AISR Events

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• 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.
  
  
• May 3, 2012 - AISR/Rhode Island Foundation Occasional Speaker Series featured Don Shalvey
  Don Shalvey, Deputy Director, Education, Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation will be our featured speaker. He will be speaking on the topic of charter/district collaborations.
  
  
• April 20, 2012 - Webinar: How Can Districts Structure School Counseling Programs to Promote College Readiness for All Students?
  This webinar will discuss 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.