{"data":{"ID":305,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1381800731,"CreatorID":337,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Face-to-Face With Our Public","Handle":"Face-to-Face_With_Our_Public","ShortDescription":"It's no longer enough for educators to engage our students; if we believe in the mission of meaningful public education for all, we must directly engage with the public as a whole. Come to this conversation to brainstorm about how we can best do that!","Description":"For too long, educators' voices have been ignored in the debates over contentious issues in education policy: standardized testing, school finance, curricula and standards, privatization of schools, and more. It's time that we take our knowledge, our passion, and our beliefs about the meaning of public education to the public directly - not just through op-eds and social media, but through face-to-face, direct, and most importantly personal engagement. This conversation will be a place for us to discuss the strategies for engagement, and tactics that can facilitate those strategies (e.g., what allies do we have to facilitate such meetings? what type of presentation will be most effective?) for reaching out to our natural allies: parents and interested citizens.","Link":["http:\/\/hyperbolicguitars.wikispaces.com\/Educon+2.6+-+Face-to-Face+With+Our+Public"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This will truly be a brainstorming session, where interesting and useful ideas will be collected and transferred to a public wiki (open during the session). The goal will be to create a strategy for engagement with the public, with specific tactics also enumerated on the wiki.","Presenter":["Mike Thayer"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Summit Public Schools"],"PresenterEmail":["michael.r.thayer@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":11,"SubmitterID":337,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3}}