{"success":true,"data":[{"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":983,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1572393203,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Authentic Engagement Using Gameful Learning in HS English","Handle":"authentic_engagement_using_gameful_learning_in_hs_english","ShortDescription":"As HS instructors, our challenge is not distracted students, nor is it getting them motivated; our challenge is cultivating authentic engagement in curriculum. Students are focused and motivated - the evidence being their gaming practices, meaning the principles of good game design have lots to teach us as educators.","Description":"In this session, Jared Colley and Nick Dressler, both high school instructors, will share methods and practices they\u2019ve employed to make English class more gameful and more authentic when it comes to inspiring and assessing authentic learning. Come learn how using XP scoring, class battles, game narratives, personalized choice, and mastery-based grading have helped make subjects like Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, dystopian fiction, contemporary poetry (like Clint Smith) and the basics of writing composition more engaging because the curricular design is more human-focused as opposed to function-focused. Using a human designed framework that makes a distinction between stressful motivators (fear of loss, unpredictability, etc.) and empowering motivators (a sense of purpose, choice & agency, social influence), we\u2019ll provide examples (that are easily adaptable) of how to make class content more leaner-driven as opposed to curriculum-driven, of how to make grading more affirmation-based as opposed to punitive, and how to make student assessment more equitable by making it as much about process and progress as it is about the product. This is not a show-and-tell session though. The idea is to simulate such strategies by making the session gameful as well. Attendees will be assigned different character classes (such as \u201cthe wallflower\u201d; \u201cthe skeptic\u201d; \u201cthe explorer\u201d; \u201cthe inquisitor\u201d; and perhaps our favorite, \u201cthe synthesizer\u201d), thereby giving each person a role to play in our focused conversation that dives deep into the waters good curriculum\/game design.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"As stated above, all participants will be assigned or (given the opportunity to choose) a \"character class\" (in other words, a role to play in the interactive conversation we hope to inspire). We also plan to use a back channel where participants can up-vote or down-vote what topics they want us to cover in the limited time we have. Some of the options participants can vote up or down would be designing collaborative learning opportunities, creating more student choice, mastery-based grading, embedding content gamification vs. structural gamification, using XP grading systems, etc.","Presenter":["Jared Colley; Nick Dresseler"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Oakridge School; De Smet Catholic High School"],"PresenterEmail":["jcolley@theoakridgeschool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":134,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":9},{"ID":1004,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1572624534,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Building an Authentic Love of Reading","Handle":"building_an_authentic_love_of_reading","ShortDescription":"In our classroom, reading becomes an expression of our authentic self.  What books we choose to read can help us work through challenges or highlight interests.  What books we choose to share with others can become a sincere and meaningful form of communication and community building between sometimes awkward pre-adolescents.  We emphasize self-direction and self-actualization in our book choices and our reading styles.","Description":"At The Sage School, we use Reader\u2019s Workshop as a launching pad to build community and drive conversation.   Books help to develop social-emotional skills, encourage self-worth and breed an infectious love of reading throughout the school.  Teacher directed lessons take a back seat to classroom read alouds, \u201cbook sales\u201d and kid-driven activities about books they love.\r\n\r\nTo harness the power of reading at Sage, we have developed a wide variety of exciting and kid friendly book adventures.  With Reading Buddies, we partner up old and young students to share a school-wide read and discussion every Friday.  We used March Madness as a backdrop for a battle of the books extravaganza.  Students chose a book to champion and used Seesaw, Flipgrid and IMovie to create online book reports to share with a wide audience.  During this month long competition, students practiced talking about books and encouraged others to step outside their reading comfort zone.   \r\n\r\nIn class, students are responsible for maintenance and improvement of our burgeoning class library.  They organize and request titles, creative attractive displays and continually changing the inventory.   Most importantly, students share exciting finds early and often through our Book Sales program.  Students pitch new books to the group at least once per week and create waiting lists through which eager readers can work through titles.","Link":[],"Audience":["Elementary School"],"Practice":"After a short presentation, which will include a sample Book Sale of \u201cStart with Joy; Designing Literacy Learning for Student Happiness\u201d by Katie Egan Cunningham, we will dive into building a Book Recommendation Repository that can be accessed by different schools.  Hopefully, we can continue to build this as the year continues, encouraging our students to use it for future recommendations. Wouldn't it be great if we could connect different readers around the country?  Please bring a list of Book Titles you love for all ages!","Presenter":["Kaitlyn Cronin"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Sage School"],"PresenterEmail":["kcronin@sageschool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":134,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":9},{"ID":1031,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1572877481,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Culturally Responsive Teaching: Strategies for the K-12 Classroom","Handle":"culturally_responsive_teaching--strategies_for_the_k-12_classroom","ShortDescription":"This workshop will provide the space for educators to reflect on their own identities and how those identities show up in the classroom, impacting teaching and learning. Participants will gain valuable tools and strategies for curriculum development, classroom management, and family engagement with a culturally responsive lens. This conversation will be engaging, interactive, hands-on and fun!","Description":"Topics include culturally responsive pedagogy, understanding youth culture; culturally responsive practices in math and science; becoming a \u201cwarm demander\u201d teacher; integrating multicultural perspectives in curriculum, teacher training, coaching and peer support; and understanding \u201cwindows and mirrors\u201d as a curricular frame. We will begin by examining our own identities and the cultural lens we bring into the classroom, the spoken and unspoken cultural norms of school, and how to create cultures of freedom and liberation.