{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":791,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1509586711,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Two Truths and a Lie: Parsing Current Events with Students","Handle":"two_truths_and_a_lie--parsing_current_events_with_students","ShortDescription":"In this session we\u2019ll discuss how to help students navigate the confusing waters of current political and social events. How do we help students initially approach the positions of others with curiosity, rather than judgement? How can curiosity help us avoid information silos and evaluate sources?","Description":"In this session we\u2019ll discuss how to help students navigate the confusing waters of current political and social events. How do we help students initially approach the positions of others with curiosity, rather than judgement? How can curiosity help us avoid information silos and evaluate sources?","Link":["http:\/\/laufenberg.wordpress.com","http:\/\/meredithstewart.com"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"We will use best practices as the conversational practice for this session.","Presenter":["Meredith Stewart","Diana Laufenberg","Dan Agins"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Cary Academy","Inquiry Schools","Pawcatuck Middle School"],"PresenterEmail":["meredithLstewart@gmail.com","dlaufenberg@gmail.com","agins.dan@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":93,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":7},{"ID":781,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1509572989,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"How do we DO science in our schools?","Handle":"how_do_we_do_science_in_our_schools","ShortDescription":"What is science?.... observing the natural world, questioning, making hypotheses, designing and performing experiments, and drawing conclusions from evidence. Many, if not most, of the \"labs\" done in grades 9-12 focus on demonstration of properties and building lab and analytic skills. \r\nLet's talk about ways to make science in our schools better reflect the true nature of the discipline. We face limitations including class size, content requirements, resources, safety concerns and time constraints. How can we make this work at our schools?","Description":"Science is a process of observing the natural world, questioning, making hypotheses, designing and performing experiments, and drawing conclusions from evidence. Many, if not most, of the \"labs\" done in grades 6-12 focus on demonstration of properties and building lab and skills. \r\nLet's talk about ways to make science better reflect the true nature of the discipline. We face limitations including class size, resources, safety concerns and time constraints. How can we make this work at our schools?\r\nThe presenter will share an approach that is underway in her classes, its successes and challenges. Participants are encouraged to share how they have made research more authentic in their classrooms and ideas they might have about making this even more approachable. We will reference NGSS science practices as we discuss our work and dreams for future work.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"We will briefly present (10-15min) the nature of our students' work, including the format of the assignments and associated rubrics. Sample student work will be shared. Participants will then share their own ideas, work, and strategies.\r\nWe anticipate using a version of the Consultancy Protocol and\/or the Tuning Protocol to focus the conversation.","Presenter":["Eileen Glassmire"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Worcester Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["eileen.glassmire@worcesteracademy.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":94,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":7},{"ID":820,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1514919173,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Not Light, But Fire: Excelling in race conversation","Handle":"not_light-but_fire--excelling_in_race_conversation","ShortDescription":"Teachers will discuss practical, effective, and meaningful ways to lead race conversations with students.","Description":"In this discussion, teachers will discuss how to lead good race conversations - sharing our successes and failures, our best practices and trouble spots.","Link":[],"Audience":[],"Practice":"Small and Large Group Conversation","Presenter":["Matthew Kay"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA","Stenhouse Publishers"],"PresenterEmail":["mkay@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":95,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":7},{"ID":751,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1509532770,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Conversations In and Across the Classrooms","Handle":"conversations_in_and_across_the_classrooms","ShortDescription":"Faculty from Science Leadership Academy Middle School will discuss the connection between conversation and comprehension. Participants will share questions and learn how conversation is embedded into the curricula and practices at SLA-MS and think about what it means to get better at conversation. Conversation with conclude with sharing of practices from participants who use conversation as a tool for growth and understanding.","Description":"What is the connection between conversation and comprehension? How can schools support students as they seek to build meaning from what they read and learn? How can conversation allow disciplines to better collaborate around content and skills? What are the ways conversation can be used as a tool to make schools more equitable and less hierarchical? If EduCon is a conversation, not a conference, how can schools make this model more accessible for students to both support their growth and honor their thinking?\r\n\r\nJoin faculty from Science Leadership Academy Middle School to discuss these questions and learn how conversation is embedded into the curricula and practices at SLA-MS and think about what it means to get better at conversation.","Link":[],"Audience":["Middle School"],"Practice":"SLA-MS faculty will facilitate a conversation that includes inquiry, collaboration and reflection around questions regarding conversations in and across classrooms. Participants will collaborate in groups, brainstorm & share solutions and reflect upon practice.","Presenter":["Hilary Hamilton","Nancy Ironside","Tim Boyle"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA-MS"],"PresenterEmail":["nironside@philasd.org","hhamilton@philasd.org","tmboyle@philasd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":96,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":7},{"ID":796,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1509592752,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Black Girl Magic in Practice","Handle":"black_girl_magic_in_practice","ShortDescription":"How do we best encourage young women of color to effect change in the spaces they already occupy? This conversation aims to discuss strategies and tools for empowering students to change the rhetoric and attitudes around gender and sexism in their school.","Description":"We live in an age where racism and sexual assault are on the daily news, and yet the same violent acts are constantly perpetrated. While recognizing this painful truth, our goal is to create spaces around ourselves that encourage young women to counter the all-too-familiar narrative. When we do that, girls begin to feel that large-scale change is possible, and then are invested in playing their part to impact that change. \r\n\r\nTalking to students about issues of racism, sexism, and sexual violence is not easy. There are often layers of experiences and feelings and internalized stereotypes that make it difficult to get to the bottom of these issues. Questions that help guide our thoughts are: What are ways for young women of color to feel heard and powerful in a society that wants anything but that? Where can we encourage girls to find hope and energy to fuel their passion for change?\r\n\r\nAt The Workshop School, we formed a group of female-identifying students who have determined that they care about the way girls and women are treated and want to do something to change it. Through conversations about sexism, intersectionality, action, and hope, our girls have identified ways that they want to make a difference in their school. \r\n\r\nDuring this conversation, our girls will share their experiences as change-makers in our democratic school, and we will discuss ways this can happen in and outside of class.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"Our girls will share their experiences through this group, and talk about the ways in which they have begun to see change throughout the school. As a group, we will split into smaller groups with students to each tackle a different aspect to these issues. With perspectives from both students and educators, we can have a more balanced conversation about how to structure these experiences for students, and how to create the spaces to do so.","Presenter":["Rebecca Coven","Swetha Narasimhan"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Workshop School"],"PresenterEmail":["rebecca.coven@workshopschool.org","swetha.narasimhan@workshopschool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":97,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":7}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":7,"ScheduleLocationID":9},"total":5,"limit":false,"offset":false}