REGISTER NOW: 2012 RITES Spring Conference April 28th and May 5th
The RITES Spring Conference will be held on two dates this year, with participating teachers selecting one of the dates to attend. The Spring Conference is an opportunity for teachers to share with other teachers the work they have been doing implementing RITES Investigations in their classrooms. Teachers will present their Artifacts: A Teacher Research Project and be able to connect with teachers from across Rhode Island. Click to Register for the April 28th Conference Click to Register for the May 5th Conference
RITES Core Partnerships are Active and Dynamic
RITES is very proud of the enormous strides we have taken this year in establishing a truly collaborative leadership team with active members from six core partner districts, Chariho, Cranston, Johnston, Providence, Westerly and Woonsocket. The RITES Core Partnership is an essential and emergent group of districts whose members advise RITES and share in decision-making at all levels of the grant.
Collectively, the core partners are RITES districts that span all three cohorts and represent Urban, Urban Ring and Suburban Districts. They represent small districts and large districts, districts that are working with the DANA center and those that are working independently to standardize their science curriculum. It is this variety and varied perspective that makes the group a meaningful forum for discussing important issues.
Together with RITES, the core partners discuss how we can better meet the needs of teachers, how we can make an impact on students and how we can measure our impact, how the project can be an engine for institutional change at both the 6-12 and Higher Education levels statewide and how the efforts can be sustained beyond the scope of the original grant.
Core districts are also where RITES tests out models of collaboration and explores new ways to mobilize our resources to address the needs of individual districts. The group meets monthly to explore how RITES can support district-level initiatives and share ideas between districts.
Please click on the link to read the full article Core Partnerships.
Commissioner Gist Visits with RITES Teachers
This summer RITES held our annual Summer Session where teachers from across Rhode Island gathered to take content rich, inquiry-based short courses that used technology enhanced computer investigations. Commissioner Deborah Gist, along with education partners across the state stopped by to see the great things happening with RITES teachers. | 
