{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":693,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1478192843,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Are you eating enough? Exercising enough? Sleeping enough?","Handle":"are_you_eating_enough-drinking_enough-sleeping_enough","ShortDescription":"Inquiry and Self-Care: How do we build a community that cares for and takes care of children while taking care of ourselves? The Workshop School community has been grappling with this question for the past four years.  Join the conversation about how we use professional support, safety plans, inquiry and mindfulness.","Description":"During our staff planning this summer, one teacher shared a story about how his father would always ask the same set of questions when his father thought he needed help, \u201cAre you eating enough? Exercising enough? Sleeping enough?\u201d  After sharing this story, the teacher said something that stuck with me. \u201cThis takes care of 60% of our problems.  We have each other for the other 40%.\u201d  We\u2019ve been unpacking this idea at the Workshop School this year.  How do we take care of ourselves (and each other) while building a community that truly cares about students?  During this session we will discuss ideas, strategies, and challenges in creating self-care plans for educators who are doing their best to build schools that truly care about children.","Link":["http:\/\/www.workshopschool.org"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"This conversation will be captured, organized and shared via google docs during this session.","Presenter":["Simon Hauger","Jordan Adler"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["simon.hauger@workshopschool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":75,"ScheduleLocationID":13,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6},{"ID":671,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1478022641,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Breaking Habits: Challenging the traditional school status quo","Handle":"breaking_habits--challenging_the_traditional_school_status_quo","ShortDescription":"Changing school culture, curriculum and procedures is one of the toughest projects to undertake. Join us to talk about how you have addressed these challenges in order to fundamentally shift practice.","Description":"Changing school culture, curriculum and procedures is one of the toughest projects to undertake. Join us to talk about how you have addressed these challenges in order to fundamentally shift practice.","Link":["http:\/\/inquiryschools.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will be sharing best practices as the method for facilitating this conversation.","Presenter":["Diana Laufenberg; Caitlin Thompson; Kristin Hokanson"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Inquiry Schools"],"PresenterEmail":["diana@inquiryschools.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":75,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"YAY, EDUCON!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6},{"ID":702,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1479273669,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Invisible Issues Project","Handle":"invisible_issues_project","ShortDescription":"With the Invisible Issues project, students will create their own non-governmental organizations to raise awareness of invisible issues in their school.","Description":"The Invisible Issues program is a collaborative PBL activity that focuses on leadership skills and global awareness. Students work together to form an organization, identify an important invisible humanitarian issue, develop an awareness campaign with the help of college mentors, and complete a formal grant presentation for a panel of judges. This workshop will give educators and administrators a guide to implement this program, including information as to how schools can earn a grant for further support. The grant includes funding for supplies, participation from college mentors, and a charitable contribution to their cause of the winning student group.","Link":["http:\/\/www.invisibleissues.org"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"This conversation will include an interactive demonstration of the Invisible Issues project. We will create our own organizations in the same manner as our students and get a hands-on experience of the Invisible Issues project. Those attending this workshop will also gain an advantage in earning a grant for their school.","Presenter":["Adam Gold"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Invisible Issues Foundation"],"PresenterEmail":["adam@invisibleissues.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":75,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"I have attended EduCon for 5 years. It has made a positive impact on me as an educator and on my entire school. I hope to share an exciting idea with fellow educators and provide an opportunity for communities that share a common mission of global awareness and project-based learning.