{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":244,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351821938,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"A School Leader\u2019s Guide to 21st Century School Design","Handle":"A_School_Leader-s_Guide_to_21st_Century_School_Design","ShortDescription":"Drawing from examples at the NYCiSchool and elsewhere, this session will provide school leaders with a framework and guidance for rethinking current practices and guide participants through a series of activities designed to help them develop a plan for, and create the conditions that will foster, whole school innovation.","Description":"It is widely accepted that schools must adapt to meet the needs of our changing society and the 21st century learner, yet reform efforts continue to focus on tinkering with aspects of the current system.  And in what has become the tradition of school reform, there remains hope that one singular tool or technique will be the panacea for the challenge of effective teaching and learning.  For many, technology offers this same hope.  While technology will be an inevitable tool in the process, it will not be what makes schools suddenly work.  Without rethinking how, what, when, where, and why we are teaching, technology will merely make the existing system faster and flashier.  To effect real change and improvement in our schools \u2013 locally, nationally, and globally, we must question and rethink \u201cschool\u201d \u2013 to develop a whole new vision for teaching, learning, and the student experience.   \r\n\r\nBased on a forthcoming book under contract with Teachers College Press (Fall 2013), this session will guide participants through a process of rethinking practices in order to re-imagine school, and to \u201cdisrupt\u201d how things have always been done.  Drawing from mini case studies that illustrate how changes in curriculum, human capital, time, and culture transformed the teaching and learning processes at the NYC iSchool, the facilitators will guide participants through a series of discussions and planning activities designed to help participants craft their own plans for fostering and implementing whole school innovation that will meet the needs of their students and communities.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"5 min\tWelcome and introductions\r\n\r\n5 min\tBackground\/history of the iSchool\r\n\r\n30 min\tActivity\/Discussion: True \u201cDisruption\u201d\r\nParticipants will put a list of innovative practices in order from least to most \u201cdisruptive\u201d to open the dialogue about what practices\/systems truly transform teaching and learning\r\n\r\n40 min\tGuided Workshop (the following sequence is repeated for each area of innovation: time, human capital, curriculum, and culture)\r\n2 min\tIntroduction of innovation area, with specific examples\r\n8 min\tParticipant discussion (based on guiding questions) and collaborative completion of innovation plans; Participants will have the opportunity to evaluate and discuss the innovations most powerful and possible for their schools\r\n\r\n10 min\tSharing and wrap-up","Presenter":["Mary Moss","Alisa Berger"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Novare Schools"],"PresenterEmail":["thenovaregroup@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":14,"ScheduleLocationID":11,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":218,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351731608,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Build-A-MOOC Workshop","Handle":"Build-A-MOOC_Workshop","ShortDescription":"","Description":"You've likely heard of the Build-A-Bear Workshop and have probably seen one at your local shopping mall. Well, now it's time for a Build-A-MOOC workshop.\r\n\r\nMassive Online Open Courses (MOOC) are all the rage in higher education. Be it the \"Connectivist\" MOOCs (or cMOOCs) led by the likes of Dave Cormier, George Siemens and Stephen Downes or the more corporate-run MOOCs (or xMOOCs) offered by the likes of Coursera, Udacity, etc., these large-scale learning experiences are causing many questions to be asked by higher ed. administrators. \r\n\r\nSome have considered the possibility of creating massive open online courses for secondary school students, but MOOC-mania has mainly settled in the world of higher education. In this workshop, though, we'll see if we can begin to craft a meaningful learning experience for high school students that is massive, open and online. We will see if, within the time constraints of one Educon session, we can literally build a MOOC for high school students across the world.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"This is a workshop. It is hands- and minds-on. We'll have a facilitated conversation, small group discussions, and use Google Docs to write a proposal together.","Presenter":["Jon Becker"],"PresenterAffiliation":["VCU"],"PresenterEmail":["jonathan.d.becker@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":14,"ScheduleLocationID":15,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"I miss Diana Laufenberg and I don't even work at SLA.