{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":331,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383201014,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Cultivating Connections with the Arts","Handle":"Cultivating_Connections_with_the_Arts","ShortDescription":"Students find multiple avenues for expression through the Arts! Join this conversation to explore how the Arts enhance learning and create connections in traditional and inquiry-based lessons. Discussion will include research-based inquiry models, interdisciplinary connections, and how to incorporate the Arts, even when outside your comfort zone.","Description":"With a focus on the process of learning and reflection in today's classroom, the ability to express oneself and communicate becomes an essential piece of the process. Students find multiple avenues for expression through the Arts! \r\nJoin this conversation to explore how the Arts enhance learning and create connections in traditional and inquiry-based lessons. Discussion will include research-based inquiry models, interdisciplinary connections, and how to incorporate the Arts, even when outside your comfort zone. You don't have to be a music, art, or theater specialist to enrich your students' experiences with the Arts! Together, we\u2019ll create some strategies and lesson ideas to take back to your classroom\/school immediately.","Link":["http:\/\/avenue4learning.com","https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/artsedconnection\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Conversation Protocol: \"What? So What? Now What?\"\r\nAdditionally, we'll create a Google Document to capture our discussion points and share on the \"Cultivating Connections with the Arts\" Google Site. Twitter and\/or TodaysMeet will be used as a backchannel.","Presenter":["Michelle Baldwin"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Anastasis Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["michellek107@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":25,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":344,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383336337,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Teaching in the Connected Learning Classroom","Handle":"Teaching_in_the_Connected_Learning_Classroom","ShortDescription":"Teaching in the Connected Learning Classroom brings together examples of classroom practice and curates them into a collection looking at the principles of Connected Learning woven throughout. Unique in its focus of in-school examples, this ebook and related conversation acknowledges the emerging nature of this work, inviting inquiry and exploration.","Description":"Teaching in the Connected Learning Classroom, a new ebook published by the MacArthur Foundation, is edited by a group of National Writing Project (NWP) educators and takes examples of practice that teachers have shared online at the NWP Digital Is website and curates them into a larger collection looking at the principles of Connected Learning woven throughout classroom work and practices. Unique in its focus of in-school examples of connected learning, this ebook does not focus on the idea of \u201cbest practices\u201d but instead acknowledges the emerging nature of this work and invites inquiry and exploration into the ways that teachers are working and why. Connected Learning itself -- a set of design and teaching principles that have emerged by watching how youth learn in digitally rich and networked environments where they are supported in pursuing their passions and interests -- arguably also provides a pathway for increased teacher-as-learner agency in teaching. In this conversation then, five urban educators whose work is highlighted in this collection (including three from Philadelphia!), invite you into a conversation about Connected Learning through the lens of our own passions and practices and consider the possibilities and potentials of this work and framework.","Link":["http:\/\/digitalis.nwp.org\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This session will be organized to be highly participatory. Ideas include:\r\n* Starting with a short making\/hacking activity that helps us refresh our brains and feel\/remember\/engage with our own agency in the room together\r\n* Small group reading of sections of the ebook collection followed by jigsawed sharing with the whole group.\r\n* Discussion\/remix activity of some sort (integrating CL in your work)","Presenter":["Christina Cantrill","Danielle Filipiak","Antero Garcia (virtual)","Larissa Pahomov","Meenoo Rami","Robert Rivera-Amezola"],"PresenterAffiliation":["National Writing Project and associated partners"],"PresenterEmail":["ccantrill@nwp.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":27,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":"Just a little more about the team in case helpful ...\r\n\r\nLarissa Pahmohov, Meenoo Rami, Robert Rivera-Amezola are all Philadelphia teachers whose work is featured in this ebook collection.\r\n\r\nAntero Garcia (virtual from Colorado State University WP) and Danielle Filipiak are both editors of the collection, Antero being the lead. Danielle is also an urban educator and her work is also featured.\r\n\r\nChristina Cantrill is the co-director of the NWP Digital Is project and is staff at NWP.