The 6th International Conference on Supplemental Instruction will be held:
Wednesday, June 2nd to Friday, June 4th, 2010
Loews Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Links of Interest:
- Welcome from the Executive Director of the International Center for SI
- Call to Conference:
Conference Theme: Breaking It Down, Jazzing It Up
Jazz, as a music form, has always been a little unorthodox and impolite. It’s like a painting that you can’t quite make out if you stand too close to it, but back up a few steps, and it all comes together in its themes, colors, and motifs. The theme of the 2010 workshop is borrowing from its host city’s reputation as a place where jazz music is beloved. Jazz music was, ultimately, the product of the New Orleans' melting pot. At the turn of the century, the streets of New Orleans ‘were awash in blues music, ragtime and the native brass-band fanfares’ where performers shared a passion for syncopation and for improvisation. For us, jazz as a metaphor fits because, like SI, it’s innovators had to have a vision. When we put all of our voices together, it may sound like a cacophony to some but back up a little and it all comes together. Supplemental Instruction, like Jazz is messy to the untrained senses but it’s all about getting everyone to play at once, to put their voice in the room, to contribute and participate. SI participants, SI leaders, faculty, and support staff . . . each of us doing our best to break it down for each other . . . because breaking it down is our way of jazzing it up.