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":271,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1354744163,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Developing Our Online Voices","Handle":"Developing_Our_Online_Voices","ShortDescription":"In this conversation, we will examine what it means to interact with students in online environments, how that compares to physical face-to-face interactions, and the intersections of the two. How do we craft caring relations in digital spaces? How do we build culture and community? What are the ways in which feedback and commentary could or should be adjusted when leaving the physical world. Participants will be asked to share their own experiences as well as work together to draft ideas on new ways forward for deepening and broadening our practice.","Description":"In this conversation, we will examine what it means to interact with students in online environments, how that compares to physical face-to-face interactions, and the intersections of the two. How do we craft caring relations in digital spaces? How do we build culture and community? What are the ways in which feedback and commentary could or should be adjusted when leaving the physical world. Participants will be asked to share their own experiences as well as work together to draft ideas on new ways forward for deepening and broadening our practice.","Link":[],"Audience":[],"Practice":"","Presenter":["Zachary A. Chase"],"PresenterAffiliation":["University of Colorado - Boulder"],"PresenterEmail":["zac.chase@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":14,"ScheduleLocationID":14,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":187,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351370526,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Digital Fabrication in K-12","Handle":"Digital_Fabrication_in_K-12","ShortDescription":"Let's have a conversation about digital fabrication in schools. FabLabs and Makerspaces are putting the means of production (3D printers, laser cutters, milling machines, etc) into our student's hands. Let's talk about the benefits, challenges, and best practices of teaching kids to use machines that can make things!","Description":"Digital fabrication labs, maker spaces and other innovative classrooms are popping up in K-12 schools all over the world! \r\n\r\nLet's start a conversation so we can share our best practices, tips, tricks, challenges of managing and running such labs. \r\n\r\nTopics of conversation will include:\r\n\r\nFavorite student projects\r\nRecommended hardware\/software\r\nCosts\r\nApplications to design thinking\r\nStaffing and training\r\nProfessional development opportunities\r\nLab model vs 1:1\r\nAnd more!","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"As educators who have been using digital fabrication and the design process in their classroom for years, we will share some of my favorite (and least favorite) projects. We will use these examples to prompt a conversation about what works, and what doesn't in a digital fabrication classroom.","Presenter":["Jaymes Dec","Karen Blumberg","Don Buckley"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Marymount School of New York"],"PresenterEmail":["jdec@marymountnyc.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":14,"ScheduleLocationID":16,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":193,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351543384,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Empathy THE 21st Century Skill","Handle":"Empathy_THE_21st_Century_Skill:2","ShortDescription":"Empathy is THE 21st century skill. It builds bonds, develops leadership skills, and brings self-awareness to seek out meaning and purpose in our lives. How can we discuss 21st century skills without first discussing empathy? How can our students understand purpose, be self-directed, and become betters learners by valuing empathy.","Description":"Empathy is THE 21st century skill. It builds bonds, develops leadership skills, and brings self-awareness to seek out meaning and purpose in our lives. How can we discuss 21st century skills without first discussing empathy? How can our students understand purpose, be self-directed, and become betters learners by valuing empathy. \r\n\r\nEmpathy enables students to integrate other people's perspectives with their own. It is the ability to identify with others and will become a crucial skill as the world merges into a global community. Global awareness and the ability for technology to bring the world into our classrooms is important, but only if we can use these tools to better understand ourselves and others. \r\n\r\nJoin the conversation to explore and discuss how using technology can help us understand and nurture empathy. In this conversation will explore the discussion educators are having all across the country about empathy and the tools, sites and teaching practices that encourage empathy.","Link":["https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/teachingempathy\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will use a variety of tools including wiki to bring together resources.","Presenter":["Samantha Morra"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Montclair Public Schools"],"PresenterEmail":["smsmorra@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":14,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"I may submit more than one proposal. Please pick one. Thank you so much!