{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":585,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446418493,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"#GoOpen: Personalize Future Ready Learning through OER","Handle":"the_future_for_opportunity_youth","ShortDescription":"Join us for a conversation about the #GoOpen initiative with the US Department of Education. More information here: tech.ed.gov\/open-education","Description":"","Link":["http:\/\/tech.ed.gov\/open-education"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"","Presenter":["Katrina Stevens and Diana Laufenberg"],"PresenterAffiliation":["US Department of Education; Inquiry Schools"],"PresenterEmail":["katrina.stevens@ed.gov"],"ScheduleSlotID":64,"ScheduleLocationID":14,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":511,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1442515478,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Accelerating Expectations","Handle":"accelerating_expectations","ShortDescription":"Join some of the founders--staff and students--of a pioneering public school that has been celebrated by President Obama for a discussion on the value of school culture. We will discuss the unique impact of the 9-14 public-private partnership school model that raises expectations for underrepresented youth by preparing them for careers in the tech industry. Also, we will share ideas for how to improve school culture through external partnerships.","Description":"Join some of the founders--staff and students--of a pioneering public school that has been celebrated by President Obama, PM Tony Abbott of Australia, and public officials and business leaders from around the world for a discussion on the value of school culture. The P-TECH movement now includes over 40 sites, including schools throughout New York State, Connecticut and Chicago. We will discuss the unique impact of the 9-14 public-private partnership school model that has raised expectations for underrepresented youth by preparing them for careers in the tech industry and share ideas for how to improve school culture through external partnerships. The presence of committed, well-trained mentors in the school on a consistent basis, along with college professors and other caring adults, creates a college-going culture that transforms the school experience for young people who, demographically, are unlikely to earn college degrees. In addition, providing workplace experience in a corporate environment allows students to see themselves in a new light, with the accompanying elevated expectations that go along with a middle class career. In particular, we will investigate the effects of accelerated progress for students on their peers through the lens of 18-year-old young people who have earned both a high school diploma and an associate in applied sciences degree and, in three cases, full-time jobs at IBM.","Link":["http:\/\/www.ptech.org"],"Audience":["High School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"Students in their 5th year of the 9-14 program will share their experiences through brief presentations and Q&A. Then, the whole group participates in a question formulation protocol around school culture and the influences that affect culture in schools and organizations.","Presenter":["Will Ehrenfeld","Joel Duran","Kevin Garcia"],"PresenterAffiliation":["P-TECH"],"PresenterEmail":["wehrenfeld@ptechnyc.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":64,"ScheduleLocationID":6,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":520,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1443620762,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Asking Beautiful Questions: A reflection protocol to align mission with the stories we tell","Handle":"asking_beautiful_questions--a_reflection_protocol_to_align_mission_with_the_stories_we_tell","ShortDescription":"We'll use participant\u2019s conference experiences as a jumping off point to explore current mission-driven successes and challenges in their own schools. Using \"How might we\" and \"What if\" questions and peer-to-peer feedback, participants will uncover new possibilities for better addressing Educon themes in their schools.","Description":"The school mission drives in ways direct and subtle the stories that we tell within and beyond our school communities.  We will leverage the collective wisdom of the participants in the workshop to explore current successes and challenges in realizing the promise embedded in each of our school\u2019s missions. We\u2019ll engage in active learning together using a design thinking approach as we ask \"How might we\" and \"What if\" questions to uncover new possibilities for better addressing emerging Educon themes in our schools and classrooms. Participants will receive focused feedback on a pressing issue that they identify and will give feedback to other participants about challenges that they are facing in their schools. Participants will leave with an actionable plan to address their mission-focused challenge. We hope that our shared thinking will create the beginnings of a professional learning community that can continue beyond the workshop conversation.","Link":["http:\/\/blog.lrei.org\/progressive-practice\/author\/msilberberg\/","https:\/\/alexragone.wordpress.com\/ http:\/\/www.lrei.org\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will use design thinking activities to drive the workshop activities. Participants will be active throughout the workshop and not simply be passive listeners of a presentation. We want to create a space where participants can take a risk and explore new ideas to inform their work. Participants will work in small groups as they cycle through a \"What if\" consultancy protocol. Work produced in the consultancies will be posted and a gallery walk will allow all to view and offer additional feedback.","Presenter":["Mark Silberberg","Alex Ragone"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin HS","City & Country School"],"PresenterEmail":["msilberberg@lrei.org","AlexR@cityandcountry.