{"data":{"ID":369,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1384310937,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"What if Schools...","Handle":"What_if_Schools","ShortDescription":"Please join this conversation to imagine what is possible for schools and classrooms. \"What if Schools...\" is a prompt to encourage us to think beyond traditional models of school structure and strategy.  With each other as resources for innovation, we can develop new lenses through which we can imagine education.\r\n\r\nThe source of innovation is within each other, our experiences, and our ideas. Therefore, please join this opportunity to push for transformation of traditional school models.","Description":"\"What if schools...\" is a prompt for educators to tap into their own innovation and imagine what is possible within and beyond schools and classrooms. When teachers enter the profession, we face a tradition and paradigm of education that has merit, but also needs to be constantly modernized and rethought for the present age and the future. We can become mechanicized by the boundaries of the classroom, and we may not even consider what is else is possible, unless we start asking ourselves, \"What if...?\"\r\n\r\nThis conversation has many potential threads: 1) School structures, locations, and identities. 2) Equity in education. 3) Technology in education. 4) Instructional practices that should not be lost in the process of \"too much\" innovation. 5) Teaching beyond classroom walls and communities.\r\n\r\nBy encouraging people from many different backgrounds to brainstorm and collaborate, everyone should be able to walk away with an enriched sense of what schools and education are capable of.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This is completely intended to be a conversation. Whereas I may share some photos of different classrooms in which I have taught in America and in other countries, they would only be conversation starters. I would prefer to meet in a circle and have people work in small groups to collaborate and share ideas about the prompt, \"What if schools...\" \r\n\r\nIn addition, I would like to capture the ideas with either a twitter hashtag or a googledoc.\r\n\r\nAn ultimate goal is also to have a \"What if Schools...\" Wordpress blog. I would like to use some of the ideas from the session for a potential opening essay for the blog. Also, I would hope to solicit future writers for writing entries.","Presenter":["Luke Zeller"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA Beeber","School District of Philadelphia","Philadelphia Writing Project"],"PresenterEmail":["lzeller@slabeeber.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":36,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Thanks!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3}}