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":175,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1350839063,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"I was promised flying schools: storytelling the future of public education","Handle":"I_was_promised_flying_schools:storytelling_the_future_of_public_education","ShortDescription":"Participants in this two-session workshop will iterate, pitch, and develop digital stories capturing possible futures of public education. Participants will team up around compelling pitches and produce their works through forms like film, social media from the future, and time-travelling geocaches. We\u2019ll develop a web resource to share our work.","Description":"Where are we going with public education? Are we opening the doors to new annexes of inspired teaching and learning? Are we walking down dark hallways to musty rooms left in squalid disrepair? Are we headed for the exits as quickly as we can, or are we being pushed there? Participants in this two-session digital storytelling workshop will have the chance to ask their own questions about the future of public education in the United States, to formulate tentative answers about where we\u2019re going as a society that schools, and to pitch and compose digital stories that share out their questions and answers. One participant might compose a blog from the future while another goes into SLA\u2019s hallways to recruit attendees and students as improv actors in a parody of wholly standardized or democratic education. Another participant might leave pages torn from a future teacher\u2019s journal hidden around the school as a geocaching game for other EduCon attendees. Yet another might start the Twitter account of an stakeholder navigating entirely P2P-based schooling fifty years from now. The idea behind the session to confront and imagine responses to the dark aspects of schooling, while uncovering and holding up bright examples of what our public education system could become. Participants should bring their own technology and be prepared either to iterate, pitch, and develop an idea rapidly, or to join up and work with another participant whose pitch sounds fantastic. We\u2019ll develop a web resource to share our stories.","Link":["http:\/\/coopcatalyst.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/14\/the-evaluation\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Rapid storytelling incubation\/workshopping\r\nMulti-media digital story-telling\r\nBackchannel production discussions through participants\u2019 social media accounts\r\nWeb resource sharing participants\u2019 products shared through a CC-By license","Presenter":["Christina Cantrill","Kirsten Olsen","Chad Sansing"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Christina Cantrill - National Writing Project (NWP)","Kirsten Olsen - Institute for Democratic Education in America (IDEA)","Chad Sansing - Community Public Charter School (CPCS)"],"PresenterEmail":["ccantrill@nwp.org","oldsowconsulting@gmail.com","csansing@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":14,"ScheduleLocationID":5,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"While we realize that it\u2019s not the norm to have one conversation take up two sessions, we think this kind of workshop needs that amount of time (at the very least) and that the EduCon community would be perfect for this kind of conversation through a design-sprint and making. If we had the time to compose at least rough cuts onsite, we could also see participants facilitating a short social event to premiere the works sometime late on Saturday. We would rather facilitate a 1-hour conversation than no conversation at all, however, or else work on another format in or around the conference schedule with organizers.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":204,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351685612,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"If the school library has a future, what will it be?","Handle":"If_the_school_library_has_a_future-what_will_it_be","ShortDescription":"No aspect of schooling is changing as fast as the school library. The disruption is still going on. Where do we want it to go, what do we want it to be able to do, and what will it look like?","Description":"No part of schooling has changed as much as the school library and the disruptions are likely to continue for some time. The look, feel, purpose and practices of the school library are all in flux. Technology has made a big difference at the same time budget cuts have altered staffing and challenged the continued existence of the library in many schools.\r\n\r\nDewey may be done, e-books are starting to emerge, filters are fading and reference books are rarely used for research, so what is the library\u2019s role in the school, the librarians role in the library, and how do teachers take advantage of the emerging new school media center, if that is what it has become.\r\n\r\nAdministrators, teachers, students and librarians are all affected by and have an effect on the form, features, functions and financing of the library and all those voices need to be part of the conversation. \r\n\r\nThe presenters are a rural school district administrator who has invested heavily in renovating the district\u2019s libraries to make them more student friendly, a scholar and consultant who was instrumental in the planning for those renovations, and an inner-city middle school librarian who is in the process of planning a renovation of his library. We bring a variety of perspectives to the conversation and are all experienced facilitators of constructive engagement.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"A modified What? So\tWhat?