{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":358,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383759448,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Advisory and the College Admissions Process","Handle":"Advisory_and_the_College_Admissions_Process","ShortDescription":"SLA counselors, Karina Hirschfield and Zoe Siswick, will discuss the role of the advisor in the college process.","Description":"SLA counselors, Karina Hirschfield and Zoe Siswick, will discuss the role of the advisor in the college process. As the college counselor, Karina shares important information and announcement with advisors such that they can disseminate it to the students in smaller groups. The advisors then guide their advisees through the process with a watchful eye and a great deal of oversight. Karina will share the benefits to this system from a counselor's role. As a former senior advisor, Zoe will share the benefits as an advisor. Student TBD?","Link":[],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"Roundtable dialogue, sharing of best practices","Presenter":["Zoe Siswick","Karina Hirschfield","Alums TBD?"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["zsiswick@scienceleadership.org","khirschfield@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":304,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1381454105,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Augmented Awesomeness: Augmented Reality in the Classroom","Handle":"Augmented_Awesomeness:Augmented_Reality_in_the_Classroom","ShortDescription":"5th-8th graders came together on Wednesdays to experiment with a promising application, Aurasma, that makes creating interactive experiences a snap through layering virtual objects over images in the Greene Street Library. What was gained from this experiment? How can you harness the potential of augmented reality in your school?","Description":"Aurasma (www.aurasma.com) is a FREE app for iOS and Android devices that brings the potential of augmented reality into your hands. Intuitive and simplified, with Aurasma you can begin to layer virtual objects (videos, animations, pop-ups, links, etc.) over trigger images in your camera's view. Think QR Codes, but instead of those squares, actual art and full scale images. At Greene Street Friends School in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, a \"Choices\" group (synonymous with electives) of 5th-8th graders spent their Wednesday afternoons experimenting with the application within the GSFS Library. As more schools come to embrace BYOD and 1-to-1 technology integration models, teachers and administrators can find innovative ways to use this technology to engage and interest students, create new outlets for students to display and reflect upon their work, and also redefine the way that students can interact with print texts. Students from the project shall be on hand to discuss their experience, what they enjoyed, and the potential pitfalls.\r\n\r\nTIP: We will make available iPads for those who do not have an Aurasma capable device already. However, if you do, I would suggest downloading the app in advance of the Conversation for our Make-n-Take plans.\r\n\r\nEDIT: (12\/16\/2013) I'm working on my presentation using a Google Document that is open for comments. Feel free to ask questions, make suggestions, etc. in this document. http:\/\/bit.ly\/educonAR\r\n\r\nUPDATE (1\/23\/2014): Rethinking the use of Twitter and will continue to use Google Doc (http:\/\/bit.ly\/educonAR) through the presentation. Added some info over the weekend and changed the setting to allow editing from everyone.\r\n\r\nUPDATE (1\/24\/2014): Added Presentation Slides: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1eYdzWd","Link":["http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/edinterwebs","https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/communities\/114687849554484156659"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We plan to have iPads on hand for conversation participants to experiment live with Aurasma and create their first augmented reality experience.  Students shall act as group leaders. Backchannel conversation will be funneled through GoogleDocs to create a collaborative resource take-away.","Presenter":["Christopher Rogers"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Greene Street Friends School","Philly Connected Learning Group"],"PresenterEmail":["crogers.greenestreet@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":6,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":"WiFi Connectivity for the iPads will be necessary for the app demonstration.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":320,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383068703,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"BYO BYO (Build Your Own Bring Your Own)","Handle":"BYO_BYO-Build_Your_Own_Bring_Your_Own","ShortDescription":"We describe the work done to prepare for a successful 1-1 laptop roll-out this year at The Baldwin School.  We will identify the biggest challenges we faced, describe how we faced them, and encourage audience members to share their own strategies.","Description":"Last year, a group of faculty at The Baldwin School began meeting informally to talk about teaching with technology.  We decided the main obstacle keeping us from moving forward was a lack of access for too many of our students and a culture that viewed technology as either an encroachment (faculty) or entertainment (students). A 1:1 program, we decided, could change both.  We formed an ad-hoc 1:1 group, and then, through a very grass roots process, we decided on a platform and a process for implementing this program.  We built our own hybrid bring your own device program.  It was the collaborative grass-roots nature of the process that we credit with the success of the implementation.   We faced many challenges, including gaining buy-in from all constituencies, choosing a platform, aligning the technology choices with our pedagogy, managing costs, and handling upgrades to our technology infrastructure.  We will share our approach to these challenges, showing how we came out relatively unscathed on the other side.  