{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":765,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1509564312,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Citizenship & Radical Hope In Today's World","Handle":"citizenship-radical_hope_in_today-s_world","ShortDescription":"A conversation about citizenship and teaching in the current climate","Description":"Featuring students and our English project with seniors.\r\n\r\nGuiding questions:\r\nWhat new narratives can we construct?\r\nWhat does it mean to be a young person in Philadelphia at this point in time?\r\nHow can we respond to the current moment?\r\nHow can we use the combination of art and text to enrich our ideas?","Link":["https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1x2UVxym4How1qIMdOUvolnbjelueUi2U5ib95fWsc20\/edit?usp=sharing"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"- Teaching in the current climate\r\n- Genesis of this unit\/project\r\n- Student voices\r\n- Everyone make a field note!","Presenter":["Josh Block & Amal Giknis"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["amal.giknis@gmail.com","jblock@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":93,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":7},{"ID":775,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1509567730,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Troubleshooting barriers to learning: Perspectives from Philadelphia Students","Handle":"troubleshooting_barriers_to_learning--perspectives_from_philadelphia_students","ShortDescription":"In this session, students from the U school will share our story: being young black and Latinx men and women from Philadelphia, overcoming adversity, hoping it will change lives and mindsets. Often students like us feel misunderstood by adults in school. Participants will brainstorm solutions to be enacted in classrooms.","Description":"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. \r\n\r\nThen, 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. \r\n\r\nThen 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. \r\n\r\nTeachers 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.","Link":["http:\/\/www.uschool.org\/"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"In the first half of the session, students will share their experiences with the educators present. There will be four students and they will sit at different spaces at the table. Then each student will share the barriers that they face that affect their learning. Next, teachers will acknowledge what the students say and share whether they understand those barriers or if they have their own barriers that hinder them. \r\n\r\nFor the last part of the session, everyone will be split into four groups. Each student will lead the conversation of coming up with solutions, to overcoming barriers that students and teachers face to learning. One minute video of the process of coming up with a solution will be recorded and posted on social media by the student in each group, followed by a hashtag. \r\n\r\nThen everyone will come together in one group and decide what's the best solution. Once everyone has agreed to one solution every person who attends the solution is required to share something about the session followed by the hashtag. Lastly, participants will leave their contact information so the U School students can follow up after six weeks to see how they have implemented solutions discussed at the session.","Presenter":["Shawn Flythe","Argelis Minaya","and other U School students"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The U School"],"PresenterEmail":["sflythe@uschool.org","Ambravo@uschool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":94,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":7},{"ID":805,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1510245141,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Ancient in the Progressive: A Socratic Seminar about Project-Based Learning","Handle":"the_ancient_in_the_progressive--a_socratic_seminar_about_project-based_learning","ShortDescription":"The Workshop School is a progressive, project-based school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that is constantly exploring innovative approaches to education. In this session, students utilize their in the ancient art of Socratic discussion to discuss what works and what doesn't in project-based learning.","Description":"While attending the Workshop School, students discover their true identity. Which is project based learning. As a community, we have discussions about what's wrong with the education in schools today. In this session, we will focus on the differences between Project-Based Learning and Traditional Learning. The main idea is to be more aware of what's missing in schools today, what can we do to make it more engaging, and how can we make students feel more apart of their school community. A Socratic Seminar is the best was to face this problem head-on. However, this wouldn't be your typical Socratic Seminar, this would be a more  hands-on approach.","Link":["http:\/\/www.workshopschool.org"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"Our goal is to make this session an active session. We would be doing activities related to both Project-based and Traditional Learning. Hands-on activities. \r\n\"Lets take a leap into the workshop School world, I promise it would be a life changing moment for you\" - said a WS student.","Presenter":["Brandon Miller","Keyshawn Stran","Baijeen Compton","Dashawn Fisher"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["Brandon.Miller@workshopschool.org","Keyshawn.Stran@workshopschool.org","Baijeen.Compton@workshopschool.org","Dashawn.Fisher@workshopschool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":95,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":7},{"ID":808,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1511207400,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Authenticity: Nailing Down the Impossible","Handle":"authenticity--nailing_down_the_impossible","ShortDescription":"How do we define authenticity?  What is its value in the classroom?  How do we increase authenticity in teaching and learning?  How do we coach teachers to make their projects and activities authentic?  