{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":630,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1475507235,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"A Conversation about SPACESHIP EARTH","Handle":"a_conversation_about_spaceship_earth","ShortDescription":"SPACESHIP EARTH is a design-based, project-based, blended learning curriculum developed by Aaron Kaswell, Lynn Shon, and Andrew Zimmermann of Middle School 88 in Brooklyn, NY. The conversation will discuss implementation of this multi-layered environment from classroom setup to curriculum to mindset shift for both teachers and students.","Description":"SPACESHIP EARTH is a design-based, project-based, blended learning curriculum developed by Andrew Zimmermann, Lynn Shon, and Aaron Kaswell of Middle School 88 in Brooklyn, NY. The conversation will discuss implementation of this multi-layered environment from classroom setup to curriculum to mindset shift for both teachers and students.\r\n\r\nThe SPACESHIP EARTH curriculum blends integrated (STEAM) project-based work with a personalized learning platform that allows students to learn content specific skills at their own pace. The project-based work is designed around tackling the problem of our planet\u2019s limited resources. The students use the design process to research and create solutions while using their personalized learning platform to build the content-specific skills necessary to tackle these big problems. Using this model, the MS88 teachers developed 8 integrated STEAM\/design projects that they wish to share and discuss with educators. \r\n\r\nWhile this is a project-based curriculum, it has been very challenging to implement the blended model and personalized learning platform that helps drive the teaching and learning. The teachers had to go through a complete rethinking of their classroom methods and roles, and they would like to share successes and challenges and receive feedback from like-minded educators.  All aspects of integrated studies, implementing a blended and personalized learning model, focusing on cognitive skill development will be part of the dialogue.","Link":["http:\/\/mrkazintokyo.wordpress.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"These teachers want to have a dialogue about their projects and their methods in the same way that they run their classrooms. They act as facilitators for learning and will prepare deep, probing questions and are looking for honest and critical feedback in their methods. They recognize while there is a lot of effectiveness in their model, there is still much to improve and receive feedback on from the community. This is the purpose of hosting the conversation. They are open to using conversational protocols as they do in their classroom as well as live Tweet questions.","Presenter":["Aaron Kaswell","Lynn Shon","Andrew Zimmermann"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Math for America","Bill & Melinda Gates Teacher Advisory Council","NYC Dept. of Education Model Teachers","BetterLesson Blended Master Teacher Fellow"],"PresenterEmail":["aaronkaswell@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":83,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6},{"ID":639,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1477506598,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"A year of teaching without tests","Handle":"a_year_of_teaching_without_tests","ShortDescription":"This year, instead of giving tests, I'm holding my students accountable by having them keep an online \"learning journal.\" They record questions, observations, and further research into topics they find most interesting. It's going pretty well -- I'd love to hear your questions and talk about plusses\/minuses to this approach.","Description":"In today's digital world, it makes little sense to ask students things that they could look up on Google. Instead, in my US History class (1877 to the present), I am placing a premium on students who ask thoughtful, well-informed questions. In order to ask a good question, you usually have to know what you are talking about. \r\n\r\nWhat I do is read my students' learning journals on a rotating basis -- I get to roughly four per day -- and provide them with regular feedback via comments on the Google Docs that hold their learning journals (each student gets feedback about once a week). If someone asks a great question or conducts fascinating research (both have happened), I share what they did with the whole class. \r\n\r\nWe generally spend class time doing one of two things: discussing readings or videos they've read\/watched before class, or working on projects, such as a Supreme Court simulation and a \"how does the Stock Market work\" project. What I love is that I don't have to read a stack of 60-100 of the same thing any more. I get to see where students have engaged with the material. And they are exploring topics I never would have thought of.","Link":["https:\/\/wiltoday.wordpress.com\/","http:\/\/www.bit.ly\/NOTESTS"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"I have made a shared Google Doc that contains the basic points I'll be making before we start talking and some other resources. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask questions or raise issues at the end of the Google Doc. The link is: http:\/\/www.bit.ly\/NOTESTS","Presenter":["Steve Goldberg"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Research Triangle High School","Durham","NC"],"PresenterEmail":["mrgoldberg@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":83,"ScheduleLocationID":11,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6},{"ID":665,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1477961166,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Building Better Ideas","Handle":"building_better_ideas","ShortDescription":"The most important thing anyone can do to improve what they do is to become more capable of generating ideas.  