{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":371,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1384618971,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Building an Openly Licensed World Civilizations Curriculum","Handle":"Building_an_Openly_Licensed_World_Civilizations_Curriculum","ShortDescription":"In this working session, we will collect, organize, write, and\/or curate activities and materials to create a comprehensive, openly licensed World Civilizations curriculum.","Description":"The goal of this session will be to make progress toward a comprehensive World Civilization curriculum that is largely project based and inquiry driven. This session will build on the initial scaffolding created for the K12 Open Ed conference, where we assembled the initial building blocks of an openly licensed curriculum. The content of this session will be appropriate for all grade levels, and the time in the session will be focused on creating and making the curriculum.","Link":["http:\/\/funnymonkey.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"As described above, this session will be a working session. All participants will be researching, organizing, writing, and publishing. This work can begin before the session, and continue after the session. If this session is accepted, I will create communal workspaces in Google Docs for collaborators. \r\n\r\nThe goal of this session is to provide an opportunity for interested participants to meet face to face to continue work that began asynchronously.","Presenter":["Bill Fitzgerald"],"PresenterAffiliation":["FunnyMonkey"],"PresenterEmail":["bill@funnymonkey.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"If this conversation is accepted, I'll start reaching out to people almost immediately, and documenting different communication channels through which we ca work. Ideally, I'd love for the work of this session to begin before EduCon, and continue after Educon.","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":337,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383259562,"CreatorID":2244,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"College & Career Ready?  What does this really mean and look like?","Handle":"College-Career_Ready-What_does_this_really_mean_and_look_like","ShortDescription":"This conversation will about sharing a performance task based approach to teaching, learning, and assessing. Skills like effective communication, problem solving, analysis, and reasoning are the real characteristics of being prepared for life, work, and academic pursuits.  We'll see what it takes to develop these skills in our classrooms.","Description":"For the past 10 years the Council for Aid to Education (CAE) has been heavily invested in the schooling (K-12 and higher education) to working space.  Our work includes 10 years at the college level with our Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA+), an assessment of higher order critical thinking skills, and 7 years with high school members of the College and Work Readiness Assessment CWRA+) which assesses the same skills.  The assessments take a performance task and constructed response approach to measuring these skills.  \r\nThe roles, responsibilities, and activities undertaken in college, in the world of work, and life are simply not practiced in many classrooms.  We\u2019ll spend a few minutes discussing what preparation for college and life really looks like.  Our goal is to demonstrate how effective performance tasks in the classroom can be a bridge to inquiry and a means to foster critical thinking with our students. We will role play, form groups to build model performance task frameworks where skills like effective writing, problem solving & analysis, quantitative & scientific reasoning, critical reading & evaluation, and critiquing an argument may be assessed.","Link":["http:\/\/cae.org","https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1gL1OR58fc9ds9McjLux9BnRbYWSn_DqimeqIpMjd9Kk\/edit"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"We\u2019ll use a modified version of the 4a text protocol.\r\nWe\u2019ll reads a selected passage from Tony Wagner\u2019s The Global Achievement Gap book on testing and college readiness (chapter 3) text silently, and then respond to the prompts:\r\n\r\n\u2022 What Assumptions does the author of the text hold?\r\n\u2022 What do you Agree with in the text?\r\n\u2022 What do you want to Argue with in the text?\r\n\u2022 What parts of the text do you want to Aspire to?\r\nIn a round, each person will identify one of the A\u2019s, citing the text, and allowing for follow up questions and comments.\r\n\r\nWe\u2019ll end the round with an open question, like the one below.\r\n\r\nInitial discussion of the problem \u2013 too much classroom is time taken up preparing students for standardized tests that can be considered irrelevant when preparing students for future academic pursuits, the new world of work, and engaged citizenry.  Can we align classroom routines with assessment better? \r\n\r\nSession ends with shared Aspire statement, and commitment to collaborate on development of performance tasks developed by teams at participant schools.  We will facilitate this collaboration in late March.","Presenter":["Lee Finkelstein"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Council for Aid to Education","PAECT"],"PresenterEmail":["lfinkelstein@cae.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":14,"SubmitterID":2244,"AdditionalComments":"We will poll Educon attendees who may be members of current or past cwra's to learn if they'd be interested in co-facilitating with us.