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":64,"ScheduleLocationID":12,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"If selected, we'd would prefer to do as an afternoon session so that folks can use\/reflect on workshops attended earlier in the day.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":601,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446437964,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Back(ground) to Front","Handle":"back-ground-to_front","ShortDescription":"Inquiry requires students to consult sources, but those sources often assume that audiences have background knowledge that not all students possess. This session will help educators be conscious of the tools that they use to fill in background knowledge and plan strategies to help students build those tools for themselves.","Description":"Participants will begin in small groups reading articles about subjects that they are likely to be unfamiliar with. (Examples: articles from the Guardian about a Test cricket match or a British parliamentary procedure.) They will identify phrases or references that they are unfamiliar with and share how this unfamiliarity made them feel about finishing the article. This will lead to a brief session-wide discussion of the importance of background knowledge for inquiry. \r\n\r\nIn the small groups again, participants will brainstorm a list of the types of sources that they might expect their students to consult during an inquiry process, and the background knowledge that these sources might expect from their audience. The groups will then share out their results.\r\n\r\nThe presenter will describe a couple of techniques for providing students with background knowledge, including prepared vocabulary lists and the use of \u201cexplainer\u201d sources. Them the small groups will brainstorm additional techniques and resources and share those results with the group.","Link":["http:\/\/www.notnews.org"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"Throughout each round of brainstorming and sharing, the presenter and participants will work on creating a shared Google doc that will serve as a reference guide and record of the proceedings.","Presenter":["Dave Thomer"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Parkway Center City"],"PresenterEmail":["davethomer@comcast.net"],"ScheduleSlotID":64,"ScheduleLocationID":5,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":537,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1445719465,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Educon U 2017?","Handle":"educon_u_2017","ShortDescription":"How about an Educon for university educators? Educon mainly serves the K-12 community, but its educational principles apply at all levels.\r\n\r\nLet's consider making an \"Educon U.\" for university educators and if it makes sense to plan one (next year?).","Description":"The choices for Audience in creating an Educon conversation include \"High School,\" \"Middle School,\" and \"Elementary School,\" but not past 12th grade.\r\n\r\nAs a university professor, Educon has changed my teaching practice and my student evaluations show they appreciate it deeply. Many practices and beliefs translate from K-12 to universities.\r\n\r\nStill, many don't. I believe we would benefit from extending the Educon community to university educators and administrators.\r\n\r\nWhat are the similarities and differences? What can the communities learn from each other? What would university communities have to figure out on their own? Would it make sense to try to extend Educon?\r\n\r\nIf so, how would \"Educon U.\" differ? Would people attend? What are the logistics? What can we learn from Educon?","Link":["http:\/\/joshuaspodek.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"The conversation will begin (after introductions) with comparing the K-12 community with the university community (diverse as both are) and seeing if something like an \"Educon U.\" would work for the latter.\r\n\r\nIf it would, we would consider if we could make it happen and logistics.","Presenter":["Joshua Spodek"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Columbia University \/ NYU"],"PresenterEmail":["josh@spodek.net"],"ScheduleSlotID":64,"ScheduleLocationID":15,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":589,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446419200,"CreatorID":477,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"From the Horse's Mouth: Talking with Kids about Influential Media","Handle":"from_the_horse-s_mouth--talking_with_kids_about_influential_media","ShortDescription":"In a follow-up to \"Empowering Critical Relationships with Media\" (Educon '14, '15), this conversation opens up a dialogue with a diverse panel of students from SLA regarding the media they consume and find influential. Hearing from this group of active media consumers will help teachers develop engaging educational approaches and materials with, rather than, for their students.","Description":"At a base level of media consumption we need to consider \u201cWhat are we watching? (or listening to, playing, etc.).\u201d This is engagement in its simplest form, and gets us to think about the encoded messages that generally wash over us without question or interpretation. Asking ourselves \u201cWhy are we watching this?\u201d begins the process of thinking about the constructs of media and how they serves our needs. As new technologies have lowered the barriers to creation the framing question, \u201cWhat are we making?\u201d asks us to think about the elements identified in the curate stage and how they work within our own creations. \u201cWhy are we making this?\u201d helps us look at our own creations from a more critical perspective with greater understanding of production, our relationship to media and the encoding\/decoding process.\r\n\r\nAs teachers \"Who is this for?