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6},{"ID":642,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1477607057,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Learning Through Community Engagement","Handle":"learning_through_community_engagement","ShortDescription":"We will share projects and courses that utilize the community of Philadelphia to provide unique and challenging learning opportunities for students. Examples from STEM, the arts, and humanities courses will be highlighted. We will focus on the process: reaching out to the community, creating a project, and student commentary and reflection.","Description":"The Learning through Community Engagement Panel Session will highlight projects and courses that three teachers from diverse disciplines (English, Fine Arts & STEM) at Philadelphia Performing Arts: A String Theory Charter School have created that utilize the community of Philadelphia to provide unique and challenging learning opportunities for students. \r\n\r\nThe discussion will begin with an overview of our school and district philosophy and how that fosters community collaboration. Each of the teachers will briefly review projects or courses that engaged students with different Philadelphia communities for unique and higher level learning opportunities. Next, they will share four project\/courses implemented over the last two years, including their purpose, design, and examples of student work. Student reflection on the learning impact of the experience will also be presented through video commentary and in person as students will be part of the presentation.\r\n\r\nThe discussion will then focus on how teachers and administrators can create, plan, and implement their own community engagement projects and courses in their classrooms or districts. It will conclude with the opportunity for session participants to brainstorm and discuss specific ideas and potential projects or courses they can use in their learning communities.","Link":["https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B7wuym1Iz_toaTRoazlGUmdwSVU\/view?usp=sharing"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"Throughout the discussion, there will be a hashtag (#engagecomm) that participants can use to share reflections, questions, and ideas. As the discussion progresses to the second part of the session when participants will talk about how they can apply the ideas presented in the first part of the session, all participants will collaborate on a shared Google Document to brainstorm ideas. This will enable participants to leave discussion with a set of notes they can use to implement a community engagement project in their learning community.","Presenter":["Casey Cohen","Laurie Doran","Dr. Sheri Hanna"],"PresenterAffiliation":["String Theory Schools","Apple Distinguished Educator (Casey)"],"PresenterEmail":["ccohen@stringtheoryschools.org","ldoran@stringtheoryschools.org","shanna@stringtheoryschools.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":75,"ScheduleLocationID":12,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6},{"ID":708,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1479760193,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Projects in Math Class Revisited","Handle":"projects_in_math_class_revisited","ShortDescription":"SLA has been a project based school since its inception, and we have been developing and revising math projects since 2006. This session will focus on how we develop these projects, how we revise them\/create new projects, and what different structures for the projects look like. During the session, students and teachers will present projects that they used in the past, with a focus on the process of project development\/revision. There will also be significant time for participants to develop\/workshop projects for their own math classes, so please bring an outline for a math project, or a project description that you'd like to revise. By the end of the session, all participants should walk away with a project that they intend to use during an upcoming unit.","Description":"","Link":[],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"Participants will collaborate to workshop, design, and revise math projects.","Presenter":["Morgan Bushnell","Brad Latimer"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["mbushnell@scienceleadership.org","blatimer@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":75,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6},{"ID":667,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1477962654,"CreatorID":1676,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Simulations (or, The Good Parts Version)","Handle":"simulations-or-the_good_parts_version","ShortDescription":"\"Learn by Doing\" is an oft-heard mantra, but it's probably good to learn about World War I without spending months in a trench. Good simulation activities don\u2019t copy reality exactly; they focus on the important details without oversimplifying or overcomplicating. Let\u2019s learn how to find \u2013 and create \u2013 great learning opportunities.","Description":"In my social studies classroom I love to put my students in the position to learn about important decisions or systems by giving them the opportunity to face similar choices themselves. So I am a big fan of simulation activities. Selecting or creating a good simulation is challenging because you have to find the essence of what you want your students to think about, and then make sure the simulation gives them opportunities to think about that and not any of a bunch of distracting details. At the same time it\u2019s important that the simulation provide students the opportunities to make real choices \u2013 so it should not play out the same way every time.