\r\nRegards, \r\nLee","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":334,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383243508,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Creating Communities of Care Among Diverse Learners","Handle":"Creating_Communities_of_Care_Among_Diverse_Learners","ShortDescription":"In this conversation, teachers and principals from Ashoka\u2019s Changemaker Schools Network will share specific strategies that they use to build community among diverse students, teachers, and families. Building community is one of the first steps in cultivating empathy and changemaker skills in students.","Description":"We all know how important school culture is to creating a strong learning community, but what are some specific ways that we can build empathy and care into our routines, curricula, and school systems? This is a question that we ponder often in Ashoka\u2019s Changemaker Schools Network, a community of traditional public, public charter, and private schools across the country that are finding innovative ways to educate students as empathic, collaborative leaders. In this fishbowl conversation, you will hear from teachers and principals at one traditional public, two public charters, and one private Changemaker School about approaches they use to build trust and empathy across difference. Specifically, we will discuss: how Academy for Global Citizenship in Chicago, IL is bridging school and community; how Mission Hill School in Boston, MA creates a culture of trust in its classrooms; how Prospect Sierra School in El Cerrito, CA teaches students about race and changemaking; and how Inspired Teaching School in Washington, DC equips teachers to create a caring school environment.","Link":["http:\/\/startempathy.org\/about\/changemaker-schools","http:\/\/startempathy.org\/"],"Audience":["Elementary School"],"Practice":"Following a brief introduction from each school, we will engage in a fishbowl conversation where everyone can ask questions and actively participate in the discussion. For the fishbowl conversation, five people sit in chairs in an inner circle and the remaining participants are arranged in a circle around them. Those in the inner circle will kick off the conversation, sharing how their school approaches creating communities of care. Throughout the 30 minute fishbowl conversation, any member of the audience can, at any time, join the fishbowl. When this happens, an existing member of the fishbowl must voluntarily leave the fishbowl and free a chair. The discussion continues with participants frequently entering and leaving the fishbowl. After 30 minutes, those not in the inner circle are invited to offer their thoughts and comments on what they are hearing in the inner circle. We will use the remaining time in four small groups, led by the Changemaker School representatives. We will generate a list of four topics that participants would like to explore more deeply after hearing the fishbowl conversation. We will spend about 35 minutes in these breakout groups. Each group will put together a poster illustrating one key take-away from their conversation about how they can create communities of care in their own school or context. One person from each group will briefly share the key take-away from their poster with the whole room, and we will wrap up the conversation highlighting the major themes uncovered.","Presenter":["Kathy Clunis D'Andrea","Mark Basnage","Jenni Schneiderman","Jenn Moore","Zoe Duskin","Sandra Hinderliter"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Ashoka"],"PresenterEmail":["shinderliter@ashoka.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":365,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1384034470,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Elementary, PBL & Public Schools. Is it possible?","Handle":"Elementary-PBL-Public_Schools-Is_it_possible","ShortDescription":"Is PBL just for grades 6-12? In this discussion we will challenge whether or not authentic problem based learning is possible in a public elementary school. We will look at three components: curriculum, aesthetics and norms and flesh out each component to arrive at a working model of PBL in an elementary environment.","Description":"Problem and Project based learning is often practiced in grades 6-12, but rarely in grades K-5. Our essential question is, how can students at an earlier developmental age gain the foundation of literacy and math skills in a true PBL,K-5 setting? Is the design of a true PBL classroom developmentally appropriate for this age group and for public schools? This will be a hands-on, minds-on session that will examine and then construct curriculum,  aesthetics and norms. Come ready to share, build and challenge.","Link":["http:\/\/pottsedtech.blogspot.com"],"Audience":["Elementary School"],"Practice":"This will be a conversation that will take place in a large and then smaller groups. The larger group will be used for identifying pros and cons associated with such a learning environment, details for consideration and determine a goal for the end product. Then, the smaller groups will focus on the details of fruition; one group will construct the aesthetics, one construct the essential elements of the curriculum and the other discuss how norms need to be structured in a K-5 PBL school. Participants will organically come to see how each group's mission is intertwined. Google docs will be used for collaboration, construction tools (such as poster boards, blocks, etc.) will be used for building. Twitter will be used to share out conversation pieces and constructed visuals. The conversation will end with participants sharing what ideas from the session they will bring back to their colleagues (our form of a \"do now\").","Presenter":["Diana Potts"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Lambertville Public School","NJEA (consultant)"],"PresenterEmail":["pottsedtech@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":6,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"This proposal comes from the want to see more elementary focused discussions on the menu of conferences like Educon. It also comes from a discussion recently had with an educator asking the same question, \"is a public K-5 elementary school really possible?\" As an educator who sits on the elementary\/middle school fence of practice, I've wanted to see more elementary focused sessions that engage educators of this specific, earlier developmental age group and challenges traditional, elementary pedagogy. This is the right place to do so.","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":324,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383097483,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Empowering Student Voice in the Humanities Classroom:  Creating Space for Meaningful Discourse","Handle":"Empowering_Student_Voice_in_the_Humanities_Classroom:Creating_Space_for_Meaningful_Discourse","ShortDescription":"Humanities classrooms hold vast potential for rich discourse. This connects students to each other and their world, and also encourages intellectual curiosity, and life-long learning. Empowering student voice is an intricate and involved pedagogical practice, and yet so vital to creating safe and dynamic classroom spaces. Be prepared to craft many ideas and strategies to deepen teaching and learning in your humanities classroom.","Description":"In addition to the above, we are looking to build a bank of ideas worth spreading...ways to encourage and sustain student voice and this notion of empowerment. We also will cover how to build students' social consciousness as they feel more in control over their learning, and more confident in themselves as game changers beyond the classroom walls.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"This session will be comprised of a panel discussion followed by a workshop. Participants will be exchanging & workshopping ideas, and building a resource for the group to access these strategies after Educon is over.","Presenter":["Alexa Dunn (SLA) & UPenn GSE\/TFA Teachers"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA\/UPenn"],"PresenterEmail":["adunn@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":12,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Chris was ok with scheduling UPenn\/TFA sessions for Saturday.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":305,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1381800731,"CreatorID":337,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Face-to-Face With Our Public","Handle":"Face-to-Face_With_Our_Public","ShortDescription":"It's no longer enough for educators to engage our students; if we believe in the mission of meaningful public education for all, we must directly engage with the public as a whole. Come to this conversation to brainstorm about how we can best do that!","Description":"For too long, educators' voices have been ignored in the debates over contentious issues in education policy: standardized testing, school finance, curricula and standards, privatization of schools, and more. It's time that we take our knowledge, our passion, and our beliefs about the meaning of public education to the public directly - not just through op-eds and social media, but through face-to-face, direct, and most importantly personal engagement. This conversation will be a place for us to discuss the strategies for engagement, and tactics that can facilitate those strategies (e.g., what allies do we have to facilitate such meetings? what type of presentation will be most effective?) for reaching out to our natural allies: parents and interested citizens.","Link":["http:\/\/hyperbolicguitars.wikispaces.com\/Educon+2.6+-+Face-to-Face+With+Our+Public"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This will truly be a brainstorming session, where interesting and useful ideas will be collected and transferred to a public wiki (open during the session). The goal will be to create a strategy for engagement with the public, with specific tactics also enumerated on the wiki.","Presenter":["Mike Thayer"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Summit Public Schools"],"PresenterEmail":["michael.r.thayer@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":11,"SubmitterID":337,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":380,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1386445479,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Facilitating Change in Traditional Settings","Handle":"Facilitating_Change_in_Traditional_Settings","ShortDescription":"Creating new schools is one way to introduce a more modern pedagogy, but most systems need to facilitate change in existing traditional systems.  Join us for a conversation around how to facilitate that change, share stories of what's working and brainstorm possible pathways for making change in the traditional systems and structures of school.","Description":"Creating new schools is one way to introduce a more modern pedagogy, but most systems need to facilitate change in existing traditional systems.  Join us for a conversation around how to facilitate that change, share stories of what's working and brainstorm possible pathways for making change in the traditional systems and structures of school.","Link":["http:\/\/scienceleadership.