Please join the Massachusetts Education Partnership (MEP) for its annual conference to explore how collaborative practice can move ideas into action. The conference will provide Massachusetts school committee members, superintendents, labor leaders, and potential partners an opportunity to plan for successful implementation of projects through a series of workshops and presentations.
A welcome address from Nick Donohue, President and CEO of the Nellie Mae Foundation, will look at how leaders can collaborate to set a strategic vision. A panel discussion on the role labor-management plays in reimagining education will feature:
- Erik Fearing, President of Revere Teachers Association
- Dianne Kelly, Superintendent, Revere Public Schools
- Peter McWalters, former Rhode Island Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education
- Kelly Young, Director, Education Reimagined
Morning Session
- Innovation and Personalization: Building new learning systems (A follow-up to the welcome address)
- District Improvement Planning: Transforming Culture and Practice Through Collaboration (workshop)
- Perspective Taking: A Critical Leadership Skill (workshop)
- Schools that Surge: Using collaboration to rise up from Levels 4 and 5 (panel presentation)
- Educator-Led Professional Development: How teachers and administrators build professional learning systems (team-based workshop)*
- Nothing Simple about It: Planning a peer assistance and review program (team-based workshop)*
Afternoon Session
- A Look Under the Hood: Innovative Strategies for Creating District Determined Measures
- A Forum for Building Leaders: How principals and building representatives strengthen schools together (workshop)
- Beyond the Contract: Using interest-based processes to team effectively (workshop)
*Teams are defined as two or more people from a district including representatives from both labor and management.
District Capacity Project (DCP) teams will have the option to meet for team time during the morning and afternoon sessions.