Join Deborah Meier on the beautiful Indiana University campus
at the National School Reform Faculty’s Summer Conference:

“Breaking Through the Barriers to Change”

Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, June 28-30!

Graduate credits are available!

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Everyone is welcome to attend: from those who met us in 1995 to those who met us last week. Registration costs $290 for members and $375 for non-members. Indiana University will make air-conditioned dormitory suites available for $47/night to help make the conference most accessible.

The conference will feature three keynote addresses, five workshop sessions, and three Open Spaces. For those not familiar with NSRF protocols and practices, we will have a strand to empower the novice to critically examine one’s work through collaborative practice using Critical Friends Groups protocols, tools, texts, research, and other artifacts. For the more experienced practitioners we will offer a series of workshops that relate to our theme “Breaking Through the Barriers to Change” ranging from changing school culture, using brain-based research, cultivating professional learning communities, and promoting democratic schools, to enhancing the achievement of all students.

Keynote addresses will be made by Deb Meier, Sharroky Hollie, and Sidney Simon. Hollie and Simon will both conduct workshops after their keynote presentations. Meier will conduct an Open Space.

Deb Meier a faculty member of New York University’s Steinhardt School of Education. She was co-founder of the Coalition of Essential Schools and serves as the Senior Fellow for New Initiatives at the National School Reform Faculty. She was the first educator to receive the MacArthur Fellowship, also known as the “genius award.” She has published a variety of books including “The Power of Their Ideals, Lessons to America from a Small School in Harlem.”

Sharroky Hollie is the Executive Director of the Center for Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning and a professor at California State, Dominguez Hills. Dr. Hollie has taught in elementary through university classrooms. Dr. Hollie has trained over 10,000 teachers and observed about 1,000 classrooms.

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Sidney Simon is Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Dr. Simon has published numerous books including the bestseller Values Clarification. He has led seminars for more than 25 years. He is often described as one of the most dynamic and yet caring seminar facilitators.

 

The National School Reform Faculty has 263 National Facilitators who work through 31 regional centers of activity in 20 states. Our roster of 9,099 coaches leads Critical Friends Groups for over 100,000 educators every month
* To be reflective
* To make our practice public to one another
* To frame meaningful questions and ask for substantive feedback from our colleagues
* To hold each other accountable for meeting the needs of students who struggle most
* To ask the kinds of questions that provoke and challenge both our assumptions and our habits
* To believe that together we are ever more capable of knowing what we need to know and learning what we need to do than we are alone.

Summer Conference Registration Form

 

Everyone is welcome to attend!

For more information, call 812-330-2702.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harmony Education Center
PO Box 1787 Bloomington Indiana 47402 • 812.330.2702
nsrf@harmonyschool.org • fax 812.333.3435
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