EduCon 2018

The goal is to move teachers to compassion and understanding. Weare looking for solutions that will potentially work in the present and future. Students from the U School, a non-selective Philadelphia public school, will share some background about themselves and talk about barriers that have affected their learning. Next, multiple teachers will openly share barriers that they face that may pertain to students. We will discuss as a group how the barriers that both students and teachers identified impact learning and student well-being.

Then, a student facilitator will lead groups of teachers and administrators to come up with clear and actionable solutions. Each student will record a one minute video of their group discussing solutions. They will post it on social media sites and hashtag the solution.

Then everyone will come together as a group and we will discuss one clear solution that all can agree to implement in their individual contexts. Once we come up with one concrete solution, it will become a hashtag. After the session is over every person will post something about the session that they will take away from the session, ending it with the hashtag.

Teachers who attend this session will learn how they can provide incentives to learning, keep students engaged, and establish a relationship of care, mutual respect, and moral support.