{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":489,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1415124220,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Visual Narrative for Teachers","Handle":"visual_narrative_for_teachers","ShortDescription":"In this three-hour intensive workshop, you will work with the students and faculty of SLA\u2019s Rough Cut Productions to learn the technical and artistic techniques of communicating through video. The skills you will learn will be valuable both in creating great video content to help your students learn, and mentoring your students to create compelling video projects across disciplines.","Description":"After a brief overview of some important filmmaking concepts, you will dive right into making your own short video. You will be teamed with one or more SLA advanced video students who will help advise you through conceptualizing, planning, filming, editing and presenting your short movie by the end of the workshop.\r\n\r\nYou can bring any device capable of taking video to work with - smart phone, tablet, point and shoot camera, D-SLR, or dedicated video camera - creating compelling narratives on film is about technique not equipment. We will help you get the most out of any device you have to work with. Video equipment that our full-time film students use daily will also be available upon request.\r\n\r\n[Registration required](http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/visualnarrative2015)","Link":["http:\/\/www.roughcutschools.org"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"This workshop is FREE, and will be held Friday morning from 9am - noon, after which you can spend the afternoon visiting classes at SLA. Although the workshop is available at no extra registration cost, you must sign up in advance. \r\n\r\nThere is a limit of 30 participants in this workshop.\r\n\r\n*This workshop will essentially be the same as last year's offering. We had an extensive wait list in '14 and wanted to accommodate those who missed out. If you already participated please give someone else the opportunity. For all that were with us previously, we'll be back with a new offering in '16.","Presenter":["Douglas Herman","Josh Weisgrau"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Rough Cut Schools","Science Leadership and Friends Central"],"PresenterEmail":["doug@roughcutschools.org","josh@roughcutschools.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":null,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":79,"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":449,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1414775092,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Gamification - A scaffold for instructional design and mastery learning","Handle":"gamification_-_a_scaffold_for_instructional_design_and_mastery_learning","ShortDescription":"Gamification applies elements of game design, specifically video games, as a model for instructional scaffolding. This conversation will explore how gamification can be leveraged to create an instructional cycle that supports challenge-based inquiry, differentiation, and cooperative interdependence, as learners \"play\" through quests to unlock \"powers\" for greater learner autonomy.","Description":"In this conversation we will explore a successful classroom gamification framework, and consider ways it could be scaled to be systemic across a school, as well as leveraged for teacher PD.\r\nLike compelling video games, a gamified classroom engages learners with achievable, incremental challenges, designed to build skills and knowledge necessary for meeting more sophisticated challenges as learners move from one level to the next.  A \u201cGamified\u201d class uses a mastery system and so failure is encouraged. Failure (making mistakes) is valued as a legitimate technique for practice and feedback provides learners with cues, hints, and partial solutions to keep them progressing and motivated, as well as acknowledgement of incremental goal progress. If students fail a quiz, lab, or assignment challenge, they may repeat it until they have mastered the skill.  This in turn creates a system that is leveled, allowing for differentiation and students to progress at a personal pace. Google Apps and your learning management system can be leveraged to build a gamified scaffolding that support an inquiry learning cycle, differentiation, learner independence, and collaboration.","Link":["http:\/\/prezi.com\/hzqbzhjmcuyl\/gamification\/"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"Participants will experience gamified strategies as they explore the topic and model, generating questions and solutions to the challenge of bringing ramification to scale","Presenter":["Philip Vinogradov"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Upper Dublin School District"],"PresenterEmail":["pvino1@mac.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":45,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"This presentation was well received last year and resulted in substantial refinement of the model through the conversation.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4},{"ID":441,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1414690764,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"I abandoned my grading policy and you won\u2019t believe what happened next: Mastery Tracking 101","Handle":"i_abandoned_my_grading_policy_and_you_won-t_believe_what_happened_next--mastery_tracking_101","ShortDescription":"What does a student\u2019s grade actually mean?  Join a conversation led by NYC iSchool students and their teacher to learn how mastery-based learning and tracking can give students, families and teachers a genuine understanding of student knowledge.  Find out what it\u2019s like to really know what your students know while empowering students to take real ownership of their learning and walk away with plans (both big and small) to incorporate mastery tracking into your classroom.","Description":"What would it look like if students actually knew, in detail, what they understood and what they needed to work on?  If teachers were able to accurately identify, in detail, plans to help support each individual student and if this data helped drive instruction?  If a \u201cB\u201d grade had genuine meaning?  Students produce massive amounts of data in all of their classes and since teachers have 21st century technology to track and analyze it, why are we still handing out 20th century grades?  Mastery-Based Learning means breaking down a class into smaller, trackable topics and then tracking student progress on each topic.  It\u2019s about seeing mastery as the most important goal, and providing students with ample opportunities to show what they know.  During this conversation, an expert teacher in mastery tracking and her students will discuss the value in leaving behind traditional grading systems in order to create a differentiated, individualized experience for all students.  See how one innovative teacher tracks student data, sees what students understand and what they don\u2019t and then uses that data to plan future lessons, and accurately predict assessment results.  Participants will then leave with tangible ways to incorporate mastery based learning and tracking in to their own classrooms.","Link":["http:\/\/ischoolpolymath.