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RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION OCCASIONAL SPEAKER SERIES:

• Building a 21st Century Education System in Rhode Island
  A series of six forums hosted by the Rhode Island Foundation and co-sponsored by AISR organized to examine local and national best practices in a particular area and to discuss their implications for policy, practice and advocacy, including ways to promote progress and remove barriers in RI communities. This Occasional Conversation series is designed to bring a national speaker in to seed a local discussion on a major issue facing public education in Rhode Island.
  
  
• March 21, 2013 - Achieve's Michael Cohen to address college readiness at Rhode Island Foundation, AISR forum
  A nationally recongnized leader in education policy and standards based reform, Michael Cohen, former special assistant to President Cinton for Education Policy, led a discussion about college readiness and the common core-implications for urban schools. 
  
  
• October 23, 2012 - Ford Foundation's Jeannie Oakes to address extended learning at Rhode Island Foundation, AISR forum
  Jeannie Oakes, director of Educational Opportunity and Scholarship programs at the Ford Foundation, discussed the reinvention of public schools in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty through more and better learning time. 
  
  
• May 3, 2012 - AISR/Rhode Island Foundation Occasional Speaker Series featured Don Shalvey
  Don Shalvey, Deputy Director, Education, Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation was the featured speaker and spoke on the topic of charter/district collaborations. 
  
  
• February 2, 2012 - Freeman Hrabowski addresses college readiness at Rhode Island Foundation, AISR forum 
  University of Maryland, Baltimore County President Freeman Hrabowski addressed the topic of college readiness. 
  
  
• October 20, 2011 - RI Foundation First Forum: Building a 21st Century Education System in RI
  Presentation by Robert Balfanz, "Building a Grad Nation: Rhode Island 2011-2020." Panelists included Colleen Callahan, director of Professional Issues at the RI Federation of Teachers & Health Professionals; Victor Capellan, deputy superintendent for Transformation at CFHS; Julie Nora, director of the International Charter School in Pawtucket; and Nkoli Onye, executive director of Providence high schools. 

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WEBINARS:

• May 31, 2013 - CRIS Webinar: Graduate NYC! ACCESS Data Initiative
  In this webinar, Ariela Friedman and Ayana Bartholomew from Graduate NYC! will share their work on ACCESS Data. Amy Chou and Lindsay Adamski from New Yorkers for Children, one of the Graduate NYC!’s CBO partners, will also join us to share their experience collaborating with Graduate NYC!
  
  
• March 14, 2013 - CRIS Webinar: College Readiness: A Citywide Commitment
  Preparing all students for college readiness and success requires greater-than-ever collaboration in and out of schools. A number of sites participating in the College Readiness Indicator Systems project, of which AISR is a partner, have taken a citywide approach to proactively support students for college readiness and success. In this webinar, representatives from Commit! (Dallas, TX) and the Pittsburgh Promise talked about their citywide initiatives and shared their successes and challenges.
  
  
• October 26, 2012 - CRIS Webinar: Beyond individual at-risk student performance: A new tool to identify systemic causes of risk in NYC High Schools  
  In this webinar, New Visions presented a systems-thinking framework that includes new attributes of student performance (volatility and direction) that, when aggregated, also characterize structural problems at a school, and introduce a new tool (the school-level stock-flow tool) that helps schools understand better the interconnectedness of school structures and student performance. 
  
  
• July 12, 2012 - Webinar: How Can Districts Lead the Way in School Turnaround?
  This webinar approached the school turnaround debate through the lens of the school district's role and provide examples of effective turnaround efforts, as well as key challenges for district leadership. 
  
  
• April 20, 2012 - Webinar: How Can Districts Structure School Counseling Programs to Promote College Readiness for All Students? 
  This webinar discussed the state of school counseling as it relates to college readiness counseling, the challenges facing current models, and how to promote a collaborative college readiness program that builds on the strengths of school counselors and the availability of college outreach programs.
  
