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CLEE Fall Meeting 2025

Rhode Island November 12-13, 2025

Join us in Rhode Island November 12-13, 2025 for CLEE Fall Meeting!

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

We will:

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

  • Share our collective learning and expertise on leveraging adult learning and collaboration

  • Connect with a larger community

We will practice the heart, hand, and mind work together for two full days through tools and protocols to impact 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.

Fall Meeting Program

Agenda
Thursday – November 12, 2025

  • Breakfast Provided

  • Opening & Keynote

  • Lunch Provided

  • Small Groups

Friday November 13, 2025

  • 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!

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 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.

Learn more about Dr. Jonathan Pond’s life’s work

Venue/Hotel Info

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

Room Rate – $149/night
Book Online or call 401.732.6000 and use code CLE to book your rooms.
Room Rate Cutoff is 10/13/25. Please reserve your room before 10/13/25 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 12, 2024

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

Friday November 13, 2024

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

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