In this conversation, we\u2019ll explore the role that ideas have in catalyzing innovative practice, and how you can become more conversant in ideation.  Join us for a provocative conversation about how you, and your organization, can nurture, curate, incubate, grow, extend, and remix ideas to create the raw material for innovation that can lead to new conditions for student learning.","Description":"The theme of Educon 2.9 focuses on sustaining innovation.  With the current landscape of technology, resources and connectivity, the ability to be innovative has never been greater.\r\n\r\nIdeas are the raw material of innovation.  We believe that it is essential for educators, as well as for educational organizations, to develop a disposition, a mindset even, capable of rapid iterative thought and ideation.  How we craft and curate ideas, how they are employed in supporting innovative thought and practice, are essential considerations for for all educators.\r\n\r\nWe believe that ideation is a skill, and a skill that should be developed in all educators.  We believe that educators must learn how to extend beyond the routine, beyond the expectations (and inherent limitations) of their school culture, and reject an autopilot mentality that supports the status quo.  This conversation, necessarily disruptive, will provoke educators to see the opportunity of ideas, and how they can become more effective innovators as a result.","Link":["http:\/\/creativestir.blogspot.com","http:\/\/davidjakesdesigns.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"In this conversation, we\u2019ll begin by examining the current mentality of creative thought and practice in schools to ground the conversation.  From there, we\u2019ll challenge co-participants to explore how to nurture, curate, incubate, grow, extend and remix ideas.  We\u2019ll provide provocations that are generative in nature, and support the conversation by engaging participants in strategies that enable them to explore the direct relationship between ideation and innovation.  In the end, providing techniques for ideation supports the creation of a mindset that provides individuals with an approach that directly supports the development of a sustainable capacity to become more innovative.","Presenter":["Adam Provost","David Jakes"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Director","Burlington Technical Center VT and VITA-Learn.org (VT Educator PD)","Davidjakesdesigns.com"],"PresenterEmail":["adamprovost44@gmail.com","david@davidjakesdesigns.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":83,"ScheduleLocationID":13,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"fyi that David submitted another conversation. Please don't schedule at the same time if both are selected.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6},{"ID":688,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1478058911,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Collaborative Curriculum Design: Contextualizing the Modern Black Experience","Handle":"collaborative_curriculum_design--contextualizing_the_modern_black_experience","ShortDescription":"We\u2019re teachers from Philadelphia that developed a collaborative around teaching and learning Black history. We will discuss the history of our group and a unit we are developing on the modern Black experience past 1968. Join us for a conversation and contribute to the curriculum development.","Description":"We are teachers from Philadelphia that developed a collaborative around teaching and learning Black history. Our group is currently developing curriculum that helps students understand the post-Civil Rights Era.\r\n\r\nOur context is unique in that our city is the only large school district in the country that requires a full year African-American history course for high school graduation. We will discuss the history of our group and a unit we are developing on the modern Black experience past 1968. Join us for a conversation and contribute to the curriculum development.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Panel Discussion\r\nCurriculum Design","Presenter":["Yaasiyn Muhammad","Ismael Jimeniz","Dan Symonds","Pearl Jonas"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy Center City","Kensington HS","School District of Philadelphia"],"PresenterEmail":["pjonas@scienceleadership.org","dsymonds@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":83,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6},{"ID":706,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1479440268,"CreatorID":721,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Creating School- and District-Wide Cultures of Reading and Writing","Handle":"creating_school-_and_district-wide_cultures_of_reading_and_writing","ShortDescription":"In this conversation, participants of all rolls and disciplines will talk about what it takes and can look like to establish and support a healthy culture of reading and writing across classrooms, schools, and districts.","Description":"In this conversation, participants of all rolls and disciplines will talk about what it takes and can look like to establish and support a healthy culture of reading and writing across classrooms, schools, and districts. They will leave with examples of these ideas in practice as well as action plans for building such cultures in their own learning spaces.","Link":["http:\/\/autodizactic.