{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":600,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446437861,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"\"You don't ask us to remember books. You ask us to learn from them.\" Shifting Destinations in the Language Arts Classroom","Handle":"you_don-t_ask_us_to_remember_books._you_ask_us_to_learn_from_them.-shifting_destinations_in_the_language_arts_classroom","ShortDescription":"What does it mean to affirm student voice through exploring literature and composition? What does a language arts classroom look like without right or wrong questions, without yes or no answers? How can we uplift perspective and process over objectivity and product? Students and teachers debate the benefits and challenges of our experimental curriculum.","Description":"8th Grade Language Arts at Greene Street Friends School is undergoing a redesign. The course draws it framework from recent points emphasized by Cornel West in his most recent book, Black Prophetic Fire. West referenced the four questions once posed by W.E.B. DuBois as a necessary call-to-action in response to the interlocking oppressive, dehumanizing structures, policies, and behaviors in this critical time: \r\n\r\nWhat does integrity do in the face of adversity \/ oppression? \r\nWhat does honesty do in the face of lies \/ deception? \r\nWhat does decency do in the face of insult? \r\nHow does virtue meet brute force? \r\n\r\nThese questions form the basis of our assessments for the year. Throughout the year, we ask students to take on stances while reading. What resonates with you metaphorically? philosophically? aesthetic-ly?critically?! We ask students to expound upon how they see these questions lived out in the diverse texts (novels, poetry, lecture, film, etc.) we consume. Through this, students are positioned as seekers through texts for lifelong nuggets and asked to contribute to a classroom community inquiry. \r\n\r\nWhat does it look like for a language arts classroom to be centered around wrestling with lifelong, evolving investigations? What are the benefits of such an approach? What are the challenges?","Link":["https:\/\/medium.com\/@damayor\/course-preview-the-four-questions-14c83ef3545c#.xvi4st48c"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"Experiential: Within the workshop, we look to have a mini-class led by the students and teachers of the course. We will dig into a short text and ask participants to reflect with us, filtered by the six stances that form the collective lenses of the course. \r\n\r\nWe hope to use open documents to share notes from the session as well.","Presenter":["Christopher Rogers","Kiri Harris"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Greene Street Friends School"],"PresenterEmail":["crogers@greenestreetfriends.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":72,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":603,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446441480,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"#CLMOOC: Your Learning Constellation","Handle":"clmooc--your_learning_constellation","ShortDescription":"When you consider the ways that technology continues to transform learning and your role as a teacher, do you feel overwhelmed? Join this hands-on, dynamic conversation as we explore #clmooc: a collaborative learning community dedicated to helping educators gain the first-hand experience necessary to be confident, contemporary educators. And learners.","Description":"When we speak about learning in 2015, we must talk about technology. After all, in addition to teaching students particular content--algebraic equations, historic events, literary devices--we also strive to help our kids to become contemporary learners, making the most of what the internet, social media, and digital devices have to offer. \r\n\r\nIn order to achieve this goal, however, we must become flexible, active learners in an educational environment quite different from the one that most of us grew up in. Consider the dizzying array of possibilities open to each of us. These same possibilities exist for our students, which is why we must be learners at the same time we are leaders, facilitating our student\u2019s growth while also investing in our own ongoing literacy and ability.\r\n\r\nSo how do we grow as contemporary learners and teach this to our kids at the same time? We each need a learning constellation, a collection of mentors, partners, and guides to help us become fluent in the critical dispositions all contemporary learners need: creativity, generosity, curiosity, thoughtfulness, and productivity. Consider any meaningful activity in which you have invested yourself and being connected to others with the same interest surely has played a critical role. The same applies here. \r\n\r\nThis hands-on, dynamic conversation will explore #clmooc: a collaborative, connected learning community dedicated to helping educators gain the kind of first-hand experience necessary to be confident contemporary educators, creators, and learners.","Link":["http:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/clmooc\/","http:\/\/mrgatgbs.blogspot.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"During the session, participants will experiment with a creative activity and engage with members from the #CLMOOC community during the presentation via Twitter. After the session, participants can then join the formal course over the summer and stay connected throughout the year.","Presenter":["Scott Glass","Christina Cantrill"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Glenbrook South High School","National Writing Project"],"PresenterEmail":["ccantrill@nwp.org","sgalss@glenbrook225.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":72,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":529,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1445253646,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Balancing Connection and Isolation with Mindfulness","Handle":"balancing_connection_and_isolation_with_mindfulness","ShortDescription":"This conversation will explore the paradox of the connected and isolated learner in the 21st Century. Throughout the discussion, participants will be encouraged to share their experiences, questions and ideas.","Description":"The main focus of this conversation is to explore connection and isolation as it impacts students and adult learners. One of the most important aspects to thus conversation will be concept of mindfulness as a tool to help learners stay present. Participants will be encouraged to share their mindfulness strategies as well as strategies for overcoming isolation from peers and their PLN. We will also explore how mindfulness can assist us with staying present and reducing stress.","Link":["Http:\/\/Drspikecook.