{"success":true,"data":[{"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":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":908,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1541248541,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Building Community Through the Advisory Model","Handle":"building_community_through_the_advisory_model","ShortDescription":"A panel of students and staff members will present the highlights of our middle school Advisory Model and answer your questions about the benefits and logistics of practical implementation of an Advisory Model in your school.","Description":"At LaBrum Middle School, we are three years into the implementation of an Advisory Model.  Broadly defined, advisory programs are configurations in which an adult advisor meets regularly during the school day with a group of students to provide academic and social-emotional mentorship and support, to create personalization within the school, and to facilitate a small peer community of learners (Cushman, 1990; Galassi et al., 2004; Galassi et al., 1997; Juvonen et al., 2004; National Association of Secondary School Principals, 2006; Stevenson, 1998). We have personalized this concept and tailored it to fit our school community in an effort to live our mission of creating a \"culture of care\" in our school.  Our model is constantly evolving and improving and we want to share our growth, struggles, and successes with other professionals interested in implementing an Advisory Model in their middle school to help foster community, connectedness, and student success. We will have a panel of students and staff members on hand to explain our model and field your questions.","Link":["https:\/\/hancock.philasd.org\/labrum-campus\/"],"Audience":["Middle School"],"Practice":"Please join us for this informal discussion of what Advisory Model looks like through a practical lens. Listen to students and staff highlight the successes of our model and dig in with your own questions about the nuts and bolts of how Advisory Model could look in your school. Join our Google Classroom to stay connected once EduCon is over. We'll share resources through this platform and answer your questions as you role out an Advisory Model in your Middle School.","Presenter":["Stacy Schwab","William Griffin","Nicole Bourque","Kevin Kelly","Raymond Brettle","Denise Logan","Bethany Parker","Kelly McGrogan","student representatives"],"PresenterAffiliation":["John Hancock Demonstration School LaBrum Campus"],"PresenterEmail":["sschwab@philasd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":114,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":924,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1548446680,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Building School 2.0","Handle":"building_school_2.0","ShortDescription":"* What does the modern school mean?\r\n* What are the vital pedagogies? \r\n* How do we create schools that powerful and healthy for all?","Description":"In their book, Building School 2.0: Creating the Schools We Need, Lehmann and Chase outline 95 theses arguing for the best paths forward to modern, humanist schools that effuse and ethic of care. In this conversation, we will examine key theses from the text and discuss what it might mean for participants to return to their places of learning to begin to build these modern schools and shift the course of existing skills. Come join us in a conversation focused on moving from our best theories to authentic practice.","Link":["http:\/\/practicaltheory.org","http:\/\/www.autodizactic.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"* Examine core theses of the book and use them for small group discussions.","Presenter":["Chris Lehmann","Zac Chase"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["clehmann@scienceleadership.org","zac.chase@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":114,"ScheduleLocationID":13,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":859,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1540761497,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Changing School Discipline","Handle":"changing_school_discipline","ShortDescription":"School discipline has been constantly changing for all levels of schools. It is important to discuss the impact that has on teachers, students and administration. It is also important to not only discuss discipline in terms of shaping behavior day to day, but also its role in teaching long term skills students needs in order to navigate the world.","Description":"We will discuss how we can create discipline systems, that teach students skills to help them navigate the world while still supporting teachers in the classroom. Educators will discuss how these practices can look, in a school, in a classroom, in one on one conversations or even in a larger context. The presenter and educators will share their experiences with discipline systems they have experienced and systems\/ procedures they have tried to implement.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Educators will collaborate sharing ideas, experiences, and ideals crossing over grades and positions within a school. Through the varying activities, educators should be able to leave with a plan to either implement or present and idea to their school to further improve school discipline.","Presenter":["Micah Winterstein"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Building 21 High School"],"PresenterEmail":["mwinterstein@building21.