During each of the six breakout sessions throughout the weekend, a large number of conversations will take place. This site will help you organize your plan for the weekend and provide the relevant information for each conversation. After signing in, search through the conversations below and mark the sessions you are interested in to populate your personal schedule on the right (or below if on your mobile phone).
“Among adult relationships in schools, that between teacher and principal is decisive.” (Roland Barth) How can we leverage this relationship to promote transformative, sustained change? How do we create a community of learners? What skills are involved? How do we strengthen these skill sets if they don’t come naturally?
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.
How can teachers maximize the potential of Google Classroom and other Edutech mediums, while fostering an environment to empower youth voices with Common Core classrooms? As a aspiring master teacher Kilolo Moyo-White teaches through a pedagogy she calls TeachAkoma, from the heart. Join a conversation of using online mediums as an instructional tool to foster youth voices in culturally responsive classrooms.
In this workshop session, co-authors of Hacking Project Based Learning share some of their PBL hacks. Discuss ideas for making your PBL more efficient, but most importantly more rigorous and engaging. Whether you are just starting with PBL or looking for ways to refine your practice, this session will meet your needs.
A discussion of the productive tensions facing innovators at all levels of leadership, formal to informal, classroom to central office, as they dare to advance new ideas and transform professional practices.
Most educators have agreed that strict gender roles are harmful to kids and make it more difficult for our kids to be comfortable in their own skin. Most of us have also agreed that any skill that we would like to see our students practice should be modeled by their teachers. As teachers who want to see our students grow into adults that feel comfortable being themselves and breaking gender roles, and standing up for others who do, we need to feel comfortable being ourselves and breaking gender roles as well. It is our duty to intentionally and purposefully plan visible gender role breaking on a regular basis, to make space four our kids to do the same.
In this session, current teachers from SLA@Beeber and The Workshop School will discuss their past experiences as student teachers within PBL, Innovation Network schools. Student teaching in the PBL environment is unique; this workshop will discuss methods and techniques for supporting and engaging student teachers.
Listening is “a social innovation for the 21st century” (Martin). As we move from a traditional model of instructional delivery to a growth model that values student agency, the imperative “Listen!” is redefined as intentional and deliberately practiced in a framework of collaborative inquiry in STEM and humanities courses.
Mental health is a crucial component of education, for students and adults. Do schools have supports in place to help children and adults who are part of our communities? Where do we find resources for ourselves or to share with others in need? Let’s discuss and share ideas and information.
The founding team of South Bronx Community will share our methodology for radical collaboration to design, kick-off, implement and celebrate an interdisciplinary deeper learning project: The DREAM Project. The founding team will also share experiences designing a project that addresses critical conversations on race, power and privilege.
This presentation will share how shifting to openly licensed educational resources is imperative for PK-12 school districts across the country. This address will focus on what openly licensed educational resources are, how school districts across the country are making this transition, and why it is important students and educators.
Explore how engineering can be used to help students learn best practices in inquiry-based learning. Join SLA Center City's engineering teacher in the SLA Shop to see active projects and meet engineering students while discussing this topic.
Grading student writing can feel like an exercise in futility when students fail to apply or even read feedback. Why does it often feel like the teachers are doing all the work? Peer editing and feedback allows students to better assess their own writing and gives them ownership over the revision process. In this session, we’ll talk about how to make peer feedback meaningful and how to create a classroom environment where students feel comfortable and capable of engaging in deep critique.
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