{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":969,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1568319673,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Learning through parallel Contextual and Curricular based Environments","Handle":"learning_through_parallel_contextual_and_curricular_based_environments","ShortDescription":"In this conversation, participants, with us, will compare and contrast the roles of curricular and contextual learning to hopefully gain a better understanding of how to leverage both types of learning to integrate content with experience.  We will introduce folks to our (Wildwood's) developing educational model that, unlike other approaches that we are aware of, situates experiences in a broader context and encourages transfer between experiential learning and content knowledge.","Description":"Through interactive discussion and sharing of materials (virtually and hard copy), we hope to create space for participants: \r\n \r\n- To explore an expanded form of contextual learning and connect to their own school contexts where applicable\r\n- To compare and contrast the challenges of curricular and contextual learning\r\n- To be introduced to a new, developing educational model that utilizes the strengths of each to optimize learning\r\n\r\n\r\nSome actionable take-aways that participants in this conversation may be able to begin to imagine implementing in their work might be:\r\n \r\n- Connecting contextual learning (internships, service, etc.) with currlcular learning\r\n- Working with students as the real drivers of learning\r\n- Developing a parallel strand of learning in a school that does what it does well","Link":["https:\/\/www.wildwood.org\/cf_news\/view.cfm?newsID=5648 (for Liza & Matt)","https:\/\/www.wildwood.org\/page.cfm?p=1735 (for Joe Wise)"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"We will use lots of discussion coupled with interactive activities, document (PPT) sharing, lots of questions, and focused CONVERSATION!","Presenter":["Dr. Liza Bearman","Matt Lucas & Joe Wise"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Wildwood School"],"PresenterEmail":["lbearman@wildwood.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":131,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Talk to Chris Lehman!  : )","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":9},{"ID":1018,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1572651112,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Starting From Scratch: Authentic Assessments and Grading Practices","Handle":"starting_from_scratch--authentic_assessments_and_grading_practices","ShortDescription":"Want your students to do authentic work? Want them to focus on learning rather than grades? Join us in a workshop that will help you re-imagine your assessments and grading practices at both the individual and school level.  We\u2019re going to start from scratch: if we were designing these systems for the first time, what would we do?","Description":"How we assess and what we assess drives so much of what happens in a school.  Developing and implementing high quality performance assessments can ensure we provide meaningful experiences for students, and we can assess them in a way that will help students focus on learning instead of constantly worrying about they need to do to get a 90.  Lastly, we will examine what can be done in schools at a systems level to help provide incentives and procedures to amplify and support authentic learning.\r\n\r\nTo do this participants will engage in first principles thinking to imagine what kind of work they would have students doing if they could design a school from scratch.  Then, they will design systems so that their school facilitates, supports, and develops staff capacity around doing this kind of work.   Lastly, they will determine action steps to determine how to transform their school from its current state into the school they want it to be.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"Participants will engage in first principles thinking to work together and re-imagine a school that is built around authentic assessments, grading practices that put the focus on learning instead of achievement, and has systems to support this kind of instruction and learning.  This small group collaboration will allow participants to construct a vision of the kinds of assessment and grading they would want as well as construct a road map for how to get their school from where it currently is, to where they want it to be.","Presenter":["Brian Hodges","Kristen Thomsen","Thomas Burns","and Holly Bisset"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Attleboro High School"],"PresenterEmail":["bhodges@attleboroschools.com","kthomsen@attleboroschools.com","treed@attleboroschools.com","krego@attleboroschools.com","wpondolfino@attleboroschools.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":133,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":9},{"ID":1033,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1572904857,"CreatorID":4757,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Against Reinvention: Adjusting the Wheel: An inquiry into re-teaching, shared reflection, and manageable improvement","Handle":"against_reinvention--adjusting_the_wheel--an_inquiry_into_re-teaching-shared_reflection-and_manageable_improvement","ShortDescription":"What are best practices for improving the things you\u2019ll teach again?\r\nWhat\u2019s the role of student feedback for re-teaching? \r\nWhat happens when we shift our time to intentionally improving our curriculum and practice as opposed to building new, again.\r\nWhat happens when students engage meaningfully in the design of curriculum and practice? \r\nHow can shared reflection of past and upcoming curriculum foster student ownership of their learning? How does if foster collaboration?","Description":"In this session, teachers across all three SLA campuses will lead a discussion focusing on what it means to revise and improve curriculum and practice. Too often, teachers are expected to fully reinvent what and how they\u2019re teaching. We want to think about what it means to use the time it would take to create something new and allocate it to create something better. Specifically, how can we elicit and feedback from students to help us make more meaningful and intentional learning happen?