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This conversation will start with individual reflection, small group discussions and large group theme building. We will use tools to ensure everyone is a part of the process such as post its and honoring our established norms for collaboration. We will then take the post its and use technology based tools (such as Post It Plus) to make the ideas and connections accessible to everyone.","Presenter":["Spike C Cook"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Principal","RM Bacon Elementary School"],"PresenterEmail":["Drspikecook@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":72,"ScheduleLocationID":13,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":616,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1449090450,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Creativity Isn't Just for the Gifted. Let's Change That!","Handle":"creativity_isn-t_just_for_the_gifted._let-s_change_that","ShortDescription":"We know that inquiry driven practices supported by technology can help close the student opportunity gap. In many schools, struggling students, especially those of poverty or color, experience such learning the least. How do our own practices, beliefs and decisions lead to deeper inequities? Join us as we create\/share thinking points meant to shift the access ratio, increasing opportunities for the kids that need it most.","Description":"","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"","Presenter":["Rafranz Davis","Julian Miller"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["rafranz11@gmail.com","julian@learnmetrics.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":72,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":534,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1445526949,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"From Mortuary To Happy Hour, Creating Anticipation Instead of Dread for Faculty Meetings","Handle":"from_mortuary_to_happy_hour-creating_anticipation_instead_of_dread_for_faculty_meetings","ShortDescription":"Join us as we marry engaging content with creative pedagogies in a way where both serve as distinct takeaways and reasons for appeal. These experiences build a community of passionate learners and an environment that actively solicits and engages challenging topics and dissenting opinions as essential components of powerful learning.","Description":"Traditionally, faculty meetings are one of the most dreaded events for faculty members. How can we change that so that the atmosphere has the allure of attending an educational play date? Learn how one school has transformed their faculty meetings to have such an appeal. Join Davis Academy colleagues for an interactive conversation in which we will \u201cdo\u201d while we discuss. \r\n\r\n\u2022\tWe will model engagement that faculty can employ in the classroom such that the purpose for faculty meetings is no longer dissemination of information but is also an opportunity to practice active growth, the passion of which spills over to the students. \r\n\u2022\tWe will discover ways in which we can learn about topics relevant to our school communities while sharing strategies to engage the faculty audience with a dose of creativity. \r\n\u2022\tWe will validate the many ways adults learn, acknowledge the value of their time, and share an appreciation for the importance of an open and supportive culture.\r\n\r\nBring your own emotionally charged educational topics and get ready to engage in a rejuvenating approach to addressing these.","Link":["http:\/\/drewfrank.edublogs.org\/","http:\/\/bytes-of-technology.blogspot.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This session with be a constructivist pedagogical playground.  There will be three main pieces within the session, each of these will be aimed at engaging\/facilitating discussion with different strategies. The first part will be a red stick\/blue stick activity in which teams of participants are assigned an opinion on the given topic (digital parenting and the responsibility of the school).  The participants must brainstorm and defend this assigned opinion, even if it is not their own belief. We will then share and discuss.  Part two will be a pictorial scavenger hunt, in the classroom and online, to find representations for specific prompts. These will be shared in real time, storified, and discussed. Part three will be based on Dan Callahan Edcamp session \u201cThings That Suck\u201d activity http:\/\/www.billselak.com\/topics\/blog\/edcamp\/page\/2 in which we will ask participants to take a black or white opinion on topics that are inherently grey.  The content for this session will be generated through an opening hook activity in which all participants will be asked to contribute topics that are emotionally charged either to themselves, their job function, or their school\/setting to a padlet.  We will then mine the top items (items that are mentioned multiple times or we feel will generate dissenting opinions and good discussion) and use these as the \u201cthings that suck.\u201d Lastly and potentially most importantly, we will reflect on all the different protocols we used and the importance of creating safe space where convergent and divergent thinking is encouraged, where affirming and dissenting opinions are solicited, and where teachers are happily and eagerly engaged.","Presenter":["Drew Frank"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Alfred and Adele Davis Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["dfrank@davisacademy.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":72,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":521,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1444067243,"CreatorID":3374,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Glocal - How can we use technology to move project-based learning to a wider lens?","Handle":"glocal_-_how_can_we_use_technology_to_move_project-based_learning_to_a_wider_lens","ShortDescription":"Keeping things concrete and close to home may make good developmental sense for young learners, but it also can leave out an awareness of global issues and the wider systems that we are a part of.  How can technology help us keep the best of project-based learning and still help us foster global thinking by elementary and middle school students?","Description":"I'll bring examples of project based learning that I and others have done that both does and does not connect to wider, global issues.  