{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":1224,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1698873175,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Breaking the Burnout Cycle: Weaving Wellness and Building Bonds among School Staff","Handle":"using_personal_stories_to_build_critical_consciousness","ShortDescription":"Teacher mental health is a real thing!\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s no secret that youth mental health is in crisis. Teachers aren\u2019t okay either. Educators experience substantially higher rates of depression than the overall population. Nearly 50 percent leave the classroom within five years. Teaching is considered as stressful as working as an emergency room doctor (Hechinger Report August 2023).\r\n\r\nEducators are invited to learn more about a unique program \"Adult Rites of Passage\", which mirrors the siblinghood groups offered to students at South Bronx Community Charter High School. The Adult ROP space provides two functions: one is to learn more about the types of activities that can be conducted in the student space by doing them in groups of adults. The second is to provide respite from busy weeks of lesson planning and give adults a space to unwind, be silly, reflect and connect.","Description":"","Link":["https:\/\/southbronxcommunity.org","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/southbronxcommunity\/"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"This will be a panel with students, staff and administrators. We will model using constructive, conversational practices.","Presenter":["Travis Delancey-Goodman","Jeannette Bautista","and John Clemente"],"PresenterAffiliation":["South Bronx Community Charter High School"],"PresenterEmail":["Robert.Gulya@southbronxcommunity.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":157,"ScheduleLocationID":37,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":11},{"ID":1236,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1698898066,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Sustaining the Rebellion: Maintaining Upstart Culture in the Face of Tradition","Handle":"sustaining_the_rebellion--maintaining_upstart_culture_in_the_face_of_tradition","ShortDescription":"How might we keep our bonfires of innovation and spirits of upstart culture thriving in the face of constant pushback and regression to the mean?   Unite around a common cause -- improving the teaching and learning experiences for all -- and cast cynicism aside.","Description":"It is so difficult to keep our energy up and our optimism in the fore.  With so many progressive minded folks attending Educon and participants who work on school wide and system wide scales  as well as classroom and individual practice scales, this is an opportunity for us to share the ways in which we stay crispy and hungry.   We could kvetch for days and we will not.  We will lean into our inner Jedi, our stolid Mandolorian, and bring positive and purpose to the fore in this conversation.","Link":["https:\/\/www.crcsme.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will use restorative circle formats to help guide these conversations as we are all in various degrees of hurt and in need of both healing and humanity.  Using a sequence of circles and a flexible design, we hope to mix and remix as many participants in the room as possible.","Presenter":["Elizabeth Firnkes","Megan Gibbs","Dan Ryder"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Community Regional Charter School"],"PresenterEmail":["efirnkes@crcsme.org","mgibbs@crcsme.org","danryder207@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":158,"ScheduleLocationID":37,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"We would very much like to bring our little contingent from a rural Maine public charter school to learn from the diverse participants at Educon while also bringing our experiences and insights as a 12-year-old school to help others.   We are also craving the positivity of Educon.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":11},{"ID":1240,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1699063749,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Partnership and Inquiry at the Lea School","Handle":"partnership_and_inquiry_at_the_lea_school","ShortDescription":"An exploration of the process of integrating partnerships into inquiry driven student work and presentation at the Lea School in West Philadelphia.","Description":"At the Lea School we have spent the last two years shifting towards project based learning as a school community. As part of this process we have re-thought how we utilize partners to support the work of the school and built a process for connecting partners to units of inquiry. In this session we will present artifacts from this experience and a guide for exploring and questioning them. Through this shared exploration we will engage in dialogue and a shared inquiry in to the work being done in our school and community. Hopefully participants will come away with no ideas and fruitful questions!","Link":["https:\/\/lea.philasd.org\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"A combination of independent and shared inquiry. We will use artifacts as jumping off points for inquiry and provide opportunities for shared questions.","Presenter":["Aaron Gerwer"],"PresenterAffiliation":["School district of philadelphia","UPenn"],"PresenterEmail":["agerwer@philasd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":159,"ScheduleLocationID":37,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":11},{"ID":1216,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1698854673,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Do collaborations really work? Exploring lessons learned from a successful seven-school community of practice in Philly implementing student-centered initiatives.","Handle":"do_collaborations_really_work-exploring_lessons_learned_from_a_successful_seven-school_community_of_practice_in_philly_implementing_student-centered_initiatives.","ShortDescription":"Cross-school collaboration can be a powerful way to expand teacher, administrator, and school capacity. In this conversation, teachers from seven Philadelphia schools - public and charter - share what it took for their Community of Practice (CoP) to introduce a new SEL advisory curriculum in their school communities.","Description":"Broadly this discussion is about how the Philadelphia Learning Collaborative (PLC), an educational nonprofit that often functions as an intermediary organization, convenes schools in its membership to take on initiatives that are too daunting for individual schools to tackle alone, such as implementing new curriculum or strengthening school-based real-world learning programs. Specifically, teachers from the CoP will share details from the first of a two-year long journey of working across seven schools to implement an SEL curriculum in advisory that addressed students post-pandemic needs. \r\n\r\nPLC and the Learning Accelerant partnered to build a CoP of 30-educators with representation from seven Philadelphia schools. The goal of this ongoing initiative is to maximize advisory by using a common curriculum (nXu)  and learning how it is adapted in different contexts. The curriculum guides teachers in helping students to: 1. navigate transitions 2. find their voice 3. chart a path for the future, and 4.prepare for what\u2019s next.