\r\n\tWe are particularly interested in practical redesign for a variety of contexts: traditional, progressive, and everywhere in between and beyond. We want to leave with plans, specific to our individual contexts, to bringing students into the work of reshaping the curriculum. As SLA teachers, we come to this work from a middle school and high school lens. We come from different disciplines: Math, History, and Humanities. We\u2019re eager to think about how these contexts and the diverse contexts in the room inform the decisions we make to revamp.\r\nCome ready to share and work. We\u2019re excited to dig in to this together.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"This will be an interactive discussion with time set for individual reflection, partner\/group discussion, sharing of ideas, and time to work on a tangible artifact to use in the classroom.","Presenter":["Hilary Hamilton","Elizabeth Houwen","Dan Symonds"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA Middle","SLA Beeber","SLA Center City"],"PresenterEmail":["clehmann@scienceleadership.org","ehouwen@slabeeber.org","dsymonds@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":134,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":4757,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":9},{"ID":987,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1572488307,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Supporting Our Evolving Student Population","Handle":"managing_our_evolving_student_population","ShortDescription":"Gain awareness and understanding of our LGBTQ+ Community that will enable you to better support our students. Geared towards expanding our minds and increasing our knowledge through experiences and advice. Walk away with various resources to continue your pursuit for knowledgeable strategies on; Culture and Community, Preferred Pronouns and Trauma.","Description":"Gain awareness and understanding of our LGBTQ+ Community that will enable you to better support our students. Geared towards expanding our minds and increasing our knowledge through experiences and advice. Walk away with various resources to continue your pursuit for knowledgeable strategies on; Culture and Community, Preferred Pronouns and Trauma.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"Presentation and Conversation","Presenter":["Melissa Moran"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA @ Beeber"],"PresenterEmail":["mmoran@slabeeber.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":137,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":9},{"ID":993,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1572548968,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Beyond the Bubbles: Critical Thinking & ESL Through Comics Creation","Handle":"beyond_the_bubbles--critical_thinking-esl_through_comics_creation","ShortDescription":"The presenters have created a media-rich resource manual for this purpose, serving as an essential toolkit for TESOL educators and field practitioners to assist students in creating their own comic books for learning and promoting English language learning through visual literacy.","Description":"The presenters have created a media-rich resource manual for this purpose, serving as an essential toolkit for TESOL educators and field practitioners to assist students in creating their own comic books for learning and promoting English language learning through visual literacy.","Link":["https:\/\/americanenglish.state.gov\/resources\/teachers-corner-comic-books-learning; https:\/\/americanenglish.state.gov\/; https:\/\/americanenglish.state.gov\/resources\/american-english-webinars#child-2521;"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"During this conversational practice, participants will explore four ways students might product comics through a variety of different materials and media to demonstrate deeper learning and understanding.  Participants will leave with experience creating comics of their own, as well as having discussed the power of comics creation as tools for deeper understanding and equity in all learning environments -- with particular value for ESL spaces.","Presenter":["Jacqueline Gardy","Dan Ryder"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Jacquie: Content Development Editor","Innovations Team","U.S. Department of State","Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs","Office of English Language Programs; Dan: Director of the Success & Innovation Center","Mt. 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Based upon similar models from schools around the country, NOVA Lab includes a yearlong exploration of purpose-based learning with the incorporation of Project Wayfinder, a foundational belief in sustainability, and a focus on the ethical implications of all our actions and creations.  \r\n\r\nThe class proceeds from the belief that students spend so much time being told what to do and on focusing on the next hurdle to overcome that they rarely get to test their abilities, play out their interests, and exercise their skills in authentic real-world situations.  inNOVAtion Lab offers the space, time, and resources for students to engage in this important, self-validating work.\r\n\r\nNOVA Lab Newsletter #1:  Information and background\u2014  https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/19Ik9XughqqfcGISePLc-Hz1nCOoTCeXqMlR-y6wA-Rk\/edit?usp=sharing   \r\n\r\nStudent Websites:\r\nMake it 100\u2014Voter Registration Drive:  https:\/\/makeit100pv.wixsite.com\/website\r\nLiving Now\u2014Outdoors Brand   https:\/\/livingnowusa.com\r\nLiving Now Youtube site:  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC1RtqDxfMqF1SOkHnaYGOVQ\r\nVeraque Empathy Card Game Blog site:  https:\/\/thenovalabexperience.wordpress.com\/","Link":["http:\/\/www.pvhsnovalab.com\/"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"Students from our 1st-year innovation and open-source learning class will drive the conversation in response to audience questions about the successes and opportunities involved in launching a High School class based upon principles of Heutagogy, self-determined learning, and purpose-based learning.","Presenter":["Garreth J Heidt and Students"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Pekiomen Valley School District (High School)"],"PresenterEmail":["gheidt@pvsd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":140,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"A group of 6--8 students and their teacher will be the focus of this conversation.\r\n\r\nIf it is possible to schedule us on Sunday, that would be great as there is an AP Chemistry practice test on Saturday.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":9}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":9,"ScheduleLocationID":10},"total":6,"limit":false,"offset":false}