\tNow\tWhat? protocol using a whole-group approach. Slides will be used to highlight conversational foci.","Presenter":["Pam Moran","Deven Black"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Superintendent","Albemarle","VA schools; Chief Provocateur","Educology Partners; Librarian","Castle Hill Middle School 127","NYC"],"PresenterEmail":["pmpmoran@gmail.com","deven.black@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":14,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":181,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351089458,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Make. Hack. Play: The Tools of Webmaking","Handle":"Make-Hack-Play:The_Tools_of_Webmaking","ShortDescription":"Playing with the X-Ray Goggles, Thimble and Popcorn, participants  will explore concepts of interest-based learning through  tinkering with Mozilla Webmaking tools and learning projects. \r\nThis workshop will build understanding around how embedding webmaking in project based curriculum will lead to innovative problem  solving, creative thinking and a desire for  tinkering.","Description":"The web is becoming the world\u2019s second language, and a vital 21st century skill.  Digital literacy today is as important as reading, writing and  arithmetic. Mozilla believes it\u2019s crucial that we give people the skills  they need to understand, shape and actively participate in that world,  instead of just passively consuming it.\r\nYou don\u2019t have to be a professional coder or programmer to be a webmaker.  In the same way that you don\u2019t have to be a professional baker to make bread, or a professional auto mechanic to change a tire, you shouldn\u2019t have to be a professional web developer to understand how the web works \u2014 or make your own stuff. We want to help you go \u201cbeyond upload\u201d to unlock new opportunities for creativity and innovation in your life and work.\r\nMozilla Webmaker wants to help you make something amazing with the web. We\u2019ve got new tools for you to use, projects to help you get started, and a global community of creators \u2014 educators, filmmakers, journalists, developers, youth \u2014 all making and learning together.\r\nThe goal: help millions of people move from using the web to making the web. As part of Mozilla\u2019s non-profit mission,  we want to help the world increase their understanding of the web, take  greater control of their online lives, and create a more web literate  planet.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"In this conversation,  participants will use laptops to explore Webmaker tools and learn about the basic building blocks of the Web.  Then, participants will create their own webpages and interactive films.","Presenter":["Laura Hilliger","Chris Lawrence"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Mozilla"],"PresenterEmail":["laura@mozillafoundation.org","clawrence@mozillafoundation.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":14,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"Bring your own laptop or mobile device","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":258,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351915420,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Ownership On Lock: Technology & Its Impact on Student Ownership of the[ir] Academic Experience","Handle":"Ownership_On_Lock:Technology-It-s_Impact_on_Student_Ownership_of_the-ir-Academic_Experience","ShortDescription":"As educational technology continues to evolve, so to do student attitudes regarding  the desire and necessity for students to take a larger role in the ownership of their academic experience.  The purpose for this \u201cconversation\u201d is to discuss this growing trend, and resources that aid teachers in capitalizing  on it.","Description":"The primary focus of this conversation is centered around educational technology and online resources that aid teachers in raising the level of student ownership and engagement, both inside and outside of the classroom.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"We intend on furthering this conversation by walking participants through a Success Analysis Protocol of various examples of best practices that worked in increasing substantially levels of student ownership through the use of technology.","Presenter":["Pia Kaufman","Daniel Williams"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Philadelphia School District"],"PresenterEmail":["pkaufman@philasd.org","dcwilliams@philasd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":14,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"We apologize for this late submission.  We were stuck in NYC due to Hurricane Sandy, and were just able to make it back this evening.  Please consider this submission.  We'd love to present at Educon!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":224,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351781193,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Restorative Solutions to Harassment and Bullying","Handle":"Restorative_Solutions_to_Harassment_and_Bullying","ShortDescription":"Harassment and bullying interfere with student learning. In some tragic instances, these behaviors interfere with life itself. Join us for a conversation on creating strategies for prevention, intervention, resolution, and restoration of the community after incidents of harassment or bullying.","Description":"Here is a link to the Google Doc that contains notes taken during the conversation: \r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1qbO21GwwDtAyQSYrPNOfB2rvLd4FxkcQO5iGqKLgng0\/edit\r\n\r\nHarassment and bullying interfere with student learning.  In some tragic instances, harassment and bullying interfere with life itself.  All too often, we see media reports of teen suicide following allegations of brutal bullying.  \r\n\r\nFrom January through November 2010, the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations undertook a series of eleven public hearings to hear first-hand from parents, teachers, students, principals, and other community members about their experiences with intergroup conflicts in all of Philadelphia\u2019s public schools.  