{"data":{"ID":896,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1541100987,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Communities in Conversation","Handle":"communities_in_coversation","ShortDescription":"How do learn from each other? What makes positive, productive collaboration? How do we help students to collaborate with each other? How do we authentically engage students in the past, present, and future of their communities? How do we as adults collaborate with our students to co-create curriculum\/projects\/classroom environments? How do school-based adults collaborate with each other? How might we collaborate across schools?\r\n\r\nIn this session, we\u2019ll use an in-progress partnership between Science Leadership Academy Middle School in Philadelphia, PA and Shelburne Community School in Shelburne, VT. This will work as a case study and a jumping off point to think about how we teach, learn and connect within and across communities, together.","Description":"This year, 5th and 6th graders at Science Leadership Academy Middle School in Philadelphia, PA and 6th, 7th, and 8th graders at Shelburne Community School are participating in a year-long collaboration. Though similar in educational philosophy, the two schools are demographically very different. Over the course of the year, students will engage in community building activities (letter writing, presentations of our neighborhoods, and shared problem solving) as we get to know one another. Separately, we\u2019ll be working with our own schools to figure out what current events affect us and our communities. As students determine the key issues our communities face, they\u2019ll choose one issue to become \u2018expert\u2019 in and put together a project with the intention of teaching others about the complexity of the issue and its impact.  Students from the two schools will then have the opportunity to connect digitally. They will share their discoveries while exploring what defines both the unique and connecting characteristics of the two communities. \r\n\r\nEducon will be an opportunity for a delegation from Shelburne Community School to come to Philadelphia, visit SLAMS, and meet students in person. Then, along with a small group from SLA-MS, they will help facilitate a conversation about their experience at the halfway mark of this project. With adults and students in the room, we\u2019ll think about ways that schools - teachers and students -  can collaborate with one another to learn and take projects further than we can on our own.","Link":[],"Audience":["Middle School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"None of us is the lecturing type. There will some be small group breakouts based on interest and collaborative activities. This also includes elements of project-based and service-learning models.","Presenter":["Hilary Hamilton","Sarah Bower-Griceo","Sam Nelson","Jeffery Badillo","and to be determined students"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy Middle School and Shelburne Community School"],"PresenterEmail":["hhamilton@philasad.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":111,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8}}