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CLEE Fall Meeting 2024

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Rhode Island November 7-8, 2024

Join us in Rhode Island November 7-8, 2024 for CLEE Fall Meeting!

This will be an opportunity to (re)connect with educators from across the country as we explore what leading for equity looks like in our current world.

We will:

  • Learn and use facilitative leadership tools and protocols to make improvements for equity

  • Share our collective learning and expertise on leveraging adult learning and collaboration to reach our vision of equity

  • Connect with a larger community who is in this work together

We will practice the heart, hand, and mind work together for two full days through tools and protocols to increase equitable outcomes for each and every student. A majority of our time will be spent in small groups that model a learning community and there will also be time for SRI/CLEE community members to present topic-based workshops.

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Fall Meeting Program

Agenda
Thursday – November 7, 2024 – 9am-5pm

  • Breakfast Provided

  • Opening & Keynote

  • Lunch Provided

  • Small Groups

  • Evening Reception

Friday November 8, 2024 – 9am-5pm

  • Breakfast Provided

  • Small Groups

  • Lunch Provided

  • Workshops

  • Closing

Small Groups
Participants will spend a majority of their time giving and receiving feedback and sharing dilemmas and facilitating tools in small groups that model a Community of Practice (or you may know it as a Professional Learning Community or Or Reflective Learning Community, etc.).

Workshops
We will also spend time sharing our practices, tools, and learning in topic-based workshops presented by the CLEE Community, and that includes you!

Keynote – Lorén Spears
An Indigenous perspective on Leading for Equity in a Changing World

Lorén M. Spears, enrolled Narragansett Tribal citizen and Executive Director of Tomaquag Museum, holds a Master’s in Education and received a Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, from the University of Rhode Island for her dedicated work. She is an author, artist, and through the museum shares her cultural knowledge.

Evening Reception
Immediately after our closing on day 1 we will have a reception to network and share in a relaxed setting with hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar.

Workshops

Virtual Learning Communities: From Vision to Practice
Presenters: Natalie Berger and  Julie Moore
This workshop will use CLEE/SRI’s Future Protocol to have participants envision what facilitating a strong, online, collaborative community looks like and to identify the steps that they, as facilitators, can take to make that vision a reality. As experienced online facilitators, we will also share our own suggestions to support participants’ next steps.

Technical or Adaptive? Where to begin?
Presenters: Linda Nathan Bill Wehrli
School leaders face a constant barrage of problems they are expected to solve. In the rush to get things done, we often miss the step of analyzing the problem and distinguishing whether the problem is technical or adaptive. This brief pause and reflection can make all the difference. Treating an adaptive challenge as a technical problem can lead to familiar and undesirable outcomes. How does an accurate diagnosis shape your actions? Why does this matter? Where do you start? What can you expect when you decide the challenge you face is adaptive? In this workshop, we will offer tools to analyze problems and a menu of steps to start down the road of digging into adaptive challenges.

How do we scaffold into the deep and radical discourse our community needs to have?
Presenter: Gregory Peters
Initially designed as a scaffold for students to engage into rigorous academic discourse, the In2Out protocol has become a staple strategy in our professional development sessions to accelerate professionals’ engagement in challenging topics.  Building off a framework for transformation, the In2Out protocol is designed to identify, reflect on, and expand our personal experiences as an entry point to discussing the work we need to do collectively – with a focus on the root issues to the inequities facing our students and families.  Participants will be introduced to the protocol, practice it, and create their own prompts by the end of the session.

Collectivism: Authentic Engagement and Classroom Management with Diverse Students
Presenter: Michael Werth
Following some of the overarching themes related to the book Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students, the goal of this workshop is to guide participants in modeling research-based best practices in classroom management with diverse students utilizing the collectivist approach. I have 23 years of experience teaching mathematics in urban Title I classrooms. I completed my Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies (C.A.G.S.) in Educational Leadership at Johnson & Wales University, and I’m writing my dissertation now.

What if….. we could truly help leaders achieve their highest aspirations for their school communities? 
Presenter: Dave Schmid
This presentation is designed for school leaders who are committed to creating a collaborative and reflective school culture inspired to address issues of equity. Using a variety of different protocols and structures, the group will learn the impact of working from a dispositional stance to address the gap between what we aspire for in our schools and what actually exists.  The dispositions we will work from include:  Attending to a Larger Purpose, Listening for Understanding, Building Capacity, Demonstrating Empathy and Compassion, Building Relationships and Being a Continuous Learner.

Transforming Equity Protocols: Integrating SEL for Inclusive Design
Presenter: Shayna Fox-Norwitz
Several quality facilitation tools are available for examining student and teacher work through an equity lens. However, limited resources are available to reflectively examine how socioemotional and behavioral learning (SEL/SEB) are embedded in teacher work (instructional design, delivery and feedback) and student work products. In this session, we will explore how to modify the CLEE/SRI Equity Protocol to integrate SEL objectives. By aligning equity and SEL principles, session participants will walk away with a practical tool and facilitation skills to effectively promote SEL and equitable practices. Resources from both CLEE/SRI and CASEL will be utilized in the equity protocol adaptation process.

Throwing Darts in the Dark: Why School Districts Miss the Mark with Serving our Marginalized Student Populations by not Focusing on its Disproportionality
Presenter: Yozmin Gay
We can not accurately improve academic achievement with our Black and Latinx students if we don’t know where we’re specifically failing them. As racism is an intentional design to oppress and exclude marginalized student populations from opportunity, equity must be the intentional redesign to disrupt disproportionality and scale opportunity for all students. Come discover how Boston Public Schools’ Office of Opportunity Gap’s focus on disproportionality has deepened the district’s understanding of its student inequities through the Networked Improvement Community (NIC) model and build a plan to accurately mitigate student gaps within your own school, district, or educational organization.

