{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":842,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1540061549,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Timeless Learning: Learning Together in Natural Communities","Handle":"timeless_learning--learning_together_in_natural_communities","ShortDescription":"Humans have been learning for a long time, but formal education systems are only approaching the 200 year mark. Children still learn through timeless pathways: play, stories, movement, imitation, and distractions that spark curiosity.\r\n\r\nLet\u2019s chat deep mapping of routes to timeless learning that bring us to context-driven, child-determined learning.","Description":"Starting with a zero-based thinking provocation, participants will first engage together through media to lead into a deep conversation together around the questions we rarely, if ever ask. \r\n\r\nOur objective? Provoke and challenge your thinking. Your objective? Walk out ready to make a change, no matter how small, that brings timeless learning into your classroom, school, or district. \r\n\r\nOver two decades, we have observed education get defined by a constant focus on time on task to raise test scores and pace instruction to specific standards for each grade level and courses offered in public schools. This reductionist focus has come to define curriculum, assessment, instruction, and use of resources in most schools - with few exceptions. \r\n\r\nExceptional schools, however, offer educators, parents, and learners hope that we all can restore learning pathways grounded in curiosity, play, social learning, story, community cognition, movement, arts, making, experimentation, and aspirational peer mentorships; all design principles found in the contemporary progressive narrative shared in our book, Timeless Learning: How Imagination, Observation, and Zero-based Thinking Change Schools. In this conversation we will share and elicit insights from educators who have worked to build natural learning communities. Participants will engage in exploration and deep mapping of timeless learning though provocation, structured inquiry, reflection, and action development that support new and sustainable community culture- a culture that is open, welcoming, student created, non-temporal, culturally accepting, and fully inclusive.","Link":["https:\/\/timelesslearningbook.com\/","https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/socolmoranpartners\/home","https:\/\/medium.com\/@irasocol","https:\/\/medium.com\/@pammoran"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will use the design for learning model embedded at the end of each section of Timeless Learning. This model begins with an inquiry process in which participants generate questions from shared media for use in group conversation. The process unfolds like this: \r\n\r\nparticipants begin with reflection and conversation in response to a zero-based thinking provocation pitched through multi-media, \r\n\r\ngroup members generate potential actions that emerge from the conversational questions generated by participants \r\n\r\nall participants will wrap into the conversation to identify how to take actions forward into the classroom, school, or district in which participants work and share those in a virtual space so the community conversation can continue after EduCon (could be a twitter hashtag, a google doc, IG images, snapchat, etc.)","Presenter":["Pam Moran","Ira Socol"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Virginia School Consortium for Learning","SocolMoran partners"],"PresenterEmail":["pmpmoran@gmail.com","irasocol@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":110,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"We look forward to engaging with participants and tying this conversation to an extension of the Friday night panel discussion.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":919,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1542818271,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Not Light, But Fire","Handle":"not_light-but_fire","ShortDescription":"Do you understand WHY you should be leading powerful race conversations in class, but remain unsure about HOW? Join Matthew Kay, the author of Not Light, But Fire, as we discuss how to push our race conversations from being stale, predictable, and ultimately forgettable. We'll discuss how to lead race conversations that actually inspire our students.","Description":"In this session, teachers will review and discuss some of the best practices from Matt's book, Not Light, But Fire. They will then examine case studies alongside students, and discuss how they might best lead powerful discussions. Finally, teachers will practice designing a meaningful race conversation.","Link":["https:\/\/www.stenhouse.com\/content\/not-light-fire"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"Whole and small group discussion. Case Study reflection.","Presenter":["Matthew Kay"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA \/ Stenhouse Publishers"],"PresenterEmail":["mrkay@notlight.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":111,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":856,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1540678654,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Creating Learning Communities in 3-D:  An Exploration of Life-long, Life-Wide, and Life-Deep Learning.","Handle":"creating_learning_communities_in_3-d--an_exploration_of_life-long-life-wide-and_life-deep_learning.","ShortDescription":"Almost every school vision or mission statement mentions lifelong learning.  But what if breadth and depth were to this traditional and linear model? This conversation focuses on developing a more compelling model of learning that supports the deeper development of the skills and dispositions that can lead to the creation of a participatory and engaged community of learners.","Description":"This conversation explores a more capable and compelling three dimensional model of learning that supports the development of a new school learning experience that supports the manifestation of communities of participatory and engaged learners.  Traditional thinking in schools relies on lifelong learning - a linear progression of learning over time, composed of formalized experiences (limited and occurring within the traditional experience of school) and informal learning events across that same timeline and throughout the lifespan.  There are opportunities to rethink this model by adding breadth (life-wide learning) and depth (life-deep learning). Life-wide learning focuses on learning that positions students to engage in a wider range of experiential moments that broaden exposure to more authentic opportunities for learning.  Life-deep learning focuses on developing the beliefs and skills of the human self, such as developing an empathetic approach to interactions with others, being reflective, and contributing to the greater good, among others.  The intent of this conversation is to explore how these three dimensions for learning support the development of capacity-rich, participatory, and distinctly human communities of learning.","Link":["https:\/\/davidjakesdesigns.com","https:\/\/bric-arch.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Our conversation with our colleagues will focus on the following questions:\r\n\r\nDiscussion: \r\nHow do we define community - what are the characteristics of a learning community?\r\nAre our schools' communities of learners?  How do we know?\r\nWhat is life-long, life-wide, life-deep learning?\r\n\r\nCollaborative groups:  What are the shifts required to realize life-long, life-wide, life-deep learning in the context of community building?  Every group has one of the three elements.  They share ideas.\r\n\r\nDiscussion:  What is the expected Impact on the student experience and development of learner communities.  What is required to realize such a model?","Presenter":["David Jakes","Karina Ruiz"],"PresenterAffiliation":["David Jakes Designs LLC","BRIC Architecture"],"PresenterEmail":["david@davidjakesdesigns.com","karina.ruiz@bric-arch.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":112,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"Saturday time if possible, thanks.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":855,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1540578504,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Whiteness: The elephant in our classroom","Handle":"whiteness--the_elephant_in_our_classroom","ShortDescription":"What responsibility do educators have to disrupt the whiteness that is pervasive in many of our schools? How do we better understand and then dismantle the way whiteness is interwoven and resides within our practices, norms, policies, and curricula? Join us for critical and challenging dialogue about whiteness in schools.","Description":"What are some common practices currently in place that make school environments exclusive, racist, oppressive, and biased? How do you create an environment where we move past the superficial work of diversity to the uncomfortable and more difficult work of inclusion and dismantling whiteness? Why is addressing and disrupting whiteness important in all school even those that are majority white in population? What are ways we can better do the work in our schools to create not only welcoming\r\nenvironments for both educators and students of color, but ultimately provide sufficient agency, care, and support that allows these individuals ample opportunity to succeed and thrive? Join this session where we will discuss and share tangible steps and ideas that should occur in all school spaces to dismantle the pervasiveness of whiteness which harms all students and teachers.","Link":["http:\/\/www.educolor.org","http:\/\/www.shanavwhite.com","http:\/\/www.thejlv.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Our first goal will be to set the conversation norms that we will engage in challenging conversations, but our room is a space to learn grow and challenge status quo thinking and practices. We will engage those outside the room with a live tweet chat and field additional questions or share comments with those present. We also (with permission) will record parts of the session to share on the EduColor podcast.","Presenter":["Jose Vilson","Val Brown"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Educolor"],"PresenterEmail":["shanavidalwhite@gmail.com","jose.l.vilson@gmail.com","valpbrown@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":113,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"Thanks for the opportunity to submit!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":891,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1541082695,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Academic Conversations: What, Why, and How","Handle":"academic_conversations--what-why-and_how","ShortDescription":"Students engaging in conversations around content promotes deeper learning and student ownership of learning. What does it mean to have academic conversations in the classroom? Why is it worth the effort and energy? How can you overcome the challenges and make it happen?. Come help generate answers to these questions.","Description":"The goal of the session is to develop ideas and strategies around academic conversations. Student-led and student-driven conversations around content can happen beginning in the primary grades and moving all the way up into higher education. \r\nTo get started we\u2019ll have chart paper for people to begin brainstorming why academic conversations should be happening in classrooms at all ages. This can start whenever folks arrive and continue through the first few minutes of the session.\r\nUsing those whys we will engage in conversations in small groups to develop a picture of what academic conversations can look like, including the role of the teacher. Groups will share their ideas and we\u2019ll create one set of thoughts for the entire group.\r\nThe how of academic conversations is the greatest challenge. To kick off that discussion we\u2019ll begin with post-it notes for participants to share challenges or concerns they see around academic conversations. We\u2019ll group the ideas, looking for similarities. Participants can then choose which challenges or concerns they are most interested in exploring and create new groups. The last part of the session will be spent sharing these ideas and adding to or revising them by others.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We\u2019ll begin the session with a modified Chalk Talk as people arrive. We won\u2019t require silence but will encourage focus on the opening question. We will build off the Chalk Talk in small group discussions and then as a whole group. A Whip-Around will get us focused for the final Open Space discussions around the challenges and concerns identified.","Presenter":["Jennifer Orr","Megan Kratz","Taylor Heil"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Lynbrook Elementary School"],"PresenterEmail":["jenorr@gmail.com","MCKratz@fcps.edu","tdheil@fcps.edu"],"ScheduleSlotID":114,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":921,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1543682490,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Got Bars?: Celebrating Student Voice through Spoken Word Poetry","Handle":"got_bars--celebrating_student_voice_through_spoken_word_poetry","ShortDescription":"In this session, mentors from the Philly Slam League will help teachers use spoken word poetry to show their students the power of their voices.","Description":"In this session, we will not only discuss multiple tried-and-true ways to build a spoken word poetry team, but also ways that these methods can contribute to an English or History Curriculum.  Along with poets from the Philly Slam League, we will discuss prompts and activities - and every attending teacher will leave with a free copy of PSL's curriculum, which covers any teacher's first 10 poetry clubs!","Link":["http:\/\/www.phillyslamleague.org\/"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"Small and Large Group Discussion. Modeling.","Presenter":["Matthew Kay","Cait Kay"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Philly Slam League"],"PresenterEmail":["mkay@phillyslamleague.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":115,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":8,"ScheduleLocationID":10},"total":6,"limit":false,"offset":false}