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":114,"ScheduleLocationID":14,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":834,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1539456143,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Implicit Bias and Exclusion: The Muslim American Experience in School","Handle":"implicit_bias_and_exclusion--the_muslim_american_experience_in_school","ShortDescription":"There are many misconceptions about Islam that lead to negative experiences for Muslim students and teachers alike. In the current political climate, being informed about our own biases, both explicit and implicit, and combating our misconceptions is part of the responsibility of being an educator. Students of color constantly suffer at the hands of ignorant educators and Muslim students have been bullied by their peers and their teachers. In this workshop, we will address the basics of Islam that are necessary for one to understand that it is not a monolith. We will also address types of implicit and explicit discrimination and racism against Muslims using specific examples and ways to address these situations. Lastly, we would like to describe and discuss how we can create safe and inclusive spaces in schools for Muslim students and educators alike.","Description":"This conversational focus is around Muslim American student experiences in public schools and the unique ways they go through the k-12 public school system. The main idea is that while Muslim students have unique experience, implicit bias and exclusion towards any minority student is common practice. The basis of our presentation is that inclusion, cultural responsiveness, and educated teachers are a vital part of a student's experience in American school systems.","Link":["http:\/\/www.teachingwhilemuslim.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"The entire \"workshop\" is a conversation. The first part of the presentation are a series of true and false statements that participants respond to. The second part of the \"workshop\" is an opportunity for participants to discuss how Islamophobia has shown up in curriculum and collectively present ways to address and eliminate the Islamophobia.","Presenter":["Nagla Bedir"],"PresenterAffiliation":["#Educolor"],"PresenterEmail":["contact@teachingwhilemuslim.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":114,"ScheduleLocationID":16,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":873,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1540935410,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Keepin' it Real with Real World Learning","Handle":"keepin-it_real_with_real_world_learning","ShortDescription":"Real World Learning can take many forms, from internships to field trips, and a lot in between. How do you infuse the 'Real' into these experiences? They key is to keep things student-centered! This workshop examines the practices of the Real World Learning program at el Centro de Estudiantes High School in the heart of Kensington, and invites participants to dream up their own #rwlgoals.","Description":"As educational leaders in the 21st century, it is our charge to cultivate authentic and engaging Real World Learning (RWL) opportunities with youth. In this workshop, we will explore the effort through the lens of Student Experience, responsive Program Management, and Assessment.\r\n\r\nDrawing on the student-centered practices of el Centro's RWL program, we will delve into such topics as internship preparation and readiness, student engagement, real-world project work, program scaffolding, competencies and assessment, tech tools, staff training, and developing partnerships.\r\n\r\nWe will also identify common issues faced by proponents of Real World Learning, and collaboratively develop solutions that can be implemented across school environments.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"Collaborative sharing and problem solving.","Presenter":["Nina Bilynsky-Ristics"],"PresenterAffiliation":["El Centro de Estudiantes High School","Big Picture Philadelphia","Big Picture Learning"],"PresenterEmail":["nbilynsky@elcentrobpp.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":114,"ScheduleLocationID":11,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"My aim is to invite students to co-facilitate the conversation.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":847,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1540340662,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Kids on Earth - The World Has Changed","Handle":"kids_on_earth_-_the_world_has_changed","ShortDescription":"Ideally, a keynote connecting global citizenship, widespread technology use, and digital storytelling as learning. PLUS a recording session\u2014through the whole conference\u2014interviewing two dozen local students to add to a library that already includes Bulgaria, Sierra Leone, England, Slovenia, and the world.","Description":"1. Technology enables communication.\r\n2. Communication drives awareness.\r\n3. Awareness leads to beliefs, knowledge, understanding, and wisdom.\r\n4. In our era, technology also enables connection to people, places and ideas\u2014in ways that were never possible before.\r\n5. We are raising the first generation of connected, relatively healthy and wealthy, mostly literate people\u2014and we are providing technology so they can see, hear and interact with one another\u2014in real time.\r\n6. This changes everything... how they learn, what they learn, why they learn, who they learn from, who they teach and how, the role of school and teachers.\r\n7. Or does it? I am traveling the world, talking to kids, asking them about their lives, their interests, their concerns, their plans. It\u2019s called Kids on Earth... (explain...)\r\n8. Questions","Link":["http:\/\/www.kidsonearth.org"],"Audience":["Middle School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"Let\u2019s define global citizenship together (even the United Nations isn\u2019t completely sure). Let\u2019s live brainstorm that together\u2014then pay attention to students already recorded and to students we will record during EduCon because they are actively defining the concept everyday. All results shared on www.kidsonearth.org \u2014 some could be live streamed, too.","Presenter":["Howard Blumenthal"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Kids on Earth","University of Pennsylvania"],"PresenterEmail":["hblumenthal@me.