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Conversations will be seeded with examples and ideas. Conversants will then work with colleagues and peers to build off of those examples and discuss what next steps will look like when they return.","Presenter":["Zac Chase"],"PresenterAffiliation":["St. Vrain Valley Schools"],"PresenterEmail":["zac.chase@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":83,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":721,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6},{"ID":644,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1477700313,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Designing Schools with Unconditional Positive Regard","Handle":"designing_schools_with_unconditional_positive_regard","ShortDescription":"What would school look like if we designed it around the core concept of unconditional positive regard for our students? What if every aspect of school, from course design to facilities to policies and practices all communicated one message: \"We care about you no matter what\"? Let's imagine!","Description":"In this session we\u2019ll imagine what school could look like if designed around the concept of unconditional positive regard for students - in other words, if everything we did communicated the message, \u201cI care about you, you have value, you don\u2019t have to do anything to prove it to me, and nothing\u2019s going to change my mind.\u201d \r\n\r\n\r\nFirst, we\u2019ll get on the same page about unconditional positive regard, why it matters that our students know we care, and what\u2019s possible when students are cared for really and truly in school. \r\n\r\n\r\nNext, we\u2019ll take a look at common aspects of schools - facilities, course design, policies, structures - with this lens: \u201cDo we do this in a way that communicates care to our students?\u201d If the answer is no, we\u2019ll brainstorm some solutions and share some success stories from our current settings. We\u2019ll think big but also imagine some practical shifts we can do on Monday.\r\n\r\n\r\nOut of our discussion, we\u2019ll craft a doc of suggestions that schools can use to consider their practices from this lens. We\u2019ll make this available and identify some possibilities for future collaboration around making schools a more caring place for all.","Link":["http:\/\/shevrin.wordpress.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We'll be brainstorming and developing some practical ideas toward the goal of a doc we can share with others considering how to transform their schools into places that communicate care in all they do. Conversation will be structured and facilitated but draw on the knowledge and experience of participants.","Presenter":["Alex Shevrin"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Centerpoint School"],"PresenterEmail":["alex.shevrin@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":83,"ScheduleLocationID":16,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6},{"ID":697,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1478839485,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"EduCon Cryptoparty","Handle":"educon_cryptoparty","ShortDescription":"We often hear talk about the need for privacy, security, and encryption. This session will help people make simple, practical choices around sharing their information, or protecting their information. Best of all: it's easy.","Description":"Different people experience the need for privacy in different ways. This session acknowledges that reality, and uses it as a starting point for the conversation. In this session, Audrey Watters and Bill Fitzgerald will share tips on how to make informed decisions about how we can use technology safely, and about how the definition of \"safe\" use varies by context. This session doesn't approach privacy or security as an absolute \"thing\" to be achieved. Rather, we see choices around privacy and security as options we should all be able to access. In the coming months and years, we will all want privacy in different ways, for different reasons. This session will provide resources to help people get started, and resources for people who have already begun to protect their online privacy who want to take their practice up a notch.","Link":["https:\/\/hackeducation.com","https:\/\/commonsense.org\/education\/privacy"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"The tools and resources collected for this session will all be shared via blog posts and GitHub pages. Whenever possible, we will highlight open source and freely available components. The goal here isn't to rattle off a series of technical tools; rather, we want to highlight the personal choices that can affect our private information.","Presenter":["Audrey Watters","Bill Fitzgerald"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Hack Education","Common Sense Media"],"PresenterEmail":["bill@funnymonkey.com","audrey.watters@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":83,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6},{"ID":686,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1478055851,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Espa\u00f1ol-adelphia: Using your city and its resources to create authentic cultural experiences in the World Language classroom","Handle":"espaol-adelphia--using_your_city_and_its_resources_to_create_authentic_cultural_experiences_in_the_world_language_classroom","ShortDescription":"This session will explore how we can tap into our local communities to create authentic WL cultural experiences for our students.","Description":"We are surrounded by our content outside the four walls of our classroom. The challenge is figuring out how to effectively make our community a part of our students\u2019 learning experience. Through this session, our goal is to model for our participants how we have used the resources in Philadelphia to enhance the curriculum. By the time participants leave, they will have a template for how to do the same in their communities. We will then all share resources in each of our communities on a collaborative google map.