Tennessee Hosts 5,500 Educators for SREB Conferences
Melinda Gates Speaks with Teachers at Monday Keynote
Melinda Gates Speaks with Teachers at Monday Keynote
Atlanta, GA — About 5,500 teachers, principals and
other K-12 educators from states across the nation gather in
Nashville this week at conferences hosted by the Southern
Regional Education Board to help students graduate from high
school ready for college and careers. All meetings take
place at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center.
SREB Common Core State
Standards Networking Conference
Monday, July 14 – Wednesday, July 16
Literacy Design
Collaborative and Mathematics Design
Collaborative are flexible frameworks for teachers to
collaborate and create lessons— in all subjects — that
engage students to read challenging text, express
their understanding in writing, become problem-solvers and apply
math reasoning skills.
About 1,100 teachers, principals and experts will share best
practices, instructional strategies and personal stories of
struggle and success with these powerful tools.
Monday at 1 pm: Melinda Gates, co-chair of the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and an advocate of investing in
teachers, will talk with the gathering in the keynote address.
The address will be streamed live and archived at
SREB.org/1793.
SREB High Schools
That Work Staff Development Conference
Wednesday, July 16 – Saturday, July 19
The 28th annual event features hundreds of workshops — for more
than 4,300 teachers, counselors, principals and other educators —
on improving middle grades schools, high schools and technology
centers. National experts and practitioners from schools in more
than 30 states will share school improvement ideas ranging from
counseling for careers to classroom observations to project-based
learning.
Wednesday at 3 pm: 75 awards to schools that
have made great strides to improve learning for students, and an
address by SREB Senior Vice President Gene Bottoms on “Finding
Solutions to Today’s Challenges”
SREB Readiness Courses Institute
Wednesday, July 16 – Saturday, July 19
More than 100 educators will come together to learn to offer
these powerful, free courses. SREB Math Ready and Literacy
Ready teach students the skills they need to learn and think
independently after high school, in college and careers.