{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":916,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1542077589,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"All Together Now: Designing Whole-Class Projects that Work","Handle":"class-wide_projects--mission_impossible","ShortDescription":"Join a team of educators and students who are grappling with the joys and pitfalls of class-wide projects - projects where each student takes on a different role in achieving a common long-term goal. We will explore examples like modernizing an urban farm with a team of 24 engineers, designing and building a 16-foot Rube Goldberg Machine, and year-long projects with uncertain goals and outcomes.","Description":"Join a team of educators and students who are grappling with the joys and pitfalls of class-wide projects - projects where each student takes on a different role in achieving a common long-term goal. We will explore examples like modernizing an urban farm with a team of 24 engineers, designing and building a 16-foot Rube Goldberg Machine, and year-long projects with uncertain goals and outcomes.\r\n\r\nLearn from your peers about the challenges, triumphs, and best practices when working on a single long-term objective with a roomful of energetic learners. What are the characteristics of projects that keep students engaged over many months? What kinds of structures and assessments are effective? You will talk with educators and their students in the middle of long-term projects, and share your own stories and practices.","Link":["https:\/\/www.scienceleadership.org","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/john-kamal-0b447b2","https:\/\/vimeo.com\/296724557"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This will be a highly interactive session where educators share their experiences and learn from each other.","Presenter":["John Kamal & Max Lawrence"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["jkamal@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":112,"ScheduleLocationID":15,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":880,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1541011716,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Are CS and STEM really for all?","Handle":"are_cs_and_stem_really_for_all","ShortDescription":"How do we democratize computer science and STEM as well as address the racial and gender disparities in CS\/STEM? What are ways we can provide opportunities to engage in computational thinking, problem solving, and collaboration in K-12? Let's discuss ways we can really make CS\/STEM accessible for all students.","Description":"Who receives access CS\/STEM courses K-12? What are the racial and gender demographics of students in these courses compared to post-secondary careers? Does CS\/STEM education K-12 need to be democratized? Why or Why not? This session will discuss leveraging CS\/STEM opportunities and equitably exposing all students to computational thinking and problem solving to make CS\/STEM truly for all.","Link":["https:\/\/shanavwhite.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will engage in data analysis related to CS\/STEM in K-12 and post-secondary careers. We will also use think, pair, share as well as critique conversational protocols to prompts\/questions from the facilitator.","Presenter":["Shana V. White"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Constellations Center for Equity in Computer at Georgia Tech"],"PresenterEmail":["shana.white@cc.gatech.edu"],"ScheduleSlotID":112,"ScheduleLocationID":13,"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":863,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1540822294,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Empowering Empathy in Education","Handle":"empowering_empathy_in_education","ShortDescription":"How are teaching and learning transformed by practicing empathy?  Join us for a conversation that leverages both field expertise and our collective wisdom.  Through Socratic inquiry and Empathy Mapping, participants will construct understanding of empathy and collaborate on ways to bring impactful practices back to their contexts.","Description":"How are teaching and learning transformed by prioritizing empathy?  What actions empower this practice?  Why does empathy in education matter?  Now, more than ever, our schools need to be an anchor for empathy, understanding, social justice and human dignity.  In this conversation, we will construct an actionable path to creating space for this important work in our classrooms.\r\n\r\nIn the first part of this conversation, we will individually mine multiple, short, curated experts texts on this topic and engage in a Socratic Seminar to construct deeper understanding through these questions.  This process of inquiry will provide a safe space to ask questions and hone awareness of the research, resources, and ideas of experts in the field.\r\n\r\nThen in small groups, we will use Empathy Mapping to apply this knowledge and reasoning to our authentic contexts.  Practicing empathy in this concrete way will help participants see clearly the opportunities for empathy in their day-to-day practice, and what specific actions will catalyze empathy for themselves and their students.\r\n\r\nLastly, we will conclude with a dynamic debrief that fosters connections to facilitate ongoing professional conversations on this topic.   We will create a community of empathy practitioners to empower opportunities for future collaboration, mutual support, and collective accountability.","Link":["http:\/\/linkedin.com\/in\/dani-shylit-23aa1063","http:\/\/www.stringtheoryschools.