The School Reform Initiative

Location: National

The School Reform Initiative creates transformational learning communities that are fiercely committed to educational equity and excellence. SRI members are committed to making their practice public to one another, to being reflective, and to holding each other accountable for meeting the needs and interests of all students. Through critical friendship, educators share resources and ideas, support each other in implementing new practices, and build relationships among colleagues characterized by mutual trust and freedom from judgment, while keeping a keen focus on issues of equity. They most often work in on-going, collaborative groups where they freely discuss each other's practice with the intention of improving student learning.

Highlights:

About The School Reform Initiative:

The School Reform Initiative offers an abundance of helpful resources for educators looking to reform and improve their techniques and means of teaching. On their website you can find protocols and supporting materials for use in your collaborative learning groups and professional learning communities.

Essential questions SRI members ask themselves include:

• How do I engage in and facilitate adult dialogue and collaboration that results in higher levels of learning for all students, and especially, for those students who are struggling and/or who are under served?
• How can teacher collaboration reduce/eliminate the predictive value of race and class on student success in school and in life?
• What is the role of risk-taking in adult learning?
• How do adult collaboration, reflective discourse, and de-privatized practice support student achievement?
• What are the collegial conversations that make a difference?

Links:

• The School Reform Initiative - http://schoolreforminitiative.org/index.html

Submitted by Shawn Strader on: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 2:54 pm

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