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"In this conversation, educators will discuss their current grading policies (both the policies in their school and the ones in their classroom) and will gain a better understanding of the iSchool\u2019s grading policy and mastery tracking system from the teachers and students who use them.  For the second half of the conversation, participants will work through steps to help them set up their own mastery based learning unit.  Participants will leave with a fully planned mastery-based unit to try in their own classroom!","Presenter":["Sarah Prendergast","Michelle Leimsider","Lesly Lantigua","Tajanea Woodroffe","and Lissa Sangree-Calabrese"],"PresenterAffiliation":["NYC iSchool"],"PresenterEmail":["mleimsider@nycischool.org","sprendergast@nycischool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":46,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4},{"ID":479,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1415122337,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Empowering Critical Relationships with Media","Handle":"empowering_critical_relationships_with_media-2","ShortDescription":"The American Academy of Pediatrics recently acknowledged a distinction between \u201centertainment\u201d screen time which should be limited, and educational and \"active\" screen time that can be beneficial. So how do we tell the difference? and how do both impact thoughtful consumption and critical creation of new media?","Description":"There is a place and means in every grade and subject area to help students become more thoughtful consumers and creators of media. Rather than focus on the inherent content of specific media itself, this conversation will leverage the collective wisdom and varied experiences of attendees to help us all better define empowering media experiences for our students.","Link":["http:\/\/www.roughcutschools.org"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"This conversation will be guided by Josh Weisgrau and Douglas Herman of Rough Cut Schools, as well as current and former SLA students who have made the critical leap from consumers to creators of media.\r\n\r\nRough Cut Schools aims to inspire critical and creative approaches to consuming and creating media for all students that will lead to an empowered relationship with media in an overwhelmingly mediated society.","Presenter":["Douglas Herman and Josh Weisgrau"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Rough Cut Schools","Science Leadership and Friends Central"],"PresenterEmail":["doug@roughcutschools.org","josh@roughcutschools.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":51,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4},{"ID":448,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1414771270,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Teaching students to operate in an open learning environment without telling them how","Handle":"teaching_students_to_operate_in_an_open_learning_environment_without_telling_them_how.","ShortDescription":"One suburban Colorado neighborhood school pushes the boundaries of transformative educational. Here we outline our challenge and attempt to answer three questions: Why? Why is this challenge a worthy endeavor? What? What are the obstacles in a traditional neighborhood public school? How? How are these obstacles overcome?","Description":"As educators begin to take over true reform efforts in this country, we become saddled by state mandates, district priorities, school perceptions, compliant students and concerned parents. We all want the same outcome: the best educated students ready to embrace their roles as true, successful member of their communities with a clear direction for their personal path to success. The question remains \u201cHow can this be done in a traditional neighborhood public school?\" \r\n\r\nAs teachers in The Mosaic Collective, we challenged ourselves to achieve just that. 11 teachers, 1 administrator and more than 100 self-selected students embarked on an educational journey to ditch the pre-packaged education and begin to create one of their own.\r\nMosaic is a place in which students have the flexibility to explore their own interests in a personalized learning environment. We encourage them to discover and pursue their own passions, take risks, think critically, and create meaningful connections between subject matter and the world around them, organized through co-designing projects or addressing community\/societal issues alongside the teachers. \r\n\r\nThis idea often conflicts with the \u201cneeds\u201d of a school - obedience, order, structure and standardization. While we implemented this program in the fall of 2014, we struggle with day-to-day obstacles, parental confusion and fear and a general disdain from many of our fellow professionals. We aim for continual evolution and a systematic method for sharing and assisting others as they begin to transform their space to fit their local community.","Link":["http:\/\/www.cvmosaic.org\/","http:\/\/preciseuncertainty.com"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"II. Introduction\r\n1. Challenge: Alternative approach to structure: how do we teach students how to operate without telling them how to do it.\r\n2. Introduction of discussion protocol, goals and steps.\r\n3. Outline a Challenge or Success\r\nWe outline our challenge.  We answer three questions: Why? Why is this challenge a worthy endeavor? What? What are the obstacles in a traditional neighborhood public school? How? How do we overcome these obstacles? \r\nII. Split whole group into groups of 3 to 6.\r\n1. Use a Twitter # to backchannel and curate group discussions.\r\nIn Rounds\r\n2. Presenters  share what they\u2019ve discussed. \r\n3. Whole group asks 2 to 3 clarifying or critical questions.\r\n4. Individuals talk among themselves, while the facilitator listens into the conversation, taking notes and pondering further steps.  Reflection by the presenter to the group \r\nRepeat for each small group. \r\nIII. Debrief and Now What\r\nGuiding question examples:\r\nWhat do you think you will remember or retain in other ways after the experience?\r\nCan you explain why this might be so?\r\nWhat will you probably verbally share with or demonstrate to others as you return to your school\/work?\r\nWould you make any personal changes in how you will contribute to true educational reform in the future?\r\nWhat are some things you appreciate about this conversation?\r\nWhere does Mosaic Collective go from here? How might we support others as they pursue reform at their own schools?","Presenter":["Michael Schneider","Shaun Martin","and Ryan McClintock"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Mosaic Collective","Douglas County School District"],"PresenterEmail":["michael.schneider@dcsdk12.org","shaun.martin@dcsdk12.org","ryan.mcclintock@dcsdk12.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":54,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Link to most recent district work highlighting The Mosaic Collective: https:\/\/www.dcsdk12.org\/teachers-build-mosaic-to-empower-students\r\n\r\nWe were prompted by Will Richardson to propose this conversation.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":4,"ScheduleLocationID":8},"total":6,"limit":false,"offset":false}