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Socratic Seminar\r\nEmpathy Mapping","Presenter":["Dani Shylit"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Director of Innovation","String Theory Schools"],"PresenterEmail":["dshylit@stringtheoryschools.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":112,"ScheduleLocationID":11,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"In addition to my role as a progressive leader in education, I am also the grandchild of Holocaust survivors and child of a mother born in a DPW camp in Bergen-Belsen, which informs my commitment to practices that catalyze empathy and social justice.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":870,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1540929407,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Forge The Route","Handle":"forge_the_route","ShortDescription":"Today's learners must be valued for their ability to think, far more than for their ability to remember.  Sustainable learning is driven by active exploration, not simply passive exposure to new material.  Students need to be encouraged to forge the route, not simply follow the rote! This conversation will focus on ensuring students' tasks are purposeful, personal and practical.","Description":"Today's learners must be valued for their ability to think, far more than for their ability to remember.  Sustainable learning is driven by active exploration, not simply passive exposure to new material.  Students need to be encouraged to forge the route, not simply follow the rote! This conversation will focus on ensuring students' tasks are purposeful, personal and practical.\r\n\r\nParticipants will be introduced to the New 3 Rs of Teaching and Learning - Richness, Relevance, and Return On Investment.  Throughout our discussion, strategies and approaches will be shared to help ensure all of their students' tasks are purposeful, personal, and practical.","Link":["https:\/\/www.jamiebricker.com"],"Audience":["Elementary School"],"Practice":"I will utilize an electronic Post-It platform to collect participants' questions and comments in real time, which will trigger further discussion on, and clarification of, specific points and key concepts.   I also routinely embed a variety of \"points to ponder\" within my presentation, which also lead to ongoing interaction with the participants.","Presenter":["Jamie Bricker"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["info@jamiebricker.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":112,"ScheduleLocationID":16,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"I am a recently retired elementary school principal living in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.\r\nMaking learning meaningful for students was a passion of mine throughout both my teaching and administrative careers.  Please visit my website to see my current efforts to better engage student learners.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":894,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1541094095,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Grades, Schmades: Less Grading More Learning","Handle":"grades-schmades--less_grading_more_learning","ShortDescription":"Grades get in the way of learning. There, we said it. Come to this conversation to figure out your philosophy of grading, see examples of non-traditional grading in action, and figure out ways to better align your grading practices with your philosophy.","Description":"Participants will begin by determining and debating what the purpose of grading should be. This will be based on a survey from Thomas Guskey. Then we will show examples of how grades frequently get in the way of the goals we have for our students. We will show several examples of alternative approaches to traditional grading practices including standards-based and not grading at all. Lastly, participants will be given the opportunity to examine their own practice and determine how well it aligns with their beliefs about the purpose of grading.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"Small and whole group discussion centered around the philosophy of grading and collaborative time to reflect and improve grading practices.","Presenter":["Katie Rego","Weston Pondolfino","Brian Hodges"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Attleboro High School"],"PresenterEmail":["krego@attleboroschools.com","bhodges@attleboroschools.com","wpondolfino@attleboroschools.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":112,"ScheduleLocationID":5,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":831,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1538432376,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"How are we and can we help teachers and students flourish?  Moving beyond academics","Handle":"how_are_we_and_can_we_help_teachers_and_students_flourish-moving_beyond_academics","ShortDescription":"Let\u2019s have a conversation about how schools can foster the development of the whole child and the whole adult. How are schools already supporting the well-being of the whole person? What could they do more of? What would schools look like if people actually flourished in them?","Description":"I\u2019d like to engage the group in an appreciative inquiry into how schools are helping people thrive. What are schools doing to foster the cognitive AND physical, social, emotional, environmental, spiritual, physical and financial well-being of the community? What promising practices are already happening in the U.S.? What would people like support\/resources in trying? What are the challenges people are facing as they move to a more humanistic\/holistic approach to education that is being tried in different countries? What are the learnings? How have schools defined the \u2018whole child\u2019 and the \u2018whole teacher\u2019? How have schools gone beyond thinking about equity to creating conditions where people flourish?","Link":["http:\/\/www.moorewellbeing.