Testimony confirmed that intergroup conflicts cover a broad range of unfair, disrespectful, and aggressive behavior that can cause emotional and physical harm and negatively impact students\u2019 ability to learn.  \r\n\r\nThe six-year cohort dropout rates reported by the School District of Philadelphia in 2010 show the gravity of the problem.  District-wide, the dropout rate is an unacceptable 37%, but is especially dire for African-American males at 43% and Latino males at 51%.\r\n\r\nJoin us for small group conversations in circles using restorative decision-making to create strategies for prevention, intervention, resolution, and restoration of the community following incidents of harassment and bullying.  The small groups will focus on these questions:\r\n\r\n\u2022\tAre legal mandates useful or helpful?  Should we have a national legal response?\r\n\r\n\u2022\tIn responding to harassment and bullying, when is it appropriate for the student who suffered the harm and the student who inflicted the harm to come together?\r\n\r\n\u2022\tHow do we promote consistency in response to harassment and bullying?\r\n\r\nThese are websites with useful information and resources:\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/wideningthecircle.org\/,\r\nWidening the Circle of Our Concern: Public Perceptions of the School District of Philadelphia\u2019s Responses to Intergroup Conflicts, A Report from the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations.\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.iirp.edu, \r\nInternational Institute for Restorative Practices; Restoring Community in a Disconnected World.\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.iirp.edu\/join_eforum.php, \r\nJoin the Restorative Practices eForum.\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.iirp.edu\/pdf\/Defining-Restorative.pdf, \r\nDefining Restorative.\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.safeschools.info\/bp_toolkit.pdf,\r\nPennsylvania Bullying Prevention Toolkit.\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.safeschools.info\/images\/stories\/BP_PDE.pdf,\r\nInformation about PA\u2019s law regarding school bullying.\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.stopbullying.gov\/index.html, \r\nU.S. Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 Stop Bullying website.\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.pabar.org\/public\/education\/projectpeace\/projectpeacehome.asp,\r\nThis goes to Project PEACE on PBA wesbite.  Project PEACE is a peer mediation, anti-bullying and youth court program jointly sponsored by the PBA and the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General.\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/pabar.org\/public\/committees\/childavo\/basedyouthcourt.asp,\r\nThis goes to youth courts on the PBA website.\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.legsagainstarms.info\/,\r\nSunday morning, April 28, 2013, at St. Joseph's University, will be the 7th annual Legs Against Arms anti-violence race and educational event sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility.  Our vision in a nutshell is to hold a race ( 5K run and walk with a 1K fun walk) that is the entry to a much larger event\u2014a highlighting of Project PEACE (Peaceful Endings through Authorities, Children and Educators)\u2014that rests on the conflict resolution, peer mediation, anti-bullying and youth court education programs that PSR has served as \u201cmidwife\u201d for in bringing to Philadelphia.  We want to celebrate veterans as well as we end our wars by inviting them to share their visions of peace with the larger community. \r\nOur plans right now are for registration to start at 8 a.m., for tables to start being set up then, for the 5K race and 1 K fun walk to kick off at 9:00 a.m., for the exhibit tables to open to observers from 9:00 a.m. on, for the runners and walkers to return to the gym where the tables and stage and chairs are set up in the half of the gym that is not used for basketball practice, first for the runners' awards program, probably around 10:00 a.m., and then a youth court demonstration around 10:30 a.m which will also be when we will have short speeches by honored guests.  Anyone able and willing to stick around after that demo will come together for a \"town meeting\" to look at brainstorming ideas for solving the violence epidemic we face, especially with gun violence.\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.legis.state.pa.us\/cfdocs\/billinfo\/bill_history.cfm?syear=2013&sind=0&body=H&type=B&bn=156,\r\nPennsylvania Safe Schools Act (aka PASS, aka H.B. 156).","Link":["http:\/\/wideningthecircle.org\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"After viewing a 5-minute video, our time will be spent in small groups and circles utilizing restorative decision-making to develop solutions to deal with harassment and bullying.","Presenter":["Kay Kyungsun Yu","Steve Korr","Jennifer Lowman","David Keller Trevaskis"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["kay.kyungsun.yu@gmail.com","stevekorr@iirp.edu","jlowman@elc-pa.org","david@leapkids.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":14,"ScheduleLocationID":12,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":243,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351821760,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Self-Care for Selfless Educators & Advocates in the Movement","Handle":"Sasha_Fierce_and_Self-Care_for_Social_Justice","ShortDescription":"Self-care is often an afterthought for educators, social justice activists, and ed reform advocates.  