The Fall Meeting originated with our colleagues at SRI as an annual gathering of learning with the entire community. We are pleased to bring this event back to give educators the opportunity to share and learn from colleagues all over the world.
“Fall Meeting is worth leaving my school. I never leave, but I want to leave my school to attend. It is that good. You gotta go; I’m going!”
I never call Fall Meeting a conference. It isn’t a traditional conference where there’s a menu and you pick and choose between sessions to listen in on. Or skip and go shopping! We have built the Fall Meeting into an important professional gathering with powerful common experiences for participants. Our community became accustomed to Fall Meeting as a space for professional growth, renewing relationships and building new ones. I am so glad it is back and we have the opportunity to work with brilliant and passionate educators. Fall meeting is a meeting: a meeting of the minds. We spend just a few days together and by the end you always get a sense of “Oh these are my people!”
I’m really looking forward to being in a home group to see what people bring to share. I always bring something that is important to me, something my school or my colleagues or students need me to get to. I gain so much from the feedback on my work in my small group. At Fall Meeting, not only do we get what we need, we also end up getting what we didn’t know we needed from our group.
Teri Schrader, CLEE Board Director and Head of School at Watkinson School in Hartford, CT
It will be exciting to be with people in this way again; to be together in big and small groups, and meet colleagues, old and new. I’m thrilled to see what it sounds and feels like in this new era of our work, and what it is like to be in a room with so many colleagues.
Fall Meeting is worth leaving my school. I never leave, but I want to leave my school to attend. It is that good. You gotta go; I’m going!
Join our international gathering that is not just another sit-and-get conference. We learn from each other by giving and receiving feedback and sharing important dilemmas. We each bring and share our own expertise and passion to create more equitable outcomes for each and every student.