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"I\u2019ll introduce the well-being wheel as a tool to focus our conversation, then lead people through the phases of appreciative inquiry:  Discover (interviews that help people appreciate the best of what is already happening around well-being), Dream (imagining what could be), Design (determining what should be in participants\u2019 contexts), and Destiny (creating a plan for what will be).","Presenter":["Jennifer Moore"],"PresenterAffiliation":["DePaul University"],"PresenterEmail":["drjennmoore@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":112,"ScheduleLocationID":12,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":895,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1541097136,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Level Up: Improving school-based rites of passage to boost student agency and purpose","Handle":"level_up--improving_school-based_rites_of_passage_to_boost_student_agency_and_purpose","ShortDescription":"Join this conversation about the power of secular rituals to strengthen school and classroom community, and deepen students\u2019 self-awareness and purpose. We\u2019ll take an anthropologist\u2019s approach to identifying the important transitions and rituals we\u2019re currently implementing within our schools, and workshop some creative cost-effective approaches to deepening their positive impact.","Description":"Every school and classroom has regular rituals or celebrations designed to mark important transitions, honor accomplishments, and bring communities closer together -- from the first day of school to morning meetings, special assemblies, and graduation itself.  As secular yet ritualized experiences, these activities can be intentionally designed to help your classroom or school community strengthen self-knowledge as well as relationships to peers and teachers.  They can also be used to build student agency and social emotional skills, and hone their sense of purpose. And bonus! They can be designed around content.\r\n\r\nI will kick off this session by clarifying the definition of \u201crites of passage\u201d and describe the research-based benefits of a three-part structure (separation, threshold, integration). Then I will share 1-2 short stories of the impact of this tripartite rite of passage in a school and classroom setting.  \r\n\r\nWith context set, participants will work in small groups to take an anthropologist\u2019s look at the rituals and celebrations within their own schools. Using human-centered design materials and ground rules, participants will brainstorm ideas for each others\u2019 rituals. Creative materials such as markers, post-its, pipe cleaners, and clay will be provided to help capture ideas visually and tactically.  \r\n\r\nAfter they\u2019ve shared in their small group, participants may choose to share back to the room, cross-pollinating ideas and inspiring further development.  They will leave with a better understanding of how to architect a meaningful transitional celebration, with specific tactical ideas for creating more meaningful and impactful experiences students and the greater school community.","Link":["http:\/\/www.bettyray.net"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Rites of passage means a lot of things to a lot of people. So after I set some context including an emphasis on the secular (10 minutes), participants will work in small groups using human-centered design prompts and physical design materials to support each other\u2019s process of reflecting on their current rituals or rites of passage.\u00a0I will provide nicely designed printed worksheets with all prompts that they can use to capture their thoughts. At the end, each group will be invited to share out so we can all hear how others are marking their transitions.","Presenter":["Betty Ray"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Former Director of Innovation at Edutopia. Co-Founder","Boss Battle Consulting"],"PresenterEmail":["bettyray@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":112,"ScheduleLocationID":14,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"I wasn't sure if the second section (250 word) was supposed to be in third or first person.  I opted to go with 1st person, but am happy to reword it for publication if necessary. \r\n\r\nThanks for your consideration! \r\n\r\n--betty","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":910,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1541601253,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Open Educational Resources: A moral imperative","Handle":"open_educational_resources--a_moral_imperative-2","ShortDescription":"In the past year, teachers have risen to the stage to fight for equitable resources for students, livable wages, and respect within their profession. These problems persisted because the status quo was enabled. It's time to flip the status quo and turn towards a disruptive, uncomfortable model of equitable resources for every student and teacher no matter their zip code.","Description":"In the past year, teachers have risen to the stage to fight for equitable resources for students, livable wages, and respect within their profession. These problems persisted because the status quo was enabled. It's time to flip the status quo and turn towards a disruptive, uncomfortable model of equitable resources for every student and teacher no matter their zip code. This session will look deeper at Open Educational Resources and how their impact in schools can lead to a change in the equity and relevance of educational materials, reinvest in the teaching profession, and present an inclusive, equitable playing field for all learners in America.","Link":["http:\/\/andrewmarcinek.