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":361,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383765181,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Empowering Critical Relationships with Media","Handle":"Empowering_Critical_Relationships_with_Media","ShortDescription":"Your students are spending more time consuming media than any activity other than sleep.  This conversation will center on how understanding and applying a hierarchy of consumption, critical analysis, and creation of media can help teachers determine the most beneficial uses of and approaches to media in the classroom.","Description":"For the first time, the American Academy of Pediatrics\u2019 guidelines about children\u2019s screen time have changed to acknowledge a distinction between \u201centertainment\u201d screen time which should be limited, and educational and \"active\" screen time that can be beneficial. There is a place and means in every grade and subject area to help students become more thoughtful consumers and creators of media. This conversation will leverage the collective wisdom and varied experiences of the attendees to help us all better define empowering media experiences for our students.","Link":["http:\/\/www.roughcutschools.org"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"This conversation will be guided by Josh Weisgrau and Douglas Herman of Rough Cut Schools, as well as current and former SLA students who have made the critical leap from consumers to creators of media. \r\n\r\nRough Cut Schools hopes to inspire a critical and creative approach to consuming and creating media for all students that will lead to an empowered relationship with media in an overwhelmingly mediated society.","Presenter":["Douglas Herman and Josh Weisgrau"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Rough Cut Schools"],"PresenterEmail":["doug@roughcutschools.org","josh@roughcutschools.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Doug teaches Video and Photography here at SLA and founded Rough Cut Productions, SLA\u2019s student media production crew. Josh teaches Digital Literacy and is an Instructional Technologist at Friends\u2019 Central School.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":383,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1386685776,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Reading Writing Workshop gone Digital","Handle":"Reading_Writing_Workshop_gone_Digital","ShortDescription":"Come hear from SLA students and their teaching team about the joys, challenges, and lessons of adopting a workshop model for English class\u2014including thoughts about how to bring the traditional model into the digital age.","Description":"At the start of this school year, my 10th graders agreed to embark on a grand experiment with me -- to turn our English class into a self-directed workshop for reading and writing. Students pick their own independent reading books, and also decide what they most needed to write, and the lessons would grow organically out of their choices. This model has been described plenty \u2013 notably by Nancie Atwell, whose book \u201cIn the Middle\u201d provided much inspiration \u2013 but at SLA, we are taking the next step by integrating digital tools, as well as scaling the model up for larger class sizes. Come hear from students and their teaching team about the joys, challenges, and lessons of building a class together.  The ideas we have to share about inquiry and self-directed learning apply to any and all disciplines.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"Students from the class will be the primary facilitators of this conversation. Discussion will happen both as one group and in breakouts. The session will also provide space for attendees to identify where they could incorporate these practices into their own classroom or school.","Presenter":["Larissa Pahomov"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["lpahomov@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":359,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383761308,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Interdisciplinary Learning in Heterogenous Math and Science Classes","Handle":"Interdisciplinary_Learning_in_Heterogenous_Math_and_Science_Classes","ShortDescription":"This conversation will focus on the ongoing development of an interdisciplinary curriculum involving math and physics.","Description":"As math and science teachers, we regularly set the goal of creating more interdisciplinary learning opportunities for our students. This conversation will focus specifically on the design and implementation of interdisciplinary projects and lessons. SLA's math and science teachers will facilitate a discussion aimed at strategizing how to support student growth in simultaneous, overlapping classes.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"Conversational Protocol; shared discussion on obstacles and strategies.","Presenter":["Brad Latimer","Rosalind Echols","Erin Garvey"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["egarvey@scienceleadership.org","rechols@scienceleadership.org","blatimer@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":35,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Google form: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/kkp5dg9\r\n\r\nFolder of Resources: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ny24gn7","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"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}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":3,"ScheduleLocationID":8},"total":6,"limit":false,"offset":false}