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":114,"ScheduleLocationID":12,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"Be sure to watch the growing library of Kids on Earth videos\u2014via the website or https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user31644857","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":912,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1541996153,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"MakerSpaces as HumanSpaces","Handle":"makerspaces_as_humanspaces","ShortDescription":"How might we transform what we have come to know as MakerSpaces into spaces that meet the social, emotional, physical and vocational needs of student, faculty and community as well?   We'll discuss the various looks of makerspaces in our schools and action steps for amplifying their purpose.","Description":"As our schools become places that increasingly serve more and more needs in our communities and our roles as educators become increasingly dynamic, it becomes that much more important for us to find ways to leverage our resources to meet more than a single purpose each.  And when we look at MakerSpaces, the solution may rest right in their names.  How might we transform what we have come to know as MakerSpaces into spaces that meet the social, emotional, physical and vocational needs of student, faculty and community as well?  We'll discuss the various looks of makerspaces in our schools and action steps for amplifying their purpose.  And when we leave, we will have game plans for each of us to evolve the makerspaces in our spheres of influence to stronger agencies for meaningful solutions.","Link":["http:\/\/www.danryder207.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"During this session we will build out an organic digital sketchnote based on Ela Ben-Ur's Innovator's Compass framework;  as participants' ideas populate the compass, connections will be made, ideas solidified, and as digital artifact it can be easily shared & used by participants well after our session ends.","Presenter":["Dan Ryder"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Mt Blue High School\/Maine RSU 9"],"PresenterEmail":["danryder207@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":114,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"I'm very keen on having the opportunity to discuss this topic at EduCon in advance of having a similar conversation at SXSWEDU in March.  I would love to use the EduCon conversation as something of a springboard for the SX crowd to work from and find a way to bring the two communities of educators and progressive thinkers together.     I'm also the Education Director of the Success & Innovation Center at Mt. Blue Campus, a combination MakerSpace and social work office.  We are only in our 2nd year and far from having figured out -- I would love to learn from others and see how our model might help them and how their experiences might help us continue to thrive.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":881,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1541012196,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Online Robust Vulnerability: Developing Digital Empathy & Humanity Without Disconnecting","Handle":"online_robust_vulnerability--developing_digital_empathy-humanity_without_disconnecting","ShortDescription":"How might we help equip our students to navigate an increasingly polarized social media landscape and engage in conversations rooted in empathy and our shared humanity?","Description":"Students are increasingly embedded in online communities through games and social media. We have seen that unmoderated communities can lead to mob mentality, cruelty, unhealthy body image, racist attacks, threats of assault, hatred, antisemitism, homophobia, transphobia and misogyny. Rather than coming from a place of fear or simply urging that students unplug, we want to foster in students the skills to navigate these digital spaces from a place of empathy, humanity, and robust vulnerability.","Link":["https:\/\/www.sacredsf.org\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will engage in conversations and collect ideas, suggestions and responses through sticky notes and collaborative idea-generating processes.","Presenter":["Bill Jennings","Krista Inchausti"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Convent & Stuart Hall - Schools of the Sacred Heat","San Francisco"],"PresenterEmail":["bill.jennings@sacredsf.org","krista.inchausti@sacredsf.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":114,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":914,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1542039317,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Reflecting on Reflection","Handle":"reflecting_on_reflection-2","ShortDescription":"This session, led by SLA teachers, focuses on how we process and develop our work and growth as educators. The work we do in schools is both professional and personal -- how do we look back on that work to create meaningful pathways forward?","Description":"This session, led by SLA teachers, focuses on how we process and develop our work and growth as educators. The work we do in schools is both professional and personal -- how do we look back on that work to create meaningful pathways forward?\r\n\r\nIn this session, we will spend time reflecting on our own practices as educators, frame questions for powerful reflection, share successful practices that we use at SLA, and consider habits and practices that weave reflection into the rhythms of classrooms, schools, and organizations.\r\n\r\nJoin us on [OneClick.chat](https:\/\/oneclick.chat\/events\/854)","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"Introspective time, small-group collaboration, and whole-group discussion","Presenter":["Anna Walker-Roberts and Amal Giknis"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["amal.giknis@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":114,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":8,"ScheduleSlotID":114},"total":11,"limit":false,"offset":false}