\r\n\r\nFortunately there is a wealth of insight available, not only from other educators but from game designers as well. We\u2019ll review some of this material to help start the creative process. We\u2019ll look at examples of simulation activities and discuss how we might be able to use \u2013 or improve \u2013 them. Finally, we\u2019ll work together to generate new ideas for simulations and start getting them ready for the classroom.","Link":["http:\/\/www.notnews.org"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"The conversation will open with a presentation to introduce key ideas, but that presentation will include several Q-and-A prompts to encourage discussion. Then the participants will have an opportunity to review and evaluate one or two simulations. (I will share a Google Doc with several links and examples and encourage participants to add to it.) This should spur another round of discussion as we talk about ways to use or improve the simulations. Finally, time permitting, I will offer some guiding questions designed to help participants begin to create their own simulations and discuss those with the other participants.","Presenter":["Dave Thomer"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Parkway Center City HS"],"PresenterEmail":["davethomer@comcast.net"],"ScheduleSlotID":75,"ScheduleLocationID":14,"SubmitterID":1676,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6},{"ID":713,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1480981012,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"TAKING IT BACK- Reclaiming Media Integrity","Handle":"taking_it_back-_reclaiming_media_integrity","ShortDescription":"Now more than ever our society depends on the development of deep and nuanced relationships with media. In an era of deliberately misleading news, false narratives and an utter lack of social media responsibility, it feels imperative that we prepare our students for what comes next. Yet, in many ways it is the other way around with our students having more savvy and versatility when it comes to interactions with media from multiple sources. Regardless of where we receive our information we still must ask ourselves \"Who made this?\" \"Who paid for it?, \"Who does it target?\", \"How will this impact the public?\", \"Who benefits from widespread consumption and belief?\" We also have to consider new ways, or perhaps reapply tried and true standards, to media discourse both online and in print media.","Description":"Now more than ever our society depends on the development of deep and nuanced relationships with media. In an era of deliberately misleading news, false narratives and an utter lack of social media responsibility, it feels imperative that we prepare our students for what comes next. Yet, in many ways it is the other way around with our students having more savvy and versatility when it comes to interactions with media from multiple sources. Regardless of where we receive our information we still must ask ourselves \"Who made this?\" \"Who paid for it?, \"Who does it target?\", \"How will this impact the public?\", \"Who benefits from widespread consumption and belief?\" We also have to consider new ways, or perhaps reapply tried and true standards, to media discourse both online and in print media.","Link":["http:\/\/www.roughcutproductions.org\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"The latest in our ongoing series about fostering deep relationships with media, this conversation brings students, teachers, administrators and parents into the fold and asks us all to consider modifications to our individual and collective relationships with media. This conversation will be guided by Douglas Herman- Founder of Rough Cut Media and Susan Poulton- Chief Digital Officer at The Franklin Institute as well as current and former SLA students who have made the leap from consumers to media creators.  After engaging in conversation with panel of students, attendees will have opportunities to discuss ways media has shaped their lives and communities. The latter part of our session will center on developing ideas and creative ways to reclaim media integrity within our larger society and our respective.\r\n\r\nRough Cut Media is dedicated to inspiring critical relationships with media, and fostering community-specific approaches to increase access to media creation tools for all students.","Presenter":["Douglas Herman- Founding Director","Rough Cut Media; Susan Poulton- Chief Digital Officer","The Franklin Institute"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["dherman@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":75,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6},{"ID":658,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1477947900,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Women in IT leadership","Handle":"women_in_it_leadership","ShortDescription":"It has been recognized that most people in IT are males. How can this be changed? How do we not only encourage our female students to choose IT fields for careers but also provide them opportunities to become leaders in the IT field?","Description":"It has been recognized that most IT employees are male. How can this be changed? How do we not only encourage our female students to choose IT fields for careers but also provide them opportunities to become leaders in the IT field? Can this exposure be done in any school? Taking a look at our curricula, schools, districts, communities, how can this be changed? As educators we can provide the opportunities for our female students to be exposed to IT jobs and careers in our schools. With Cisco Networking and Oracle Academies, Adobe Creative Suite, Robotics, STEM, more female students can become engineers, technologists, network administrators, etc. In this conversation, we will explore the world or female IT leaders and discuss how we can encourage our female students to become apart and have a voice in this field of the future.","Link":["http:\/\/sspaul.blogspot.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This conversation will center on how can we encourage female students to see the potential of entering the IT field as a career. A contributing blog will be developed for participants to make suggestions on how they would more female students involved in technology fields.","Presenter":["Sandra Paul"],"PresenterAffiliation":["NJAET","CoSN","ISTE"],"PresenterEmail":["spaul6414@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":75,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":6,"ScheduleSlotID":75},"total":8,"limit":false,"offset":false}