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"1. We will look at the problem sets that exist in education around teacher pay and equitable, relevant resources \r\n\r\n2. The conversation will be led by participants first in small groups and then as a larger contingent. \r\n A.  How does your school or district ensure that educational materials are equitable, relevant, and inclusive? \r\nB. How are educators encouraged to lead these conversations in your respective school or district? \r\nC. How is student agency supported in providing relevant, equitable, and inclusive educational materials?","Presenter":["Andrew Marcinek"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Worcester Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["andymarcinek@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":112,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"Saturday session preferred for travel. Thank you!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":913,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1541999301,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Rigorous Whimsy: Critical Creativity in the Classroom","Handle":"rigorous_whimsy--critical_creativity_in_the_classroom","ShortDescription":"We\u2019ve the opportunity to turn our classrooms and impact areas into studios where students can transform whimsical ideas into purposeful action and meaningful products. How might we choreograph a short story, remix a political party, sketchnote an equation, costume a scientific phenomenon, or hashtag a nutrition plan?  Let's discuss these ideas and more.","Description":"We\u2019ve the opportunity to turn our classrooms and impact areas into studios where students can transform whimsical ideas into purposeful action and meaningful products. And we don't need to wait until the end of a unit or the ranking period to allow students to use creativity to demonstrate their understanding.  Formative assessments can be rich and powerful learning experiences,  while  remaining focused and succinct.  Consider how might we choreograph a short story, remix a political party, sketchnote an equation, costume a scientific phenomenon, or hashtag a nutrition plan in the service of deeper learning?  Let's discuss these ideas and more.","Link":["https:\/\/www.danryder207.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will use Twitter and Instagram to push metaphorical representations of our ideas into the edusphere via #educon and #rigorouswhimsy hashtags, while also rapid fire prototyping the ideas established and adding documentation of those those prototypes to a FlipGrid grid.  This will allow everyone to access these ideas after the conversation -- while also bringing other voices into the conversation from outside EduCuon during the session and after.","Presenter":["Dan Ryder"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Mt. Blue High School\/ Maine RSU 9"],"PresenterEmail":["danryder207@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":112,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"While this certainly extends from my book co-authored with Amy Burvall, Intention: Critical Creativity in the Classroom, the intent here is not to examine the book at all.  The intent instead is to create a conversation that turns into actionable ideas that EduCon attendees and their extended networks may put into immediate practice in the classroom.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":875,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1540989390,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Seeing The Big Picture Using the Little Device in Your Pocket","Handle":"seeing_the_big_picture_using_the_little_device_in_your_pocket","ShortDescription":"You and your students probably take thousands of photos every year. But, besides adding a filter and posting them to social media, what do you with them? Join us to explore ideas for enhancing your professional practice and student learning using photography. Bring your smartphone to fully participate in the learning.","Description":"This session will be mostly discussion mixed with hands-on exploration. We will start with a short presentation\/demonstration of suggestions for making better images using any camera, smartphones included.\r\n\r\nParticipants will then go for a short photowalk around SLA (and\/or out into the street, if weather permits) to practice these ideas by making some images around the theme of people and moods.\r\n\r\nFollowing the walk participants will have an opportunity to share their best shots using a smartphone gallery walk, demonstrating a good technique for use with students.\r\n\r\nNext, we\u2019ll generate and share ideas for using photography for instruction, projects, and other aspects of professional practice. Throughout the session, we\u2019ll also discuss and collect some practical suggestions for editing, organizing, managing, and sharing a collection of images.