{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":774,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1509567405,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Book Chat! The New Education by Cathy Davidson","Handle":"book_chat-the_new_education_by_cathy_davidson","ShortDescription":"Cathy Davidson https:\/\/www.cathydavidson.com\/ writes in her new book, The New Education, about the origins of our current educational system, and compellingly that this system no longer serves its students or society well.  The focused solutions she recommends are aimed at higher education institutions.","Description":"The purpose of this conversation is to understand more deeply the historical and cultural roadblocks to change.  Then with that understanding construct, define, identify strategies to pursue solutions of greatest importance to participants.  \r\nCathy draws a line in 1993, when MOSAIC 1.0 was released.  MOSAIC was the 1st commercially viable web browser with a color interface that began the internet as we know it today.  Throughout the book she goes back and forth from the late 1800\u2019s when Charles Eliot set about changing education by creating what we now know as the modern research university, to today.\r\nThe system of ranking, sorting, and credentialing was created at a time of great change.  Centuries of long standing traditions had to change for the modern research university and K-12 public education systems to emerge.  \r\nRecognizing that the focus of colleges in the 19th century, turning out ministers and clergy, no longer served an emerging industrial society, Davidson and many progressive educators recognize that the focus of today\u2019s colleges, turning out credentialed professionals, no longer serves our algorithm driven, big data, postindustrial society.\r\nUsing Cathy\u2019s writing and examples as jumping off points, we\u2019ll look to contextualize how strategies of change buck up against cultural norms, and then look for tactics to ease barriers.","Link":["http:\/\/cae.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Even though this is a book talk, the Focus\/Framing protocol will be used in a modified fashion.  Each participant and group will frame their questions based on the context of the big ideas in the book.  \r\n\r\nOnce questions have been created, small and whole group discussion will work towards tactics to follow.  Ideally, pre and post EduCon conversations will take place among participants and co-moderators.There is an outside chance we may be able to have the author herself join the conversation via webcast.","Presenter":["Lee Finkelstein"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Regional Program Manager for CAE (Council for Aid to Education)"],"PresenterEmail":["lfinkelstein@cae.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":93,"ScheduleLocationID":4,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"I've communicated with the author and she knows I'm interested in facilitating this conversation.  I'm also openly recruiting others who have been similarly moved by the book to co-moderate with me.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":7},{"ID":816,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1514132544,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Build it Up! Connecting Assignments to Projects in World Languages","Handle":"build_it_up-connecting_assignments_to_projects_in_world_languages","ShortDescription":"Session aimed at providing World Language educators with various tools for increasing whole class engagement and student responsibilities through role-play, multi-layered activities, and purposeful assignments leading to larger projects. Through language immersion, clear roles and engaging assignments - students will be able to produce higher levels of interpersonal communication, presentational speaking and presentational writing.","Description":"This session is aimed at providing World Language educators with various tools for increasing whole class engagement and student responsibilities through role-play, multi-layered activities, and purposeful assignments leading to larger projects. Through language immersion, clear roles and engaging assignments - students will be able to produce higher levels of interpersonal communication, presentational speaking and presentational writing.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"This session will include; sharing best practices, research-based information and data, and a walkthrough of a benchmark\/project that represents the core values of SLA and the integration of the ACTFL standards.","Presenter":["Melissa Moran"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA Beeber","Educational Issues Department - PFT"],"PresenterEmail":["mmoran@slabeeber.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":94,"ScheduleLocationID":4,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":7},{"ID":762,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1509561051,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"\u201cThis Is My Body\u201d: Planning Rigorous, Relevant, and Accessible Humanities Curriculum Through an African-American Lens","Handle":"this_is_my_body--planning_rigorous-relevant-and_accessible_humanities_curriculum_through_an_african-american_lens","ShortDescription":"U School Humanities educators create curriculum that is rigorous, relevant, and accessible for all students in our non-selective public school. Students and educators will share the process used to design our introductory \u201cThis Is My Body\u201d unit, inspired by Opera Philadelphia\u2019s \u201cWe Shall Not Be Moved\u201d, and resulting argumentative poetry.","Description":"For the 3rd year, the Humanities team at The U School is planning common curriculum to be taught across the school. This year, our work is centered around Philadelphia\u2019s mandated African-American history course. This year\u2019s course consists of six thematic units, with short introductory and reflective units at the beginning and end of the year.\r\n\r\nTo start the 2017-18 school year, U School Humanities educators used inspiration from Opera Philadelphia\u2019s \u201cWe Shall Not Be Moved\u201d to create an introductory unit for our Humanities: African-American Lens course. We began by exploring the historical context for the opera, including and considering ways in which history can intersect with our modern lives. Using models from the opera, U School students wrote their own \u201cThis Is My Body\u201d argumentative poems. \r\n\r\nIn this session, U School educators and partners from Opera Philadelphia will share the process they used for planning this curriculum, and U School students will share their work and reflections on the first half of our course. \r\n\r\nBy reflecting on our inquiry from one specific unit, we will share the process we use for designing all of our units. On our Humanities team, we design around several major principles: learning that is connected to students\u2019 lives, interests, and experiences, rich engagement with social justice topics, rigorous, competency-based assessment, and a design approach to solving real-world problems.","Link":["http:\/\/www.uschool.org\/humanities.html"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"Student work and experiences will be the foundation of this conversation. We will use a text rendering process to unpack pieces of student poetry.\r\n\r\nAfter unpacking student poetry, we will have participants create found poems from the student \u201cThis is My Body\u201d poems to sum up their takeaways from this session. Participants will then share their poetry with the group, and with the students who wrote the original poetry.\r\n\r\nAt the end of this session, educators will consider how they can encourage students at all levels and school settings to do critical, introspective and connected work in their own classrooms.","Presenter":["Michael Bolton","Steven Humes","Charlie McGeehan","Samuel Reed","U School students"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The U School","Opera Philadelphia"],"PresenterEmail":["bolton@operaphila.org","humes@operaphila.org","cmcgeehan@uschool.org","sreed@uschool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":95,"ScheduleLocationID":4,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":7}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":7,"ScheduleLocationID":4},"total":3,"limit":false,"offset":false}