Through group conversation, we will ask attendees share their own approaches to tackling technology initiatives.","Link":["http:\/\/geekymomblog.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"For the conversation piece, we will have attendees in small groups think about a big technology initiative that might be on the horizon or that they have just gone through.  We would ask them to think through what the process might look like when working with a faculty group.  Who would they include in that group? What are the pain points and how would the group address them? How would the group involve the administration? Students? Parents? How will the group reflect on the process and improve it? What role will the group have in maintaining the change they initiate? Groups will share their conversations. We want attendees to leave with a better idea for how small groups of faculty can effect institutional change by working together and by thinking institutionally together.  We hope they will go home with a plan of who they might gather together and what questions they might start asking.\r\n\r\n [Google Doc Handout] (http:\/\/goo.gl\/hcC5fx)\r\n[Our Notes] (http:\/\/goo.gl\/zGPc48)\r\n[Decision Diagram](http:\/\/goo.gl\/2aJQ5f)\r\n[Decision Flow Chart](http:\/\/goo.gl\/JX0TxS)","Presenter":["Laura Blankenship","Jeffrey Goldader"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Baldwin School"],"PresenterEmail":["lblankenship@baldwinschool.org","jgoldader@baldwinschool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":5,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":360,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383763814,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Depth, Inquiry, and Authenticity in traditionally hierarchical content areas","Handle":"Depth-Inquiry-and_Authenticity_in_traditionally_hierarchical_content_areas","ShortDescription":"How do you get students thinking on a deep level with surface level skills? How do you get to the interesting questions and meaningful activities when you're learning primary skills?\r\n\r\nIn other words, how can we encourage students to play Mozart (or feel like they are), when they only know Chopsticks?","Description":"How do you get students thinking on a deep level with surface level skills? How do you get to the interesting questions and meaningful activities when you're learning primary skills?\r\n\r\nIn other words, how can we encourage students to play Mozart (or feel like they are), when they only know Chopsticks? \r\n\r\nWhat are the essential questions and enduring understandings that we want students to work through and hold on to, when their skills only allow them to access basic content? \r\n\r\nWe are first-level math and Spanish teachers at SLA Beeber, grappling with how to create meaningful, authentic activities that engage students and encourage them to think deeply- even though the content itself may not be deep on its own.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"This is intended to be a conversation and a sharing of best practices. We will be brainstorming in small groups, and sharing out via chart paper and commentary.","Presenter":["Marina Isakowitz and Max Rosen-Long"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy @ Beeber"],"PresenterEmail":["misakowitz@slabeeber.org","mrosen-long@slabeeber.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":12,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":314,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1382818382,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Education for what?","Handle":"Education_for_what","ShortDescription":"Schools and school systems struggle to strike a balance between the many expectations they carry: basic skills, exploration, college and\/or career preparation, citizenship and many others. What (and who) is education for, and who gets to decide?","Description":"With the wave of interest in portfolio approaches to reforming urban districts, school accountability systems have become more important than ever in determining the future of public education. Schools and educators adapt to their expectations, meaning many of the new, small schools lack artistic and extracurricular opportunities that long sustained schools in disadvantaged communities. Recently, there has been a shift towards career and technical education and early college as reform practices for high schools. The premise seems to be that relevance is the key.\r\n\r\nThis session will be led by one of the founders of Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH), a new 9-14 school in Brooklyn that prepares students for careers in information technology and engineering through partnerships with NYC College of Technology (CUNY) and IBM. The school is in its third year, with the original class of students in their junior year. It is a small school of choice, which leads to difficulties that are common to such schools: an inability to provide as broad a menu of courses as students and parents would like. Likewise, the school is subject to the same imperfect accountability system as every other NYC public school. Students from Mr. Ehrenfeld's government class will be present to offer their perspectives on a unique new school and their role in shaping it.\r\n\r\nHow do schools and systems make decisions about which of their students' needs to meet, and which to neglect? Who is allowed to participate in that conversation, and where does it take place? How do we continually have this dialogue democratically and inclusively?","Link":["http:\/\/www.ptechnyc.org\/\/site\/Default.aspx?PageID=57"],"Audience":["High School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"The session will include stories from P-TECH and the establishment of a new school model, balanced with small and large group brainstorming and discussion. In the spirit of democratic dialogue, the precise format is undefined pending the input of participants. The goal is a collaborative conversation on how decisions are made in schools, with input included from Twitter along with in-person attendees. Follow the conversation at #ed4what","Presenter":["Will Ehrenfeld"],"PresenterAffiliation":["NYC DOE