\" is a given, but how much time do we spend truly considering the audience? Are they part of this curation and creation? If so, how? If not, why? How well do we fully grasp the additional layer of understanding new platforms of distribution our students are predominantly using for media consumption? This conversation aims to gain a better understanding of what it is like from the other side of the lecture, assignment and project.","Link":["https:\/\/www.roughcutschools.org","http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/influentialmedia"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This conversation will be guided by Josh Weisgrau and Douglas Herman of Rough Cut Schools, as well as current and former SLA students who have made the critical leap from consumers to creators of media.\r\n\r\nAfter engaging in conversation with this panel of students, our attendees will have the unique opportunity of being \"schooled\" in the ways of modern media consumption, interaction, interpretation and creation.  \r\n\r\nRough Cut Schools aims to inspire critical and creative approaches to consuming and creating media for all students that will lead to an empowered relationship with media in an overwhelmingly mediated society.","Presenter":["Douglas Herman","Josh Weisgrau and a panel of SLA students"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA","Friends Central","Rough Cut Schools","Rough Cut Productions"],"PresenterEmail":["doug@roughcutschools.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":64,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":477,"AdditionalComments":"This is a direct extension of a previous conversation (Empowering Critical Relationships with Media- Educon '14, '15), which was also proposed for '16.\r\n\r\nThis conversation, \"From the Horse's Mouth: Talking with Kids about Influential Media\" will be directly used to craft a new article for Edutopia. So, if there is only room for Rough Cut to have one conversation during sessions this year, we would prefer this to be the one.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":540,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1445804430,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Generation Z -- It's Complicated","Handle":"generation_z_--_it-s_complicated","ShortDescription":"Generation Z: Born after the late 90s. Today\u2019s K-12 learners. Do we really know this generation and their learning needs and preferences? What are our adult assumptions regarding their identity, privacy, social media addiction, online danger, bullying, digital inequity and digital literacy? Let\u2019s have a conversation about today\u2019s generation.","Description":"We\u2019ll use danah boyd\u2019s research (It\u2019s Complicated) and the research of a contemporary marketing firm to challenge\/affirm our assumptions and brainstorm strategies\/actions that we as educators can take to best meet the needs of today\u2019s digital generation.\r\n\r\nThis conversation will be driven by participant inquiry and will have three objectives: (1) identify the participants\u2019 current understanding of Generation Z; (2) expand participants\u2019 understanding of Generation Z through the examination of research; (3) brainstorm strategies\/actions to address identified assumptions\/myths and\/or counter the prevailing paradigm.","Link":["http:\/\/workginattheedge.org","http:\/\/rosscoops31.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Participant inquiry in small and large group will result in a deliverable consisting of common adult perceptions of Generation Z, research-based explanations, and strategies\/actions to best design learning opportunities for Generation Z.","Presenter":["Randy Ziegenfuss","Ross Cooper"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Salisbury Township School District"],"PresenterEmail":["rziegenfuss@salisburysd.org","rcooper@salisburysd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":64,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"Twitter handles - Randy (@ziegeran) and Ross (@rosscoops31)","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":598,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446436903,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"How to Build Teacher Tools That Work","Handle":"how_to_build_teacher_tools_that_work","ShortDescription":"When visitors come to SLA, our tools of the trade get lots of attention, from our school-wide rubric to our peer observation forms to our student surveys. Come learn about our design process and workshop your own ideas to create effective tools for both classroom and administrative purposes. Conversation participates will be invited (but not required) to actually build an online tool that they will take back to their school. Copious examples will also be shared during the session for reference.","Description":"","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"","Presenter":["Larissa Pahomov"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA"],"PresenterEmail":["lpahomov@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":64,"ScheduleLocationID":13,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":560,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446285125,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Is the PLN Dead? The Reality of Networks in Education","Handle":"is_the_pln_dead-the_reality_of_networks_in_education","ShortDescription":"With many years of hype behind us around the value of personal networks\/networking, this conservations aims to uncover the realities of social networking in teaching, learning, and professional development. Is the PLN dead? Or, do we need to reimagine the role of networks in education?","Description":"For many years, the development of personal learning networks has been touted as an essential activity toward the improvement of teaching, learning, and professional development activities for educators and students. Subsequently, professional development events are abuzz with educators touting the value of Twitter often sharing rich anecdotes of connection and collaboration. Yet, the landscape around social networking services has changed dramatically. As more people come online and accumulate followers, there is often more noise than there is signal. Additionally, algorithms employed by major social networking services create filter bubbles and alter the nature of our activity streams. Network fatigue and emerging new services make it more difficult to \"ask of the network\" and there seems to be fewer success stories as compared to the golden years of the PLN. In this session, we aim to guide participants in interrogating their successes and failures with social networking tools and methodologies in their educational practice. Through this conversation, we hope to uncover the reality beyond the hype and work towards a new paradigm for the use of social networking by educators and students. If the PLN is truly dead, this session will allow us to move forward and reimagine the role that ubiquitous social technologies have in our professional and personal lives.