School Leader & Coach Connection: How Rural School Leaders and Coaches Use Protocols
Presenter: Michaela Fray-Tappe
For the past seven years, Illinois Lead Hubs have worked to match trained leadership coaches to practicing school leaders. Through this process, one area of focus has been using protocols within rural schools to gain insight from all staff members and increase student achievement and growth. The CLEE/SRI tools have been a valuable and vital resource for school leaders as they enhance their organizational leadership skills and focus on continuous school improvement.
The Art of Letting Go
Presenter: Hannah Kehn
Through the Reflective Conversation Protocol, participants will consider an issue in education that is rarely spoken about: loss. Whether it is an unexpected change in programming, a student graduating, death, or in my case, leaving the school I founded and led for seven years, this workshop will allow participants to be vulnerable to discuss how these experiences shape us and impact our work.
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Registration Fees

$690 – Group Registration
$790 – Individual Registration

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Contact chrisjones@clee.org to register a group of 3 or more.

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Dr. Jonathan Ponds Fall Meeting Scholarships

In honor of our inspiring colleague, Dr. Jonathon Ponds, CLEE will award scholarships to cover registration fees to lower the cost barrier for attendees as needed. We have a limited number of half scholarships ($345) available. We are unable to provide any travel or lodging support.

Please apply if cost is a barrier to attend Fall Meeting. We especially want you to apply for a scholarship if you are paying for yourself, an early career professional, in a teacher or principal preparation program, a graduate student, qualify for a federal entitlement program, and/or are a K-12 student.

Scholarships are limited. Please apply early.

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Venue/Hotel Info

Hotel Info
Crowne Plaza Providence-Warwick (Airport)
801 Greenwich Avenue
Warwick, Rhode Island 02886

Room Rate – $139/night
Book Online or call 401.732.6000 and use code CLE to book your rooms.
Room Rate Cutoff is 10/6/24. Please reserve your room before 10/6/24 to get our reduced room rate.

Transportation

  • Fly into Rhode Island T. F. Green International Airport (PVD)

  • Free airport shuttle to the hotel

  • Free Parking

Fall Meeting Sponsorship
Sponsors of Fall Meeting will reach a national audience of educators, decision-makers, and community builders. The initial audience is 150+ attendees, then our network of 10,000+ educators, and finally our audience of 20,000+ monthly visitors to our website and social media.

Sponsorship Information

Fall Meeting FAQ

Is the CLEE Fall Meeting a Meeting or a Conference?

  • It is a unique educational conference
  • It empowers educators to improve each student’s teaching and learning experiences
  • It is time to reflect on your practice as an educator and take home new learning and facilitation skills 
  • We use collaborative protocols and processes to engage in problems of practice and give and receive feedback.

What happens at the Fall Meeting?

  • Powerful conversations, renewal of practice, and learning in a community
  • Participants spend most of their time in collaborative learning groups called Home Groups. Home Groups allow us to engage deeply and practice having complex conversations in a safe place, supported by skilled facilitators  
  • Additionally, whole group experiences at the opening and closing provide powerful community-building Fall Meeting experiences
  • Topic-based Workshops go deeper and give participants new resources on a selected topic

Is Fall Meeting for teachers, school leaders, or higher education?

  • The Fall Meeting is for ALL educators. 
  • This is your invitation to join the Fall Meeting. Having participants from multiple roles, contexts, and places are the ingredients that make Fall Meeting transformational. 
  • If you are an educator interested in collaboration, reflection, and educational equity, the Fall Meeting program is tailored for you. This includes classroom teachers, principals, district leaders, higher education, etc.

Can you tell me more about Home Groups?

At the heart of the Fall Meeting is our time together in collaborative learning groups called Home Groups. Home Groups are small groups co-facilitated by CLEE staff and practitioners in the field. They vary in size and include participants from across the country and from all areas of education. Because of the collaborative nature of our work in Home Groups, your full participation is needed, valued, and appreciated. In these groups, we’ll use CLEE/SRI tools, protocols, and other resources to create conditions for professional collaboration and reflective dialogue to flourish. 

 

Specifically, Home Groups at Fall Meeting will support us to:  

  • Surface issues of inequity, injustice, and oppression even when they may appear to be absent  
  • Examine how our assumptions and beliefs can serve to support some students and hinder the success of others  
  • Create brave and safe spaces where conversations result in action
  • Sustain commitments that lead to real change  

Home Groups are formed by the CLEE staff, and are designed with diversity in mind including racial/ethnic diversity; gender diversity; experience, and role in education. Everyone brings something unique to their Home Groups, and the purpose is to learn from and with one another to improve our practice and serve each and every student.

Should I come to the Fall Meeting if I don’t have experience with SRI/CLEE or I am unfamiliar with using protocols?

Fall Meeting brings together a wide range of educators, including variations in experience in CLEE practices. We very much welcome new colleagues, and it will be richer for all of us with you!

What does the agenda outline look like for the two days?

Thursday – November 7, 2024 – 8:30am-5pm

  • Breakfast Provided
  • Opening & Keynote
  • Lunch Provided
  • Small Groups

Friday November 8, 2024 – 8:30am-5pm

  • Breakfast Provided
  • Small Groups
  • Lunch Provided
  • Workshops
  • Closing

Fall Meeting Sponsors: