{"data":{"ID":196,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351618382,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Making the Impossible, Possible: A conversation for visionary educators, parents, students and policy-makers.","Handle":"Making_the_Impossible-Possible:A_conversation_for_visionary_educators-parents-students_and_policy-makers","ShortDescription":"If YOU could change education, what would YOU do?  Join this conversation about our collective commitment to revolutionize learning and what it looks like in our individual spaces. Tell us what you have done, are doing, or will do to transform education in your own sphere(s) of influence.","Description":"\u201cSo let me explain how revolutions work. Revolutions destroy the perfect and then they enable the impossible. They never go from everything-is-bad to everything-is-good. There\u2019s a lot of noise in the middle.\u201d ~Seth Godin,  http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ericssonvideo\r\n\r\nLike many of you, we are frustrated by the ineffectiveness of our educational system. It feels overwhelming and hopeless waiting for schools to shed outdated practices in favor of creating new learning models that fit today\u2019s students.  \r\n\r\nThe daunting question is, How do we make it happen? \r\n\r\nPerhaps we already are. Our \u201cperfect\u201d system of education is crumbling. We are firmly embedded in the \u201cnoise\u201d of change. Perhaps a more crucial question is, \u201cHow do we intensify \u201cthe noise\u201d and make the \u201cimpossible\u201d possible?\u201d  \r\n\r\nWe do it together \u2013 collectively, but ALSO each in our own sphere, one by one.\r\n\r\nEducational transformation is so complex that no single visionary educator, policymaker, or parent can make it happen singlehandedly. Rather, the wisdom of multiple perspectives, talents, and approaches will be key to authentic systemic change. It will require commitment, thoughtful action and purposeful deconstruction of the existing model in ways that make sense in each of our contexts. It will take vision & individual acts of bravery to make the impossible possible.\r\n\r\nWatch http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ericssonvideo \r\nJoin this conversation about a movement to make education work for students. It is going to take all of us doing our own guerrilla-style acts to grow the transformation of learning.","Link":["http:\/\/knowclue.wikispaces.com\/Red+Bandanas","http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=quYDkuD4dMU"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"\u201cThink, Pair, and Share \u201c what\u2019s working for you that others could replicate. Consider our collective commitment and what it looks like in our individual spaces. Tell us what you have done, are doing or will do to transform education in your own sphere(s) of influence. Think, Pair, Share during this session and then beyond. Again and again... \u201cout there.\u201d Think, Pair, Share, and Act.","Presenter":["Anne Collier","Peggy Sheehy","Marianne Malmstrom"],"PresenterAffiliation":["NetFamilyNews.org and ConnectSafely.org","Ramapo Central School District","G.A.M.E.","WoW in School","The Elisabeth Morrow School"],"PresenterEmail":["anne@netfamilynews.org","peggysheehy@mac.com","Knowclue@mac.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":8,"ScheduleLocationID":6,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"Please note Anne Collier's bio as you may not be familiar with her work.  http:\/\/www.netfamilynews.org\/bio.html","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2}}