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"","Presenter":["Diana Laufenberg","Chris Lehmann"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy and Inquiry Schools"],"PresenterEmail":["dlaufenberg@gmail.com","clehmann@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":13,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":283,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1377869219,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"I'm the Other Woman! - Finding Yourself Online","Handle":"I-m_the_Other_Woman--_Finding_Yourself_Online","ShortDescription":"More and more headlines creep in of educators being fired for their online postings. We walk a fine line between being our true self and being our \"image\". Why? Do we need \"professional\" social media accounts and personal ones? What is our responsibility as educators online today? Let's talk!","Description":"How can educators be transparent when we are repetitively told to conform to a fictitious model of \"good\" constructed by society? For years we have encouraged educators to separate their personal and professional lives online. In a world where every search and online interaction is connected, it's becoming increasingly difficult to do. Should we even be doing it any more? Extending the conversation from the opening panel, how can educators be honestly and freely transparent today?\r\n\r\nMany argue we are creating fake images of ourselves that even we can't live up to. We share the good, the great, and the wonderful, but rarely the down and dirty process. In doing so, we create these mythical creatures of perfection and bliss. What we share and present online is so very far from the reality we live and breathe. As educators, we know students are always watching but does that deny us the right to be \"true\" online? What should (or shouldn't) we post online, and why?","Link":["http:\/\/www.bigpurplehat.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This could be done well using a dual Chalk Talk with opposing views on opposing sides of the room (wall mounted paper for each side). All participants contribute to both sides with ideas, rebuttals, and even a little devil's advocate. Conversation recorded and used to create a collaborative document of \"social media guiding ideas for educators.\"\r\n\r\nThe following links are blog postings from the last couple of years that offer varying perspectives on this issue.\r\n\r\nFrom Will Richardson\r\nhttp:\/\/weblogg-ed.com\/2009\/leadership-transparency\/\r\n\r\nDean Shareski\r\nhttp:\/\/ideasandthoughts.org\/2013\/07\/24\/understanding-sharing\/\r\nhttp:\/\/ideasandthoughts.org\/2013\/08\/26\/the-mixed-message-of-digital-citizenship\/\r\n\r\nGeorge Couros\r\nhttp:\/\/georgecouros.ca\/blog\/archives\/1810","Presenter":["Kristy Vincent"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Hardin ISD"],"PresenterEmail":["kvpurplelife@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":16,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":"Ideally Dean Shareski will co-facilitate this conversation. At this time he cannot fully commit to attending.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":330,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383190615,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"MakerEd Design Sprint","Handle":"MakerEd_Design_Sprint","ShortDescription":"Move beyond a shopping list version of Maker Culture and design projects for \"Monday, not someday.\"  With the support of veteran educators with MakerEd experience, participants will form small teams for MakerEd design sprints that bring everyone\u2019s expertise and esoteric knowledge to bear on challenging topics for your class, grade or faculty.","Description":"For schools to harness the potential of MakerCulture and digital fabrication, those principles and experiences can't stay cooped up in isolated labs or electives. \r\n\r\nLike great PBL, MakerEd requires preparation that's at odds with traditional classroom instruction and planning. \u201cCelebrate excellent mistakes\u201d make a great bumper sticker, but shaping your classroom around divergent, and sometimes dubious, student-led investigations can be terrifying. Our session confronts that reality, and reminds every teacher that they don\u2019t have to solve all those problems on their own, all at once.\r\n\r\nThat's what Educon is for.  \r\n\r\nTaking advantage of this unique environment of bold and creative educators, a group of MakerEd veterans will develop open inquiry based prompts to match specific subjects, grades and materials. This isn't a \"which 3D printer is best\" session, but a collaborative planning session to build generative, productive scaffolding for investigation in a specific classroom, using the materials, tools and resources already available.\r\n\r\nThink of it as a workshop or bootcamp or Iron Chef for architects of student inquiry. Each prompt will turn into a robust MakerEd \"lesson plan\" that focuses on the brass tacks of managing a sprawling inquiry driven classroom.","Link":["http:\/\/tieandjeans.com","http:\/\/geekymomblog.com","http:\/\/inventtolearn.com","http:\/\/k12makers.org\/maker-promptssprint\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Our conversation starts with a post-it wall of potential projects. We\u2019re equally ready to tackle the fundamental shifts of MakerEd homerooms and the challenging edge cases of content teachers looking to enhance student choice within the confines of standards and assessment.\r\n\r\nWe\u2019ll form teams of 3-5 educators, with one of the conversation leads in each one. This includes Laura Blankenship, Andrew Carle, Sylvia Martinez, Lindsey Own and as many others from #makered and #dtk12 as will fit in the room. \r\n \r\nOur planning format focuses on these five essential components:\r\n\r\nPrompt: What's the challenge in its most elegant post-it note form? \r\nParticipants: Who is doing this thing and when? Is it students in your class or a faculty meeting?\r\nMaterials: What are the baseline materials that participants NEED to get started? How can you reach out to organizations for access to \u201cdream\u201d tools and materials?\r\nSupport: Where can you find allies for this work within your school? How can your PLN activley support you and your students during the project? \r\nAudience: What happens when things are done? Who, besides you and the student, will offer meaningful feedback on the work?