{"data":{"ID":514,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1442874897,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Becoming a Community that Learns: Extending the Lessons of Edcamp","Handle":"becoming_a_community_that_learns--extending_the_lessons_of_edcamp","ShortDescription":"This session will explore the underlying beliefs that have made Edcamp such a phenomenon and highlight ways to embrace participatory leadership, solve tough problems, and ultimately, change school from a community of learners to a community that learns.","Description":"In just 5 short years, Edcamp has become an international phenomenon. People accredit this to autonomy, choice, and personalized PD but, the real driver behind the movement is a redistribution in power - decreasing the power of the hierarchy and distributing it more evenly across the community. Approaching professional development from this perspective has broad implications for schools. It opens opportunities for collaborative decision making, to learn through problems, co-create solutions, and to create true communities of practice that continually regenerate schools.\r\n\r\nBuilding from the success of Edcamp, we will explore how a wider array of dialogic processes can be employed to move school from a community of learners to a community that learns.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will be using the following conversation protocols to model the processes we will be discussing:\r\nPeer Circle\r\nWorld Cafe\r\n\r\nThis session will require an open room where chairs may be re-arranged.","Presenter":["Mike Ritzius","Dan Callahan","Christine Miles"],"PresenterAffiliation":["NJ Education Association","Massachusetts Teacher Association","Cherry Hill School District"],"PresenterEmail":["mritzius@gmail.com","danielcallahan@gmail.com","ritzius2@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":63,"ScheduleLocationID":6,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5}}