{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":634,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1476628653,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Speaking to Listen in the Age of Emojis","Handle":"speaking_to_listen_in_the_age_of_emojis","ShortDescription":"The skill of effective communication has powerful influence in shaping school culture. Teachers, students and leadership are surrounded by feedback on a daily basis from the classroom to meetings to the playing field. Understanding how to communicate can be the difference between listening to react and listening to understand. How one hears, processes and delivers feedback can be powerful in shaping the tone of personal and professional relationships. In this workshop theory, practice and your experiences will be used to examine what it takes to host effective and productive conversations with colleagues and students.","Description":"In this session attendees will be participating in a conversation that dissects the skill of listening. In an age of communicating through emoticons, memes and alone togetherness connectivity has failed to live up to its potential of creating strong community of practice that co-creates regularly. This sessions is about digging deep into biases, being honest about one\u2019s triggers, world views and perspectives of empathy.  The need for this discussion is rooted in the relationship between being aware of our own place of knowing and how to participate in effective, productive conversations. We will talk about how to design conversations by harnessing the knowledge of those already in the space.\r\nThis session is built at the intersection of several practices including The Art of Hosting, Theory U and the books Tell Me So I Can Hear You and Thanks for the Feedback. Most importantly, it will be driven by the connections the attendees contribute. This session is not structured by bullet points, rather designed to flex to the needs and curiosities of the participants.","Link":["http:\/\/dianalynnpotts.blogspot.com","http:\/\/karenblumberg.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Our goal for this conversation is to have the participants engaged to the level that we won\u2019t be tweeting. This session will include participant driven exercises taken from several resources including The Art of Hosting. Time allowing and depending on the needs of the participants this session may include:\r\nEmpathic Listening (an exercise is listening)\r\nAmygdala Hijack (identifying your triggers for grounded conversations)\r\nFour-fold Practice (a framework for mindful conversations)","Presenter":["Diana Potts","Karen Blumberg","Mike Ritzius"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Ethical Culture Fieldston School","Brearley School","New Jersey Education Association"],"PresenterEmail":["dianalynnpotts@gmail.com","karenblumberg@gmail.com","Mritzius@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":78,"ScheduleLocationID":6,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6},{"ID":651,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1477930169,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Rethinking Our School Pedagogy for Sustainable Redesign","Handle":"rethinking_our_school_pedagogy_for_sustainable_redesign","ShortDescription":"How do we change the mindset of a school? Join educators from Philadelphia\u2019s Labrum Middle School as we discuss overcoming the challenges of rethinking school and where we go from here to create sustainable change.","Description":"In 2015, Labrum Middle School decided to apply for the Philadelphia School District\u2019s School Redesign Initiative.  Working with Inquiry Schools, we spent the remainder of the 2015-2016 school year planning out and rethinking how we did school at Labrum especially in light of discovering what we value and we could align that with the crafting of a mission and vision so we could provide this for our kids.  This session seeks to discuss our challenges and wins and our experiences as we redesigned the school experiences for our students and staff.  We want to encourage conversations around our next steps and continued journey as well as inspire others to begin thinking carefully about changes they would like to implement and create some practical planning around making them happen.","Link":[],"Audience":["Middle School","Elementary School"],"Practice":"Our practice begins with some chalk talk where people have the opportunity to express what changes and challenges come with redesigning an existing school within a traditional school system.  We will then take this time to discuss Labrum\u2019s redesign process and what we experienced as we went through it. There will be some opportunity for questions and conversations.  Our participants will then work on a What. So What, Now What protocol to think and work through a change they would like to see within their own school.","Presenter":["Stefanie Londo","Bethany Parker","Denise Logan","Stephannie Hannan","Stacy Schwab","Bill Griffin"],"PresenterAffiliation":["John Hancock Demonstration School- Labrum Campus w\/ School District of Philadelphia"],"PresenterEmail":["scrilley@philasd.org","bkparker@philasd.org","dlogan2@philasd.org","shannan@philasd.org","sschwab@philasd.org","bgriffin@philasd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":83,"ScheduleLocationID":6,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6},{"ID":648,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1477784636,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Breaking Down Walls: The Power of Teacher Peer Observation","Handle":"breaking_down_walls--the_power_of_teacher_peer_observation","ShortDescription":"All student teachers start by observing more experienced teachers practicing their craft. But, as teachers progress in their careers, they often don't seek out opportunities to watch and learn from other teachers. Why? In this conversation, we'll explore starting a peer observation program - the pushback, the fear, and also the success.","Description":"We\u2019ve probably all sat through \u201cdump-and-run\u201d professional development - the kind of PD where a hired consultant comes and talks at the faculty for a day. This strategy promotes the counterproductive idea that PD should be neatly confined to a handful of days a year. It\u2019s also costly and ineffective, and most teachers find it pretty useless.  \r\n\r\nCreating a peer observation program where staff members can visit other classrooms any day of the school year and utilize colleagues as professional development resources is an easy alternative to traditional PD strategies. \r\n\r\nAt our school, we created a schedule where teachers could post any lessons they were willing to allow other teachers to observe. Then, if others had a prep period or free time, they could check the schedule and get quick, free professional development by seeing a fellow colleague at work. It gave teachers agency over their own learning and encouraged them to develop a growth mindset about their practice. \r\n\r\nBut like most school initiatives that buck traditional norms, such a program didn\u2019t come without its challenges. In this conversation we\u2019ll share the lessons we\u2019ve learned from starting the program, the hard work it takes to shift teacher culture, and discuss challenges and best practices for teacher peer observation.","Link":["https:\/\/dylanfenton.com\/","https:\/\/danwhalen.org\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"The facilitators will share their experience starting a peer observation with attendees and present questions that will guide the conversation with the group. Insights, \u201clight bulb moments,\u201d and best practices from the conversation will be shared with the larger EduCon community.","Presenter":["Dylan Fenton","Dan Whalen"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Collingwood Public Schools"],"PresenterEmail":["dylan.h.fenton@gmail.com","dwhalen@collsk12.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":84,"ScheduleLocationID":6,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6},{"ID":704,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1479372491,"CreatorID":1703,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Facilitating Successful Learning Through Failure","Handle":"facilitating_successful_learning_through_failure","ShortDescription":"F.A.I.L. - Failure Always Invites Learning \r\nWhen is failure really a success?\r\nWhen we engage students in EPIC projects and challenges, the journey to success is often fraught with failures that can prove to be amazing learning opportunities. Do we need to reexamine the use of the term 'Failure'?","Description":"Our present education system is built around always finding the \u2018right\u2019 answer, but when can the wrong answer be valuable? How can we provide rich, meaningful opportunities for students to make mistakes, iterate, persevere and develop alternative approaches to problems relevant to what they are learning? In this session participants will engage in a team challenge, share stories of learning through failure, and co-develop some alternate language around what we really want to achieve when we discuss learning through failure.","Link":["http:\/\/pairadimes.davidtruss.com","http:\/\/inquiryhub.org"],"Audience":["Middle School"],"Practice":"My plan:\r\nShort intro.\r\n'The human string' challenge.\r\nAfter that size matters:) - How big the group is will help determine the tools we use...\r\nSharing session on learning through failure - group chat, table chat, or google doc\r\nPick one success through failure story to discuss as group or at tables - explore desired learning that you want 'from' failure. (Digital or chart paper & post-its)\r\nFrame:\r\nWe don't want students to fail, but we want students to understand that when your try something epic, your pitfalls and challenges are where the real learning happens.  So...\r\nFraming question: If we are facilitating successful learning through failure... what is it we are really wanting students to do and learn?","Presenter":["David Truss"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Inquiry Hub","Coquitlam Open Learning","School District 43- Coquitlam"],"PresenterEmail":["dtruss@sd43.bc.ca"],"ScheduleSlotID":86,"ScheduleLocationID":6,"SubmitterID":1703,"AdditionalComments":"An image that I'm basing my introduction to this presentation on: http:\/\/pairadimes.davidtruss.com\/learning-and-failure\/ \r\n\r\nAlso, we are applying for an award around developing IDS - Independent Directed Studies and developing student interest and passion based inquiry questions into course credits. I can rework this conversation around that rather than 'learning through failure'. I think both are topics worth exploring. \r\nDave","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":6,"ScheduleLocationID":6},"total":4,"limit":false,"offset":false}