This interactive workshop will explore the responsibility we have to connect self-care with leading change; how pop culture, race and gender shape our ideas about personal sustainability; and how to support each other in allyship.","Description":"Literary activist Audre Lorde once declared, \u201cCaring for myself is not self-indulgence.  It is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare.\u201d Self-care is often an afterthought for social justice activists.  The same is true in the movement for education reform.  Every child and their family deserve equitable opportunities to learn and live well, and educators and advocates work tirelessly in service of that belief.  No question: it\u2019s in our nature to nurture.  At home, at work, in the classroom and in our communities, we selflessly take care of everyone else before ourselves\u2014if at all.  But it is critical to remember that sustaining this depth of leadership requires sustaining ourselves. \r\n\r\nIn a society that defines strength by one\u2019s capacity to survive, the broad messages we receive about caring for ourselves are to toughen up through overwhelming circumstances and that it is only when we suffer the inevitable burn out that we should make time for self-care.  This interactive workshop will explore the responsibility we have to connect self-care with leading change.  Participants will learn:\r\n\r\n\u2022\thow pop culture, race, and gender shape our ideas about when, how and why to care for ourselves\r\n\u2022\thow to develop unapologetically selfish, specific approaches to personal sustainability; and\r\n\u2022\thow to support each other through our intersecting journeys.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Interactive workshop","Presenter":["Michaela Pommells","Reagen Price"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Coalition for Racial Justice"],"PresenterEmail":["Michaela@corajus.com","reagen@corajus.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":14,"ScheduleLocationID":4,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":269,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1352667673,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Structuring Inquiry","Handle":"Structuring_Inquiry","ShortDescription":"Over the journey that has been SLA, I've become really deeply aware of how inquiry is a process. The five core values of Inquiry, Research, Collaboration, Presentation and Reflection are at the heart of the inquiry process for me. And it is an iterative process that we engage in. But also at the heart of the inquiry process is that the person engaging in the inquiry - the learner - actually cares about the questions they are asking.","Description":"","Link":["http:\/\/scienceleadership.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"","Presenter":["Chris Lehmann"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["clehmann@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":14,"ScheduleLocationID":13,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":184,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351095663,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Politics of Ed-Tech","Handle":"Ed-Tech_and_Ed_Reform","ShortDescription":"We have moved beyond a world where we can simply be cheerleaders for education technology. It isn\u2019t just that the stakes are high for pedagogy. They\u2019re high politically and professionally. What are the connections between ed-tech and education reform, between technology, profits and the privatization of education?","Description":"\u201cTechnology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.\u201d\r\n\r\nFor decades now, many tech-savvy educators have argued that increased adoption of computers and other technologies in the classroom would help unlock problem solving skills, foster networked communication, and connect students and classes to the rest of the world beyond the physical restrictions of brick and mortar or the printed pages of a textbook \u2014 the whole \u201c21st century skill\u201d argument and more.  \r\n\r\nBut education technology is not necessarily built or implemented with progressive education in mind. Technology can just as easily reinforce, if not further, a world of standardized test-taking, Indeed, it\u2019s becoming increasingly clear that there\u2019s a significant amount of ed-tech \u2014 investors, philanthropic organizations, non-profits, politicians, and corporations \u2014 that is keen to privatize if not profit from education.\r\n\r\nThis session will explore these connections \u2014 connections between ed-tech and ALEC, for example \u2014 as well as strategies for responding.\r\n\r\nBecause the question no longer simply \u201chow do we implement technology effectively\u201d?  