Let's answer these questions together.","Description":"We have studied and practiced Project-Based Learning and Teaching and come to the conclusion that authenticity is one of the key components of great PBL (alongside rigorous subject area learning, feedback & revision, and student agency).  However, we are grappling with how we define authenticity and coach teachers to improve this area of their teaching and learning.  How do we get beyond the \"I'll know it when I see it\" idea and transform educational opportunities for students by increasing authenticity in learning opportunities?  Join us in wrestling with these ideas and brainstorming solutions to this quandary.","Link":["http:\/\/inquiryschools.org","http:\/\/www.gse.upenn.edu\/"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"Brainstorming and Guided Group Discussions","Presenter":["Caitlin Thompson","Zachary Herrmann","Sarah Kavanagh"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Inquiry Schools","University of Pennsylvania - Graduate School of Education"],"PresenterEmail":["caitlin@inquiryschools.org","zsh123@upenn.edu","sarahkav@upenn.edu"],"ScheduleSlotID":96,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":7},{"ID":736,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1509373678,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Graduation by Exhibition","Handle":"graduation_by_exhibition","ShortDescription":"Are today\u2019s high school graduates prepared for post-secondary education? The Crefeld School\u2019s Graduation by Exhibition (GBE) model better prepares students for a smooth transition to life after high school. Crefeld staff will share details about their successful progressive GBE process that is an essential component of the school\u2019s program.","Description":"Are today\u2019s high school graduates prepared for post-secondary education? The Crefeld School\u2019s Graduation by Exhibition model better prepares students for a smooth transition to life after high school. Crefeld administrators and teachers will share details about their successful progressive Graduation by Exhibition (GBE) process that is an essential component of the school\u2019s program.\r\n\r\nAt Crefeld, students earn their diploma through GBE. This process requires students to demonstrate mastery in fifteen distinct projects. While working on each of the exhibitions, students utilize essential skills including logical reasoning, expository writing, analytical reading, research and understanding, self-reflection, engaged citizenship, and executive functioning. All of these skills prepare students for post-secondary education. \r\n\r\nIn this session, participants will be actively engaged in this interactive workshop by learning about each exhibition; by understanding how progressive education strengthens the program; by identifying the challenges and rewards of the program; and by hearing first-hand testimonies from recent Crefeld alumni.\r\n\r\nParticipants in this workshop will leave with The Crefeld School\u2019s Graduation by Exhibition Handbook.","Link":["http:\/\/www.crefeld.org"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"After sharing a small amount of background and philosophy about our process, we will engage participants in several of the activities that involve various structures and opportunities to interact with the exhibitions. Our workshop will be participant-centered, allowing time to hear from the group about their experiences, concerns and visions for a similar process at their schools. Attendees will leave having actively participated in progressive activities intended to solidify their understanding, as well as an understanding on how this process drives the culture of the school, and our handbook outlining the graduation by exhibition process.","Presenter":["George Zeleznik","Ann Croxson","Gena Lopata","Laura Craig"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Crefeld School"],"PresenterEmail":["gzeleznik@crefeld.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":97,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":7},{"ID":729,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1508961632,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Keeping Kids Curious: The Art and Science of Making","Handle":"keeping_kids_curious--the_art_and_science_of_making","ShortDescription":"STEAM is about more than just adding engineering and technology to our science, math, and art curriculum. Curiosity about the world\u2014answering questions and solving problems\u2014is the essence of learning. Let\u2019s talk about the science of curiosity and share strategies for using makerspaces to reignite curiosity in your students.","Description":"Makerspaces are an exploding trend in education, but most of the conversation has been around injection of STEM content and activities through hands-on building. We believe that an important avenue for exploration is activating and fostering curiosity in our students. Makerspaces offer opportunities to give students learning experiences that tap into new interests and passions.\r\n\r\nWe will begin by presenting and discussing some of the science of curiosity, specifically as it relates to student learning. We'll then use the Success Analysis Protocol to generate and process strategies and best practices brought to the session by the participants. We will explicitly consider how the strategies and practices may promote or suppress curiosity and how to maximize our ability to keep kids curious.","Link":["http:\/\/www.cheltenham.org","http:\/\/www.geraldaungst.com\/CuriosityEducon"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will use a version of the Success Analysis Protocol from the NSRF to process and analyze the ideas shared by the group. We will collect the best ideas and our reflections in a public Google Doc.","Presenter":["Gerald Aungst","Brian Reilly"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Cheltenham School District"],"PresenterEmail":["gaungst@cheltenham.org","breilly@cheltenham.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":98,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":7}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":7,"ScheduleLocationID":3},"total":6,"limit":false,"offset":false}