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CLEE Fall Meeting 2026

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Massachusetts October 8-9, 2026

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Join us in Massachusetts October 8-9, 2026 for CLEE Fall Meeting!

This year, we will focus on the heart of teaching and learning in every classroom: the interaction among teacher moves, student engagement, and the curriculum. Together, these elements shape what students experience. Fall Meeting brings educators and leaders together to strengthen these elements and bring learning alive for students.

We will:

  • Use facilitative leadership tools to drive student success
  • Share and gain expertise on adult learning and collaboration
  • Build connections with a powerful national community

Through hands-on practice, deep reflection and meaningful dialogue, participants will examine the conditions that shape student learning and consider how leaders ensure that every student feels valued in their school community.

Participants will leave with renewed connections, shared practices that support student engagement and insights that help bridge the gap between current reality and future vision.

Registration Fees

  • $600 – Group Rate (3 or more)
  • $890 – Individual Rate
  • $500 – 1-day Only, Thursday 10/8
  • $1800 – with Collaborative Leadership Package

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Fall Meeting Program

Agenda

Thursday – October 8, 2026

  • Breakfast Provided – 8:30am
  • Program starts at 9am
  • Opening
  • Youth-Led Experience
  • Learning From Student Work Breakout Sessions
  • Lunch Provided
  • HomeGroups
  • Closing
  • Program ends at 5pm
  • Evening Reception – 5-7pm
    Immediately after our closing on the first day we will have a reception to network and share in a relaxed setting with hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar.

Friday October 9, 2026

  • Breakfast Provided – 8:30am
  • Program starts at 9am
  • Opening
  • Youth-Led Experience
  • Learning From Student Work Breakout Sessions
  • Lunch Provided
  • Homegroups
  • Closing
  • Program ends at 5pm

Homegroups
Participants will spend a majority of their time giving and receiving feedback and sharing dilemmas and facilitating tools in homegroups that model a Community of Practice (or you may know it as a Professional Learning Community or Or Reflective Learning Community, etc.).

Learning From Student Work Breakout Sessions
We will also spend time sharing our practices, tools, and learning in topic-based feedback rounds that feature student work shared by members of the CLEE Community.

Youth-Led Experiences
This year, we are replacing traditional keynote sessions with two student-facilitated learning experiences.

ARISE youth leaders will lead The Power in Intergenerational Movement Building, inviting participants to explore how identity, pedagogy, curriculum and relationships shape the ways adults and young people work together.

Students from Eagle Rock School & Professional Development Center will co-facilitate an exploration of youth-adult partnership, using Hart’s Ladder to help participants examine their own practice, identify barriers and develop concrete next steps.

These sessions are more than presentations about student voice. Students will be our facilitators, leading the learning for conference attendees.

Program Information Sessions
Participants will also have the opportunity to join informational sessions to learn more about Plan, Lead, Act, Network, and Sustain (PLANS), CLEE’s grant-funded professional learning program serving educators in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Principal Residency Network (PRN), CLEE’s principal certification program in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

"The experience last year at Fall Meeting was the most beneficial and fulfilling experience I have had related to any PD I have attended. The networking, collaboration, practicing of the dilemmas, and learning/being validated by hearing that others in the field are experiencing the same things as I am."

Fall Meeting Participant

Venue

Four Points by Sheraton Norwood
1125 Boston-Providence Turnpike, Norwood, MA 02062
781.769.7900

Discounted Room Rate: $185/night standard; $205/night deluxe (larger rooms in newer wing of hotel)

To get the discounted room rate, call 781.769.7900 and reference “CLEE Fall Meeting”

Free Parking

Share Student Work at Fall Meeting

Fall Meeting is a community event for and by the CLEE community and we need you!

We have two ways to get involved:

  • Learning From Student Work Sharing

In addition to homegroup learning, this year participants will have the opportunity to participate in topic-based feedback rounds that feature student work. 

