{"data":{"ID":324,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383097483,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Empowering Student Voice in the Humanities Classroom:  Creating Space for Meaningful Discourse","Handle":"Empowering_Student_Voice_in_the_Humanities_Classroom:Creating_Space_for_Meaningful_Discourse","ShortDescription":"Humanities classrooms hold vast potential for rich discourse. This connects students to each other and their world, and also encourages intellectual curiosity, and life-long learning. Empowering student voice is an intricate and involved pedagogical practice, and yet so vital to creating safe and dynamic classroom spaces. Be prepared to craft many ideas and strategies to deepen teaching and learning in your humanities classroom.","Description":"In addition to the above, we are looking to build a bank of ideas worth spreading...ways to encourage and sustain student voice and this notion of empowerment. We also will cover how to build students' social consciousness as they feel more in control over their learning, and more confident in themselves as game changers beyond the classroom walls.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"This session will be comprised of a panel discussion followed by a workshop. Participants will be exchanging & workshopping ideas, and building a resource for the group to access these strategies after Educon is over.","Presenter":["Alexa Dunn (SLA) & UPenn GSE\/TFA Teachers"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA\/UPenn"],"PresenterEmail":["adunn@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":12,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Chris was ok with scheduling UPenn\/TFA sessions for Saturday.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3}}