\r\nThe presenters are all high school Spanish teachers in Philadelphia who use the city as their classroom. Through this practice, we aim to show our students that language is not just for one day in the future, but for today. Through various examples, the presenters seek to provide a framework for teachers to use their community as learning spaces, as well.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"All participants will be encouraged to contribute their own experiences and ideas to this session. Our collective knowledge will be used to create a bank of resources that can be incorporated into the classroom.","Presenter":["Russell Quinones","Sam Sloan","Sean Carr"],"PresenterAffiliation":["University of Pennsylvania GSE"],"PresenterEmail":["russell.quinones@gmail.com","samantha.w.sloan@gmail.com","scarr@philasd.org","mmanuel@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":83,"ScheduleLocationID":14,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"Saturday early session please! And in room 207.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6},{"ID":622,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1470073632,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Fostering Ethical Innovation via the High School CS Curriculum","Handle":"fostering_ethical_innovation_via_the_high_school_cs_curriculum","ShortDescription":"We'll tackle the traditional \"amoral\" CS curriculum for HS students, which focuses on technical skills without a consideration of the ethical dilemmas presented through the creation of those tools. The goal is to create an open source, integrated CS curriculum grounded in modern social issues and global ethics.","Description":"The conversation will result in a curriculum designed to foster technical innovation grounded in global ethics. Students who go on to pursue CS at the college level will do so as activists, with a critical point of view. The curriculum will be implemented in the 2017\/18 school year at ECFS, and shared freely under an open license so educators can implement the new CS program at their institutions with no funds or extensive planning required. Our school will facilitate an online community that shares changes, updates, projects, reflections, and student experiences in the program.\r\nWe'll tear apart the traditional \"amoral\" CS curriculum for high school students, which focuses on technical skills without a consideration of the ethical dilemmas presented through the creation of those tools. Participants will develop course offerings which will invite & entice nontraditional students (journalists, activists, artists, etc.) into the CS program. Our current working outline includes courses such as Google vs. Oracle (learning Java while developing an understanding of the open source software ecosystem), Margin of Error (exploring pattern recognition, machine learning, and artificial intelligence and how seemingly small margin of errors have real-world impact when applied to modern machine\/drone warfare), Echo Breakdown (privacy, security, systems, and the internet of things), and the Snowden Files (developing data structures, data collection, and the potential misuse of seemingly innocuous data).","Link":[],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"After a brief framing discussion, participants will move into small group work  either select an existing set of courses (samples listed above) to flesh out into weekly topics, or to create new offerings around their own expertise\/passion. Participants will use index cards and table toppers to identify key technical and activist themes of the courses they're creating (#datastructures, #bias, #algorithms, #noflylists, #surveillance, #privacy, #opensource, #java, etc.) so new participants can join a group or pickup where another group left off. Participants are encouraged to move between groups at regular intervals to bring multiple perspectives to the developed course offerings.","Presenter":["Jeannie Crowely","Saber Khan"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Ethical Culture Fieldston School"],"PresenterEmail":["jcrowley@ecfs.