{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":739,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1509382561,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"#OurWorldsConnect","Handle":"ourworldsconnect","ShortDescription":"What responsibility do schools have to grow truly empathetic people?  How do we help our students connect and build positive relationships with diverse populations in this increasingly divisive political\/social climate?  How do we help our young people \u201c listen to others deeply enough to be changed by what they learn?\u201d","Description":"Most of us live in a bubble of some sort, created by geography, socioeconomics, culture, society, family, ourselves, or something else.  What responsibility do we, as educators, have to help our students see beyond this bubble?  How can we help them break down barriers and understand that we all have shared human experiences despite our differences?  \r\n\r\nThis conversation starts with the assumption that, \u201cPeople brought together from differing educational, cultural, racial, and ethnic backgrounds can be prepared to deal more effectively with human problem-solving experiences than those who are not in an integrated setting.\u201d (Taken from World of Inquiry School founding document)  Take a look at how two schools, one rural and one urban, have partnered to begin a journey towards this shared understanding.  How can we scale this idea?  Where does it fit in the curriculum (for schools who may need this to sell the concept?)  What other types of opportunities are there for cross-school connections?  Please join me for a conversation about the practical role schools can play in countering the polarity and divisiveness we see in our country today.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"I\u2019ll begin with a brief overview of our rural\/urban partnership, then move into a short self reflection protocol, followed by interactive small and large group conversations.  Key points will be captured digitally and shared.","Presenter":["Anneke Radin-Snaith"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Naples CSD"],"PresenterEmail":["aradinsnaith@naplescsd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":93,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"If this proposal is accepted, it would be helpful if I could avoid being scheduled on Sunday afternoon, as we have a long drive home.  Thanks!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":7},{"ID":763,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1509561283,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Making Work Matter - The Power of Student Showcases","Handle":"making_work_matter_-_the_power_of_student_showcases","ShortDescription":"Want to find a way to give students authentic audiences while simultaneously engaging with the community and showing them all the awesome work that happens at your school? Well then this workshop is for you. Come join us and learn how to make public showcases of student work happen at your school.","Description":"At Attleboro High School we have started holding public showcases of student work in order to accomplish several goals:\r\n\r\n1. All too often the only people who see student work are the student and the teacher.  This helps change that dynamic by providing an authentic audience for student work by inviting the community to see what we've been up to.\r\n2. All too often the only things the community knows about its schools are what is in the newspaper.  Having public showcases helps to change the conversation around what is happening in school and provides a much richer picture of student achievement to the community.\r\n\r\nThis workshop will focus on getting participants to design public showcases of student work to be held at their schools.  The conversation will focus on three main areas:\r\n\r\n1. What is a public showcase of student work? \r\n2. Why publicly showcase student work?\r\n3. How do I organize a public showcase of student work?\r\n\r\nParticipants will then work to collaboratively conceive and design one to be held at their school this year.","Link":["http:\/\/ahsilt.weebly.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Participants will work in groups to conceive of and design a showcase to be held at their school.  Resources will be created and shared via Google tools for every step of the process that each person can then utilize.  The \"what? So what? Now what?\" protocol will be utilized to examine the issues surrounding student and community engagement and then to move to devising solutions to these problems through showcases.","Presenter":["Brian Hodges","Tobey Reed"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Attleboro High School"],"PresenterEmail":["bhodges@attleboroschools.com","treed@attleboroschools.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":94,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"You can find us on Twitter as well:\r\n\r\nBrian: @bhodge2727\r\nTobey: @reedahs","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":7},{"ID":803,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1510028580,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Think Tank Challenge: A Model for Student Led Curriculum Design","Handle":"think_tank_challenge--a_model_for_student_led_curriculum_design","ShortDescription":"What does a high school education look like that engages students, involves the community, and prepares learners for the unknown possibilities of the 21st Century? At South Bronx Community, our students answer this question. We gave students the keys to the curriculum and supported them to design their own interdisciplinary projects.","Description":"Our staff designed an interdisciplinary challenge to launch the school year where students took the lead on designing the curriculum. Similar to the exhilaration and anxiety that comes with giving a teenager the keys to the family car for the first time, we gave our students the opportunity to drive the curriculum development process, through the Think Tank Challenge.\r\n\r\nThe Think Tank Challenge\r\n\r\nUsing your creativity, cultural expertise, and problem-solving skills, you will design and showcase an innovative way of learning 10th grade material through your own academic tasks and challenges. You will present your challenge to a panel made up of SBC students, celebrities\/field experts, SBC staff, and community members. The audience and panel will rate the challenge proposals on a set of criteria and the proposal with the highest average rating will become an integral part of the 10th grade curriculum. The chosen Challenge-Makers will win an all expense paid trip to Philadelphia\u2019s Educon!\r\n\r\nSBC Challenge-Makers will share their challenge pitch with attendees and discuss how this project empowered them as agents of their own learning.\r\n\r\nSBC staff will share how this challenge was used as an opportunity to build relationships with students, learn their interests connected to the curriculum, and quickly gain perspective on their learning styles.","Link":["http:\/\/www.southbronxcommunity.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Session facilitators will include both students and staff from SBC. The facilitators will present the student products and the process the staff used to design the learning experience. The facilitators will then sit on a panel and take questions from the session attendees about the project. All attendees will receive access to the teacher designed curriculum as well as the student products. Session attendees will participate in a gallery walk to view student projects and ask questions directly to students about their experience and insights.","Presenter":["Robert Gulya","Amalu Jenkins","Karen Patwa","Arian Nakhaie","Priscilla Inoa","Gaylene Alexis","Crystal Montalvo"],"PresenterAffiliation":["South Bronx Community Charter High School"],"PresenterEmail":["john.clemente@southbronxcommunity.