{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":904,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1541121197,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Project Based Math in Middle School: Balancing Content and Creativity","Handle":"project_based_math_in_middle_school--balancing_content_and_creativity","ShortDescription":"Developing mathematical thinking and proficiency is hard. Practice and structure are necessary and yet many teachers see them as barriers to project based learning in math. What tasks support both skill development and projects? How can standards drive project design and mathematical understanding? Join Middle School teachers from SLAMS and SLA@B to discuss the challenges and opportunities of project based math.","Description":"The session will focus on these essential questions: How can skill practice be embedded into project work? What kinds of tasks support both skill development and projects? How can standards drive project design and mathematical understanding? SLAMS and SLA@B teachers will share perspectives, challenges and successes and elicit perspectives, challenges and successes from participants. A shared document of ideas will be created to become a resource for future planning.","Link":[],"Audience":["Middle School"],"Practice":"Middle School teachers from SLAMS and SLA@B will talk about the challenges and opportunities of project based math. Participants work in small groups to grapple with the essential questions and share concerns, solutions and strategies for developing math skills without sacrificing projects.","Presenter":["Nancy Ironside","Monique Carter","Heather Lisle"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLAMS & SLA@Beeber"],"PresenterEmail":["nironside@philasd.org","mcarter@philasd.org","hlisle@slabeeber.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":110,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"Even thought it is the 11th hour, you should accept us! There is always a need for math discussion! Thanks!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":872,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1540934019,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"STREAM: Integrating Reading and Arts to STEM","Handle":"stream--integrating_reading_and_arts_to_stem","ShortDescription":"How can we effectively integrate reading, writing and the arts in STEM? In this session, we will explore ways to integrate the multiple disciplines while engaging in the engineering design process (ask, imagine, create, test, improve) of developing a model sail.","Description":"In this session, we will discuss and engage in a hands-on exploration of how to use books (or reading materials) to provide context for the engineering design process. As an example, participants will design sails that was adapted from the Engineering is Elementary: Catching the Wind (www.eie.org). This module introduces learners to the idea of force and motion by developing and testing wind related designs. Participants will gain an understanding of real-life engineering application through the story of William Kamkwamba of Malawi who saved his village by creating a windmill. They will write using the claim, evidence, explanation, and rebuttal framework as they test variables (i.e. area, material, and geometric shape) that influence the speed of sails, use data to develop their prototypes, and engage in problem solving to improve their designs. Participants will also have a chance to improve the aesthetic of the sails. Finally, there will be a discussion on ways to integrate reading, writing and the arts in STEM.","Link":["https:\/\/www.arcadia.edu\/profile\/augusto-macalalag"],"Audience":["Middle School","Elementary School"],"Practice":"We will have discussion and hands-on explorations.","Presenter":["Dr Augusto Z Macalalag Jr"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Arcadia University"],"PresenterEmail":["macalalaga@arcadia.edu"],"ScheduleSlotID":111,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":866,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1540906678,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Not by the Book: Re-imagining Today\u2019s Middle School Science Program","Handle":"not_by_the_book--re-imagining_today-s_middle_school_science_program","ShortDescription":"How can we engage ALL students in a way that leads to genuine learning, discovery, and conceptual understanding?  Discuss with us the role of teachers and administrators in all-school programmatic design that scaffolds scientific competencies, creates a safe learning environment, and promotes a love of learning.","Description":"The Alternative School for Math & Science is a student-centered, independent middle school in Corning, NY. Since its founding in 2003, inquiry-based, hands-on science, which is central to the FOSS curriculum, has been the basis of our program. Learn how, over the last five years, while honoring our early commitment to inquiry-based approaches, teachers and administrators have worked together to shape the evolution of the program into a more comprehensive, clearly articulated, future-focused experience for our students. See how the incorporation of open-ended exploratory projects, in-depth engineering challenges, and extended participation in high-level national science contests has promoted engagement and fostered student learning. Discover how, by scaffolding scientific competencies and understandings from grade six through eight, students emerge as the questioning, confident, problem-solving scientists we want them to be. This is not a \u2018bad to good\u2019 narrative; this is a \u2018good to better\u2019 story. Join us to add your ideas and share your experiences so that we can all move to \u2018best\u2019.","Link":["http:\/\/www.tasms.com"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"We will share our program design process, including the collaborative engagement between administrators and teachers. We will provide project plans and exemplars from student work. We will demonstrate how we utilize technology and digital science notebooks. We will encourage others to share what is happening in their schools, and we hope that all of this will provide a springboard for productive conversations about how to improve student engagement in and passion for science.","Presenter":["Jenna Chervenic","Kim Nightingale","Pat Killian"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Alternative School for Math and Science"],"PresenterEmail":["chervenicja@tasms.