{"data":{"ID":252,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351828178,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Disruptive Talent","Handle":"Disruptive_Talent","ShortDescription":"There\u2019s no shortage of educational innovators. The challenge is figuring out how best to bring their approaches to scale. Participants in this session will discuss what supporting disruptive talent \u2013 at the district, school, classroom, and community level \u2013 would look like and how we can better connect innovators across cities.","Description":"Vanity Fair recently published a list of the \"New Establishment\" and according to the editor, they share a common trait: they\u2019re \"disrupters.\" By definition, disrupters are innovative change agents who challenge the status quo. There are a growing number of these educational innovators in Philadelphia and across the country. But they often do not have the resources they need to scale their approaches. As a result, their innovation is often short-lived and isolated from mainstream practice.\r\n\r\nIn this session, participants will share their experiences and discuss what conditions are necessary to retain this type of talent at multiple levels of the system \u2013 i.e., district, school, classroom \u2013 and how the broader community can be used more effectively to support disruptive innovation. \r\n\r\nThe following questions will be discussed:\r\n\u2022What does disruptive talent look like in practice (at the district, school, and classroom level)? \r\n\u2022What role should the broader community play in supporting this type of change?\r\n\u2022How can we better connect innovators between schools within the same district, as well as across school in different regions?","Link":["http:\/\/www.phillycoreleaders.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"The discussion will be structured as a conversation, where participants are split into groups to discuss their own successes and challenges with trying to implement disruptive change at each level of the system. Small group discussion will be moderated by innovators from the Philadelphia region.\r\n\r\nThe goal is to develop a concrete mechanism during the session (e.g., website, mobile application) for highlighting, supporting, and connecting disruptive educational talent both within and across cities that could extend beyond the conference.","Presenter":["Claire Robertson-Kraft","Alyson Goodner","Rachel Meadows"],"PresenterAffiliation":["PhillyCORE Leaders"],"PresenterEmail":["claire.rk@gmail.com","alygoods@yahoo.com","rachel.meadows@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":16,"ScheduleLocationID":14,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2}}