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"This workshop will include activities, pair-shares, small group, and big group conversation. We believe that the wisdom is in the group and our role as facilitators is to create a generative space for conversation, learning and growth.","Presenter":["Jessy Molina and Toni Woodlon"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Friends School of Baltimore"],"PresenterEmail":["jmolina@friendsbalt.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":134,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":9},{"ID":1020,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1572656330,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Developing Best Practices for Budget-Conscious, Non-Proprietary Physical Computing & Robotics Courses","Handle":"developing_best_practices_for_budget-conscious-non-proprietary_physical_computing-robotics_courses","ShortDescription":"This hands-on conversation centers on our 18-year development of low-cost, non-proprietary Physical Computing & Robotics courses.  Ideal for new and experienced tech educators, successes and failures will be discussed.  You\u2019ll have access to all our curricular materials \u2013 including textbooks developed for the course \u2013 and have time to code Arduino-compatible robotics platforms.","Description":"\u201cSTEAM\u201d is a well-known buzz word in education today. Most schools have no problem satisfying the Science, Art, and Math portions of the acronym, but often struggle to include Technology and Engineering into the equation. Perhaps the biggest hurdle is finding a coherent curriculum that integrates them all while maintaining the thoroughness deserving of each discipline.  This conversation describes the 18-year development of the Physical Computing & Robotics (PC&R) curriculum at a grades 9-12 school in Bucks County, PA.  We will explain why the popular FIRST, LEGO, and VEX platforms did not fit within our long-range goals, and how a PC&R program can be started at a cost of roughly $200 per robotic platform and maintained with potentially no annual cost.  We will share our successes and failures and hope that others will do the same.\r\n\r\nParticipants will have time to write code to control non-proprietary, Arduino-compatible microcontrollers and robots.  These devices paved the way for the development of textbooks and a curriculum that integrates art, science, mathematics, and engineering under the technology envelope.  Participants will be given access to all the textbooks and curricular materials developed for our PC&R course, as well as a list of tools, laboratory equipment, and supplies that keeps costs low while providing every student with their own scalable, autonomous robotics platform.  For those who are just starting a robotics program and for those who would like to augment their existing program, we hope to foster discussions regarding which devices are considered indispensable, which are desirable, and which are luxuries.","Link":["https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/odomc","https:\/\/twitter.com\/PCRduino","https:\/\/www.pcrduino.com\/"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"After a conversation about the evolution of our Physical Computing & Robotics classes, participants will have time to write code to control microcontrollers and robots made available by the presenters.  Here, participants will learn how easy it is to read sensors, grab user data from the keyboard, control a tri-color LED, make a robot move, and program it to think.  During this hands-on session, we hope to sprout discussions regarding in-house hackathons, internal and external competitions, collaborations between students and across disciplines, STEAM curriculum, etc.  We believe that with thoughtful implementation, Physical Computing & Robotics can be fun and attractive to students without being flashy and gimmicky, and it can provide a pathway to the AP Computer Science Principles exam and future endeavors in college and in the workplace.","Presenter":["Chris D. Odom","Brian Patton","Howard M. Glasser"],"PresenterAffiliation":["George School"],"PresenterEmail":["codom@georgeschool.org","bpatton@georgeschool.org","hglasser@georgeschool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":134,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"The presenters have a combined 75 years of using, creating and teaching curricular content and materials in the STEAM fields at a variety of levels from elementary school to research university.  Chris\u2019 background originates in experimental physics and rocket science.  Brian started his career in biomedical research, holds 11 patents and is the founder of an educational robotics company.  Howard\u2019s background is in educational psychology and technology and currently serves as an Academic Technology Integrationist.  They all work at George School, a Quaker boarding\/day school in Newtown, PA.\r\n\r\nWe will be bringing curricular materials as well as ten robots and ten laptop computers (with software pre-loaded) for participants to code a microcontroller and experiment with physical computing during the hand-on portions of our conversation.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":9},{"ID":1016,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1572647156,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Emancipating Design and Thinking: School as Home of Opportunity","Handle":"emancipating_design_and_thinking--school_as_home_of_opportunity","ShortDescription":"Children dream big. Adults dream small, narrowing bandwidths of opportunity in front of children. Learning should widen bandwidth. Let\u2019s talk children\u2019s\u2019 hands-to-mind learning, adolescents\u2019 social learning, and the affirmation learning of teens transitioning to adulthood. Rad the room with imagination, inspiration, and insight. Push thinking. Let\u2019s emancipate thinking and design.","Description":"The biggest equity challenge we see to creating and sustaining school as a home of opportunity for all learners are roadblocks we humans build. \r\nWhat does a home of opportunity look like? Sound like? Feel like? In what ways are the values of opportunity represented in Space? Pedagogy? Culture? Time? Tools? What inspires community members to become architects of opportunity? What roles do young people and adults play in building and inhabiting such a home? How might people come together to design-up a home of opportunity? What school traditions should be scrapped? What\u2019s worth keeping? How does the community foster courageous and contagious creativity? How do you get radical invention of homes of opportunity  going in your own school community or district? Join us and we\u2019ll dream together and share how an OPTI worldview \u201copen to possibilities and transforming through imagination\u201d can help us weave together a narrative for homes of opportunity.  \r\nDina, Ira, and Pam will create a safe space for participants to play, design, and think together to explore the potential of school as home of opportunity- to  address all the gaps, create the desired states, and remove the barriers to doing what's needed to create rich, interesting, curiosity-amplified, healthy learning experiences for every single child.","Link":["https:\/\/medium.com\/@pammoran","https:\/\/medium.com\/@irasocol","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dina-sorensen-assoc-aia-leed-ap-a379785"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We aim to wildly use hands to mind build strategies, design, and open conversation to move participants into a popup community of thinkers and designers of what some deem impossible- school as home of opportunity.","Presenter":["Ira Socol","Dina Sorensen","Pam Moran"],"PresenterAffiliation":["socolmoran partners","Virginia School Consortium for Learning"],"PresenterEmail":["pammoran@socolmoran.com","irasocol@socolmoran.com","dmiris04@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":134,"ScheduleLocationID":6,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"need sound for video and projector -","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":9},{"ID":1021,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1572660484,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Engaging and Empowering ALL Students as Math Learners","Handle":"engaging_and_empowering_all_students_as_math_learners","ShortDescription":"No subject creates more anxiety for more students than mathematics. But why do so many kids of all ages have such an aversion to math, and what can we do about it? Let\u2019s collaborate to identify common causes of students' strained relationship with math, and brainstorm solutions.","Description":"This conversation will focus on identifying barriers to student engagement and empowerment in math, and brainstorming ways to remove those barriers. A main idea or premise for this conversation is that students\u2019 aversion to math is a response to common curriculum and instructional practices rather than a lack of ability to learn and enjoy math. Once that premise is established, the conversation will be driven by participants\u2019 experiences, perceptions, and biases, with the facilitator summarizing and synthesizing their ideas.","Link":["http:\/\/blogs.edweek.org\/teachers\/coach_gs_teaching_tips\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/davidginsburg1\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"A variety of approaches and activities will be used to generate provocative and productive conversation including: an opening prompt aimed at brainstorming barriers to student engagement and empowerment in math; an open-ended scenario featuring a common challenge for math teachers; quotes from leading math educators; and a problem-solving challenge that serves to replicate for participants some of the challenges students experience as math learners.","Presenter":["David Ginsburg"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Chicago Public Schools: Award-winning math teacher and coach (13 yrs); National instructional consultant and coach (11 years)"],"PresenterEmail":["dginsburg801@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":134,"ScheduleLocationID":18,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"I've led this conversation at NCTM and several other conferences, and have always gotten a great response!","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":1041,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1573512217,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Stories Behind the Stories: A Student Created Textbook","Handle":"stories_behind_the_stories--a_student_created_textbook","ShortDescription":"In this workshop, students and graduates from Jubilee School will present stories and illustrations from the textbook they have written, called \"Journey to the Core of the Twentieth Century\". They will discuss the learning process behind their work, and for the alumni, what it means to them years later. Workshop participants will discuss paths to discover under-told stories from their local and global communities, and will work together to find ways to make the stories known through writing and the arts.","Description":"Jubilee students in grades 5 and 6 have been researching, writing and illustrating pieces for a student-created textbook that they are publishing. In order to learn truths about their history, our students learn to dig below the surface and find under-told stories of African American courage, resistance and collective accomplishments. This builds a strong sense of the richness of their culture and their legacy, as well as their vital place in history.","Link":["http:\/\/jubileeschool.net"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"The whole presentational will be conversational. Lashe Miles, a graduate who was vitally involved in the formation of the textbook, will ask present and former Jubilee students questions about about the research, interviews, writing and illustrating they engaged in, and what impact the process it has had on them. Workshop attendees will be encouraged to ask questions throughout the presentation. After the presentation, discussion groups will be formed to come up with ideas for their students to engage in research about under-told stories from their own communities, or about the stories behind the stories in American and\/or world history. Participants will be encouraged to keep in touch with each other as their projects are tried out in their classrooms.","Presenter":["Karen Falcon","Jamila Carter"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Jubilee School"],"PresenterEmail":["kfalcon@jubileeschool.net"],"ScheduleSlotID":134,"ScheduleLocationID":4,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"A workshop similar to this was led by Jubilee alumni last summer, and was very well received. One teacher participant said it was especially meaningful to hear about the project directly from the students who were involved in it.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":9}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":9,"ScheduleSlotID":134},"total":9,"limit":false,"offset":false}