{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":326,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383149670,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Authentic Student Choice: Honors Senior Seminar at Hudson HSLT","Handle":"Authentic_Student_Choice:Honor_Senior_Seminar_HSLT","ShortDescription":"Give your classroom back to your students!\r\n\r\nWhen you give authentic choice and control to studentsm you let students learn on their own terms. Students get to digest what they learn rather than have it thrown at them. What happens when you give students control of what they learn, how they learn, and how they are assessed?","Description":"Giving students control gives them a chance at leadership and not simply being handed everything. Together we'll explore methods and processes for student choice in Hudson's Indisciplinary  Senior Seminar.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"We plan on making this a conversation by first giving a short explanation of the program, and then allowing guest to get a glimpse of what the senior seminar is. They'll see a gallery of our past work, and also experience how the flow of our discussions work.","Presenter":["Grace O'Keeffe","Sarah Shahata","Matthew Pressman","Racheal Rydell-Klages","Osvaldo Castillo","Omar Abreu","Keenan Edwards","Zainab Oni"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Hudson High School of Learning Technologies"],"PresenterEmail":["Gokeeffe@hudsonhs.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":25,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":381,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1386446309,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Standards, not Standardization","Handle":"Standards-not_Standardization","ShortDescription":"The phrase. Common Core, has been uttered so many times in the past 12 months that I think it might be the next 'word' added to the dictionary.  Having standards is not the same as standardization, the subtlety of which seems to be getting lost in the national conversation around Common Core and standards implementation.  Join me in a discussion surrounding standards implementation and the difficulties with standardizing instruction.","Description":"The phrase. Common Core, has been uttered so many times in the past 12 months that I think it might be the next 'word' added to the dictionary.  Having standards is not the same as standardization, the subtlety of which seems to be getting lost in the national conversation around Common Core and standards implementation.  Join me in a discussion surrounding standards implementation and the difficulties with standardizing instruction.","Link":["http:\/\/laufenberg.wordpress.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"A version of Focus\/Framing Questions - http:\/\/www.nsrfharmony.org\/protocol\/doc\/focus_framing_qs_ex.pdf","Presenter":["Diana Laufenberg"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Inquiry Schools"],"PresenterEmail":["dlaufenberg@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":27,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":340,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383274260,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Civic Knowledge: The School's Role in Democracy","Handle":"Civic_Knowledge:The_School-s_Role_in_Democracy","ShortDescription":"What is the school's role in imparting civic knowledge? To what extent should schools be passing along \"democratic knowledge?\" How can schools prepare children to participate in the democratic process?","Description":"\"A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to personal initiative and adaptability.\" --John Dewey , Democracy and Education\r\n\r\nPublic schools originally intended to create competent laborers and educated citizens. As more careers require more education and training, what is the public school's new role in civic education? How can we prepare our students to navigate the complicated world of democracy? How can we teach our students to independently seek out information and formulate their own opinions so that when they leave school they remain informed citizens?","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"Save the last word for ME with 2 readings (TBD)","Presenter":["Caitlin Nelson","Alia Bukhowa","Jasmine Knowles","Louis DiPaola","Randy Medina"],"PresenterAffiliation":["TFA\/Penn GSE"],"PresenterEmail":["Caitanelson@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":298,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1380718905,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Understanding, Intention and Awareness: Lessons for everyone from a therapeutic school","Handle":"Understanding-Intention_and_Awareness:Lessons_for_everyone_from_a_therapeutic_school","ShortDescription":"What does \"therapeutic school\" mean and how does it look? Learn how one small therapeutic school uses understanding, intention and awareness to do our best work, and how to apply frames and perspectives from therapeutic school to your own setting.","Description":"Centerpoint School is an independent, alternative, therapeutic school in northwest Vermont. We use the frame of understanding, intention and awareness to do our best work, while balancing each student's motivation, skill and capacity. Some of our other approaches include unconditional positive regard, paradoxical interventions, and collaborative problem-solving. Most of what we do at therapeutic school can be translated or adapted into public school settings and support \"mainstream\" kids. With the current focus in the media on \"character education,\" and the teaching of social-emotional skills, come see how one school is \"walking the talk\" and how you can too.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We'll base our conversation around storytelling, inquiry, and applying the frameworks of therapeutic school to our own work.","Presenter":["Alex Shevrin"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Centerpoint School"],"PresenterEmail":["alex.shevrin@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"I loved facilitating a conversation last year (The Other 18 Hours) and people seemed really intrigued by how we \"do school\" at a therapeutic school. Hoping to share my work & passion with everyone again this year!\r\n\r\nTwitter handle is @shevtech","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":347,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383346660,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Go to the Gemba","Handle":"Go_to_the_Gemba","ShortDescription":"Have you ever looked at your school experience through the eyes of a student?  Have you lived as a student for a day?  As educators, we are \"designers\" of the student experience, yet do we understand how the implications of our design directly impact our students?  In this session we will look at our schools through the lens of a student.  What can we do to make sure that we are designing the best possible learning environment for them?","Description":"Inspired by Deb Adler\u2019s talk at TedxRVA about her experiences as a designer and \u201cgoing to the gemba\u201d, I realized that we are \u201cdesigners\u201d of the student experience in our schools.  \u201cGemba\u201d is a japanese word that refers to the place where all the action happens.  As an academic technologist, my gemba is the student using technology in their classes.  Though I thought I knew what that looked like for our students, to be honest I wasn\u2019t sure. \r\n\r\nInspired by her talk, I embarked on a project in my school to find out what the actual student experience looks like.  We make decisions and changes based on what we think will make their experience more valuable, but is it really happening?  \r\n\r\nJoined by my colleagues, we set out to research our student technology experience in PK-12 to find out what is working and what changes need to be made.  We shadowed students for entire days and conducted surveys of students to see what their days were like. \r\n\r\nIn this session, we will share our findings as well as the way our project changed how we look at our role as designers, not just technology coordinators.","Link":["http:\/\/www.tinyurl.com\/educongemba"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"In this session, we will practice a \"gemba circle\" and reflect on the process of going to the gemba.  Each participant will leave with an action plan for designing their own gemba.","Presenter":["Carey Pohanka"],"PresenterAffiliation":["St. Christopher's School"],"PresenterEmail":["pohankac@stcva.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":35,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":3,"ScheduleLocationID":2},"total":5,"limit":false,"offset":false}