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Seattle, Washington
January 25-27, 2007

Thank you all for making the 11th Annual NSRF Winter Meeting a success! Hopefully everyone has traveled safely back home by now and is ready to continue the critical work we began last week. Read on to learn about options for staying in communication with others from the Winter Meeting and/or sharing in conversations with the larger NSRF community.

If you did not complete an evaluation at the Winter Meeting, you have a second chance to let us know your thoughts with an online evaluation.

One of the best tools for continuing our work from the Winter Meeting is the NSRF Coaches’ Listserv. Our listserv is a group email list for conversations about issues pertinent to NSRF work or events. We anticipate that there will be conversations on the listserv about the Winter Meeting popping up very soon, so we encourage you to sign up now and either contribute to those conversations or read the conversations of others. You can find more information or sign up for the listserv at: http://www.nsrfharmony.org/listserv_form.html


Downloads
Introduction to Rethinking Our Classrooms - by Linda Christiansen
Handout from Linda Christensen's Keynote Address
Winter Meeting Agenda
Open Space Technology Offerings
Centers Council Meeting Agenda
Center Council Meeting Feedback on the Winter Meeting
Centers Council Meeting Notes From Future Protocol

Meeting Elements
• Topic-Based Home Groups
• Reception
• Keynote Address by Linda Christensen
• Open Space Technology
• 2nd Annual NSRF Research Forum, Jan. 24
• NSRF Centers Council Meeting, Jan. 27

Home Group Topics

Coaching for Educational Equity, an Introduction
Essential Questions that might lead you to this topic:
What is the curriculum of CFEE? In what ways might I be complicit in supporting, sustaining, replicating and perpetuating inequitable outcomes for students? Does the traditional school talk I engage in reproduce inequities in schools? How might my CFG seek to disturb the status quo of low expectations and inadequate student outcomes?

Collaborative Inquiry
Essential Questions that might lead you to this topic:
What does an inquiry-driven practice look like? How do I know that what I am doing is working and how do I determine for whom it is working? How can we use data to inform and ensure improved instruction toward more equitable outcomes for each child? What are the important data I must continually pay attention to?

Context Coaching
Essential Questions that might lead you to this topic:
How can I use my coaching skills to support current school reform initiatives at my school or district? As a professional coach or consultant how might I use the tools and resources of NSRF when working within another organization's reform efforts? How does my student/teacher work - and the way my colleagues and I publicly examine it - demonstrate evidence of my school’s commitment to each student's success?

Facilitation, Collaboration, and Reflection
Essential Questions that might lead you to this topic:
How do I start or sustain the kind of CFG I want to be in? How do I get to the important questions that affect each student’s achievement? How do I facilitate or participate in a CFG that holds our group accountable for improving practice in the service of student learning?

Facilitative Leadership
Essential Questions that might lead you to this topic:
As teacher and/or administrator, how can I make a difference in the classroom as a facilitative leader? How might I best facilitate the right conditions to support collaborative and reflective practice at my school? How might I better lead for equity at my school and district? In what ways can I infuse CFG practices into all aspects of my school’s community?

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Keynote Address by Linda Christiansen
Handout from Linda Christensen's Keynote Address
Linda Christensen is the author of Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching about Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word and co-editor of Rethinking School Reform: Views from the Classroom. For the last thirty years, she has taught high school English and worked as Language Arts Curriculum Specialist in Portland, Oregon. She is currently the Director of the Oregon Writing Project at Lewis & Clark. She is a member of the Rethinking Schools editorial board and a founding member of the National Coalition of Education Activists. She received the Fred Heschinger Award for use of research in teaching and writing, from National Writing Project in 1998 and the U.S. West Outstanding Teacher of Western United States for “Reaching Beyond Classroom Walls”.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“The Politics of Correction: How we can nurture students in their writing and help teach them the language of power.” Rethinking Schools Fall 2003: 20-24.

Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching About Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word. Milwaukee: Rethinking Schools, 2000.

"Critical Literacy: Reading, Writing, and Outrage." Making Justice Our Project. Urbana: NCTE, 1999.

"Writing the Word and the World." Teaching for Social Justice. New York: New Press & Teachers College Press, 1998.

Edited Rethinking Our Classroom: Teaching for Equity and Justice. Milwaukee: Rethinking Schools, 1994.

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Graduate Credit
One graduate credit is available for $80 through Lewis and Clark University. If you are interested in graduate credit and did not get a chance to pick up the necessary forms at the registration desk, please contact Kim Feicke at feicke@lclark.edu.

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NSRF Centers of Activity Council Meeting
January 28, 2006
The NSRF National Center hosted a Centers’ Council after the Winter Meeting in Seattle, WA.
Centers Council Meeting Agenda
Feedback on the Winter Meeting
Notes From Future Protocol

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