teacher"],"PresenterEmail":["w.ehrenfeld@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":11,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":323,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383096402,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"How can wearable technology be used to enhance learning?","Handle":"How_can_wearable_technology_be_used_to_enhance_learning","ShortDescription":"We've heard a lot about how wearable technology could impact medicine (http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/39207-google-glass-surgery.html) commerce (http:\/\/www.businessnewsdaily.com\/5341-glasspay-bitcoin-mobile-payments.html) and personal health (http:\/\/www.inc.com\/scott-jones\/future-of-wearable-technology.html)...but how about the classroom?","Description":"We've heard a lot about how wearable technology like Google Glass could impact medicince (http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/39207-google-glass-surgery.html) commerce (http:\/\/www.businessnewsdaily.com\/5341-glasspay-bitcoin-mobile-payments.html) and personal health (http:\/\/www.inc.com\/scott-jones\/future-of-wearable-technology.html)...but how about the classroom? \r\n\r\nWe will have a panel of perspectives ranging from entrepreneurs to local teachers and teacher educators and will address the question. \"How can teachers and students benefit from the use of wearable technology?\" The focus of this conversation will be the advantages, and disadvantages, and not merely a discussion of features.","Link":["http:\/\/www.chrispenny.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will use the What? So What? Now What? protocol for our conversation.  WHAT is wearable tech? SO WHAT does wearable tech mean for our work as educators, for our students, for our schools, for teacher education? NOW WHAT do we need to do about it?","Presenter":["Chris Penny","Christine DiPaulo"],"PresenterAffiliation":["West Chester University"],"PresenterEmail":["cpenny@wcupa.edu"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":386,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1387493531,"CreatorID":2787,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"How do we help the next generation of teachers become connected public practitioners?","Handle":"How_do_we_help_the_next_generation_of_teachers_become_connected_public_practitioners","ShortDescription":"Traditional teacher education has focused on preparing teachers with content knowledge and field experience - but what about connectedness and networking? How can we redesign teacher ed to help pre-service and new teachers learn to and through networking with \"experts\" (i.e. teachers!) in the field?","Description":"The aim of this conversation is to rethink teacher education from the perspective of building a context\/ecosystem of connectedness between the students\/institution and the broader community of professional educators (rather than thinking of teacher education as providing content or skills from a singular source - the college\/university).  The conversation is meant to explore this idea and begin to build a network of thinkers on this topic. We'll discuss questions like: What would this re-design mean for teacher education (implications)? What would it look like? Are there current examples? What are the challenges? What are the benefits? What connections would be beneficial for beginning teachers?","Link":["http:\/\/kbakerdoyle.wordpress.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Conversation format:\r\n-Opening introductions: What drew you to this conversation? What questions\/ideas does it raise for you?\r\n--> Summary of themes --> List, Group, Label (identify 3-4 topics that came up and break into small groups to discuss each)\r\n--> Small groups report back (time for clarifying questions and suggestions for each)\r\n--> Summary of themes, next steps\r\n\r\nTools:\r\n-We will use a shared google doc - small groups will write talking points\/resources in the doc and presenter will polish it for group\r\n-Twitter hashtag #NetworkedTeacherChat for real-time and continued discussion.\r\n-Google doc will be posted on presenter's blog for continued discussion.","Presenter":["Kira Baker-Doyle"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Arcadia University School of Education"],"PresenterEmail":["bakerdoylek@arcadia.edu"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":15,"SubmitterID":2787,"AdditionalComments":"It would be great to have a range of teacher educators and teachers interested in connecting with pre-service\/beginning teachers in this conversation.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":321,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383074106,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Imagining a Different Path:  Charting a course for Teacher-led schools","Handle":"Imagining_a_Different_Path:Charting_a_course_for_Teacher-led_schools","ShortDescription":"How can we organize schools that empower teachers to be responsive to the individual curricular and social needs of students? What would a school led by teachers look like and what conditions need to exist to create such a place?","Description":"Too often our schools rely on a top-down model of leadership and curriculum development that isn't responsive to the needs of individual students in a 21st century environment. Imagine a school where everyone teaches and all decisions - from curriculum to scheduling to discipline policies - were made by teachers. There are schools where this fantasy is a reality and there is research that suggests this model might be just what our education system needs. Join Teachers Lead Philly to explore the research around teacher-led models for schools.  Through an overview of the theory behind the model and actual examples of teacher-led schools from around the country, we\u2019ll develop an idea of what teacher-led schools might look like in our own districts and what conditions might be necessary to create such schools.  The conversation will conclude with the development of action-steps to pursue schools that allow teachers to drive policy, practice, and curriculum.","Link":["http:\/\/www.teachersleadphilly.org\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Participants will conduct collaborative inquiry informed by their own practice and research. The conversation will culminate with expectations, implications, and actions steps for pursuing a teacher-led model in schools.","Presenter":["Chris Angelini","Jessie Gluck","Annie Huynh"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Teachers Lead Philly"],"PresenterEmail":["chris@teachersleadphilly.