{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":569,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446384408,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Adding Value: A conversation on making difference","Handle":"adding_value--a_conversation_on_making_difference","ShortDescription":"Each school year we begin with high hopes and plans to make our job and our lives easier or better. By the end of January, however, we as teachers are maxed out in what we can do because there are too many things pulling us in various directions. This conversation is an attempt to gain some traction in our teaching lives by reflecting upon the question of where can we make the most difference and how.","Description":"Each school year we begin with high hopes and plans to make our job and our lives easier or better. By the end of January, however, we as teachers are maxed out in what we can do because there are too many things pulling us in various directions. This conversation is an attempt to gain some traction in our teaching lives by reflecting upon the question of where can we make the most difference and how. \r\n\r\nThe workshop will be an opportunity for participants to think about where they are in the current teaching year and what they have to do to move the needle on the important parts of their lives- including their life at school. What is needed is open mind, a hot cup of tea, a calendar and a small group of colleagues to provide the emotional support you need to make the small changes that can produce big results.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Work groups will be based in triads to share ideas and to help create an agenda of next steps for participants to make their ideas come to life. There is a framework to keep people on track but this is a workshop where people put ideas and plans into place to take forward rather than being presented to.","Presenter":["Matt Baird"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["mbaird@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":69,"ScheduleLocationID":11,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"At the moment this is similar to the workshop I did last year which seemed to go pretty well. The description I am using is language that may have been included in last year's guide. Over the next couple of months I hope to differentiate the focus slightly but it will be similar.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":546,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446055075,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"An Insider View of Inquiry and Project-Based Learning","Handle":"an_insider_view_of_inquiry_and_project-based_learning-4","ShortDescription":"SLA students and teachers will lead an interactive workshop on inquiry and project based learning. Examples from SLA will be used to spark larger discussions about pedagogical strategies and challenges.","Description":"SLA students and teachers will lead an interactive workshop on inquiry and project based learning. Examples from SLA will be used to spark larger discussions about pedagogical strategies and challenges.","Link":["http:\/\/mrjblock.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Interactive workshop","Presenter":["Joshua Block","Tim Best"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA"],"PresenterEmail":["jblock@scienceleadership.org","tbest@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":69,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":525,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1444507924,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Create Something Great","Handle":"create_something_great-2","ShortDescription":"How do you bring the most innovative teachers in a school district together to network with experts in education, industry, and technology to shift instructional practice? You Create Something Great! Join the conversation about a think tank that ignited passion and enthusiasm for innovation with teaching and learning.","Description":"Create Something Great: an innovative shift in instructional practice. \r\nShifting instructional practice from a traditional model to an innovative constructivist learning model for a large school district can be a daunting task. It starts with one small statement between two educators. The statement, \u201cWhat we need is a think tank for teachers.\u201d became a catalyst for change in the Douglas County School District.  It just takes a vision for collaboration and networking.  You can do this too. \r\n\r\nA think tank was created for teachers by teachers to come together for a three day think tank to reinvent American education. Incorporating the design thinking protocol participants created prototypes for shifting instructional practice. This highly successful think tank has transformed teaching and learning from an event to a culture of innovation.  As a follow-up the teachers created a network that has evolved into monthly meetups to support the implementation of their prototypes. \r\n\r\nTo quote some of our participants, \r\n\u201cI loved being pushed to think outside the box and develop truly innovative ideas.\u201d\r\n\u201cOne of the best professional development opportunities in my 21 years as a teacher.\u201d\r\n\u201cI feel incredibly inspired about next year.\u201d\r\n\u201cThis was a fabulous experience. I can\u2019t wait to continue the journey.\u201d\r\n\r\n\r\nJoin us in a conversation and share ideas regarding the expansion of this local network to a national conversation that will empower educators, community members, and industry to collectively transform the culture of American education by building common understandings, designing specific solutions, and implementing sustainable reform.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Presenters will share the change that they have experienced through this think tank in their district. We will show a video with students and teacher members of CSG network to hear how it has impacted instruction and learning. The idea building and conversation will continue through the Create Something Great site.\r\nA challenge will be provided for the participants and the Sharing Best Practices protocol will be used to guide participants to explore ideas and ways to expand this project. \r\nChallenge: How do we expand this local conference to a national think tank for shifting instructional practice?\r\nParticipants will address and share with others through empathetic dialogue three items that address issues that can shift mindsets.\r\nThe changes that have happened with instructional practice in their own school district\r\nHow they can scale the positive direction of any change in instructional practice,\r\nDetermine whether a shift in practice is or can actually grow, or if it resides in pockets without a way to expand and grow.","Presenter":["Mary Murphy","Russell Loucks"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Douglas County School District Colorado"],"PresenterEmail":["mary.murphy@dcsdk12.org","russell.loucks@dcsdk12.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":69,"ScheduleLocationID":5,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"We presented at the 2015 EduCon conference and we are excited about the possibility of presenting at the 2016 conference.  Thank you for extending an invitation to us!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":527,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1444697243,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Culture Trumps Strategy, Every Time","Handle":"culture_trumps_strategy-every_time","ShortDescription":"The easy part is recognizing 21st century schools need to change. The hard part is convincing people to give up familiar routines and practices. In this conversation, we will explore ways of enhancing the positive elements of a school culture needed to encourage risk taking and outside the box thinking.","Description":"We recognize that schools need to change dramatically in order to prepare students for tomorrow\u2019s world. At the same time, we also know that changing educational institutions is difficult because people find comfort in familiar routines. Conferences such as Educon and Edcamps are integral to this change process.  However, they often create more questions than they answer.  How do we take these ideas, or pieces of them, back home and APPLY them?  How do they fit into a \u201cregular\u201d public school?  How can we reconcile Educon ideas with federal, state, and local restrictions, and colleagues who have different philosophies on teaching?  With a healthy culture, schools can better hope to encourage and sustain the changes needed to improve outcomes for kids. Without a healthy culture, even the most dynamic and innovative ideas can lead to increased frustration or fail to take hold. Please join us to share ideas and brainstorm answers for building healthy cultures capable of sustaining change.","Link":["http:\/\/www.naples.k12.ny.us\/district.cfm?subpage=1872884","https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/naplescsd.org\/teaching-with-technology\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"The Conversation will begin with a brief 5-10 minute overview of the topic.  This will be followed by an interactive large group discussion and small group conversations.  Key points will be captured digitally and shared.","Presenter":["Matthew Frahm","Anneke Radin-Snaith"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Naples Central School District (NY)"],"PresenterEmail":["aradinsnaith@naplescsd.org","mfrahm@naplescsd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":69,"ScheduleLocationID":14,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":565,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446326596,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Escaping the Acronym: moving making beyond STEAM","Handle":"escaping_the_acronym--moving_making_beyond_steam","ShortDescription":"A focus on STEM has helped push making into schools. However, learning by making is not limited to one subset of academic fields. Extending the acronym to include arts and\/or humanities is not enough. This conversation will focus on situating making in schools using cross-curricular values rather than disciplines.","Description":"Even with the addition of \"A\" for art, STEAM is too limiting an approach for thinking about the potential for maker and constructionist education. Making can provide opportunities to learn not only academic content, but also skills and ideas that have been underrepresented in traditional academic contexts. Learning through making can recalibrate the balance between discursive knowledge and embodied knowledge, challenging students to think in different ways and providing onramps for a wide audience of students. In our school makerspace we found success by choosing to define our program by the core values of agency, authenticity, and audience, rather than a discrete set of academic disciplines. These values, drawn from Seymour Papert's learning theory of constructionism, also line up with Deci and Ryan's self determination theory and we have seen that projects that embrace these values increase student engagement.\r\n\r\nParticipants will gain an understanding of how making in schools can support much more than just STEM, or even STEAM, learning. They will leave the session with ideas for maker projects that support a wide range of learning and learners as well as ideas for how to present these concepts to their own school communities.","Link":["http:\/\/makerspace.friendscentral.org"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"After a brief presentation on how we have used a values-based approach to situate our school makerspace, all participants will engage in an open discussion around this topic.\r\n\r\nWe will share some specific projects we have done with our students and will encourage participants to share projects as well.\r\n\r\nWe will conclude the session with a \u201cthink-pair-share\u201d activity that will allow participants time to collaborate with each other to help each other plan or modify value-driven maker projects for their own schools and practice.","Presenter":["Colin Angevine","Josh Weisgrau"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Friends' Central School"],"PresenterEmail":["jweisgrau@gmail.com","cangevine@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":69,"ScheduleLocationID":12,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"Read more about the ideas we will present here: http:\/\/www.hybridpedagogy.com\/journal\/situating-makerspaces-in-schools\/","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":577,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446404732,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Framing Social Studies Education in the STEM Era","Handle":"framing_social_studies_education_in_the_stem_era","ShortDescription":"The relevancy of social studies education has been justified in terms of its specific content and its role in promoting literacy skills. However, as schools embrace STEM focuses, what challenges and opportunities are presented for practitioners of social studies education?","Description":"As STEM education has moved into the forefront of the national conversation on education, teachers in the humanities face new challenges in framing the importance of their discipline to students, parents, reformers, policymakers, and other education leaders. Indeed, as classrooms adjust to new pedagogies, the role and importance of social studies education remains undefined. Meanwhile, the national conversation on social studies education has centered on particular issues of fact in AP standards and high school textbooks. Given the changing educational landscape, how should practitioners of social studies education justify the discipline? Should social studies education focus primarily on content, or is there a skills based focus in history which establishes its equal need and importance among the STEAM subjects?","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Participants will work in small groups to discuss the role of social studies education in their school contexts and consider what opportunities arise in reframing social studies education.","Presenter":["Brian Hussey","Matt Roy"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA@ Beeber"],"PresenterEmail":["bhussey@slabeeber.org","mroy@slabeeber.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":69,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":588,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446419062,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Getting to the Heart of Education: Relationships that Revolutionize School Culture","Handle":"getting_to_the_heart_of_education--relationships_that_revolutionize_school_culture","ShortDescription":"We are on a mission to upend traditional education from teacher driven instruction to student driven  learning.  Potent evidence has exposed the former model as a failure, yet most public and independent schools still cling to it.  Working within the current paradigm, we attempt to influence one heart at a time.","Description":"Student-centered instruction is not a flash in the pan trend; it is here to stay. It is  the linchpin of 21st century teaching and learning. If our students are to thrive in an unpredictable future, it is time to shift instruction--and to keep shifting instruction--with their authentic interests foremost in mind.\r\n\r\nThe McLean School Head, Mike Saxenian, envisions a place  where students have agency and authority over their learning, not only answering questions, but asking questions of themselves and each other.  We are working with classroom teachers to realize this vision, evolving from an inherited industrial age model, with students often \u201csitting and getting\u201d... and  \u201cgiving\u201d the correct answer. Middle School Academic Technologist, Mike Carson, and Instructional Coach, Kate Rizzi, form partnerships with faculty members to alter the culture from inside their school. \r\n\r\nWith our colleagues, we hope to create a  learning community in which all members share, reflect on, and learn from their successes and failures.  We have just begun, but we can see small, positive steps towards student-driven learning.  We will share what we have learned from this process of self-reflection and mutual support.  Where are you in the process of revolutionizing education?  What have you learned?  How can we support  one another?","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will share several short highlights of our work, along with examples of challenges we experience at our growing edge. We will ask participants to identify and talk about where they are in the process of initiating reflective teaching practices in their schools. Serving as facilitators, we will join our Educon colleagues in learning with and from each other.","Presenter":["Kate Rizzi","Mike Carson"],"PresenterAffiliation":["McLean School of Maryland"],"PresenterEmail":["krizzi@mcleanschool.org","mcarson@mcleanschool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":69,"ScheduleLocationID":6,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":602,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446438594,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"How to Use Creative Writing to Foster a Culture of Care in the Classroom","Handle":"how_to_use_creative_writing_to_foster_a_culture_of_care_in_the_classroom","ShortDescription":"We all want our classrooms to be safe havens where imaginative risks are celebrated. We all want our students to be deeply invested in their peers. We all want to build confident writers and speakers. Join Cait Miner, Philly Youth Poetry Movement Program Director and Philadelphia Educator, for a conversation about using creative writing as a powerful tool for fostering a caring classroom community.","Description":"In this workshop, participants will learn how to lay the foundation for creative writing and expression in the classroom, how to implement new structures to promote creative expression, and how to design a creative writing project in order to foster a culture of care in the classroom.","Link":["http:\/\/www.pypm215.org"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"For the majority of the session teachers will participate in small group conversations that they will share out with the larger group.  At the end, teachers will have time to work independently to design a creative writing project and then will work with a partner to discuss ways to scaffold the final product in way that strengthens student writing and promotes a culture of care in the classroom community.","Presenter":["Cait Miner"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Philly Youth Poetry Movement"],"PresenterEmail":["cait@pypm215.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":69,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":532,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1445396805,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Optimize PBL: Empower Learners by Moving to Authentic, Relevant and Complex Projects","Handle":"optimize_pbl--empower_learners_by_moving_to_authentic-relevant_and_complex_projects","ShortDescription":"Learners are empowered to innovate when authentic, relevant and complex challenges give them the space of creativity. Let's have a conversation about how we can transform and elevate our classrooms by creating community partnerships to encourage the innovation we want to inspire in our learners.","Description":"Project based learning has been used as a description for teaching strategies that range in practice from the completion of \"recipe projects\" to the implementation of real world, life-changing challenges. Today, teachers feel the pressure of high stakes testing, but are often willing to explore more engaging methods of instruction. Our goal is to co-develop an understanding of the potential difference between challenging PBL lessons and authentic, relevant, and complex learning experiences. This conversation will help us to breakthrough the barriers of challenging assignments to dig deep into the tools teachers and leaders need to take research and innovation to the next level by leveraging powerful partnerships within their communities. We will delve into the ways in which teachers can be empowered to empower their learners. The facilitation of this process promotes the development of learners who are inquiry driven and ready to become producers of new information rather than simply consumers of information that already exists. Leaders and learners will engage in a dialogue to deepen their understanding of authentic, relevant, and complex learning environments to support teachers in building literacy rich authentic, relevant and complex projects. They will share innovative practices to dive into the critical thinking skills needed to climb the highest levels to produce creative solutions. In short, the optimization of PBL leads to: creativity, imagination, and innovation through authentic problem solving and complex critical thinking, with relevant communication and collaboration.","Link":["http:\/\/www.proj-arc.com","http:\/\/daynalaur.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Extended Socratic Seminar (This is a discussion that prompts the asking of questions to uncover solutions. One conversation starter is given and participants engage in a discussion. The goal is to ask questions as the conversation unfolds. Every question is recorded during the discussion. At the conclusion of the discussion, the recorded questions are affinity mapped to determine three main themes that have emerged from the conversation. This provides a roadmap for further investigations and to allow the conversation to continue in a virtual space once the conference is over.)","Presenter":["Dayna Laur","Jill Clayton","Tim Kubik"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Project ARC"],"PresenterEmail":["dayna@proj-arc.com","jill@proj-arc.com","tim@proj-arc.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":69,"ScheduleLocationID":15,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":593,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446433280,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Tech-knowledge-y","Handle":"tech-knowledge-y","ShortDescription":"This conversation will focus on understanding and teaching students in utilizing technology in classrooms. Hear from a panel of SLA sophomores speak about the use of technology, digital citizenship, trusting students, and communicating and collaborating with each other. Learn about youth views and challenge your creativity by creating a project.","Description":"Students of Science Leadership Academy are trusted to make their own choices regarding their technological use. It is within the bounds of the faculty to be able to view and control our laptop screens remotely. Our teachers do not do this. As part of the SLA experience, we are allowed to make our own choices and take our own risks. It is important for real life experience. Listen as SLA\u2019s own students speak on their experiences the digital age.","Link":["https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tamirharper","http:\/\/blogs.edweek.org\/edweek\/reinventing_k12_learning\/2015\/06\/sla_students_highlight_role_of_student_voice_at_iste_town_hall.html","https:\/\/isteconference.org\/2015\/?id=94479753"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"In this conversation, members will be asked to challenge their creativity by creating a project of their own, and collaborate with their peers. They will face the everyday challenge of students by working with new faces they might not know anything about. They\u2019ll be working together to show what they know, and coming up with their own idea on how to teach students about the new digital age without using the words \u201cWell back in my day\u2026\u201d","Presenter":["Jessica Celli","Tamir Harper","Asher Swartz"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["jcelli@sceinceleadership.org","aswartz@scienceleadership.org","tharper@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":69,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":574,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446398709,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Telepathy helps but it's not necessary: The X-Men and distributed leadership in a diverse community","Handle":"telepathy_helps_but_it-s_not_necessary--the_x-men_and_distributed_leadership_in_a_diverse_community","ShortDescription":"Using the X-Men as a metaphorical lens for reflection on diverse leadership styles in service to a central vision, we will explore how to utilize the strengths and styles of various members of our teams in leading \"missions\" that accomplish the goals of the community.","Description":"Since Giant-Sized X-Men issue #1 in 1975, the X-Men have served as an example of a successful diverse community in service to a unifying philosophy. Their 40 year influence on our culture and expression of shifting American values cannot be underestimated and can serve as an ideal source of metaphorical reflection for a wide range of folks . In this conversation  we will push our practice through a discussion of the practices of this diverse (in terms of background, talent, and personality) team and the lessons we can learn from their successes and failures in relation to our own \"teams\".","Link":["http:\/\/scienceleadership.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Different Groups will analyze an issue of the comic where a different member of the team is called on to lead. Groups will ask questions about how the aptitudes and abilities of the leader in question influenced the mission and its success or failure. After unpacking the issue, groups will discuss examples from their own practice that relate to a similar challenge and how they or a member of their team addressed it. Groups will then share aspects of their conversations with the entire session in a broader conversation before individuals are given a hypothetical mission and asked to construct a strategy for success that includes selecting the ideal team and leadership. Solutions will be submitted via google form and shared with the group for further discussion post-conference.","Presenter":["Aaron Gerwer"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["agerwer@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":69,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":583,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446416079,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Privileged Voices in Education 3.0","Handle":"the_privileged_voices_in_education_3.0","ShortDescription":"Whose voices are heard in education (education reform, education technology) circles? While it might be easy to identify (and lambast) the \"corporate\" voices, are we truly offering and supporting diverse voices in response? Who gets to speak \"for\" students, for teachers, for change? How can we do better?","Description":"The people that are often praised as education leaders, no matter where they might sit on the \" politics of education reform\" spectrum  -- the right or the left, from the public or private sector, \"insiders\" or \"outsiders\" -- often share a lot in common: namely, their privilege. Their class privilege. Their gender privilege. Their racial privilege. Their age privilege. Their health privilege. Their credential privilege.\r\n\r\nWe need to stop and ask: whose voices are we hearing? Whose voices are we ignoring? Whose voices are we amplifying? Whose voices are we squelching?\r\n\r\nEducator Jose Vilson and Audrey Watters will talk about the \"Top 10\" lists that get crafted, the awards and the recognition that get given, and how we can address questions of diversity (or the lack of diversity) therein. They'll chat race, class, gender and the future of education (which is almost the title of Vilson's new book!), how privilege plays out in the politics of education, and how it plays out in those we send into the public sphere to articulate our political (and pedagogical) positions. We\u2019ll also discuss #BlackLivesMatter, #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh, and the pindrop silence from too many educators.","Link":["http:\/\/thejosevilson.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We could start with a question that seems to be popular among ed(tech) bloggers: who are the most prominent voices in education? Let's reflect on who these are? Who's missing? This session will begin as a conversation between Vilson and someone soon-to-be-named, but the goal is to open some of our provocations up to the larger audience.","Presenter":["Jose Vilson","Audrey Watters"],"PresenterAffiliation":["EduColor"],"PresenterEmail":["jose.l.vilson@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":69,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"I need some commitments before I find out who my co-presenter will be.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":549,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446129208,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"When Innovation Fails","Handle":"when_innovation_fails-2","ShortDescription":"In this conversation we will discuss what happens when the innovations don\u2019t succeed in the way you thought they would. Join Erin Klein and Brett Clark as we discuss the ups and downs of innovation. During the down times how do you retain buy-in, rebuild trust, and move forward?","Description":"In our conversation we will discuss innovations we have experienced in our classrooms and districts. We will focus on how you must first define success and how you\u2019ll measure it before you ever implement something new. Then assess progress throughout the implementation and make adjustments. Throughout the process you must continue to engage all stakeholders and have open and honest conversations to retain buy-in, trust, and continue to grow. \r\n\r\nWe will share personal experiences ranging from rolling out 8,000 chromebooks, flipping classrooms, designing and redesigning learning spaces, and more. Participants will also have opportunities to share their current\/past struggles. \r\n\r\nThe purpose of the conversation is to help all of us have the right mindset heading into something new. In order to do so we must plan to assess progress, document progress, and reflect. Throughout the reflection we can\u2019t lose sight of the reason why we tried the innovation in the first place. The goal is always more important than the innovation itself.","Link":["http:\/\/www.educationdreamer.com","http:\/\/www.kleinspiration.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"During the conversation we will use ClassFlow to engage the audience in the conversation. We will push out information to their devices. The audience will be able to respond to questions and share resources through ClassFlow. Participates will have opportunities to share their own failures and how they\u2019ve built off of them. Resources and information will be shared on a public google doc.","Presenter":["Brett Clark","Erin Klein"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["mrbrettclark@gmail.com","rinklein12@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":69,"ScheduleLocationID":13,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"We were going to lead this conversation last year but I had to leave due to a family emergency. We would prefer the conversation be scheduled for Sunday, if possible.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":591,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446423005,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Why the Workshop School Works","Handle":"why_the_workshop_school_works","ShortDescription":"The Workshop School takes a unique approach to education by focusing on project-based learning, real world application, and compassion for students. In this conversation, students in their second year at The Workshop School explore why this approach works.","Description":"Having one year at the Workshop School under their belt, sophomore students Keyshawn Stran, Baijeen Compton, Dashawn Fisher, and Ibn Barnett look over some of the things that have become a part of their identity as learners and citizens. Through leading participants through a selection of the activities that have made The Workshop School so impactful, these student will facilitate a discussion on WHY these activities reflect the direction that schools should be heading, how these activities reflect the philosophies about education that students have embraced, and what it would look like for more schools to adopt similar activities.","Link":["http:\/\/www.workshopschool.org"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"While the conversation will focus on some of the activities done at The Workshop School, the goal will be for the group to design some extension activities as well as adaptations that could be utilized at ALL schools regardless of demographics. Another potential step is for conversation participants to create a website to warehouse the various iterations of the activities discussed.","Presenter":["Keyshawn Stran","Baijeen Compton","Dayshawn Fisher","Ibn Barnett","Brandon Miller"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Workshop School"],"PresenterEmail":["keyshawn.stran@workshopschool.org","brandon.miller@workshopschool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":69,"ScheduleLocationID":16,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":5,"ScheduleSlotID":69},"total":14,"limit":false,"offset":false}