences. In these groups, we’ll use SRI protocols to hold us as we engage in complex, challenging, and sometimes, difficult conversations about leading, teaching, and learning; and
- Keynote Speakers, who will charge us in our work to push for equity in our schools and our practices.
Reflective Learning Groups
Reflective learning groups will be East (CST and EST) or West (PST and MST) with their schedules running 8am-1pm Pacific (West groups) or 8am-1pm Central (East groups) August 6-7. Breaks are included!
More Information and Registration – Early-Bird Deadline Extended to July 13.
Keynotes Presented in partnership with Pegasus Springs Education Collective
Dena Simmons
Dena Simmons, Ed.D., is an activist, educator, and student of life from the Bronx, New York. She is the Assistant Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and an Associate Research Scientist at the Yale Child Study Center. She writes and speaks nationally about social justice and culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogy as well as creating emotionally intelligent and safe classrooms within the context of equity and liberation. She is the author of the forthcoming book, White Rules for Black People (St. Martin’s Press, 2021).
Shawn Ginwright
Shawn Ginwright, PhD is one of the nation’s leading innovators, provocateurs, and thought leaders on African American youth, youth activism, and youth development. He is Professor of Education in the Africana Studies Department and a Senior Research Associate at San Francisco State University. His research examines the ways in which youth in urban communities navigate through the constraints of poverty and struggle to create equality and justice in their schools and communities. Dr. Ginwright is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Flourish Agenda, Inc., a national nonprofit consulting firm, whose mission is to design strategies that unlock the power of healing and engage youth of color and adult allies in transforming their schools and communities.
We hope to see all of you Virtually Next Month!
Deirdre Williams and Chris Jones
on behalf of School Reform Initiative
PS – You can register for the full meeting or keynote/opening only
