NDSG 2025 ANNUAL MEETING

February 14 – 16, 2025

Colombiere Conference and Retreat Center
Clarkston, Michigan

The NDSG began in 1972, when Vito Perrone, then Dean of The Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of North Dakota, brought together educators from many parts of the U.S. to discuss common concerns about the accountability of schools and assessment of children.  Since then, the group has continued an ongoing seminar on democratic possibilities in U.S. and world education, branching out to include related issues such as racial tensions in schools and classrooms, issues of culture, class and gender, social justice and activism, but always returning to the themes of accountability and assessment.

This year’s gathering is scheduled from 8:00AM, Friday, February 14, through noon Sunday, February 16, 2025 (Eastern Time Zone) at the Colombiere Conference and Retreat Center, 9075 Big Lake Road, Clarkston, Michigan. Clarkston is located between Detroit Metro Airport and Flint Bishop Airport.

Any NDSG member who has attended a past NDSG conference or meeting is welcome to attend. Space is limited to 82 participants.

Volunteers are organizing this year’s conference format, including:

• Works-in-progress
• Presentations
• Problems of practice
• Focused discussion and analysis
• Social interaction

As part of the registration process, there will be opportunities to share your ideas for sessions and provide input and feedback to help shape the conference.

NDSG Intentions

• Purposeful relationships
• Inspired sharing
• Genuineness
• Historical perspective
• Humanizing interactions
• Valuing process over outcome
• Responsive healing