\r\n\r\nThe notes from the session, along with any photographs participants wish to share, will be made available to everyone through a shared Google Doc.","Link":["https:\/\/www.assortedstuff.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Opening (5 minutes) - Introductions. Why are you interested in this topic? What is your experience with photography? Are you a \u201cphotographer\u201d? (trick question)\r\n\r\nPresentation\/Discussion (20 minutes) - what makes a \u201cgood\u201d photograph? how can you take better images? How can you use images in your work? How can you have students do the same? It\u2019s all about telling stories, so how can photographs help you do that?\r\n\r\nPhotowalk (30 minutes) - go out into the halls of SLA, duck into sessions, maybe wander outside the building, and take some images using the ideas we discussed. The theme for this walk is people and moods. Try taking some impromptu shots but also try staging some to get the story you want.\r\n\r\nGallery Walk (10 minutes) - bring up what you consider your best shot on your phone. Walk around the room showing it and looking at those of others. Don\u2019t judge which is \u201cbest\u201d; only look at whether the image affects you in some way.\r\n\r\nDiscussion (20 minutes) - return to the topic of using photographs for instruction and learning. What are some tools for sharing and displaying images? How can you make photos available for all to use?\r\n\r\nClosing (5 minutes) - thoughts and ideas for continued learning on this topic. How will you share what you\u2019ve learned\/discovered with students and colleagues?\r\n\r\nAt the end of the session, the facilitator will post links the shared Google Doc and to a webpage containing all the material discussed, plus suggestions for further study.\r\n\r\nAll original material used in this session (including my photographs) will be released under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license.","Presenter":["Tim Stahmer"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Freelance Educator"],"PresenterEmail":["tstahmer@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":112,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":909,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1541385508,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Bridge! Building Community in the South Bronx","Handle":"the_bridge-building_community_in_the_south_bronx","ShortDescription":"How do self-expression and vulnerability create connection in a new community? At South Bronx Community, we designed an intensive summer bridge experience, akin to summer camp, focused on building community and introducing social\/emotional skills, self expression and vulnerability. Hear how we build students\u2019 sense of belonging from the beginning.","Description":"There is a growing body of research that indicates long term academic success is linked to students\u2019 sense of belonging. This idea is particularly critical for our most vulnerable students.  SBC brings together students and staff from neighborhoods with a high incidence of trauma, which makes the need for developing community critical to our success. In order for students and staff to engage their full selves in learning, we designed a summer bridge program to foster a sense of belonging. This Summer Bridge Challenge begins the school year where students engaged in reflection and introspection to introduce their true selves to the school community.\r\n\r\nThe Self Portrait Collage:\r\nOur incoming students were tasked with creating community by sharing key elements of their identity, values and purpose with their new community. Students designed a self portrait collage containing images representing their accomplishments, obstacles, happiest moments, struggles and hopes. They shared these personal stories with each other learning that courage through vulnerability creates connections. The 4 day immersive experience includes team building on a ropes course and culminates in a graduation ceremony with loved ones.\r\n\r\nSchool leaders and staff from SBC will discuss the problem they were trying to solve - How might we accelerate students\u2019 sense of belonging as they enter high school to reduce conflict, increase engagement and build community? They will present data, research and programs that inspired the design of the project, share the project plan and student work and show evidence of the project\u2019s efficacy.","Link":["http:\/\/www.southbronxcommunity.org"],"Audience":["High School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"Session facilitators will include staff and school leaders from SBC. The facilitators will present the data, research and programs that inspired the project, the process the staff used to design the project, and evidence of it\u2019s effectiveness. The facilitators will then sit on a panel and take questions from the session attendees about the project. Session attendees will participate in a gallery walk to view student projects, video and pictures. All attendees will receive access to the teacher designed project materials.","Presenter":["Natalie Ferrell","Chris DeLaCruz","Delvon Glover","Sarah Bowen","Anthony Best","Jeannette Bautista"],"PresenterAffiliation":["South Bronx Community Charter High School"],"PresenterEmail":["john.clemente@southbronxcommunity.org","natalie.ferrell@southbronxcommunity.org","christopher.delacruz@southbronxcommunity.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":112,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":8,"ScheduleSlotID":112},"total":13,"limit":false,"offset":false}