{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":790,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1509584596,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Finding the Others: Building a Culture of Modern Learning","Handle":"finding_the_others--building_a_culture_of_modern_learning","ShortDescription":"Making the shift from a culture of teaching to a culture of modern learning can only happen when a school community shares powerful beliefs about learning. This session will discuss practical strategies to help educators to \u201cfind the others\u201d or expand pockets of innovation and inspiration that embody modern learning.","Description":"How do we move away from a teacher-driven culture in favor of a culture of modern learning? What steps can educators and schools take to create learning experiences that inspire? In each school, there are educators who provide powerful answers to these questions that validate the impact of modern learning. \u201cFinding the Others\u201d will share practical ways that schools can activate student agency, tap into educators\u2019 professional curiosity, and access the power of professional and community partnerships to expand the pockets of inspiration and innovation in our schools. \r\n\r\nWhile changing the culture of a school may seem daunting, there are practical steps that schools can take to build a community of educators who are capable of closing the gap between beliefs and practice. In this conversation, representatives from Nipmuc High School will outline a series of easily scalable practices for creating modern learning experiences including: \r\n-actionable ways to quickly and clearly articulate beliefs about learning;\r\n-Lead Learner meetings which bring students and teachers together to reimagine the student experience; \r\n-21st Century Learning Conferences, bi-annual events where students, teachers and community members engage in interest-driven sessions during the school day; \r\n-Food for Thought lunches, open forums that ignite conversation between students and teachers;\r\n-the open-source Inspired Learning Project which includes a blog, resources and monthly digital discussions. \r\n\r\nParticipants will walk away from the conversation with new ideas, adaptable protocols, and accessible resources to help them \u201cfind the others\u201d and build a powerful network of educators who are committed to reimagining school.","Link":["https:\/\/modernlearning2018.weebly.com\/"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"Participants will work in small groups in a variety of conversational protocols that promote idea-sharing, making thinking visible, and maximizing digital tools to promote voices over volume. \r\n\r\nIn addition, the conversation will be shared and organized on a website that will include a variety of embedded tools to encourage backchanneling and digital conversation during and beyond EduCon.","Presenter":["John Clements","Maureen Cohen","Mary Anne Moran","Dave Quinn"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Principal (Nipmuc Regional High School)","Assistant Superintendent (Mendon-Upton Regional Schools)","Associate Principal (Nipmuc Regional High School)","Director of Technology Integration (Mendon-Upton Regional Schools)"],"PresenterEmail":["jclements@mursd.org","mcohen@mursd.org","mamoran@mursd.org","dquinn@mursd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":93,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"Please be aware that we would not be able to have our entire team available to host the conversation on Sunday, 1\/28\/18. If we have the opportunity to be part of the event, we would need to be included on Saturday's program. Thank you for the consideration. We're looking forward to the event!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":7},{"ID":777,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1509569176,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Tools and Hacks for Creating an Interest-Driven Internship Program","Handle":"tools_and_hacks_for_creating_an_interest-driven_internship_program","ShortDescription":"This workshop will share out ideas about how to create a vibrant interest-driven internship program as a key component of increasing engagement and relevancy for high school students.","Description":"The idea that high school students should be given the opportunity to build relationships with mentors in the real world through interest-driven internships is gaining traction in communities around the United States. Big Picture Learning is a network of schools that have made internships a key component of their learning model for over 20 years.\r\nThis workshop will discuss some of the academic and social-emotional values of internships. We will also address how schools can utilize internship programs to increase the networking power of students and reduce the opportunity gap.\r\nWe will discuss some of the \u201chacks\u201d that schools have employed to manage the complexities of an internship program as well as highlight our work on ImBlaze - an initiative by BPL to support school internship programs. We will also discuss approaches to challenges around compliance, attendance and documentation of academic progress.\r\nStudents from El Centro de Estudiantes - a Big Picture School in Philadelphia that works primarily with over-age and undercredited youth - will contribute to this workshop and provide some important context regarding the value of an academic and interest-driven internship program.","Link":["http:\/\/www.bigpicture.org\/apps\/pages\/index.jsp?uREC_ID=584288&type=u&pREC_ID=915310","https:\/\/www.imblaze.org\/"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"We will conduct an asset-based conversation, developing a list of common obstacles to a vibrant internship program and then breaking these down to distill solutions. We will document this process using Dropmark, an online web collaboration tool.","Presenter":["David Berg"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Big Picture Learning"],"PresenterEmail":["david@bigpicturelearning.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":94,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"We are identifying the students who will participate and are also talking with some El Centro staff who may also attend.\r\n\r\nThank you,\r\nDavid","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":7},{"ID":780,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1509570830,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Connecting Careers to the Classroom through Mentorship","Handle":"connecting_careers_to_the_classroom_through_mentorship","ShortDescription":"This workshop will focus on the realities of connecting the classroom to the workplace, while addressing common partnership needs and issues on both sides of the table. We will explore how to incorporate mentorship into various learning environments to generate conversations about STEM careers and the pathways to them.","Description":"When exploring the best ways to \u201cengage students in relevant and meaningful experiences that connect to real world skills and careers\u201d the best answer would be to give them direct access to those careers. Initiatives like US2020 have put a national focus on using mentorship to strengthen the school to STEM career pipeline, and the ability to connect youth to careers should quickly become accessible to all. The reality of connecting school or youth serving organizations to business partnerships can be met with a lot of red tape and missed opportunities. \r\n\r\nBy following along the journey of FirstHand's mentorship model, participants will get the chance take inventory of their goals and objectives for connecting youth to STEM careers, explore common barriers and potential solutions, and highlight opportunities that can be used to create an innovative and sustainable program.","Link":["http:\/\/firsthandphilly.org"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"Teams will be using personal learning scenarios and designing components of mentorship into them. Yes, we'll be using lots of post-its and markers. Participants, regardless of which side of the mentor spectrum they fall, will be identifying skills and careers for those particular scenarios and then discussing ways to connect them to the world at large. We'll be using a few protocols from Project Zero to guide conversations.","Presenter":["Maya Heiland","Adam Durant","Melissa Kurman"],"PresenterAffiliation":["University City Science Center","FirstHand"],"PresenterEmail":["mheiland@sciencecenter.