How do we navigate this world where technologies \u2014 education and otherwise \u2014 are becoming increasingly ubiquitous but may also be increasingly pedagogically, politically and professionally dangerous?","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Short presentation, followed by a discussion of how to respond. Participants will work on a wiki (or collaborative doc). Topics to explore include: how to make smart decisions as ed-tech users and consomers, how to use ed-tech to subvert the system.","Presenter":["Audrey Watters"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Hack Education"],"PresenterEmail":["audrey.watters@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":14,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":248,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351824388,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Using Spoken Word to Inspire","Handle":"Using_Spoken_Word_to_Inspire","ShortDescription":"In a conversation facilitated by the Philly Youth Poetry Movement, educators will discuss how they might use the performance arts, specifically spoken word poetry, to engage and inspire their students. Techniques from many different writing programs will be shared, and a dynamic writing workshop will be modeled and analyzed.","Description":"We will have a quick conversation about the merits of the performance arts in the classroom across disciplines. Then we will have a model workshop that pushes comfort levels, which we will then reflect on afterwards. After that, the participants will make their own performance activity with a case study student and field of study that we create. We will discuss these if there is not much time left \u2013 role play if there is more time left. I'll leave them with a packet of our activities and a sample curriculum to take home.","Link":["http:\/\/www.pypm215.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We are going to have a legitimate writer\/performer workshop that has the best of our practice and our best activities. We'll have another section where they plan there own activities and we'll act them out and do some good thought work with them. It will look nothing like a traditional presentation.","Presenter":["Matthew Kay","Cait Miner","Greg Corbin"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Philly Youth Poetry Movement"],"PresenterEmail":["matt@pypm215.org","greg@pypm215.org","cait@pypm215.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":14,"ScheduleLocationID":6,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"n\/a","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":236,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351814849,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"\u201cFlipping the Script- Teachers\u2019 Dispatches from Philadelphia","Handle":"Flipping_the_Script-_Teachers-Dispatches_from_Philadelphia","ShortDescription":"TAG Philly\u2019s \u201cFlipping the Script- Teachers\u2019 Dispatches from Philadelphia\u201d Media Empowerment workshop is an interactive roundtable empowering teachers, parents, and students to share narratives of the amazing tragedies and triumphs that take place in school communities.","Description":"TAG's Philly Media Empowerment series are anchored around using storytelling to shape and influence the narrative of education reform. Participants will discuss telling stories techniques for digital literacy age. Activists, teacher teaders, bloggers, web editors, and media makers will also share tips, tools and strategies for using multi-media for digital story telling.\r\n\r\nDiscussion leaders will share stories of writing and composing in the digital age:\r\n\r\n-          How to submit Opinion and Editorial Pieces to local newspapers and blogs \r\n\r\n-          How to write effective leads and headings\r\n\r\n-          How to use social media (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook) to build community and  \r\n           create buzz for class projects and social justice causes.\r\n\r\n-          How to create YouTube Channels to share videos and media content.\r\nParticipants will circulate within small group interactive mini-sessions.  Presenters will share web resources, sample stories, letters to editors, blogs or other media to set the context for writing in the digital age. Presenters will speak about their writing process and strategies for telling stories. An emphasis of writing effective leads and headlines will also be covered. \r\nParticipants will be provided an opportunity to briefly think, plan and write about three \u201cFlipping the Script Teachers\u2019 Dispatches from Philadelphia\u201d scenarios\u2013 \r\nParticipants may consider the following: \r\n -       Use one of the scenarios to tell their own story. \r\n -       Which medium would be the best form to tell their story?\r\n -       What would be an effective lead or headline for their story?","Link":["http:\/\/.tagphilly.org","http:\/\/.thenotebook.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"The discussions will be presented in an interactive roundtable format. This format will allow multiple topics and create audience engagement. Participants will rotate throughout round tables that cover Blogging & Writing in Digital Age, using Social Media, Video for  Digital Storytelling. TAG\u2019s plans to collect, curate and disseminate \u201cFlipping the Script Teachers\u2019 Dispatches from Philadelphia\u201d stories via its website, the Philadelphia Public School Notebook and other digital platforms.","Presenter":["David Limm","Hillary Linardopoulos Brian Cohen","Katrina Clark","Samuel Reed"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Teacher Action Group","Philadelphia Public School Notebook","Make the Grade Blog","Media Mobilzing Project"],"PresenterEmail":["sriii2000@aol.com","katrina.clark@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":14,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"Some of the stories generated from this Educon conversation may be presented at TAG\u2019s Annual Curriculum and Liberation Education Fair in the spring of 2013.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":2,"ScheduleSlotID":14},"total":15,"limit":false,"offset":false}