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":14,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":325,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383132653,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Preventing the Zombie Apocalypse: Engaging All Learners","Handle":"Preventing_the_Zombie_Apocalypse:Engaging_All_Learners","ShortDescription":"Engagement doesn\u2019t have to be elusive. In this interactive session, we will design a learning environment to maximize cognitive engagement. Synthesizing current research about the brain and best practices in instruction, we will continue an ongoing reflection about what school means and our roles as educators.","Description":"Preventing a Zombie Apocalypse will be both the context of the session's activities and a metaphor for the understanding of student engagement. Engagement is not something which can be mandated or enforced; it is a result of the planning and design work of the teacher, and every aspect of the learning environment affects it. We\u2019ll begin with an exploration of a classroom activity which could be adapted to any level. After some group processing of the task, we\u2019ll have a whole group discussion of the educational \u201cdiseases\u201d which create zombies in the classroom. Finally, we\u2019ll design the cure by exploring four specific elements of the learning environment: classroom culture, physical space, teaching, and assessment. The designs will be compiled in a Google Doc to be shared and archived.","Link":["http:\/\/www.geraldaungst.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Participants will work in small groups to collaborate and share knowledge about engagement. At specific points during the session, we will have whole group sharing and discussion of the work done so far. I will also model specific techniques that enhance conversation and engagement such as the \"Debate Team Carousel\" and \"Networking Session.\"","Presenter":["Gerald Aungst"],"PresenterAffiliation":["School District of Cheltenham Township"],"PresenterEmail":["geraldaungst@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"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":385,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1386890309,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Teaching and Learning Through Community Partnerships","Handle":"Teaching_and_Learning_Through_Community_Partnerships","ShortDescription":"Amazing things happen when educational programs define their own goals and pull resources from inspiring community partners. Whether sewing with circuits or gazing through the observatory of a science museum, these opportunities can redefine a student's learning experience. In our conversation we'll discuss how this programming can be designed and implemented.","Description":"In this session, we will briefly present how Science Leadership Academy has set up systems and partnerships.  \r\n\r\nThe session will be very interactive; participants will work to come up with ways to extend learning opportunities beyond the expertise of the faculty already in a school.  Together, we will workshop ways to integrate community partners into the existing structures of a school and start to identify types of programs people would like to bring to their learning environment.\r\n\r\nWorking with community partners (museums, universities, businesses, individuals) to create \u2018informal\u2019 programming can effectively complement a school\u2019s formal curriculum. It can be an especially attractive option when funding and other resources are scarce, since partnerships leverage the resources of other entities, often in mutually beneficial ways.","Link":["http:\/\/sokoscart.wordpress.com","http:\/\/slapartnership.weebly.com","http:\/\/goo.gl\/9h5qqC"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"The first part will be a brief presentation from a series of programming Google Docs people will have access to and can comment on - to provide context and background to what \u2018informal\u2019 programming can be.\r\n\r\nValues conversation on what meaningful programming is and should be - not specific partnerships or programs but TYPES of programs - brainstorm categories on shared Google Doc.\r\n\r\nGroup research: looking for individuals, programs, organizations, etc. that might fit into one or many of the categories above.\r\n\r\nShare out:\r\n- what research yielded\r\n- how they might bring those programs to their school.","Presenter":["David Sokoloff","Luke Van Meter","Jeremy Spry"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy","The Franklin Institute"],"PresenterEmail":["david.sokoloff@gmail.com","lvanmeter@fi.edu","jspry@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":4,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":294,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1380489602,"CreatorID":442,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Privileged Voices in Education","Handle":"The_Privileged_Voices_in_Education","ShortDescription":"Whose voices are heard in education (education reform, education technology) circles? While it might be easy to identify (and lambast) the \"corporate\" voices, are we truly offering and supporting diverse voices in response? Who gets to speak \"for\" students, for teachers, for change? How can we do better?","Description":"The people that are often praised as education leaders, no matter where they might sit on the \" politics of education reform\" spectrum  -- the right or the left, from the public or private sector, \"insiders\" or \"outsiders\" -- often share a lot in common: namely, their privilege. Their class privilege. Their gender privilege. Their racial privilege. Their age privilege. Their health privilege. Their credential privilege. \r\n\r\nWe need to stop and ask: whose voices are we hearing? Whose voices are we ignoring? Whose voices are we amplifying? Whose voices are we squelching?