\r\n\r\nIn our conversation teachers will openly share the benefits and challenges of this approach. \r\n\r\nAttenders will learn about how to:\r\nengage with school leaders about an identified challenge\r\nremove barriers to participation to create an open community \r\ncollaborate with colleagues in your school\r\nbuild a virtual community to advance the initiative\r\n\r\nAfter the panel, the session will transition into small groups where attendees will take some time to strategize around needs and innovations that have been tabled in their own schools and determine how cross school collaboration could be meaningful.","Link":["https:\/\/www.phlcollab.org\/"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"This panel will feature teachers who are CoP members.  The attendees will be encouraged to ask questions. Following the panel, CoP teachers will facilitate structured small group discussions aimed at guiding attendees to workshop their own next steps and leave the session with ideas about how to move a similar initiative forward in their own context.","Presenter":["Crystal Cubbage","Jennifer Brevoort","Robbie Marsden and two additional CoP members (To be confirmed)"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Philadelphia Learning Collaborative"],"PresenterEmail":["crystal@phlcollab.org","jennifer@phlcollab.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":160,"ScheduleLocationID":37,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":11},{"ID":1234,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1698896008,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Cardboard & Consoles: Game-Based Thinking in the Classroom","Handle":"cardboard-consoles--game-based_thinking_in_the_classroom-2","ShortDescription":"How might we apply the underpinnings of tabletop and video game design to the demonstration of deeper content knowledge,  social-emotional growth, and future-ready skill development?  Ideate and imagine while exploring a library of games & resources.","Description":"After a brief exploration period investigating a variety of games, the community of conversationalist will be guided through a framework to game-based thinking and use a human-centered design process to brainstorm and initiate prototype game-based experiences.  From there we will discuss the insights and understandings they took from that process and they might apply to their impact areas.","Link":["https:\/\/www.danryder207.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will use my 5E framework for human-centered design and problem solving: EXPLORE, EMPATHIZE, EXPERIMENT, EXECUTE, EVOLVE.  \r\nWe will dive into a library of games and unpack the ideas of game-based thinking.\r\nWe will discuss one another's histories and experiences with games.\r\nWe will experiment with ideas for applying game-based thinking to learning experiences in our impact areas.\r\nWe will identify an idea to develop and plan to execute.\r\nAnd we will discuss our experiences and thinking so we may evolve even the kernel of an idea into something more.","Presenter":["Dan Ryder"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Community Regional Charter School"],"PresenterEmail":["danryder207@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":161,"ScheduleLocationID":37,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"This whole idea hatched from a lunchtime ignite I presented at Educon in the before times.   Designing games in the classroom with learners sent me thinking more deeply about game-based thinking and WHY it is so powerful.   The last few years I've been going stronger and stronger toward these ideas as central to my educational practice and that makes me uber happy.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":11},{"ID":1186,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1697810509,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Benefits and Challenges of Dual-enrollment","Handle":"the_benefits_and_challenges_of_dual-enrollment","ShortDescription":"An academic program coordinator and two teachers of dual-enrolled ICT courses lead a discussion of the benefits and challenges of dual-enrollment for high school students.","Description":"At the end of the 2022-23 school year 25 Virginia high school students\r\ngraduated with an Associates Degree concurrent with their high school diploma.\r\n15 of these 25 students came from one high school program,\r\nArlington Tech (https:\/\/careercenter.apsva.us\/arlington-tech).\r\n\r\nIn this conversation, the Arlington Tech program coordinator and two teachers\r\nof ICT dual-enrolled courses will lead a discussion of the benefits and\r\nchallenges of offering college courses to high school students.","Link":["https:\/\/careercenter.apsva.us\/arlington-tech\/","https:\/\/ict.gctaa.net\/"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"The session will be a round table discussion sparked by driving questions: why\r\nDual Enrollment (DE)? and who benefits from DE opportunities? The organizers\r\nwill present information on DE goals, pathways, and statistics and build on the\r\npersonal experiences of participants, teachers, and students in DE programs to\r\nprovide rich conversations about this growing segment of secondary education\r\nprograms.","Presenter":["Dr. Michelle Van Lare","Alice Gallegher","Jeffrey Elkner"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Arlington Public Schools","Arlington","VA"],"PresenterEmail":["michelle.vanlare@apsva.us","alice.gallaugher@apsva.us","jde232@email.vccs.edu"],"ScheduleSlotID":162,"ScheduleLocationID":37,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":11}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":11,"ScheduleLocationID":37},"total":6,"limit":false,"offset":false}