\r\n\r\nAll lessons created live and collaboratively will be immediately posted to k12makers.org, inviting open reuse, extension and remixing. More importantly, each lesson will have a unique conversation tag, so that teachers can find peers and cohorts interested in exploring particular projects.","Presenter":["Andrew Carle","Laura Blankenship","Jim Tiffin Jr","Sylvia Martinez"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["andrewcarle@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":339,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383265054,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Read This! Watch This! Do This!","Handle":"Read_This-Watch_This-Do_This","ShortDescription":"Let\u2019s have a conversation about the landscape of online learning for students and faculty. In this session, online learning experiences will be shared and analyzed.","Description":"Questions for discussion:\r\nCan online learning be a carbon copy of offline learning?  Should it be?\r\nHow can MOOCs work in a K-12 environment?or can they?\r\nHow can MOOCs be used for faculty professional development (Conference 2.0)?\r\nDoes the online environment work for specific content types? \r\nHow much asynchronous vs. synchronous does one need in an online environment?\r\nWhat are ways to be collaborative in an online environment?\r\nHow do you bring the outside in?\r\nWhen do you bring the outside in?\r\nHow can you assess online learning experiences?\r\nWhat is the future of online education?","Link":["http:\/\/donbuckley.info","http:\/\/lucygrayconsulting.com\/","http:\/\/karenblumberg.com"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"We hope to discuss and establish protocols and guidelines for creating and assessing effective online learning opportunities.","Presenter":["Don Buckley","Lucy Gray","Karen Blumberg"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Tools at Schools LLC","Lucy Gray Consulting","The School at Columbia University"],"PresenterEmail":["donbuckley@gmail.com","elemenous@gmail.com","karenblumberg@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":15,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":"Thank you!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":377,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1386127113,"CreatorID":1,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Starting from scratch (sort of): bringing old ideas of inquiry and project based learning to life in a new building.","Handle":"Starting_from_scratch-sort_of-:bringing_old_ideas_of_inquiry_and_project_based_learning_to_life_in_a_new_building","ShortDescription":"Two co-founders of The Workshop School, a new public high school in Philadelphia, will lead a conversation about what project based learning looks and feels like when you have a chance to start a school.  Simon Hauger, principal and co-founder, will talk briefly about the thrills and tensions of being a teacher at heart while working as a school district administrator in a new school; Michael Clapper, teacher and co-founder, will talk briefly about the thrills and tensions of trying to start a new school from a seat in a classroom.","Description":"Two co-founders of The Workshop School, a new public high school in Philadelphia, will lead a conversation about what project based learning looks and feels like when you have a chance to start a school.  Simon Hauger, principal and co-founder, will talk briefly about the thrills and tensions of being a teacher at heart while working as a school district administrator in a new school; Michael Clapper, teacher and co-founder, will talk briefly about the thrills and tensions of trying to start a new school from within a classroom.   \r\nThere are multiple areas where we\u2019re making progress but would like to discuss with this audience: \r\nSimon Hauger \r\n1.\t Great \u2013 I\u2019ve made it as a teacher. Now I\u2019m a principal. Sigh.  What are the ways in which I\u2019ve tried to bring my teaching practice to my new staff?  How do I support teachers teaching within a brand new model?  \r\n2.\tOne of the joys of the project based approach is the unexpected places the students travel to.  But planning is critical, right?  As a leader, how do I help teachers as they plan new projects and units? How do I balance the need for planning with the freedom necessary for projects to develop in unique ways?     \r\nMichael Clapper \r\n3.\tGreat \u2013 I\u2019ve made it as a teacher.  Now I get to teach in the way I\u2019ve always wanted.  Hooray!  What are some of the new discoveries I\u2019ve made alongside my students about the rewards and struggles of project based learning?   \r\n4.\tOne major tension any school feels around project based learning is where the academics come from?  What are the new ways we\u2019ve found as a school to demonstrate the efficacy of this approach?   How have we succeeded and where do we need help?","Link":["http:\/\/www.workshopschool.org"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"We are going to present two ideas each.  We\u2019re going to talk briefly about our experiences of starting the school by describing a tension we\u2019ve felt in our past experiences and how we\u2019ve attempted to resolve it this year.  Once we\u2019ve presented, audience members will have the option to offer advice or feedback, or to relay a story from their own experiences (we will ask them to identify which strand they wish to address).   