{"data":{"ID":435,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1414451852,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Busting Silos in School Strategy","Handle":"busting_silos_in_school_strategy","ShortDescription":"School strategic planning is often an exercise in figuring out what needs to be done in order to continue doing what always has been done. How might we change our approach in order to better achieve our goals?","Description":"An important part of the job of anyone in charge of some aspect of a school is making sure the school can continue to function and exist. An absolute necessity to be sure, but this is often such a large task that it has the very real danger of making it all we ever do.\r\n\r\nOur students, on the other hand, are spending their lives learning to live and thrive in a world of rapid changes and inevitable disruption that requires them to plan new paths and adjust their vision on the fly. Our continuing challenge is to provide students with schools that are as good at innovative strategy as they themselves will have to be.\r\n\r\nEducators from The Miami Valley School in Dayton, OH, will start this session off by sharing how they\u2019ve embarked this year on a new strategy for innovative school redesign that brings faculty, admins, students, and parents together in design thinking \u201cWindow Teams\u201d to observe, understand, and find places ripe for innovative thinking. After that, the session opens for everyone to share successes and not-yet-successes for their schools. We\u2019re better together!","Link":["http:\/\/www.bryanlakatos.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Participants will live create a Google document together recording what resonates and works for them. Document will have sections with helpful prompts and we\u2019ll save time toward the end of the session to share out loud from the document. The document will stay accessible as folks return to their schools and use what they\u2019ve learned.","Presenter":["Bryan Lakatos"],"PresenterAffiliation":["www.mvschool.com","www.dtk12chat.com"],"PresenterEmail":["bryan.lakatos@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":43,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Thanks for the opportunity to grow along with our colleagues - Educon continues to be a highlight of my career!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4}}