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":95,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":7},{"ID":778,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1509569416,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Creating a \"culture of error\" across your school community","Handle":"creating_a-culture_of_error-across_your_school_community","ShortDescription":"You may have heard of growth mindset, but it's hard to change those habits! We'll get concrete about cultivating a growth mindset in your school community - diving into the \"culture of error,\" which is about setting a tone by which it is safe to make mistakes or have a half-baked understanding. Because that is the ideal opportunity for learning.","Description":"Growth mindset is great on a theoretical level, but the truth is that we begin to set those mindset habits at a very young age - and it's hard to change. We will think together about how to create classroom and school communities that build up growth mindset, and we'll pull in another essential idea - \"culture of error\" - which is a really helpful way to build growth mindset. \r\n\r\nWe will talk about four key ideas that make up the culture of error:\r\n-expect error\r\n-withhold the answer\r\n-manage the tell\r\n-support risk-taking\r\n\r\nThis conversation will be applicable for teachers, school leaders, and parents. We also encourage students to join the conversation.","Link":["https:\/\/www.coachingandconvening.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We'll start with a short video to help explain the idea of \"culture of error.\"\r\n\r\nThen we will discuss what it means and why it is helpful in classrooms and schools, leading the way to a growth mindset.\r\n\r\nWe will read a few short excerpts to spur conversation, and then break up depending on scenario and role, focusing on how to build a culture of error within your classroom, or among your school leadership team, or across your soccer club. This will be participatory!","Presenter":["Brett Shiel"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Coaching and Convening"],"PresenterEmail":["brettshiel@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":96,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":7},{"ID":801,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1509667471,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Choosing to be Awakened and Awoke : A Conversation about Social Justice for All, in Schools and Beyond","Handle":"curiosity_in_education--answering_the_hard_questions","ShortDescription":"Join us for a SLA-student-led exploration of how to engage young people in authentic social justice discussions and actions. This session seeks to map out ways for all of us to authentically understand, engage in, and make a positive impact across the spectrum of of social justice within our schools. From here, we will seek to identify ways to share our own stories while ensuring that all others can and will have an equal voice, too. Finally, the (3) SLA student session leaders will also share their long-term plans for an innovative 'social justice' inspired event that will be influenced by your experiences, questions and ideas.","Description":"Join us for a SLA-student-led exploration of how to engage young people in authentic social justice discussions and actions. This session seeks to map out ways for all of us to authentically understand, engage in, and make a positive impact across the spectrum of of social justice within our schools. From here, we will seek to identify ways to share our own stories while ensuring that all others can and will have an equal voice, too. Finally, the (3) SLA student session leaders will also share their long-term plans for an innovative 'social justice' inspired event that will be influenced by your experiences, questions and ideas.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"","Presenter":["Ella Burrows","Tamir Harper","Sam Dennis and Christian Long"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["eburrows18@scienceleadership.org","tharper18@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":97,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":7},{"ID":742,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1509394288,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"How Do We Encourage Student Centered Lessons in HS?","Handle":"how_do_we_encourage_student_centered_lessons_in_hs","ShortDescription":"The term \"student centered instruction\" has been bandied about quite a bit in the past few years. What does that look like at the High School level? Let's brainstorm ways to adjust the learning experiences in our High School classrooms to meet the needs of students and teacher alike.","Description":"The term \"student centered instruction\" has been bandied about quite a bit in the past few years. What does that look like at the High School level? In conversations with other High School teachers I have experienced both resistance to the concept, as well as confusion about how to make it happen. What do we do if students do not come to us with the skills they need to be self directed learners? How do we make sure that they are prepared for college? How do we handle others in our department who are not interested? Where do we get resources? How do we find the time? All of these questions and more need to be discussed.  Let's brainstorm ways to adjust the learning experiences in our High School classrooms to meet the needs of students and teacher alike.","Link":["http:\/\/www.duncanpatti.wikispaces.com"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"I would love to create a collaborative Google Site with ideas and lessons. Depending on the other members of the conversation, maybe we could use Padlet of a Google Doc to post ideas initially.  It would be awesome if conversation members were diverse enough to tackle different disciplines. I would propose that we start with a conversation about the meaning of \"student centered\" because I think that there may be some confusion there.  I would also ask people to share ways that they may have already been creating student centered experiences. I think that during this type of conversation, there may be the opportunity to have a \"gripe session\" so I will encourage us to get that out of the way right in the beginning and help others see that instead of dwelling on why it can not\/should not work, we should focus on possible solutions.","Presenter":["Patti Duncan"],"PresenterAffiliation":["EdCamp NEPA; Discovery Education"],"PresenterEmail":["duncanpatti@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":98,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"I have led similar conversations in my capacity at both EdCamp NEPA and Discovery.  I taught HS Chemistry and Physics for 15 years before I went to work for Discovery and have done a lot of work with teachers around transforming classrooms, not just about integrating technology but also about the necessary shift in pedagogy. This session is NOT about DE. (PS... I no longer work for them)","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":7}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":7,"ScheduleLocationID":2},"total":6,"limit":false,"offset":false}