We will try to alternate types of comments from the audience, with a goal of generating two texts: one, a list of advice\/feedback to be shared later, and two, a list of the common stories that emerge from starting a school.","Presenter":["Simon Hauger","Michael Clapper"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Workshop School"],"PresenterEmail":["simon.hauger@workshopschool.org","michael.clapper@workshopschool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":4,"SubmitterID":1,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":345,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383337494,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Mindful Teacher","Handle":"The_Mindful_Teacher","ShortDescription":"Most professional development is geared toward supporting our students, but what are ways can we support ourselves? By introducing practices such as meditation and mindful awareness, we will explore how to manage our stresses to be more present for students.  Discussion will also include how to share these practices school-wide.","Description":"Through my professional development work, classes at Naropa University's Contemplative Education Master's program, and my own practice, I am working with a Professor of Education and the Director of Counseling from Bowdoin College, my school's Dean of Students, and the President of Chewonki, to create a 4-day institute for educators next summer.  This institute is geared toward building mindfulness skills, enhanced self-awareness and the development of collegial support as pathways to a more balanced and sustainable commitment to working in education.  I would like to bring some of the program work to educon via a mini \u201cretreat-style\u201d conversation.\r\n\r\nAs teachers, we often feel guilty or unprofessional when we experience strong emotions in the classroom, and often feel we have to hide or ignore our worries. This results in a high turnover rate in education. However, these stresses and emotions can be seen not as something to avoid but as tools to help us become more aware of ourselves and therefore more present for our students. Using hands-on techniques like meditation and mindful awareness, in conjunction with brain research on stress, this workshop is designed to give teachers tangible tools to manage the myriad emotions that can come with teaching.\r\n\r\nIt is imperative that teachers have a community to reinforce this work. Time will be devoted to discussing ways teachers can bring these practices to their schools.  I will share how I\u2019ve created a \u201cmindful morning\u201d before school program for faculty and a \u201cyoga-tation\u201d activity for middle schoolers, combining yoga and meditation.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This workshop is designed to be hands-on and conversational. We will introduce some practices, and then discuss what 'came up' for individuals.  As each person has a different teaching experience\/background, we can then brainstorm ways they can use this tools in their schools, and how they can share these practices with colleagues.  My goal is to create a mini retreat within the conference, as it is hard to understand the practices without having felt their effect first-hand.","Presenter":["Sarah Macdonald","Lydia Maier"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Waynflete School","Portland","ME"],"PresenterEmail":["smacdonald@waynflete.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":5,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":306,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1381871531,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Right Tool for the Job: Promoting Student Choice","Handle":"The_Right_Tool_for_the_Job:Promoting_Student_Choice","ShortDescription":"In this session we will talk about how to manage a classroom so that students can be in charge of their own learning. We will look at how teachers can use technology to encourage student choice and explore how to manage a classroom where students are sometimes using different tools.","Description":"Progressive educators are still wrestling with the idea of what the relationship between progressive ideals and technology is. At our school we work to be very thoughtful that our technology program is meaningful, child centered and projects are process oriented. We encourage students to assess their learning and choose the tools that are best for them. \r\n\r\nIn this session we will explore how to manage a classroom so that students can be in charge of their own learning. We will look at how teachers can use technology to differentiate their instruction and encourage student choice. We will look at different tools students can use for note taking and project creating and will suggest language educators can use to create this empowering classroom environment.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"In this session we will learn together as a group. Participants will be guided on how to identify their own dominant learning style(s) (ie. linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, spatial, interpersonal, interpersonal or\/and naturalistic). Participants will then break up into learning style groups and try out tools that support their learning style. They will share resources and ideas in a wiki of how to teach for students of that learning style. We will end the session with a discussion of how to manage a classroom that supports students of many learning styles and I will share some of examples of ways we\u2019re doing this at my school.\r\nParticipants will leave the session with access to the wiki which will have resources on how to support a variety of learning styles.","Presenter":["Kim Deveaux"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Ethical Culture School"],"PresenterEmail":["Kim.Deveaux1@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":"Thank you for considering my proposal! I attended the conference last year and really enjoyed it!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":3,"ScheduleSlotID":28},"total":15,"limit":false,"offset":false}