We are seeking participants to share student work or artifacts for which they would benefit from feedback from colleagues. School and district leaders are welcome to partner with colleagues to bring student work for discussion. You will be partnered with a CLEE Facilitator for the session. For guidance on selecting student work, please see Suggestions For Bringing Student Work to help you select work to share.

As a token of our appreciation, the Learning From Student Work presenter registration fee is $500. (We are unable to provide travel or lodging support.)

Requirements:

  • Agree to 1-hour preconference over video call with a CLEE staff member to identify goals, protocol, and focus question
  • Agree to bring student work to share with a group of colleagues

Apply to Present Student Work

  • Fall Meeting Ambassadors Spread the word! Help us promote Fall Meeting in your networks to get colleagues to attend Fall Meeting.
Email Chris Jones to be an Ambassador for Fall Meeting

Dr. Jonathan Ponds Fall Meeting Scholarships

In honor of our inspiring colleague, Dr. Jonathan Ponds, CLEE is offering scholarships to cover registration fees to lower the cost barrier for Fall Meeting. We have a limited number of half scholarships remaining. We are unable to provide any travel or lodging support.

Please apply if cost is a barrier to attend Fall Meeting. We especially want you to apply for a scholarship if you are paying for yourself, an early career professional, in a teacher or principal preparation program, a graduate student, experiencing an economic hardship, and/or are a K-12 student.

Apply for a Scholarship Now

Learn more about Dr. Jonathan Pond’s life’s work

Fall Meeting FAQ

Is the CLEE Fall Meeting a Meeting or a Conference?

  • It is a unique educational experience that is a meeting for in-depth learning and a conference to collaborate with fellow educators from across the world.
  • It empowers educators to improve each student’s teaching and learning experiences
  • It is time to reflect on your practice as an educator and take home new learning and facilitation skills 
  • We use collaborative protocols and processes to engage in problems of practice and give and receive feedback.

What happens at the Fall Meeting?

  • Powerful conversations, renewal of practice, and learning in a community
  • Participants spend most of their time in collaborative learning groups called Homegroups. Homegroups allow us to engage deeply and practice having complex conversations in a safe place, supported by skilled facilitators  
  • Additionally, whole group experiences at the opening and closing provide powerful community-building Fall Meeting experiences
  • Student work based breakouts go deeper and give participants new resources on a selected topic

Is Fall Meeting for teachers, school leaders, or higher education?

  • The Fall Meeting is for ALL educators. 
  • This is your invitation to join the Fall Meeting. Having participants from multiple roles, contexts, and places are the ingredients that make Fall Meeting transformational. 
  • If you are an educator interested in collaboration, reflection, and educational equity, the Fall Meeting program is tailored for you. This includes classroom teachers, principals, district leaders, higher education, etc.

Can you tell me more about Homegroups?

At the heart of the Fall Meeting is our time together in collaborative learning groups called Homegroups. Homegroups are smaller breakout groups co-facilitated by CLEE staff and practitioners in the field. They vary in size and include participants from across the country and from all areas of education. Because of the collaborative nature of our work in Home Groups, your full participation is needed, valued, and appreciated. In these groups, we’ll use CLEE/SRI tools, protocols, and other resources to create conditions for professional collaboration and reflective dialogue to flourish. 

Specifically, Homegroups at Fall Meeting will support us to:  

  • Focus discussion and improvement on impacting student outcomes
  • Examine how our assumptions and beliefs can serve to support some students and hinder the success of others  
  • Create brave and safe spaces where conversations result in action
  • Sustain commitments that lead to real change  

Home Groups are formed by the CLEE staff, and are designed with diversity in mind including racial/ethnic diversity; gender diversity; experience, and role in education. Everyone brings something unique to their Homegroups, and the purpose is to learn from and with one another to improve our practice and serve each and every student.

Should I come to the Fall Meeting if I don’t have experience with SRI/CLEE or I am unfamiliar with using protocols?

Fall Meeting brings together a wide range of educators, including variations in experience in CLEE practices. We very much welcome new colleagues, and it will be richer for all of us with you!

What does the agenda outline look like for the two days?

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