Educating for Changemaking: How we can ensure students become empathic leaders who can work collaboratively to drive change, address shared problems, and generate innovative solutions to social problems.
The main goals of this conversation are twofold: 1. To identify the design principles for cultivating empathy, teamwork, leadership, and problem-solving skills in students, and 2. To explore assessment strategies for evaluating changemaker skill development in students. We will begin the conversation with a discussion of changemaker skills and how Ashoka and its Changemaker Schools have found empathy, teamwork, leadership, and problem-solving to be critical competencies in changemaker development. Following this introduction, we will invite participants to share ways they have cultivated these skills in their students. By the end of the conversation, we will have an action plan for making changemaking skills as important a priority as traditional academic skills.
Conversational Practice
We will be using the strategy of sharing best practices to ensure that the session is a conversation, rather than a lecture. We will also set up a wiki to collect best practices and share them with a larger audience.
Conversation Links
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Ellen DeutscherSan Carlos School District (sort of ;)
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Julia Osteen
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Joseph HelpernFriends Academy
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Casey Reed
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Aliza GreenbergMetropolitan Opera Guild
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Todd Menadier
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Marge Bevad
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Jaimie Stevenson
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Zoe DuskinInspired Teaching School
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Stephanie WujcikThe Baldwin School
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Kathy MagnussonWildewood Learning Community
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Krystle MerchantThe Madeira School
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Shelley PaulAtlanta International School
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Colin AngevineFriends' Central School
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Sanda BalabanFacing History and Ourselves
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Ivy WaiteCalgary science school
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Lisa Langan
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Allison WilliamsCollegiate School
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Jon SchererWissahickon Charter School
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Jennifer Medbery
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Christian KunkelJarv.us
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Angela ThomasHampton Roads Academy
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Samantha Morra
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Vinnie VrotnyKinkaid School
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Megan HowardThe Walker School
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Ed Allen
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Bo AdamsUnboundary
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Montgomery Ogden
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Ben FrazellThe Inspired Teaching School
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Rebecca SchmidtInspired Teaching School
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Mark SilberbergLittle Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin HS
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Christina Roy
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Christian PleisterGreendale School District
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elizabeth helfant
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Robin LongThe Harley School
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Kate KeplingerCenter for Inspired Teaching
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Athena KopsidasInspired Teaching Demonstration Public Charter School
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Alistar Erickson-LudwigDrexel University
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Mairead Canavan
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Linda Andrade
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Amy DortchUniversity School of Nashville
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