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":83,"ScheduleLocationID":12,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6},{"ID":677,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1478042683,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Real Talk with Emerging Leaders","Handle":"real_talk_with_emerging_leaders","ShortDescription":"\u2018RT\u2019 will be a dynamic, energetic, and insightful conversation driven by participants. The purpose of this session is to harvest the collective wisdom of people new to the labor movement. They will discover ways to transform our unions and public school system toward the values of equity, inclusion, and diversity.","Description":"\u2018Real Talk with Emerging Leaders\u2019 will be a dynamic, energetic, and insightful conversation driven by participants in the room. The purpose of this session is to harvest the collective wisdom of people new to the labor movement; our emerging leaders. They will discover ways to transform our unions and public school system toward the values of equity, inclusion, and diversity. This session will utilize a World Caf\u00e9 model from the Art of Hosting. World Caf\u00e9 got its name because it imitates a caf\u00e9 setting where clusters of small groups are engaging in conversations about the issues that matter to them. It is an ideal way to find out what a community is thinking and feeling about a topic. Participants will thoughtfully dialogue based on a series of purposeful questions. After each round, a host will remain at the table to hold the space, while the other participants join new spaces for fresh conversations. In this way, the threads of the various discussions are woven together. If the next generations of emerging leaders are to truly champion the transformative change we need in our public school system, then we begin with some Real Talk.","Link":["https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/mrtanglao\/"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"This session will utilize a World Caf\u00e9 model from the Art of Hosting. World Caf\u00e9 got its name because it imitates a caf\u00e9 setting where clusters of small groups are engaging in conversations about the issues that matter to them. It is an ideal way to find out what a community is thinking and feeling about a topic. Participants will thoughtfully dialogue based on a series of purposeful questions. After each round, a host will remain at the table to hold the space, while the other participants join new spaces for fresh conversations. In this way, the threads of the various discussions are woven together.","Presenter":["Gabriel Tanglao"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Bergenfield Education Association"],"PresenterEmail":["gtanglao@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":83,"ScheduleLocationID":4,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"#Peace #Solidarity #EduColor","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":654,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1477935352,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Edtech Teacher: Ambiguous and Obsolete?","Handle":"the_edtech_teacher--ambiguous_and_obsolete","ShortDescription":"What do Edtech Teachers, Integrationists, and Tech Coordinators do? There is no definitive answer. Are they necessary in our schools or becoming obsolete? Since many have also become full or part time Makers and\/or Computer Scientists, the position might need redefining. This session will aim to clarify the role, the purpose, and perhaps the future of such a position.","Description":"If you ask a History Teacher what they do, you can pretty much predict the answer. But with an EdTech Teacher it may well vary and sound rather unwieldy. Then there is the title itself. Computer Teacher? Educational Technologist? Integrationist? Coordinator? In the academic world, technology teachers recast, rebrand, and reinvent themselves and their programs to keep apace. In many ways, if they were truly successful, they may work themselves out of a job. But  would they with the new technologies and innovations that bombard us on a daily basis? Perhaps it is time to stop and have a serious conversation about the state of technological education. We are a Tech Director (Melanie) and a Edtech Coordinator (Rob) who work at competing independent schools in NYC. We hope that our Educon group will bring a much wider range of perspectives to this conversation including classroom teachers, administration and technology teachers. The session will be a broader discussion about the impact of technology roles in our schools. In fact, the more diverse the attendees, the richer the conversation will hopefully be.","Link":["http:\/\/www.trinityschoolnyc.org\/page","http:\/\/www.collegiateschool.org\/page"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Melanie Hutchinson (Collegiate School, NYC) and Rob Keith (Trinity School, NYC) have been attending Educon since 2010. Although both are active in leading professional development in New York City, this is the first year that they have submitted proposals to Educon. The session will be structured so that conversations that encourage reflection, sharing, and hopefully learning, will take place at many different levels including pairs and whole group. A variety of activities will engage our participants by tapping into the creativity of the group. Thinking will be made visible in a variety of ways including with drawings, post its, and group shares. While our work will be shared on a google doc we also hope to use some participatory apps such as socrative, google forms, and padlet. Our goal is for attendees to gain clarity and enlightenment, as well as practical insights.","Presenter":["Robert Keith","Melanie Hutchinson"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Trinity School","Collegiate School"],"PresenterEmail":["robert.keith@trinityschoolnyc.org","mhutchinson@collegiateschool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":83,"ScheduleLocationID":5,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"Melanie Hutchinson (Collegiate School, NYC) and Rob Keith (Trinity School, NYC) have been attending Educon since 2010.