{"data":{"ID":1230,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1698887614,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Why Would Students Come to Your School If They Didn't Have to?","Handle":"why_would_students_come_to_your_school_if_they_didn-t_have_to","ShortDescription":"Participate with friends and colleagues in a deep discussion exploring this question. Let's crowd source responses and create a Medium post before we leave that represents our conversation. Consider street data you notice that says young people matter in schools. Share practices that bring young people to see school as a home of opportunity. What's the spirit that you would like to see inhabit your school and others?","Description":"The key focus of this conversation is on the question of why would students want to come to your school if we didn't have compulsory attendance laws? Engagement and chronic absenteeism are worse than ever in recent decades. Home schooling is the most rapid growing education sector for ages 5-18. Parents don't see the need for students to go to school every day. Many teachers are more actively disengaged than they have ever been. Rather than focusing on what's not working in schools. Let's look at what may be the outlier educators and school communities among us and consider why kids, parents, and teachers want to come to school.","Link":["https:\/\/www.socolmoran.com\/","https:\/\/vascl.org\/","https:\/\/learningcampfire.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We intend to frame this conversation in the round through appreciative inquiry process questions to uncover and share strengths, assets, and opportunities within the conversation community that emerges during the session.","Presenter":["Pam Moran","Ira Socol"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Virginia School Consortium for Learning"],"PresenterEmail":["pmoran@vascl.org","irasocol@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":157,"ScheduleLocationID":34,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"We are working with educators all over the US to support their work to codesign learning experiences that create a reason for students to value being in school and to find their learning and community of value to them. We've worked with educators from tribal schools in Nevada to suburban schools in Pennsylvania and urban schools in the D.C. area to explore, develop, and sustain how schools can become spaces that matter to parents, teachers, and students. This is our passion and mission work as educators.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":11}}