{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":991,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1572542061,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Inquiry-driven Instruction for a Rapidly Changing Planet","Handle":"inquiry-driven_instruction_for_a_rapidly_changing_planet","ShortDescription":"Help your students explore human impacts on the planet including population growth, rising global temperature, threats to biodiversity, and compromised ecosystems through experiential and inquiry-based activities. In this conversation, we\u2019ll discuss interdisciplinary strategies for applying learning in several disciplines to authentic problems.","Description":"Science literacy and data literacy are critical in helping us make everyday decisions that affect our environment and our global society. Today\u2019s young people inhabit the Anthropocene Era and will face unprecedented challenges to trying to create a sustainable future. In this conversation, the facilitator will engage participants in discussion and introduce ideas for interdisciplinary activities that help students explore human impacts on the planet including population growth, rising global temperature, threats to biodiversity, and compromised ecosystems. He will present activity ideas that aim to build skills in science, math and social sciences, while applying learning to authentic problems, and will invite conversation on how these types of inquiry-based activities would work for different student populations.  The facilitator will also lead conversation on how to put issues of sustainability into a social context and foster civic engagement among middle and high school students around creating sustainable societies.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"The entire session will be interactive. The presenter will employ several conversation protocols including some data-driven dialogue in small groups (centered on climate change data and issues), Four Corners discussion on several human ecology issues, and small group concept mapping and discussion.","Presenter":["Lorraine Howard"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Adjunct Associate Professor at Wilkes University; Population Education Trainer"],"PresenterEmail":["macalalaga@arcadia.edu"],"ScheduleSlotID":131,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"rwoldeab@populationconnection.org","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":9},{"ID":985,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1572439271,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Cultivating Resiliency in the Science Classroom","Handle":"cultivating_resiliency_in_the_science_classroom","ShortDescription":"Mindset matters in the science classroom. How can we acknowledge the importance of social-emotional teaching and mental health when it comes to strengthening classroom culture and growing resilient students?","Description":"Resilient students excel in school. Yet, so many factors in today's world encourage perfectionism, discourage vulnerability, and work against resiliency in our teenagers. In this discussion, we will explore how we can make room for social-emotional teaching in the busy science classroom to support mental health and grow resilient students.","Link":["https:\/\/www.tsaientificmethod.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will begin with a demo lesson led by the workshop leader. We will then share and discuss strategies for supporting mental health and social-emotional learning in science classrooms.","Presenter":["Kathleen Tsai"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy at Beeber"],"PresenterEmail":["ktsai@slabeeber.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":133,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":9},{"ID":975,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1571055035,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"If it is authentic I learn and teach better - Passion and authenticity based motivation for students and teachers","Handle":"if_it_is_authentic_i_learn_and_teach_better_-_passion_and_authenticity_based_motivation_for_students_and_teachers","ShortDescription":"Passion based STEAM projects revolving around global and timely problems proved as a huge motivation factor, which brought authenticity into learning, and drove students\u2019 curiosity in directions we never anticipated. Similarly, focusing on teachers\u2019 passion and strength, resulted in a unique interdisciplinary science course taught by 3 different science teachers.","Description":"For the past five years, Sage students are engaged in an interdisciplinary year-long project that focuses on a global timely problem and spans all disciplines  \u2014 humanities, math, science, engineering and computer science, the arts and foreign languages. After a brief introductory and inspirational period (including field trips and meetings with innovators), students move onto focusing on passion based authentic problems relevant to that year\u2019s theme. They partner with professionals in that field, and then design a solution, experiment, create, build and develop their prototypes.  \r\nSamples of umbrella topics were: Redesigning the food experience - partnerships with WikiFoods, Ecovative, Freight Farms. Designing a 21st century innovative refugee camp - partnerships with IKEA Better Shelter Foundation, UNHCR, Refugees Dream Center, and Urban Equity, which included partnerships with SideWalk labs, Harvard Davis Center, Senseable City Lab MIT. \r\nStudents\u2019 projects are celebrated outside of Sage, at a facility relevant to that year\u2019s umbrella theme, with a large exhibition of students prototypes and experiments,  accompanied by an elevator pitches. The event is open to the public and culminates with the audience voting for 5 teams to be \u201cfunded\u201d for their innovative ideas. \r\nWoking on global timely problems, side by side to professionals brings authenticity into the projects, a sense of excitement to both teachers and students, and plays a role in students motivation and innovation. Although unique to Sage, this project can be replicated to other schools and may spark (like it did at Sage) a shift into more interdisciplinary passion based learning in all grades.","Link":["https:\/\/sageschool.org\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"After a short presentation, and a conversation, we will dive into planning and designing a model STEAM passion based project. The design will happen on Padlet allowing a full collaboration among the participants. The goal is to allow the participant to experience how authenticity as well as passion based projects can be developed in almost every subject taught.","Presenter":["Nitzan Resnick"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Sage School - Academic Dean"],"PresenterEmail":["nresnick@sageschool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":134,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":9},{"ID":977,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1572274482,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Building School Community: Implementing Restorative Practices","Handle":"building_school_community--implementing_restorative_practices","ShortDescription":"Building an authentic community in your classroom or school is challenging, especially when members of that community have differing backgrounds, beliefs, and social-emotional skills. Further, traditional disciplinary methods often do not teach students about how their behavior impacts the learning and social-emotional health of the community. Let\u2019s discuss how Restorative Practices address these pertinent issues.","Description":"Building authentic community is more important now than ever. Humans build community when they understand each other and understand how their own behavior impacts each other. However, sometimes students are insulated from building authentic community for any number of reasons. Whether it\u2019s understanding empathy, building capacity, or finding voice, our students need to advocate for themselves in healthy, reciprocal, and transcendent ways. It\u2019s our job to help them. In using Restorative Practices, we can build community and address harm in a way that respects all students, meets them where they are, and helps them move forward in their own growth. \r\nIn this session, we\u2019ll discuss Restorative Practices, share the ways that we\u2019ve used them with our students--from elementary through high school--and provide you the opportunity to experiment with these practices and to reflect on ways that you can use them in your own professional setting.","Link":["http:\/\/leveluplead.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will introduce the tenets of restorative practices and explain why we\u2019ve chosen to use this in our respective settings (elementary school in replacement for \u201ctraditional\u201d discipline and in a high school English classroom). We will also share a brief example or two of how we\u2019ve used these practices with students. In order to give attendees the opportunity to experience restorative practices, we will facilitate scenarios and\/or a restorative circle, leaving time at the end for reflection and brainstorming for how attendees may choose to use elements of restorative practices in their own settings.","Presenter":["Brian Kulak","Anna Muessig"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Collingswood Public Schools"],"PresenterEmail":["leveluplead@gmail.com","anna.s.muessig@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":137,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":9},{"ID":994,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1572552366,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"For Teachers, By Teachers: Making Professional Learning Authentic through Teacher-Led Professional Learning Communities","Handle":"for_teachers-by_teachers--making_professional_learning_authentic_through_teacher-led_professional_learning_communities","ShortDescription":"When teachers lead professional learning communities (PLCs), their learning experience is more authentic,  relevant, and impactful. This session will share resources from work in five School District of Philadelphia schools that empower teachers to run PLCs, and then facilitate a discussion for participants to explore teacher leadership in their contexts.","Description":"How do we make professional learning more authentic, relevant, and impactful for educators? Many educators associate professional development (PD) with one-off, lecture-style presentations that feel completely disconnected from their classroom experiences. This discussion will explore a different model of professional learning that is ongoing, closely connected to teaching and learning, and wholly teacher-driven. Drawing on the successful implementation of teacher-led professional learning communities in five School District of Philadelphia (SDP) elementary schools in partnership with Teach Plus, we will share resources and lessons learned from an inquiry-based, data-driven model for teacher team learning.