{"data":{"ID":266,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1352220777,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Embracing Change: A Panorama of Incoming and Veteran Teachers at SLA","Handle":"Embracing_Change:A_Panorama_of_Incoming_and_Veteran_Teachers_at_SLA","ShortDescription":"This panel-led discussion will feature three SLA teachers at different phases in their teaching careers. They will discuss their experiences navigating a technology driven environment and working in a setting that esteems the ethic of care.","Description":"Mark Bey has been teaching for 15 years in a variety of school urban and suburban environments. He's been teaching students Spanish at SLA for 5 years. He graduated from Morehouse College in 1994 with a BA in Finance and Spanish and from Temple Graduate School in 1999 with an MA in Modern Foreign Language. Mark will share his personal and professional issues of transitioning from a more traditional school and curriculum to SLA, a progressive and project-based school, and the difficulties he had practicing an ethic of care in his classroom management.\r\n\r\nPearl Jonas is a first year SLA History teacher. She spent one year student teaching in Philadelphia and 17 months in a bilingual school in Ecuador. She graduated with a BA in History in 2005 and an MS in Social Studies Education in 2010 from the University of Pennsylvania. Pearl will speak to her recent transition into SLA coming from a test-based school culture. and the role of common language and collaborative culture at SLA in that transition.\r\n\r\nKevin Beckford is a student teacher and a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Graduate School of Education. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in 2011 where he majored in African American Studies and Political Science. As an undergraduate, Kevin participated in a variety of tutoring and mentoring programs with organizations such as the Yale Black Men\u2019s Union, the NAACP, and New Haven Reads. He\u00a0 just earned a Masters of Philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge in African Studies. He is interested in bridging classroom theory with practice and reconciling personal and professional interests within an inquiry-based setting.\u00a0","Link":[],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"Panel Discussion and Q&A","Presenter":["Mark Bey","Kevin Beckford","Pearl Jonas"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy","University of Pennsylvania"],"PresenterEmail":["mbey@scienceleadership.org","kbeckford@scienceleadership.org","pjonas@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":16,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2}}