{"data":{"ID":385,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1386890309,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Teaching and Learning Through Community Partnerships","Handle":"Teaching_and_Learning_Through_Community_Partnerships","ShortDescription":"Amazing things happen when educational programs define their own goals and pull resources from inspiring community partners. Whether sewing with circuits or gazing through the observatory of a science museum, these opportunities can redefine a student's learning experience. In our conversation we'll discuss how this programming can be designed and implemented.","Description":"In this session, we will briefly present how Science Leadership Academy has set up systems and partnerships.  \r\n\r\nThe session will be very interactive; participants will work to come up with ways to extend learning opportunities beyond the expertise of the faculty already in a school.  Together, we will workshop ways to integrate community partners into the existing structures of a school and start to identify types of programs people would like to bring to their learning environment.\r\n\r\nWorking with community partners (museums, universities, businesses, individuals) to create \u2018informal\u2019 programming can effectively complement a school\u2019s formal curriculum. It can be an especially attractive option when funding and other resources are scarce, since partnerships leverage the resources of other entities, often in mutually beneficial ways.","Link":["http:\/\/sokoscart.wordpress.com","http:\/\/slapartnership.weebly.com","http:\/\/goo.gl\/9h5qqC"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"The first part will be a brief presentation from a series of programming Google Docs people will have access to and can comment on - to provide context and background to what \u2018informal\u2019 programming can be.\r\n\r\nValues conversation on what meaningful programming is and should be - not specific partnerships or programs but TYPES of programs - brainstorm categories on shared Google Doc.\r\n\r\nGroup research: looking for individuals, programs, organizations, etc. that might fit into one or many of the categories above.\r\n\r\nShare out:\r\n- what research yielded\r\n- how they might bring those programs to their school.","Presenter":["David Sokoloff","Luke Van Meter","Jeremy Spry"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy","The Franklin Institute"],"PresenterEmail":["david.sokoloff@gmail.com","lvanmeter@fi.edu","jspry@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":4,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3}}