I'll also bring examples from the start-up that I'm working on to use video-chat to do so.  \r\n\r\nPlease bring your own examples of curriculum, uses of technology, and challenges that you've bumped up against on this topic.","Link":[],"Audience":["Middle School","Elementary School"],"Practice":"I will ask participants to brainstorm their questions \/ challenges regarding making Place Based Education global in scope.  I'll share some content related to the topic\/participants questions and then ask others to do so as well so please feel free to bring photos, video clips and\/or artifacts of your work.","Presenter":["Paul Skilton-Sylvester"],"PresenterAffiliation":["University of Pennsylvania"],"PresenterEmail":["pssylvester@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":72,"ScheduleLocationID":14,"SubmitterID":3374,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":609,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446501912,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Innovation and Justice","Handle":"innovation_and_justice","ShortDescription":"What happens when innovation and social justice intersect? Who is doing the innovation, and who is being innovated upon? Who benefits and who loses out? And as practitioners in innovative models of education, in what ways are we participating in or complicit in these intersections?","Description":"The language of innovation is often used in conflicting ways when it comes to social justice issues. In this conversation we will use a variety of analytical perspectives to parse out the complex ways that 'innovation' can be used to enhance or detract from the lives of students and teachers.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will have a facilitated conversation alongside case studies and problem-posing analysis-- and attempt to produce guidelines for analyzing future situations.","Presenter":["Max Rosen-Long","Larissa Pahomov"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA\/SLA Beeber","Caucus of Working Educators"],"PresenterEmail":["mrosenlong@slabeeber.org","lpahomov@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":72,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":587,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446419013,"CreatorID":3804,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"On Creating a Caring Learning Environment","Handle":"on_creating_a_caring_learning_environment","ShortDescription":"Caring about students should be a central part of every learning environment. High school is a challenging time in everyone\u2019s lives, especially for students who are struggling with a mental illness. How can educators best support these students while still respecting the boundaries of a school?","Description":"1 in 5 teenagers struggle with a serious mental illness, which means as an educator, it\u2019s important to know how to best support these students. How can we best teach students that it\u2019s okay to not be okay? How can you best handle a kid in crisis? Mental illnesses are complex - and whether they be caused by environmental factors or genetics - it\u2019s important to be able to support these students not only as students, but as people. As educators, you also have your own outside life to deal with along with teaching. How can you cope with teaching and your outside life? What does it mean to be not okay as a teacher at school? Hear from current students and staff members at SLA about how they dealt with mental illness in a school environment and discuss how you can best do the same in your learning environment.","Link":["http:\/\/caringschools.wikispaces.com\/"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"In this conversation, not only will you be able to hear from current SLA staff member and students, but you\u2019ll also have the opportunity to collaborate and hear from other educators about their ideas on creating caring schools. After discussing this in small groups, all the ideas will be compiled onto a website which will be accessible to all conversation participants.","Presenter":["Morgan Caswell","Pia Martin","& Heaven Mendez"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["mcaswell@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":72,"ScheduleLocationID":12,"SubmitterID":3804,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":561,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446294075,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Purpose and Authentic Audience","Handle":"purpose_and_authentic_audience","ShortDescription":"Authentic audience and purpose are similar student motivators. This discussion will combine ideas from various disciplines and address the need and possibilities for students to do real work.","Description":"After some sharing background from the various disciplines (English, Maker Movement, Foreign Language, Science) on the power of audience and purpose, presenters will share some specific examples of how they and their colleagues have sought to provide opportunities for these powerful motivators. We will share examples of using Google+ to have conversations in target foreign language, blogging, podcasting, twitter sharing, and cross grade level work. We will also share the way we have used Twitter to find an audience for student work. Since the purpose of the discussion is the power of these factors for students, we will share examples of student response to this work as well.\r\n\r\nParticipants will be able to self-select into groups with teacher leaders to learn more about specific options. This will allow for time to discuss and plan how to adapt class work or curriculum to bring more audience and\/or purpose to a variety of classes, even if a teacher does not have total control over course curriculum. We will have teachers representing foreign language teaching, Engineering, maker projects, and English (at both elementary and high school levels).","Link":["https:\/\/thoughtsfromschool.wordpress.com\/","http:\/\/betny.blogspot.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"There will be time for teachers to break into groups to work with those who teach similar subjects or grade levels. In addition, we will form a Google+ community to continue to share ideas and support one another after EduCon.","Presenter":["Wendy Eiteljorg","Bethany Silva","Chris Fornaro"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Shipley School (all)","UPenn (Bethany Silva)"],"PresenterEmail":["weiteljorg@shipleyschool.org","bsilva@shipleyschool.org","cfornaro@shipleyschool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":72,"ScheduleLocationID":15,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":5,"ScheduleSlotID":72},"total":9,"limit":false,"offset":false}