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This conversation will begin with a short historical overview of growth and hype cycle of personal learning networks. Then, through a focus on personal storytelling by the participants, we will collectively begin to develop a framework (or frameworks) for a renewed vision for networks in education. Such concept development will certainly rely on a number of recording, diagramming, and charting tools, but more so, on the creativity of the participants in co-developing and sharing their ideas.","Presenter":["Alec Couros","Dean Shareski"],"PresenterAffiliation":["University of Regina","Discovery Education"],"PresenterEmail":["couros@gmail.com","shareski@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":64,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":599,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446436904,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Race for Dummies 2.0: Continuing to Navigate Loaded Conversations about Race","Handle":"race_for_dummies_2.0--continuing_to_navigate_loaded_conversations_about_race","ShortDescription":"These days, many agree that it's time to talk about Race with our students; however, professionals rarely learn how to effectively do so. In this session, teachers will not only learn time-tested dialogic techniques, but will discuss how to navigate the minefield of Race when things go \"wrong.\"","Description":"In this session, we will discuss how to set up a classroom environment that is ready for conversations about Race. Then, I will model come conversational structures, followed by a discussion where teachers share their own best practices. Finally, each teacher will design a conversation that they can take back to their classrooms.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will use large and small group conversations - the same ones that I will be suggesting that they take home to their students.","Presenter":["Matthew Kay"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["mkay@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":64,"ScheduleLocationID":11,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"This will be a different version than last years conversation.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":617,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1449090645,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"So We're Making A Middle School - SLAMS","Handle":"so_we-re_making_a_middle_school_-_slams","ShortDescription":"\u200bWe are in the middle of a Design Year for Science Leadership Academy Middle School. What makes Middle Schools great? What makes SLA great?","Description":"","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"\u200bLarge Venn diagrams posted in the room. What are great\/promising Middle School practices. What are great\/promising SLA practices. Where do they intersect, What is missing. Post it noting, then gallery walking, then group conversation.","Presenter":["Timothy Boyle"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["tboyle@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":64,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":570,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446392689,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Students helping Students use Tech","Handle":"students_helping_students_use_tech","ShortDescription":"How can we include students in conversations about using technology to transform our teaching and learning? At UMW, the new Digital Knowledge Center was designed to provide peer-based student support for digital projects, and, through this mission, to help place student voices squarely in conversations about transforming our scholarly digital practices.","Description":"In 2014, the University of Mary Washington opened the Digital Knowledge Center (DKC) to provide peer-based tutoring on digital assignments. With a model that is based, in part, on the school\u2019s Writing Center, students can seek assistance at the DKC for digital projects they\u2019ve encountered in classes; students can also seek help on using technology, more generally, to achieve academic or personal goals. \r\n\r\nOn face-value, the DKC may seem like nothing more than a digitally-focussed tutoring center, but, on a more fundamental level, the mission of the Center is also to develop student voices within conversations about the role of digital technologies at our school. Within its first year, the DKC has received overwhelmingly positive feedback, and we continue to explore ways to further employ tutors as ambassadors on digital issues within the larger university culture. \r\n\r\nDuring this presentation, we will share three unique perspectives on the vision behind the DKC and its current programming. Special Assistant to the Provost, Jeff McClurken, will discuss the original plan for the Center and how it came to exist; Director of the DKC, Martha Burtis, will share lessons learned from the first year; and former DKC tutor and current Instructional Technology Specialist, Jess Reingold, will share her perspective as a student who helped launch the Center. \r\n\r\nWe believe organizations like the DKC can become transformative catalysts for cultural change around digital issues at our schools. We hope to be able to impart some lessons and inspire others to explores similar endeavors.","Link":["http:\/\/dkc.umw.edu"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"After