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The Reform Symposium is a free online conference for educators, administrators, parents and students. This year the conference is focused on innovative practices in education and what role these practices can play in educational reform.

Here is a list of the webinars. They will be archived so you can watch them at anytime!

This post describes an Elluminate interactive session taking place on Oct 4th at 5pm. A panel of internationally recognized, innovative educators will be discussing ways to push the education reform movement forward. Presenters include Will Richardson, Chris Lehmann, Alfie Kohn, Sir Ken Robinson, and Gary Stager. 

It should raise questions when an enormous, complicated realm of life takes on the characteristics of a stock drama. In the current school-reform story, there is a reliable villain, in the form of the teachers' unions, and a familiar set of heroes, including Geoffrey Canada, of Harlem Children's Zone; Wendy Kopp, of Teach for America, the Knowledge Is Power Program; and Michele Rhee, the superintendent of schools in Washington, D.C. And there is a clear answer to the problem-charter schools.

Shelly Terrell's reflection on Elluminate session: Elevating Education Reform Dialog