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":112,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":877,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1541001955,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Promoting student civic action through a critical exploration of incarceration practices in the U.S.","Handle":"promoting_student_civic_action_through_a_critical_exploration_of_incarceration_practices_in_the_u.s.","ShortDescription":"For the third year in a row, Philadelphia students are hosting a public, city-wide Mass Incarceration Symposium. During a time when civics education is in a decline in our country, this work serves as a model for student civic action. Using this project as an example, we will discuss the importance of civics education and how educators can support student civic action.","Description":"In recent years, policymakers, educators, and journalists alike have decried the decline of civics education in our country. If the goal of civics education is to help young people become active and engaged citizens in a democratic society, then we are particularly failing our students of color. These students struggle to see themselves as changemakers because so many of the examples of student activism that are held up in the media are of actions led by young people who do not look like them or come from similar communities.\r\n\r\nIn this conversation, we will share how, in a high school setting, we use a project centering around the issue of mass incarceration as a tool to help students translate civic learning and discussions of injustice into civic action that addresses a social issue. The objectives of the project are to: (1) examine the effects of the rapid growth of incarceration in the United States; (2) identify and research root causes of mass incarceration; (3) develop an action plan for addressing the issue of mass incarceration. The project culminates in a public, city-wide Mass Incarceration Symposium in which students engage community members in a dialogue about injustice in the prison system. By providing students with a platform to engage with community members and share their work with key stakeholders, we are presenting them with an authentic audience for their work so that they can see how their work can impact the community around them.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"This session will be formatted as as conversation among presenters and participants about the importance of civics education in schools and how we as educators can support and encourage student civic action. In order to put the voices of our students at the center of our work, our students will share their experiences with civic action through the mass incarceration project. Participants will leave the conversation with actionable steps for incorporating civics education into their classroom, regardless of discipline or subject being taught.","Presenter":["Rebecca Coven and Marina Isakowitz"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Workshop School"],"PresenterEmail":["rebecca.coven@workshopschool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":113,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":854,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1540556552,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Black Men Read","Handle":"black_men_read","ShortDescription":"\"Black Men Read\" models the love of reading using conversations sparked from the book Forty Million Dollar Slave. The conversation will explore the intersection of sport, race, and economics. The session will crowdsource ways to engage Black male students and other affinity groups in book clubs at schools and out of school spaces.","Description":"Black Men Read is a pilot project collaboration with  U School Educators, students and the Free Library of Philadelphia to attract teens and diverse a range of readers to ensure intergenerational discourse and lively conversations.\r\n\r\nThe \u201cBlack Men Read\u201d conversation will explore the following essential questions:\r\n\r\nWhat are the connections between slavery and the sports-industrial complex?   \r\nWhat Promised Land has sports and entertainment offered Black athletes and entertainers?  \r\n\r\nWhat American values can be seen through the prism of sports culture?\r\n\r\nIn what ways are athletes like Lebron James, Colin Kaepernick, Malcolm Jenkins pushing back against racial oppression.\r\n\r\nThe model Black men reading and the conversations sparked from the book Forty Million Dollar Slave should motivate participants to develop similar reading groups in their schools and local communities. \r\n\r\nAt the end of the session, participants will learn how to foster and support Black Men Reading or other affinity groups. And learn how to select interesting book club reading text and engage with lively book discussions.","Link":["https:\/\/www.smore.com\/qa7e2-black-men-read"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"The session will include small group and whole group discussions:  U School Students and community members will be Invited to share with participants and discuss? \r\nWhat early lessons can we learn from the book 40 Millon Dollar Slave? \r\n\r\nWhat parts of the book surprised us? What parts caused the most tensions? \r\n\r\nHow can we take lessons from the book to help us understand the importance of sports, race, and economics?