{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":504,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1420581229,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Approaching Authentic Assessments","Handle":"approaching_authentic_assessments","ShortDescription":"Project-based learning gives\r\nteachers the opportunity to bring learning closer to students' real\r\nlives. But how can we make sure the final projects we ask students\r\nto create both require them to use real-world skills and spark\r\ntheir curiosity, inquiry, and imaginations? Instead of asking\r\nstudents to make projects that approximate real-life for the\r\nfuture, how can we ask them to do meaningful assessments that\r\nmatter for real life today?","Description":"Project-based learning gives\r\nteachers the opportunity to bring learning closer to students' real\r\nlives. But how can we make sure the final projects we ask students\r\nto create both require them to use real-world skills and spark\r\ntheir curiosity, inquiry, and imaginations? Instead of asking\r\nstudents to make projects that approximate real-life for the\r\nfuture, how can we ask them to do meaningful assessments that\r\nmatter for real life today?","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Project-based learning gives\r\nteachers the opportunity to bring learning closer to students' real\r\nlives. But how can we make sure the final projects we ask students\r\nto create both require them to use real-world skills and spark\r\ntheir curiosity, inquiry, and imaginations? Instead of asking\r\nstudents to make projects that approximate real-life for the\r\nfuture, how can we ask them to do meaningful assessments that\r\nmatter for real life today?","Presenter":["Max Rosen-Long"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy @ Beeber"],"PresenterEmail":["mrosen-long@slabeeber.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":54,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4},{"ID":439,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1414620087,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Forget FBLA...We're Creating Social Entrepreneurs Today","Handle":"forget_fbla...we-re_creating_social_entrepreneurs_today","ShortDescription":"Our conversation will address the missing yet essential elements of most schools\u2019 curricular programs: innovation and social justice. We\u2019ll discuss how the two can be combined in a Social Entrepreneurs class in which students merge their own passions with a need in their community to develop a student-run business.","Description":"Our conversation will explore the journey students would take in a Social Entrepreneurs class, an authentic problem-based course. Students in the course will learn about themselves as members of an organization, about themselves as collaborators, and about their learning styles. This course is not theoretical; students will translate their ideas into a working business model beyond the classroom. Ultimately, students in this course will become part of an educated, ethical, and empathetic classroom community.\r\n\r\nParticipants in our conversation will follow the scope of the course by engaging in self-reflection and by identifying our passions. From there we will marry our passions with a social justice need in our communities. Next we will organize into functional teams and engage in early stages of the design thinking process such as research and empathy. We can fast-pace the simulation by plunging into the final element of the course and the latter components of design thinking as we iterate business plans for our student-run business.\r\n\r\nWe will conclude the conversation by discussing ways to bring this type of course into our schools, the challenges such a course presents, and the benefits of this type of offering for students.","Link":["http:\/\/www.mmreesescott.com","http:\/\/joeystarnes.blogspot.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will deliver surveys for the self-reflection and passion identification via Google Forms. From there we will capture participants\u2019 work via Google Docs or Padlet and will share our resources through a Smore page.","Presenter":["Melissa Scott","Joey Starnes","Shannan Schuster","Lisa Williams","Karen Davis"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Children's School","Flint Hill School","Friends' Central School","Saint David's School"],"PresenterEmail":["melissas@thechildrensschool.com","mmreesescott@gmail.com","jstarnes@flinthill.org","sschuster@friendscentral.org","lwilliams@flinthill.org","ksdavisteacher@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":54,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4},{"ID":470,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1414898702,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Life Beyond School Walls","Handle":"life_beyond_school_walls","ShortDescription":"The majority of human life and activity\u2014and the vast majority of adult life and activity\u2014happen beyond our schools' walls. Taking this as a starting point, how can we put our students in touch with the living and doing that's happening in the world? Like, for real.","Description":"I work at Princeton Learning Cooperative, an \"unschool\" that helps teens who are not a good \"fit\" for school to leave it and lead lives without it. One part of my job is to help teens to connect with the community and to find resources and opportunities to make meaningful lives for themselves. I also write a blog called Math Munch for middle and high schoolers that aims to connect them with the wide world of mathematics that exists on the internet\u2014and to help them to find some spots within it to love.\r\n\r\nThat's where I'm coming from on this question of \"life beyond school walls\". I'll have some remarks to make about the work I do, and I think they'll help us to cut past some usual assumptions of what school is about and open up an interesting conversation\u2014about those assumptions, about what we value in our adult lives, and what we see as the most valuable and shaping experiences we can help our students to have.","Link":["http:\/\/ichoosemath.com","http:\/\/mathmunch.org"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"I don't think it will be hard for this to turn into conversation after I make a short introductory presentation. Knowing myself, I imagine I'll give folks some individual reflection time, some time to chat with a partner or small group, and then have a whole-group conversation. And having just read the \"more ideas\" link below, I'll have some way for us to record our conversation and our concomitant thoughts\u2014perhaps a collaborative Google doc.","Presenter":["Justin Lanier"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Princeton Learning Cooperative"],"PresenterEmail":["justin.lanier@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":54,"ScheduleLocationID":15,"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":"