\r\n\r\nThe facilitator will begin with a short video of a teacher leader facilitating a PLC. We will then give participants structured space to dissect the video on topics ranging from the energy in the room to the content being explored, and compare the video to what's playing out in participants\u2019 own context. The facilitator will also share two overall frameworks for developing teacher leaders' ability to run PLCs. We will explore in small groups an inquiry cycle, a leadership development continuum, and a framework for shared leadership. Participants will have time to self-assess and share where their school currently stands in relation to implementing these best practices. Finally, partners will explore sample agendas and protocols, and then share takeaways with each other. Along with a Q&A at the end, discussion will center primarily around the best practices and resources shared in the session, and how the content could be applied to the local school contexts.","Link":["http:\/\/www.teachplus.org\/"],"Audience":["Elementary School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"- Dyads\r\n- Conversation protocol\r\n- Small group resource exploration","Presenter":["Andrew Knips"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Teach Plus"],"PresenterEmail":["aknips@teachplus.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":139,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":9},{"ID":1035,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1572994871,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Following your North Star as a journeying educator","Handle":"following_your_north_star_as_a_journeying_educator","ShortDescription":"Does your vision for courageous teaching match the reality that you face day to day? What stands in the way? In this conversation, we will discuss the complex personal and environmental challenges facing educators, and craft the tools with which to navigate them. Join us to map your guiding star: defining the tactics, practices, and supports that will lead you to thrive amidst struggle.","Description":"Why do we teach? Today, in the age of high-stakes testing and ever-revolving reforms, we seem to focus more on the *how* and *what* of teaching, rather than the overarching *why* that called us to action in the first place. Strung in every direction, we too easily lose sight of the teacher selves we strive to be. Too often we get caught in inauthentic systems, and as such we march right on the precipice of burnout. \r\n\r\nIt is important to ask, what kills the spirit of the educator? For it is not simply the loads that we bear -- the stressors, the battles, the toiling into the night. What kills us, instead, is the realization that our toil may be for nought: that our most authentic selves shall not belong in the work of teaching. That what we do does not match what we NEED to do to matter.\r\n\r\nAs such, perhaps the greatest lift to our spirits is to revisit our North Star: as Zac Chase ritualizes each year, Why we want to teach. Why do we teach, after all? If we shall find the values and purposes that drive us, perhaps then we may be more conscious of the practices that so deceive us -- and we may toil instead to do the work that matters in our hearts.","Link":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/liorschenk"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"- drafting mission statements: Why I Want to Teach\r\n- annotating text to identify teaching values (idealized and enacted)\r\n- comparing values to current practices and routines in our classes\/schools\r\n- collaborating towards systems and practices that better match our authentic selves, through design thinking exercises ie storyboarding, scenario planning, fear setting\r\n- learning other systems for survival and thriving, such as networked support for new teachers and 80\/20 practice to identify the moves that matter most","Presenter":["Lior Schenk"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA \/ Penn GSE \/ Environmental Charter School"],"PresenterEmail":["lschenk@gse.upenn.edu"],"ScheduleSlotID":140,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Chris! SLA family!! I'm so excited to see everyone again. Especially my copper\/iron class of 2020!!! I know it's been such an overwhelming and unjust start to the year. You've been in my thoughts and I hope you can get your feet under you soon.\r\n\r\nI've been digging deep this past week to find the conversation that matters most. Here's what I've got! Any feedback or improvements, I'd love to hear. :)\r\n\r\nThis conversation is for the educators struggling to find their way, who pour their passion into their work every day but still feel trapped -- and still haven't found the tribe they need. As someone in this same position previously, I know quite well the risks and threats befallen the lost educator. Especially new teachers. I hope that this conversation will reconnect  professionals to the values that drive them, as well as provide actionable strategies for those overwhelmed by the work we do. \r\n\r\nPeace and love.\r\nLior","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":9}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":9,"ScheduleLocationID":9},"total":6,"limit":false,"offset":false}