\r\n\r\nAre there other books or related topics we should explore?","Presenter":["Samuel A Reed III","Mike Pflueger","Munier Abdul-Rahman (Student)"],"PresenterAffiliation":["U School"],"PresenterEmail":["sreed@uschool.org","mpflueger@uschool.org","6922599@philasd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":114,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":889,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1541076186,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"MAKE Social Studies Relevant:  How to Connect Maker Ed Projects to Real-World Problems","Handle":"make_social_studies_relevant--how_to_connect_maker_ed_projects_to_real-world_problems","ShortDescription":"Teachers inspire the next generation to take action in our changing world.  How can we help students understand current issues?  Are we empowering students to be changemakers and social justice advocates?  Use Maker Ed to design a green energy solution to solve real-world challenges facing Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.","Description":"Our goal is for participants to understand the power of Maker Education in helping students to see their role in working towards social and environmental justice. One way to help our students be agents of change in creating a more just world is to give them opportunities for designing and making and allow them to see the impact they can have over objects and systems in their world. We will walk through participants through the design thinking process in order to begin prototyping a green energy solution. \r\n\r\nExposing students to the human centered process Design Thinking requires them to ask, \u201cHow can I create things that would make something easier for someone else?\u201d This process requires students to interview people about their needs and develops empathy in our students. It asks them to define a problem, ideate possible solutions, create a prototype and then test it. In testing their ideas, students observe it\u2019s impact, ask for feedback and make revisions. \r\n\r\nParticipants will gain familiarity with the Design Thinking so they can apply it to Maker Education they embark on with their students.","Link":["http:\/\/fcslightlab.blogspot.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Participants will have the opportunity to discover and discuss the superpowers they bring to collaboration. As a group they will explore what combination of superpowers lends itself to the most productive working group. Once groups are formed participants will have a chance for hands-on application of Maker Education to real-world problems and have an opportunity to do a  Gallery Walk of other groups\u2019 work. \r\n\r\nIcebreaker (10 minutes): Participants will get in small groups to assess their own \u201csuperpower\u201d using What\u2019s Your Superpower? cards.  The objective is to identify individual strengths and natural talents that can help to increase teamwork when applied inside a diverse group.  There will be a brief presentation of research supporting the benefit of increased diversity in problem-solving outcomes.\r\n\r\nIntroduction to Friends\u2019 Central Maker Ed Program, Description of Green Energy Project and introduction of Presenters (10 minutes)\r\n\r\nOutline for Group Work Time to Engage in Maker Ed Project Based on Puerto Rico\u2019s Ongoing Power Outages after Hurricane Maria (10 minutes).  Design Thinking Process will be condensed due to time constraints, but the process will be thorough enough that participants will leave with an understanding of how to structure this kind of project for students over several class periods.\r\n\r\nStep 1: Research\/\u201dDeep Dive\u201d\r\n\r\nStep 2: Focus: Develop Empathy & Define the Need\r\n\r\nStep 3: Generate Ideas\r\n\r\nStep 4: Prototype\r\n\r\nStep 5: Collaborate\r\n\r\nSplit into Groups. Participants will be asked to split into groups according to their identified superpower.  The goal will be to form groups of 4-6 educators who all identified different talents to improve the diversity of idea and solutions.\r\n\r\nGroup Work Time \r\n\r\nSteps 1-2:  (15 minutes)  Research\/Deep Dive\r\nUsing resources provided by presenters and ability to use online methods, teams will gain an understanding of: Hurricane Maria, its effect on Puerto Rico\u2019s electrical power system, basic scientific knowledge of hurricanes, generators, and green energy.  \r\n\r\nA need statement will be generated before brainstorming begins in the next step.  \r\nExample Need Statements: \r\nSchools in Puerto Rico need an alternate source of energy in order to open on a daily basis for students.  \r\nPuerto Rican workers need restoration of energy sources in order to go back to prior employment.\r\n\r\nStep 3: (5 minutes)  Generate Ideas through Brainstorming\r\n\r\nStep 4: (20 minutes)  Prototyping\r\nGroups will use everyday materials plus green energy supplies to build a rough prototype of one of their ideas.\r\n\r\nStep 5: (5 minutes)  Collaborate\r\nGroups will leave their work displayed for feedback.  Participants are encouraged to walk around, engage with other projects, and leave constructive feedback, questions, and comments for the group to consider before they would continue building. Participants will leave with an understanding of how to continue the cyclical Design Thinking process with students.\r\n\r\nWrap-Up Conversation: (15 minutes)\r\n\tQueries: \r\nHow is this work connected to your school\u2019s mission & vision and\/or your responsibility as a teacher?\r\nHow could you adapt this model for different age groups?\r\nWhat other real-world issues would fit nicely into this kind of Maker Ed\/Design Thinking project?\r\nHow could you connect students to community and global resources to \u201cdeepen the dive\u201d?\r\nHow can you assess your students\u2019 learning?  Ongoing?  Final?","Presenter":["Brie Daley & Kelly Bird"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Friends' Central School"],"PresenterEmail":["bdaley@friendscentral.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":115,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":8,"ScheduleLocationID":7},"total":6,"limit":false,"offset":false}