\r\n\r\nEducation writers Audrey Watters and Jose Vilson will talk about the \"Top 10\" lists that get crafted, the awards and the recognition that get given, and how we can address questions of diversity (or the lack of diversity) therein. They'll chat race, class, gender and the future of education (which is almost the title of Vilson's new book!), how privilege plays out in the politics of education, and how it plays out in those we send into the public sphere to articulate our political (and pedagogical) positions.","Link":["http:\/\/hackeducation.com","http:\/\/thejosevilson.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We could start with a question that seems to be popular among ed(tech) bloggers: who are the most prominent voices in education? Let's reflect on who these are? Who's missing? This session will begin as a conversation between Vilson and Watters, but the goal is to open some of our provocations up to the larger audience.","Presenter":["Audrey Watters","Jose Vilson"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["audrey.watters@gmail.com","jose.l.vilson@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":442,"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":301,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1380893773,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"What to expect when you're expecting","Handle":"What_to_expect_when_you-re_expecting","ShortDescription":"Are you entering in a BYOD or 1:1 initiative? Do you have questions about what to expect when your students have access to information at their fingertips? Come discuss with us all that goes into planning\/implementing a successful BYOD\/1:1 initiative.","Description":"Schools and classrooms all over the country are going 1:1 and\/or BYOD. It's important that we think about all that goes into making these programs successful and sustainable. Come join us for a conversation where we will brainstorm all the different things to consider when implementing a program. When we are finished we will leave with ideas on what it takes to implement a BYOD\/1:1 on a large scale or just in your classroom.","Link":["http:\/\/www.educationdreamer.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"I will create a public folder in Google Docs where we will start off by brainstorming the main areas schools and classrooms need to consider when going BYOD\/1:1. Then we will break into groups and each group will discuss 1 key area. Finally, each group will share out their thoughts and resources as they build documents for each area inside the public folder on Google Docs.","Presenter":["Brett Clark"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["mrbrettclark@educationdreamer.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":16,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":"I have worked in 1:1 schools for the past 6 years. I am currently the director of technology for Greater Clark County Schools in Jeffersonville, IN. We recently went 1:1 with Samsung Chromebooks in grades 3-12. We have over 9,000 devices in our district. We certainly don't have it all together and we are learning every week on how we can improve our initiative. I see this as a great opportunity for us to learn from each other and I hope I have the opportunity to lead this discussion at Educon.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":313,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1382722148,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Wonder, By Design","Handle":"Wonder-By_Design","ShortDescription":"What if school was a base camp for wonder?  How could you create the conditions for wonder in school? What implications would that have for the expedition that students would take through their education? What are the infinite possibilities for imagining, designing, and creating when learning is based in wonder?","Description":"To change schools, to improve learning, to help students reach and extend past their goals, requires special people who have the imaginative capacity to believe in human potential.\r\n\r\nWe begin our lives with learning everything we can.  We wonder about why things happen and how things work.  Our imagination lights up with question after question about our how the world works...we engage in observation, in play, and in trial and error just to learn everything we can.  Over time, as we know more, and become more conscious of the act of learning, and of knowing, our capacity for childlike learning diminishes  Certainly, we may be curious about new subjects and different types of learning, but it is rare to be able to capture the same spirit of wonder about learning that inhabits all children.\r\n\r\nBut that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s needed in education right now.\r\n\r\nSchool, with the classrooms of our past, filled with rigid arrangements of space and instruction, policies, and protocols, requires a new design - one that promotes wonder, one that fuels the imagination, and one that re-establishes wonder as the essential element of the learning equation.  What if school was a base camp for wonder?\r\n\r\nCome explore wonder with us.  Recharge your imagination with wonder, and have the opportunity to see the same things in a new way and new things in a new way.  Most importantly, begin transforming your classroom or school by creating a climate and culture of wonder that unfolds unlimited opportunities for learning.","Link":["http:\/\/jakes.editme.com\/wonder"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This conversation is based in a series of design challenges that ask participants to actively engage with each other to examine the concept of wonder and its relationship to learning, schools, and school change.","Presenter":["Christian Long","David Jakes"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Third Teacher Plus and Cannon Design"],"PresenterEmail":["clong@cannondesign.com","djakes@cannondesign.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":13,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":"We would respectfully request being scheduled on Saturday if possible.  Thank you for your consideration.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":3,"ScheduleSlotID":33},"total":15,"limit":false,"offset":false}