BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2089480:Event:28100 DTSTAMP:20100730T090945Z SUMMARY:Winter Meeting - Educational Equity, Facilitative Leadership a nd Critical Friends Groups DESCRIPTION:The School Reform Initiative Winter Meeting 2010\n\ nPlease join us in January 2010 as we come together to do essential, s ustained, focused work - with the goal of transforming our thinking an d our practice so the schools we are affiliated with reflect our goal of educational equity. We will move from conversation to action, with the people whose wisdom, perspective and skill we need most. We will u se the tools and processes of critical friendship to deepen our skills , press for insights, and find courage in community.\n\nOur time toget her will be divided in the following ways:\n\nJanuary 13\nPre-c onference sessions: Introduction to Critical Friendship, Moving CFGs O n Line, School Change: A Seminar for Administrators.\n\nJanuary 14- 16\n\nKeynote Address by Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond: Dr. Lin da Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education a t Stanford University, where she has launched the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and the School Redesign Network and ha s served as faculty sponsor for the Stanford Teacher Education Program . In addition, Dr. Darling-Hammond recently served as the leader of Pr esident Barack Obama’s education policy transition team, and she has a new book due out in January 2010, The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future. She is also the founder of the Stanford New Schools (East Palo Alto K-8 Academy a nd East Palo Alto High School), where Christelle Estrada, an SRI natio nal facilitator, is the Chief Academic Officer.\n\nSmall CFG-like G roups: In small groups of five or six people, we will examine stud ent and educator work, give feedback on dilemmas and issues, ask chall enging questions, and gather multiple perspectives. These small groups will allow each participant to share work, get feedback, facilitate, coach, and share responsibility for the group and its learning. Each p articipant will be asked to bring work for feedback.\n\nText-based Groups: Participants will select a text from a collection of resou rces gathered from the field. Groups will be formed based on the text preference of participants, and the protocol/process used will be dete rmined by facilitators of each text group.\n\nOpen Space Technology (OST): OST on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning will provide a different kind of opportunity to develop collective knowledge and to think deeply about a specific challenge, new idea, essential question , or local work. Some sessions will be set up prior to the meeting via the SRI Ning (join at http://srii nc.ning.com/)\nWorld Café: We will close the meeting with a World Café designed to move us from learning and reflection, to action on behalf of educational equity for our students.\n\nSocial Time: Are you looking forward to seeing people you haven’t seen in a long time, and to meet new people from across the country? On Thursday nigh t, there will be informal opportunities to meet and talk with people f rom our region, as well as from across the country – and on Friday n ight, a reception and dancing!\n\nThe 2010 Winter Meeting will be your opportunity to connect with Linda Darling-Hammond and many other educ ators from across the country. Please join Linda and all your colleagu es in Cambridge, MA, January 14-16, 2010.\n\nMore information on the W inter Meeting program, pre-conferences, and registration can be found at www.schoolreforminitiative.org/wintermeeting\n\nFor m ore information visit http://network.fivefreedoms.org/events/winter-me eting-educational DTSTART:20100114T140000Z DTEND:20100116T170000Z CATEGORIES:"meeting/conference" LOCATION:Royal Sonesta WEBSITE:http://schoolreforminitiative.org/wintermeeting.html URL:http://schoolreforminitiative.org/wintermeeting.html CONTACT: ORGANIZER;CN="Heidi Vosekas":http://network.fivefreedoms.org/profile/H eidiVosekas ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://api.ning.com/files/PuU0B9ROB7ILqQ6C YMmFVSWvo*p67AU1yaYtr5iWiDZzfD9jYRp3sn*UGgSAEpctHiHL66oSbrBkqEfIoly3-H QJnRJuigtG/LDHHeadshot.jpg ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Michael Soguero":http://network.fivefreedoms.org/profile/MichaelSoguero ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Kim Cart er":http://network.fivefreedoms.org/profile/KimCarter ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Chris Jo nes":http://network.fivefreedoms.org/profile/ChrisJones ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Heidi Vo sekas":http://network.fivefreedoms.org/profile/HeidiVosekas END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR