{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":491,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1415135769,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Authentic Learning in the Digital Age... LIVE","Handle":"authentic_learning_in_the_digital_age..._live","ShortDescription":"This session will bring the content of the title book to life by sharing the real-life practices and lessons of SLA students and teachers who use the book's framework every day.","Description":"This session will bring the content of the title book to life by sharing the real-life practices and lessons of SLA students and teachers who use the book's framework every day. You don't have to have read the book to benefit from the session -- people brand-new to SLA's model of teaching and learning are welcome, as well as return visitors who are interested in the nuts and bolts of how to potentially adopt our model to your learning environment.","Link":["http:\/\/lpahomov.wordpress.com"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"After introducing participants to the basics of the model, the session will allow attendees to rotate through smaller-group discussions on the five core values, receiving guidance and tips from both teachers and students based on their specific learning environments. The session will serve as one extended brainstorm to help participants bridge the gap between SLA's version of the model and their own.","Presenter":["Larissa Pahomov"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA"],"PresenterEmail":["lpahomov@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":43,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"please let me know if this needs any tweaking \/ overlaps with other folks \/ etc.\r\n\r\nI will grab some additional teachers to be a part of this.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4},{"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},{"ID":461,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1414880433,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Closing the Gender Gap in Innovation: Engaging Girls in STEM","Handle":"closing_the_gender_gap_in_innovation--engaging_girls_in_stem","ShortDescription":"This conversation will focus on how to empower young women to enroll and succeed in STEM based courses. Here from a panel of four innovative young women enrolled in Burlington High School's Student Technology Innovation and Integration course. Learn about their programs best practices and leave with student generated ideas on how to increase enrollment among young women in the STEM courses offered at your own school.","Description":"Currently, there is a shortage of women pursuing STEM based degree programs, resulting in a shortage of women in STEM based careers. It is crucial that educators find ways to empower and nurture the young women of today and provide them with skills, knowledge, and confidence to be the great thinkers, makers, and creators of tomorrow. Join Instructional Technology Specialist Jennifer L. Scheffer and four of her female students for a critical conversation about how we can close the innovation gender gap and engage young women in STEM related courses. Under Jennifer's leadership, she has been able to bring four exceptionally talented women into the Student Technology Innovation and Integration course at Burlington. She plans to continue to recruit, inspire, and develop female STEM leaders. Her passionate and \"grit driven, learn by failing and doing\" approach has resonated with girls and the results have exceeded her expectations. There are still many challenges ahead in closing the gender gap, but a frank conversation about the realities of girls in STEM and what we can do to get them on a level playing field with their male counterparts is an essential first step. Jennifer will share curriculum best practices, but more importantly, she will share the voices of her female students. Each young lady, all high school seniors, will explain her reasons for joining the Technology Innovation course as well as her intended career goals. They will discuss the obstacles for girls in STEM and offer strategies for helping girls realize STEM is a viable and exciting potential career path.","Link":["http:\/\/bhshelpdesk.com","http:\/\/catastrophicblog.wordpress.com","https:\/\/johnson0helpdesk.wordpress.com","http:\/\/miramehdi.wordpress.com","https:\/\/brainyobrien.wordpress.com"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"While we do plan to bring a presentation of slides, the purpose of the slides will be to share student work exemplars as well as resources for session attendees. We plan to design this conversation as a spontaneous and interactive discussion. We will provide a platform to exchange ideas, ask questions of the student panelists, and will curate all that is shared using a Google Doc or a similar tool. We would also like to give participants the opportunity to actually SEE the innovative work student panelists have done through live demonstrations. This may include demonstrating an augmented reality experience or a live Google Hangout On Air. The ultimate goal is to share as much student voice as possible, as that will be the most powerful.","Presenter":["Jennifer L Scheffer","Mira Mehdi","Cat Hoyt","Kristin Johnson","Kelsey O'Brien"],"PresenterAffiliation":["ISTE- Digital Citizenship PLN","Mass CUE"],"PresenterEmail":["jscheffer@bpsk12.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":43,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Burlington High School is entering its fourth year as a 1:1 Apple Distinguished,  Google Apps for Education learning environment. Our Help Desk program serves as a model,for student run tech teams across the globe. Our blog has 125,000 view and counting.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4},{"ID":446,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1414767313,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Digital Portfolios for Student Reflection","Handle":"digital_portfolios_for_student_reflection","ShortDescription":"A Digital Portfolio (Pilot) Discussion: why would students maintain a reflective portfolio, how would this work, how would we convince others to join in?","Description":"When schools go 1:1, what is the purpose of all that tech? As we\u2019ve considered that question at the Shipley School, we\u2019ve decided that one way to use tech transformatively is to have students create and maintain digital portfolios as a place to think metacognitively about their learning. We will share our experience of planning and piloting a program that will ultimately become a school wide practice. Participants will be invited to share individual experiences with portfolios and\/or student reflection as we build not only a case for this level of ongoing reflection but collect ideas and resources while building a community of educators with whom to collaborate well after EduCon.","Link":["http:\/\/thoughtsfromschool.wordpress.com","http:\/\/betny.blogspot.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Begin with collecting ideas on a Padlet or other bulletin board tool:\r\nWhat are you most interested in talking about in regards to portfolios?\r\n\r\nDepending on the responses (how-to, why self-reflection, how to convince others) conversation will go accordingly.\r\n\r\nWe will have a skeleton google site or wiki with basics on all topics above and then build the relevant section as we go.\r\n\r\nWhichever topic(s) are addressed, we will include collecting our own contact information and experiences so that we can continue to support each other after EduCon. This will be a significant take-away for the group as many who do this type of work feel somewhat alone in their buildings or schools.","Presenter":["Wendy Eiteljorg","Bethany Silva"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Shipley School","University of Pennsylvania"],"PresenterEmail":["weiteljorg@shipleyschool.org","bsilva@shipleyscool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":43,"ScheduleLocationID":4,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4},{"ID":508,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1421197708,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Engaging Students in the College Application Process","Handle":"engaging_students_in_the_college_application_process","ShortDescription":"High school students often feel the pressure of not just getting into a college, but getting into the best college.  With so many colleges to choose from, and technology making it easier to apply, the number of students' college applications continue to rise.  High school counselors are increasingly challenged to help students access and sort through an influx of information in order to successfully complete the steps to college entry.\r\n \r\nHigh school counselors Karina Hirschfield from Science Leadership Academy and Tatiana Olmedo from Central High School recognize the value of engaging peer leaders in the college application process. Peers have a significant influence in decisions, behaviors and attitudes in youth.  In the college process, peers can positively impact student outcomes. Ms. Hirschfield and Ms. Olmedo will share how they promote student leadership, foster a college-going culture, and widen college access opportunities for all students through their College Access Leaders (CAL) program.\r\n \r\nCAL students will also share their leadership experience and highlight the benefits and challenges they have come across while helping their peers navigate the college process. Lastly, intern, Olivia Antosiewicz, from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education will share her direct work in training the CAL students.","Description":"High school students often feel the pressure of not just getting into a college, but getting into the best college.  With so many colleges to choose from, and technology making it easier to apply, the number of students' college applications continue to rise.  High school counselors are increasingly challenged to help students access and sort through an influx of information in order to successfully complete the steps to college entry.\r\n \r\nHigh school counselors Karina Hirschfield from Science Leadership Academy and Tatiana Olmedo from Central High School recognize the value of engaging peer leaders in the college application process. Peers have a significant influence in decisions, behaviors and attitudes in youth.  In the college process, peers can positively impact student outcomes. Ms. Hirschfield and Ms. Olmedo will share how they promote student leadership, foster a college-going culture, and widen college access opportunities for all students through their College Access Leaders (CAL) program.\r\n \r\nCAL students will also share their leadership experience and highlight the benefits and challenges they have come across while helping their peers navigate the college process. Lastly, intern, Olivia Antosiewicz, from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education will share her direct work in training the CAL students.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"High school students often feel the pressure of not just getting into a college, but getting into the best college.  With so many colleges to choose from, and technology making it easier to apply, the number of students' college applications continue to rise.  High school counselors are increasingly challenged to help students access and sort through an influx of information in order to successfully complete the steps to college entry.\r\n \r\nHigh school counselors Karina Hirschfield from Science Leadership Academy and Tatiana Olmedo from Central High School recognize the value of engaging peer leaders in the college application process. Peers have a significant influence in decisions, behaviors and attitudes in youth.  In the college process, peers can positively impact student outcomes. Ms. Hirschfield and Ms. Olmedo will share how they promote student leadership, foster a college-going culture, and widen college access opportunities for all students through their College Access Leaders (CAL) program.\r\n \r\nCAL students will also share their leadership experience and highlight the benefits and challenges they have come across while helping their peers navigate the college process. Lastly, intern, Olivia Antosiewicz, from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education will share her direct work in training the CAL students.","Presenter":["Karina Hirschfield"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["khirschfield@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":43,"ScheduleLocationID":11,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4},{"ID":463,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1414885705,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Fostering Creativity and Innovation Across a K-12 Continuum","Handle":"fostering_creativity_and_innovation_across_a_k-12_continuum","ShortDescription":"Many schools have creative pockets, a class here or there where some truly innovative things happen. But what does this look like school-wide? In this conversation, we'll examine what happens when student-centered problem solving, injury, and creativity are at the heart of every grade from preK to 12.","Description":"If folks like Sir Ken Robinson are right that education goes downhill after Kindergarten, how do we make sure that our schools are places where our students never lose sight of the power of asking why, of taking risks, and thinking up crazy ideas? And for K-12 schools, how do we make sure that innovative practice runs throughout the divisions that might serve to separate methods teaching and learning instead of providing a true continuum in which every year builds on what came before it?\r\n\r\nIn this conversation, participants will hear how one school uses its preschool-12 continuum to weave inquiry, creativity, and innovation throughout four divisions with students aged 3 through 18. If possible, participants will also hear from students of various age groups discuss what learning looks like on a day-to-day basis. Finally, participants will talk through practices at their own schools and create best practice that helps students of all ages learn in ways that challenge and engage them while building a school culture that makes inquiry and creativity a self-sustaining guiding principle.","Link":["http:\/\/anotherthinkcoming.org"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will model some visible thinking exercises where participants actively discuss their thinking, and, if possible, we will use a Google Hangout to bring students into the conversation. Best practice examples will be documented on a wiki that will be shared with the Educon community.","Presenter":["Basil Kolani"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Dwight School"],"PresenterEmail":["basilkolani@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":43,"ScheduleLocationID":5,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4},{"ID":476,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1414944859,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Get things moving: Theory into action steps","Handle":"get_things_moving--theory_into_action_steps","ShortDescription":"Death by committee! Sound familiar? Discussions on 'change' can go on in schools cyclically often with little or no movement. Creating dynamic shifts at little or no cost is possible. Explore best practices from innovators worldwide and with peers for advisory, school schedule, professional development, capstone \/ internship opportunities, project choice \/ interdisciplinary projects, and even school lunch!","Description":"Schools are often cultures of 'add.' Initiatives pile on, one after another until people reach the breaking point and the core mission and values begin to drift. 'Time in schools' can be reclaimed to unlock innovation and even, yes, promote civility! I've traveled 54 schools in seven countries, and conducted over 500 interviews exploring innovation in education. What are the trade secrets at these places? What small shifts have they made to unlock innovation and creativity? It's easier than you might think, and changes often comes at little or no cost. We'll explore potential shifts in school schedule, advisory, professional development, capstone \/ internship opportunities, project choice \/ interdisciplinary projects, and even food with peers and view innovative approaches from around the globe. Come with questions and frustrations, leave with potential solutions, contacts, and mentors who've traveled these paths.","Link":["http:\/\/creativestir.blogspot.com\/2015\/01\/getting-things-moving-educon-2015_23.html"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School"],"Practice":"A short presentation to start, followed by a discussion rounds on our topics: Advisory, school schedule, PD, capstone \/ internships, project choice \/ interdisciplinary projects, and school lunch. Participants will work on a paper and shared docs. ID topic and problem, explore frustrations (less bitching, more action), see and discuss best practice challenges, and pursue solutions together can bring back to their schools. Leave with best practices, peer contacts, and mentor contacts to get things moving at your school.","Presenter":["Adam Provost"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Burlington School District and Partnership for Change in Burlington","VT"],"PresenterEmail":["adamProvost44@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":43,"ScheduleLocationID":16,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"I'd only need a projector to get things started for a few minutes.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4},{"ID":483,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1415122923,"CreatorID":1749,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Getting Traction: Where can we make the most difference and how?","Handle":"getting_traction--where_can_we_make_the_most_difference_and_how","ShortDescription":"This session is about regaining some of the momentum that we had at the beginning of the year and an attempt to bring our teaching lives under control in an effort to be more productive.","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, teachers are maxed out in what they can do because there are too many things pulling us in various directions. So much so that it can feel at times as if nothing is getting done and we are simply treading water. 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.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This is a workshop where educators will work with colleagues to take at least one dormant idea that they had coming into the year and resurrect it for the spring. This process will utilize small groups as the basis of the session.","Presenter":["Matthew C. Baird"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["mbaird@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":43,"ScheduleLocationID":12,"SubmitterID":1749,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4},{"ID":458,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1414872285,"CreatorID":2243,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Mentoring Passion","Handle":"mentoring_passion","ShortDescription":"Building mentorship relationships into passion-driven inquiry projects empowers learners of all grades and levels. Learn how an elementary librarian and a high school English teacher connected their student learners, establishing mentors for the inquiry process.","Description":"Passion inspires, it connects, and it empowers learners. This session will focus on how building choice, connections, and mentors into inquiry-based writing assignments can foster student reflection and ownership of learning. As elementary students engaged in passion-based inquiry projects, they connected with high school students completing a similar research project, forging a mentorship connection. Students collaborated to share their research and reflections. In addition to the upper level students mentoring their younger partners, the high school students sought mentor relationships with experts in their field of inquiry, passing that knowledge on to their elementary partners. Students learned with and from one another. Mentors matter.\r\n\r\nParticipants in this session will have an opportunity to see how collaborative 2.0 tools helped both elementary and high school students share their research with real audiences beyond the walls of their classroom. Building in opportunities for students to discover their own mentors and models for writing, connect with experts outside of the classroom, and make choices on how to best share their discoveries empowers students to engage in their written work with a more critical and reflective focus. When students have both purpose and audience for their writing endeavors, magic happens!","Link":["http:\/\/bit.ly\/MentoringPassion","http:\/\/about.me\/jenniferward","http:\/\/christinabrennan.wordpress.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Educators will meet in small groups to reflect on how mentorship connections can be built into existing inquiry-based and\/or research projects. Small groups will collaborate to design lesson materials and research possible connections and partners. As groups craft their lesson materials, session participants will work with students and teachers who have previously participated in building mentorship opportunities into student inquiry projects. The session will feature its own mentorship opportunities! Session participants will share their materials via digital tools which will allow for participants to return to session materials well beyond EduCon.","Presenter":["Jennifer Ward","Christina Brennan"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Haverford Township School District"],"PresenterEmail":["ms.jen.ward@gmail.com","christina.m.brennan@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":43,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":2243,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4},{"ID":464,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1414891971,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"NYC Expanded Success Initiative -Design Thinking in Service of Students","Handle":"nyc_expanded_success_initiative_-design_thinking_in_service_of_students","ShortDescription":"The NYC Expanded Success Initiative Fellows utilized design thinking to construct a school model to address the disparities facing Black and Latino young men. In this conversation, participants will engage in co-creation as we explore some of the challenges faced in the design phase and execution of the school model.","Description":"The Expanded Success Initiative (ESI) uses new ideas and creative solutions to tackle the educational achievement gap and increase the number of Black and Latino young men who graduate high school prepared to succeed in college and careers. As part of that comprehensive effort, ESI works and conducts research in 40 public high schools that have shown promise in reversing this trend; develop and launch new high schools specifically designed to fully prepare Black and Latino young men for success in college and careers; and scale-up college advising training city-wide with the goal of reach all high schools over the next two years.\r\n\r\nAs part of the new school design work, the ESI Fellows, a cross-functional team of professionals with experience from a range of fields, were intentionally pulled together with the belief that the challenge of increasing college and career readiness for Black and Latino youth required a wide range of strategies and solutions from a diverse array of fields and disciplines.The Fellows utilized a design thinking process as they collaborated with a cadre of Student Fellows to construct a school model destined to address the disparities facing our children. This model is now represented in three new high schools in Brooklyn and Queens. \r\n\r\nIn this conversation, participants will engage in design thinking work as we explore some of the challenges faced in the creation phase and the execution of the school model.","Link":["http:\/\/epicschoolsnyc.org","http:\/\/schools.nyc.gov\/Offices\/ESI\/"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"Participants will utilize a design thinking process to explore some of the real challenges faced by school designers and leaders who recently opened three innovative schools in NYC. This interactive work will be paired with the telling of the story of the Expanded Success Initiative and its mission. Participants will engage in brainstorming, a How Might We protocol, and prototyping and revision work around challenges related to student-centered school design. A debriefing session will allow for discussion tailored to the needs of the participants.","Presenter":["John Duval","Darius Mensah","Brandon Corley","John Clemente"],"PresenterAffiliation":["NYC Expanded Success Initiative"],"PresenterEmail":["dariusmensah@epicschoolsnyc.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":43,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4},{"ID":413,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1412687609,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Rethinking the Purpose, Process and Promise of Professional Learning","Handle":"rethinking_the_purpose-process_and_promise_of_professional_learning","ShortDescription":"Do we really need \"PD\" anymore?  In a world where content and connections are limitless, why do we need to put restraints on professional learning?  What if the only PD course a school ever offered was:  How to Learn Something When You Need to Learn Something?  In this conversation, challenge yourself to begin rethinking what professional learning means, how organizations can support more diverse and contemporary models of learning, and how schools can build a culture of sustainable professional learning.","Description":"Professional development in schools is intended to support the growth and improvement of learning organizations.  There are traditional practices associated with \"PD\" such as inservice days, invited speakers, and school-based workshops that are defined and scheduled for educators.  Too often these events are less than effective, and the entire practice of professional development is often seen by educators as ineffective and something done to them.  The result of such practice is a well-defined cultural mindset in education that learning opportunities for teachers are created for them, that teachers need \"training\" provided for them, and that educators are not necessary in control of their own learning.  This mindset exists at a time when learning opportunities are limitless, and that anyone can learn almost anything and at a time and place of their choosing.  We seek to challenge educators to rethink the language and boundaries associated with professional development, and initiate a reflective process that encourages participants to start to shift their mindset towards a new vision for adult learning in schools.","Link":["http:\/\/goo.gl\/6F7HGh"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"The center of this conversation focuses on challenging participants to rethink their perceptions of how schools, as learning institutions, support adult learning.  The conversation will present five provocations for consideration and discussion.  Participants will be challenged to balance their current beliefs about professional development against new models of adult learning that utilize contemporary learning opportunities as a basis for organizational growth and development.","Presenter":["Kristen Swanson and David Jakes"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Senior Director of the Research Institute at BrightBytes (Swanson) and Digital Designer and Strategist for The Third Teacher+ and CannonDesign (Jakes)"],"PresenterEmail":["djakes@cannondesign.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":43,"ScheduleLocationID":13,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Please do not schedule late on Sunday.  Thanks.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4},{"ID":490,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1415128679,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Supporting Students with Special Needs in a Project-Based Curriculum","Handle":"supporting_students_with_special_needs_in_a_project-based_curriculum","ShortDescription":"In this conversation we will discuss the importance of school wide systems and structures needed to support students with special needs in a fully inclusive, project based curriculum.","Description":"How do we support students with special needs in a project-based curriculum?","Link":["https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1nk1RthN9CcoxQ2hacX1LixbsQYdwbfhJAdHW3ROKXVo\/edit?usp=sharing"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"Sharing Best Practices","Presenter":["Beth Menasion","Michael Ames"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA"],"PresenterEmail":["bmenasion@scienceleadership.org","mames@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":43,"ScheduleLocationID":14,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4},{"ID":420,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1413177870,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The F-Word: Why Our Kids Need Feminism, and How You Can Teach It","Handle":"the_f-word--why_our_kids_need_feminism-and_how_you_can_teach_it","ShortDescription":"Our kids are touched by gender stereotypes every day. What are the explicit and implicit ways we communicate our own bias to our students? How can we instead work to end this cycle of oppression, which our students learn to perpetuate themselves? What's the place for feminism in our classrooms?","Description":"Three years ago, I wouldn't have felt comfortable facilitating a conversation about feminism. But prompted by my students in 2012, I launched a high school course that examines the experience of women in the United States and around the world across four themes - gender violence, trafficking and prostitution, women's health and education. In the process of leading that class, I learned that in not offering more courses like this across K-12, we are missing a critical opportunity to talk to our kids about gender discrimination and privilege.\r\n\r\nThese issues manifest for them in so many ways: our girls are called \"bossy\" when they demonstrate leadership, we say \"boys will be boys\" to excuse violence, our girls are tracked out of STEM fields by high school, and our boys learn that masculinity requires physical aggression. Gender inequality is also connected to homophobia, racism, unhealthy relationships, bullying and eating disorders, just to start.\r\n\r\nIt's critical that educators are able to discuss these issues with their students in explicit (via classroom instruction) and implicit ways (like using gender-neutral language; and calling out homophobia in ways that validates instead of shames the LGBTQ community).\r\n\r\nIt can be hard to know where to begin - so let's start here.","Link":["http:\/\/roomfourzerotwo.com\/global-feminism\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"In this conversation, educators will participate in a whole-group activity using Peggy McIntosh's \"Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack\" and will then join small reading groups based on an article of their choice. The articles will come from the readings I assign to my own students to help them establish their personal understanding of what feminism means to them. With the remaining 30-45 minutes, we will consider what this means for our classrooms via whole-group and small-group brainstorming. All ideas will be documented, and participants will leave with a substantial list of specific readings and resources that they can bring back to their classrooms.","Presenter":["Christina Jenkins"],"PresenterAffiliation":["REALM Charter School"],"PresenterEmail":["jenkins.christina@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":43,"ScheduleLocationID":15,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Thank you!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4},{"ID":453,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1414788841,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Those who CAN do\u2026Teach! Educators on Leading Change","Handle":"those_who_can_do-teach-educators_on_leading_change","ShortDescription":"This conversation is an opportunity to hear from those who have been supporting and providing the conditions for teachers to act as changemakers as well as \u2018changemaker makers\u2019.  We will discuss the conditions necessary for helping teachers see themselves as leaders of change in both their classrooms and school communities.","Description":"The world is changing faster than ever. Our success\u2014as individuals, institutions, and a society\u2014increasingly depends on our ability to be changemakers, equipped with the skills and mindset to see through problems to solutions. Ashoka is selecting and partnering with schools that are ready and able to help lead a transformation in education such that children grow up prepared to thrive in a world of accelerating change. Ashoka is collaborating with these leading schools to enhance and amplify their models and collectively identify and address the challenges to making such an education a reality for all children. By connecting Changemaker Schools with each other and the broader education network at EduCon, we will highlight their efforts and distill and broadcast their core strategies so to accelerate these schools\u2019 leadership in transforming education. During this session, educators (principals and teachers, or \u201cchange leaders\u201d) from the Ashoka U.S. Changemaker Schools Network will share their experiences in supporting teachers to create and sustain positive change. We will demonstrate concrete methods to effectively engage youth as changemakers and active participants on social justice issues and in their local communities. We will also help participants understand the framework change necessary to shift our education system to better prepare students for challenges in a world that increasingly demands leadership, empathy, teamwork and changemaking skills. Participants will learn why empathy is a critical and foundational skill for students across and beyond the curriculum and why having teachers who can model and embody it is absolutely crucial.","Link":["http:\/\/www.startempathy.org"],"Audience":["Elementary School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"Rotating fishbowl\u2014\r\n1.  Ashoka participants set up the chairs in a circle, so everyone sits in a large circle, presenters included.\r\n2.  After someone intro's Ashoka and explains the network, the presenters sit in a small circle of chairs in the middle of the large circle and respond to questions, similar to a fishbowl.  Each presenter first talks a bit about his\/her role\/experience\/perspective.\r\n3. The Ashoka facilitator throws out a few questions that the presenters respond to in order to begin the conversation.\r\n4. When a participant\/observer has a question\/contribution, s\/he comes up and taps a presenter on the shoulder to take his\/her place and switches seats with them, then asking his\/her question.  This process goes on for the entire session.\r\n5.  Many participants rotate through the inner circle with their questions and this keeps the flow of the conversation steady.","Presenter":["Daniel Baron","Donnan Stoicovy","Renee Owen","Jenn Moore"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Ashoka U.S. Changemaker Schools Network: The Project School","Park Forest Elementary School","Academy for Global Citizenship","Rainbow Community School"],"PresenterEmail":["jkatona@ashoka.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":43,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Thank you for the opportunity to apply!  We hope to see you in January!\r\n\r\nJoey Katona\r\nAshoka U.S.\r\n(on behalf of Daniel, Donnan, Renee, and Jenn)","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":4,"ScheduleSlotID":43},"total":14,"limit":false,"offset":false}