{"success":true,"data":[{"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},{"ID":405,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1411269522,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Code this!","Handle":"code_this","ShortDescription":"This is an inquiry-based, collaborative, and interdisciplinary design challenge allowing students in math and history to do research, analyze data, and present their information using coding and other formats such as infographics.","Description":"What\u2019s the big talk about coding? Can coding be used in humanities classes? This workshop will engage participants in a discussion on coding and interdisciplinary projects. We will look at interdisciplinary projects done between history, math, and science classes. Participants will work on similar projects in groups, using coding to visualize their research. Participants will also discuss and share suggestions about our projects and brainstorm ideas to implement in their daily teaching.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"We plan on sharing project ideas and the different processes, and we will have participants code data and take useful tips to implement brainstorming and coding tools in their classrooms. Participants will realize how coding can be a useful tool to present data and allow for interdisciplinary work.","Presenter":["Kader Adjout","Joe Christy"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Beaver Country Day School"],"PresenterEmail":["kadjout@bcdschool.org","jchristy@bcdschool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":45,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"We are looking forward to presenting our projects and collaborating with the participants.\r\nThank you.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4},{"ID":412,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1412013646,"CreatorID":1295,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Grades are stupid: Let\u2019s promote and assess the process of learning, not just products.","Handle":"grades_are_stupid--let-s_promote_and_assess_the_process_of_learning-not_just_products.","ShortDescription":"Emerging technologies, current research, and innovative pedagogies have supported the ways that students learn and demonstrate what they understand. Unfortunately, the archaic practices of grades and grading still dominate assessment conversations, even though assessment is much more than a static number or letter. Students now make their thinking visible more easily, and it is up to educators to recognize and harness the value in new approaches to assessment.","Description":"Emerging technologies, current research, and innovative pedagogies have supported the ways that students learn and demonstrate what they understand. Unfortunately, the archaic practices of grades and grading still dominate assessment conversations, even though assessment is much more than a static number or letter. Students now make their thinking visible more easily, and it is up to educators to recognize and harness the value in new approaches to assessment.\r\n\r\nThe purpose of this conversation is to help either reframe or augment thinking about grades and the purpose and meaning of assessment. We will engage some design and feedback activities around goal articulation and formative assessment approaches using multimedia. We will learn and discuss research, tools, and pedagogies that support creative, process-based demonstrations of understanding and the many ways that these processes can be captured for future reflection and growth.","Link":["http:\/\/www.constructivisttoolkit.com","http:\/\/www.explaineverything.com","http:\/\/www.leadingonline.net","http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/reshanrichards"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"A nice way to engage this topic is to understand the perspectives of all of the agents involved in learning. So we will be students, who will create artifacts of understanding. We will be teachers who review and provide feedback to students. We will be parents who access these artifacts first without the context provided by students and teachers and then with it. And finally, we will be the leaders of learning who look at the entire collection of artifacts and try to understand what bigger story is told about the curriculum, about the teacher, about the students, and about the school.","Presenter":["Reshan Richards"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Montclair Kimberley Academy","Constructivist Toolkit","Leading Online","Explain Everything"],"PresenterEmail":["reshanrichards@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":46,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":1295,"AdditionalComments":"This would be my 3rd straight year of presenting at Educon if accepted. I love everything about this conference - the people , the structure, and the messaging. I think my last two years\u2019 sessions have had really good responses, so I hope to continue that and add to the experience of all those participating.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4},{"ID":475,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1414914033,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Savvy Online Student","Handle":"the_savvy_online_student","ShortDescription":"Learn methods to prepare savvy online students in your online classes and programs. This session demonstrate effective methods (and metrics) for ensuring students are ready for their online learning experience.","Description":"How can faculty ensure that students are more likely to succeed in their online classes and have a more rewarding teaching experience? In this session, we will show how NYU prepares students for online classes, and then model how seasoned instructors follow up in their individual classes to support the student learning experience. \r\n\r\nStudents will get more out of your online learning experience if they learn about how to learn online. Your school should offer an orientation to being an online student. It's more than learning which buttons to press. It's about students being at the center of many learning activities. Participants in this session will gain ideas for a range of online student orientation activities, from getting beyond the text-based \"introduce yourself\" to a model for what we call week zero, activities that immerse students in the practice of online learning before class begins. \r\n\r\nGoals \r\n\r\nParticipants will be able to\r\n\r\n* Create new activities to introduce their students to their online classes \r\n* Help program administrators develop a model student orientation program\r\n* Describe methods for engaging new and seasoned online learners in orientation courses \r\n* Adapt the materials presented in the workshop for their own use","Link":["http:\/\/savvyonlinestudent.blogspot.ae","http:\/\/bit.ly\/educonsavvy"],"Audience":["High School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"* Model range of interaction activities\r\n* Questions and Answers from the audience \r\n* Live twitter feed comments & questions\r\n\r\nMaterials to be made available:\r\n\r\n* Presentation \r\n* Sample, adaptable lesson \r\n* One page summary of best practices for student orientation programs","Presenter":["Ted Bongiovanni"],"PresenterAffiliation":["New York University","Abu Dhabi"],"PresenterEmail":["tb317@nyu.edu"],"ScheduleSlotID":51,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4},{"ID":455,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1414814177,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Working from Color Blind to Color Conscious","Handle":"working_from_color_blind_to_color_conscious","ShortDescription":"By modeling activities from the University of Texas' Principalship Program, with it\u2019s anti-racist leadership and social justice focus, attendees will work to unpack previously unexplored assumptions and will walk away with tools to share with others.","Description":"How do you get (predominantly white) educators to 'see' color? To be able to hold productive conversations around race? Quality conversations are rare in nearly all schools across the country. Too often talks about race are derailed due to poor execution and\/or planning, failing to understand the complex dynamics involved in such discussions. This conversation will help provide participants with the tools needed to begin this much needed dialogue.","Link":["http:\/\/www.adamholman.org","http:\/\/www.edcampATX.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"All participants and attendees will be encouraged to bring an activity, an article, a blog post, a video, etc. to share; that they've found helpful in raising their level of color consciousness. All ideas shared will be collected on a Padlet or similar level platform for curation. Newcomers are strongly encouraged to attend, even if they don\u2019t feel confident sharing, as this conversation is meant to help give all educators some practical tools and conversation starters to bring back to their campus or district.","Presenter":["Adam Holman","Stephanie Cerda"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Austin ISD","Manor ISD"],"PresenterEmail":["agholm@gmail.com","isis.s.cerda@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":53,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4},{"ID":417,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1412871746,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"moncler kids jacket","Handle":"create_something_great","ShortDescription":"