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Section I
Artist/Composer: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Excerpt from speech delivered at Mason Temple, Memphis, TN on April 3, 1968. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered this speech in support of the striking sanitation workers at Mason Temple in Memphis, TN on April 3, 1968
Section II
Artist/Composer Robert F. Kennedy Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered 4 April 1968, Indianapolis, IN
Section III
Music: Daniel Bernard Romaine
Will you be attending the Fall Forum in November? Please join us for a gathering of School Reform Initiative friends and colleagues. We’d love to hear about the work you are doing and share with you the highlights of what’s happening with SRI.
We will meet Thursday, November 5th from 6:30-7:30 (following the Fall Forum opening reception). The location will be Top of the East – a restaurant located in the Westin Portland Harborview. Light snacks will be provided.
In this panel, we will explore the many ways that grass-roots charter schools and public schools reformers have common goals and aspirations: innovative practice, democratic schooling, and the meaningful honoring and inclusion of teachers, students and families. Yet, the consistently perpetuated adversarial relationship between charter school and traditional schools have blurred those common aspirations and often prevented powerful partnerships. Join us as we propose a new coalition of schools that surmounts the charter/traditional divide and seeks to forge new partnerships based on ideals, practice and governance.
Connecting conversations isn’t just the theme for this year’s Fall Forum, it’s the way CES members approach teaching and learning. This year, we’re proud to be connecting with the Edcamp Foundation to present edcamp CES, an opportunity for you to magnify, amplify, and personalize your Fall Forum experience. We’ll build our agenda together, using edcamp’s field-tested process for large-scale collaboration and sharing, and create a one-of-a-kind learning event custom designed to meet the needs of the people attending. Edcamp is rooted in the belief that conversation matters- something we CES folks have believed for a long time.
(If you’ve ever participated in Open Space or Open Space Technology, Edcamp is sort of like that.)
Sessions
While we’ll build our session schedule together, you can start thinking about your sessions today or wait until the day of. Since EdcampCES comes at the end of 2 days of amazing learning, we won’t have any trouble coming up with things to talk about, and you don’t have to be an expert to convene a session. Want to share a new idea or tool? Got a question that needs answering? Seeing a connection between two great ideas? Convene a session and talk about it! Some great ideas from past years include:
Logistics
Buses for registered Fall Forum Edcampers (courtesy of our AWESOME friends at Eagle Rock School and Professional Development Center) will depart from the Westin at 7:45 on Saturday morning to shuttle you to Yarmouth High School (286 W Elm Street, Yarmouth, Maine 04096). (Bring your own coffee!) At 8:30, we’ll all be together for a quick overview of the day and we’ll build our agenda. The First session will start at 9, the second at 10, and the third at 11. The number of conversations we have in each session is completely up to you! We’ll come back together to wrap up the day at 12 and the buses will depart for the Westin at 12:30.