the three presenters briefly introduce their three topics, we will invite attendees to group around these three different perspectives, aimed at helping participants imagine how they can approach developing similar organizations within their own schools or districts:\r\n\r\n* how to \u201csell\u201d a center like this as a school\r\n* how to program and manage a center like this at a school\r\n* the student experience of a center like this (and how to make this as positive and fruitful as possible)\r\n\r\nEach member of the UMW team will lead a brainstorming discussion on their topic. At the end of the session, we will regroup to share ideas and strategies that we all uncovered.","Presenter":["Jeff McClurken","Martha Burtis","Jess Reingold"],"PresenterAffiliation":["University of Mary Washington"],"PresenterEmail":["jmcclurk@umw.edu","mburtis@umw.edu","jreingol@umw.edu"],"ScheduleSlotID":64,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":512,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1442603194,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The DEEP Practitioners Program: Pushing the Practice of Excellent Teachers","Handle":"the_deep_practitioners_program--pushing_the_practice_of_excellent_teachers","ShortDescription":"Research has shown that good teachers are leaving schools, particularly in urban settings, at alarming rates. Mentorship and coaching could work to retain our best teachers, help push their practices forward, and also engage school administrators in meaningfully aiding the growth of these educators. The DEEP Practitioners Program in the School District of Philadelphia is a specialized coaching program designed to reach talented educators. Come here what we do and collaborate with us on how to take a coaching program like this back to your school or district!","Description":"Driven by the desire to keep our best teachers in the School District of Philadelphia (SDP), the District launched a pilot study based on The New Teacher Project's (TNTP) The Irreplaceables study during the 2014-2015 school year. Branding this group as the DEEP (Dynamic, Effective, Evolving, Passionate) Practitioners Program by Teacher Coach Alexa Dunn and the pilot's participating 15 educators, the year-long program investigated the coaching and retention of the SDP's great teachers. Focus was on facilitative and collaborative goal setting and coaching styles. The DEEP Program is now in its second year, keeping the original 15 educators involved in the first coaching cycle and bringing on a new crop of 15 DEEP Practitioners. \r\n\r\nThis workshop will be led by Alexa Dunn, some of her DEEP Practitioners from the 2014-2015 program, and a few new 2015-2016 members. Attendees will participate in round table collaborative conversations and activities that will help them envision what teacher coaching of our excellent teachers could look like, and what it means to push teacher practice from good to great. Attendees will leave the session with ideas and practical tools to use in their schools and networks to grow coaching at this level.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Workshop style, collaborative conversations, practical tool exploration.","Presenter":["Alexa Dunn (and DEEP Practitioner Members-teachers in the School District of Philadelphia"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The School District of Philadelphia","Science Leadership Academy","University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education"],"PresenterEmail":["adunn@philasd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":64,"ScheduleLocationID":16,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"Chris et al: \r\n\r\nI'd want to rework some of this verbiage as we get closer. Also, I will have more presenter names to add and their affiliations.\r\n\r\nThanks!\r\nAlexa","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":594,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446433998,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Transforming Silence into Genius","Handle":"transforming_silence_into_genius","ShortDescription":"The award winning PYPM (Philly Youth Poetry Movement) creates safe spaces for young people to expand their critical thinking and enhance creative expression with a focus on literacy, youth development, life skills, using poetry, and spoken word.","Description":"In the midst of an educational crisis, where the arts and extracurricular activities are being eliminated from schools it has been challenging to expand the imagination and vision of today's student. Participants will explore the many facets of poetry, spoken word performance, and hip hop as it relates to youth culture and cultural responsive pedagogy. By investigating identity students learn more about themselves and their own voice, which encourages value in self. This workshop\/conversation will give educators tools to connect with students on a deeper level while simultaneously building ownership in the classroom while increasing student engagement. Participants will be asked to share their insights, experiences.  This workshop will recommend culturally responsive curriculum engagement, strategies, critical media literacy, creative writing reflective practices, internal conflict resolution, as it uses critical lenses to share ideas and strategies to increase the authentic student voice and innovation.","Link":["http:\/\/www.pypm215.org"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"This presentation will not only share pedagogical practices, but it will also place the participants in the positions that their students experiences daily. We our students to take risk, but we do not take them as educators. Participants will share and exchange ideas as they also explore their own creative abilities. Get ready to have some fun!","Presenter":["Gregory Corbin"],"PresenterAffiliation":["PYPM\/City of Philadelphia"],"PresenterEmail":["greg@pypm215.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":64,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":5,"ScheduleSlotID":64},"total":14,"limit":false,"offset":false}