  
• May 1, 2012 - Getting Started on Education Organizing 
  Lewis Finfer, the director of the Massachusetts Communities Action Network , and Camelle Scott-Mujahid, the director of Teach Our Children in New Haven, CT shared their experiences with education organizing. 
  
  
• December 2, 2011 - CRIS Webinar: Linking High School Data and Post-Secondary Outcomes in NYC
  How do you determine what factors have the most impact on college readiness and success? A unique opportunity to explore that question arose in 2010 when the New York City Department of Education and City University of New York, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, collaborated to merge student-level data from the largest urban U.S. school system with data from the nation’s largest urban public university system.
  
  
• October 7, 2011 - CRIS Webinar: How Do You Measure College Readiness? Lessons from the Consortium on Chicago School Research
  In this webinar, Elaine Allensworth presented findings from several years of research by the Consortium on Chicago School Research (CCSR) at the University of Chicago and described how these findings were used to develop indicator systems and improve school practice in Chicago public schools. 
  
  
• July 26, 2011 - Webinar: Working Together to Create Meaningful Parent Engagement
  The goal of this webinar was to think through the roles of different education stakeholders in developing opportunities for parents from historically marginalized communities to meaningfully engage in school reform. 
  
  
• July 14, 2011 - Webinar: Tackling the Challenges of Rural Community Engagement
  The goal of this webinar was to think through the challenges and possibilities unique to rural community engagement and offer some possible strategies that will allow for rural communities to adopt a more meaningful role in school reform. 

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OTHER EVENTS:

• April 27-30, 2013 - AISR announces sessions at American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting
  Staff from the Annenberg Institute for School Reform (AISR), a national leader in education reform, will present on a variety of topics at the 2013 annual meeting of the American Educational Resarch Association (AERA), the nation's largest professional organization devoted to scientific study of education. The presentations will span AISR’s work in district redesign, community organizing and engagement, and research and policy, with a focus on equity and social justice.
• November 9, 2012 - "What's Next? Responses to the 2012 Election," AISR co-sponsored Coalition of Essential Schools' Post-Election Panel 
  A distinguished panel whose expertise lies in education practice, research and policy provided a provocative discussion on the future of national education policy. AISR's executive director Warren Simmons joined fellow panelists James Comer, Judith Browne-Dianis, Pedro Noguera, and George Wood for a public-invited discussion entitled "What's Next? Responses to the 2012 Election."  
  
  
• October 25, 2012 - Sean Arce co-founder and former director of the K–12 Mexican American Studies Program in Tucson, Arizona, speaks at Brown, co-sponsored by AISR
  Sean Arce discussed the program and current attempt to preserve ethnic studies in Tucson.
  
  
• May 9, 2012 - "Parent Power" film screening and panel discussion, Capitol Visitor Center, DC
  Hosted by AISR's Center for Education Organizing with introductory remarks by Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke (NY-11)and Congresswoman Karen Bass (CA-33). Film screening followed by a panel discussion including CEO co-director Richard Gray, Jr., Alliance for Quality Education Director Zakiyah Ansari; and Ocynthia Williams, parent leader, NYC Coalition for Education Justice.
  
  
• April 13, 2012 - AISR Announces Sessions at AERA 2012
  Staff from the Annenberg Institute, a national leader in education reform, present on a variety of topics spanning AISR's work in district redesign, community organizing and engagement, research and policy, and teaching and learning, with a focus on equity and social justice.
  
  
• March 23-24, 2012 - AISR takes part in national education organizing event
  The conference, which takes place March 23rd and 24th, 2012, at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, will bring community organizers, education researchers, youth, educators, funders and other stakeholders together to discuss the contributions of community organizing to school improvement and equitable education policy. 
  
  
• November 2, 2011 - Rhode Island Public Expenditures Council Town Hall with Arne Duncan
  Co-sponsored by AISR, featuring U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan. AISR Executive Director Warren Simmons moderated the panel composed of local stakeholders, school and government leaders.