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":95,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":7},{"ID":720,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1506530272,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Playlist-Centered Professional Development","Handle":"playlist-centered_professional_development","ShortDescription":"The idea of creating playlists (curated sets of online projects) respects teachers\u2019 knowledge of their kids and pedagogy while adding ideas about digital media learning. Teachers get excited to create and compose curriculum in new ways that integrate technology into teaching and learning, which then gets teachers side-by-side with youth.","Description":"Playlists-Centered Professional Development (PCPD) is an innovative model that the New York City Writing Project is beginning to use to bring connected, digital media learning into NYC schools. Our goal is to increase the number of youth who have access to high-quality connected learning in new media arts by working alongside teachers in NYC schools, helping them to build online curriculum projects (playlists) and digital portfolio assessment systems (badges). We are helping teachers to integrate digital media learning into their academic curriculum, which allows us to meet youth where they are: in classrooms during the school day. \r\n\r\nWe have found a fit between the NYCWP and LRNG in that we are both open, networked organizations. With LRNG we are able to give teachers and youth the ability to use playlists (curated sets of digital projects) from around the country on the platform. The NYCWP uses LRNG to give us the flexibility and capacity to collaborate with a shared platform rather than creating within our own silo. Another important value that NYCWP shares with LRNG has to do with who builds the content. Educators and youth not only use the projects on LRNG, they are curriculum creators as well. And LRNG\u2019s capacity to support educators and youth to become curriculum creators and assessors is at the heart of this work of the NYCWP: we are developing a professional development framework where the NYCWP will work with teachers to craft playlists rich in digital media learning for youth in their schools.","Link":["https:\/\/youthvoices.live","https:\/\/kidvoices.live","https:\/\/www.lrng.org\/o\/youth-voices"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"After a brief orientation to the New York City Writing Project and our work in NYC schools using Youth Voices and LRNG, we will show a couple of playlists and the work on Youth Voices as examples. Most of the time will be given to educators and youth in our workshop to create an XP (digital learning experience) then share it with others with the idea of fitting them together as a playlist. This should lead to plenty of conversation.","Presenter":["Paul Allison","Grace Raffaele"],"PresenterAffiliation":["New York City Writing Project"],"PresenterEmail":["allisonpr@gmail.com","gracer77@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":96,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":7},{"ID":807,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1510419841,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Helping Students Navigate a Media Saturated World","Handle":"helping_students_navigate_a_media_saturated_world","ShortDescription":"Our students live in a world that is over-saturated with videos, photos, ads, music, and social media posts.  How do we as educators help them navigate this world and flourish in it?  \r\n\r\nLed by SLA Digital Video teacher Anna Walker-Roberts.","Description":"Our students live in a world that is over-saturated with videos, photos, ads, music, and social media posts.  How do we as educators help them navigate this world and flourish in it?  In this session we will make space for questions the participants have and proactive ideas we can all take back to our classrooms.  \r\n\r\nLed by SLA Digital Video teacher Anna Walker-Roberts, this session will make space for questions we all bring to the table as well as proactive ideas we can each take back to our classrooms.","Link":["http:\/\/www.annawalkeractor.com"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"This conversation will start by having participants discuss a few essential questions related to how students operate in a media-saturated world and sharing out some of the major ideas they discuss.  Participants will be able to add their own questions to the mix and share ideas they have for guiding students on how to be a responsible consumer, creator, and sharer of media.","Presenter":["Anna Walker-Roberts"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["awalkerroberts@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":97,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":7},{"ID":722,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1507127747,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Evolving Role of the 21C Educator","Handle":"the_evolving_role_of_the_21c_educator","ShortDescription":"How has our role as educators evolved as more student-centered and personalized learning models emerged? What is the indispensable expertise and value teachers continue to bring to the classrooms and how do we keep these at the forefront of practices? Is higher education and the current model of PD building capacity in these areas?","Description":"This conversation will focus on defining what the role of educator has looked like past, present, and future. The goal is to \r\n\r\n- Tease out what has been the central value of the teacher-student interaction through different eras of changing paradigms in education\r\n- Create a clearer confidence in what is irreplaceable\r\n- Brainstorm ways to leverage innovation to allow for more teacher-student interaction and maximize the impact of that interaction \r\n\r\nThe conversation is important in the face of fear of futurists' predictions regarding automation of education, and in the current fear of personalized learning when the misinterpretation of that model puts technology over pedagogy and rapport.","Link":["http:\/\/www.blinaction.com","http:\/\/www.teachontheedge.com","http:\/\/linc.education"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Create an online share space using a tool like Padlet for organizing contributions and ensuring all voices are heard.\r\nTransition between online sharing and offline conversations in both small and whole group.","Presenter":["Tiffany Wycoff"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Blended Learning in Action; Learning Innovation Catalyst"],"PresenterEmail":["tiffanyfwycoff@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":98,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":7}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":7,"ScheduleLocationID":8},"total":6,"limit":false,"offset":false}