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6},{"ID":657,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1477946151,"CreatorID":869,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Role of the Teacher in the Age of Google","Handle":"the_role_of_the_teacher_in_the_age_of_google","ShortDescription":"In this session presenters will discuss the changing role of the teacher in the age of Google. This will be discussed from the view from the classroom with students as well as how this changes professional learning for teachers.","Description":"\u201cYou don\u2019t need to teach us.  That\u2019s what Google is for.\u201d That was the message a student shared with a surprised audience of educators during a popular technology conference. They went on to say, \u201cIf I can't figure something out I prefer to watch a YouTube video or text a friend rather than ask a teacher.\u201d The other students in the room nodded their heads in agreement. Many teachers understand this is how today\u2019s students prefer to learn. When we stop banning and fighting technology and start to embrace the connected classroom, a shift in teaching practice certainly must follow.  What does that look like? How has the role of teaching, learning, and professional learning for teachers changed in the age of Google.  In this session two classroom teachers and two administrators will discuss some of the shifts they\u2019ve seen and then discuss with participants how they have or can embrace new roles for modern teaching.","Link":["http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/educon17teacherrole"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This session uses the What? So What? Now What? protocol. The whole group will discuss the \u201cWhat?\u201d which is how students prefer to learn. Then they\u2019ll discuss \u201cSo What?\u201d and think of some new roles of teachers today. Next the room will break into pairs or groups to look at each of the various roles and elaborate on what each role looks like from the perspective of student, teacher, and learning environment. These will be collected on one Padlet. The participants will reconvene and then each group will share what they came up with and respond to feedback.","Presenter":["Lisa Nielsen","Eileen Lennon","Jackie Patanio","Darlynn Alfalla"],"PresenterAffiliation":["NYC Schools"],"PresenterEmail":["lnielsen@schools.nyc.gov","elennon2@schools.nyc.gov","dalfall@schools.nyc.gov","jpatanio@schools.nyc.gov"],"ScheduleSlotID":83,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":869,"AdditionalComments":"We would request the Saturday afternoon timeslot for this session to ensure all presenters are on hand.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6},{"ID":669,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1477971543,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Tired of teaching to the middle? Transition to a self-paced, mastery classroom and meet everyone\u2019s needs","Handle":"tired_of_teaching_to_the_middle-transition_to_a_self-paced-mastery_classroom_and_meet_everyone-s_needs","ShortDescription":"Is it possible to teach a diverse group without leaving some students behind? Join a conversation about how self-paced, mastery learning helps each student learn at their ideal pace. Find out how to transform your classroom so that students have the time and flexibility to truly master the content.","Description":"What if it was possible for every student to learn at his or her own pace? What if it was possible to make sure that every student mastered the content that you were trying to teach? What if it was possible to tailor lessons to individual students? We often talk about inclusive classrooms and differentiation, but our ability to meet each student\u2019s needs in a teacher-centered classroom is often hindered by time or the feeling that we are holding other students back if we try to review concepts that some students haven\u2019t mastered yet. I want to have a conversation about how I changed my conventional, mostly teacher-centered classroom into a completely self-paced, student-centered mastery class and how I discovered that I could truly differentiate for each individual student without impeding the progress of others.  I will discuss how I comb through the standards in the NYS Living Environment curriculum and turn them into student friendly learning targets that are easily measurable, how I create assessments, and how I use Google Classroom to share resources and learning opportunities with my students. I also want to show how students take ownership of their learning. Finally, I hope to generate a discussion about how to push them even farther in their self-awareness and in their ability to reflect on their learning.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"After a whole group discussion, educators will break off into groups based on their familiarity with and readiness for a mastery-based classroom. Teachers will join a Google group where they can share how they plan to incorporate mastery in their classrooms, post resources, and ask questions. Teachers will leave the session having completed one or more of the following tasks: writing student-friendly aims, designing assessments, developing a system that gives students multiple choices to show mastery, or creating a plan to completely shift to a self-paced, mastery classroom.","Presenter":["Kristen Brown"],"PresenterAffiliation":["NYC iSchool","MfA Master Teacher"],"PresenterEmail":["kbrown@nycischool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":83,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":6,"ScheduleSlotID":83},"total":14,"limit":false,"offset":false}