{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":1188,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1697830941,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"What School Looks Like for Future-Ready Teens: Paradigm Shifts for Career + Life Success","Handle":"what_school_looks_like_for_future-ready_teens--paradigm_shifts_for_career-life_success","ShortDescription":"What needs to change in schools -- in your school -- for teens to be truly future-ready? What mindsets, what paradigms, what systems \u2014 big and small? We'll ask the big questions, dig in, and unpack the shifts needed at the district, school, and classroom levels. Then we'll shift into accelerator mode,  sharing real ideas for catalytic teaching and learning that guide teens to be future-ready.","Description":"Discussion: What needs to change in schools -- in your school -- for teens to be truly future-ready? What mindsets, what paradigms, what systems \u2014 big and small? We'll ask the big questions, dig in, and unpack the shifts needed at the district, school, and classroom levels. We'll provide examples of what some schools are doing to make these shifts as inspiration.\r\nWorkshop: Then we'll shift into accelerator mode, sourcing and sharing real ideas for catalytic teaching and learning that guide teens to be future-ready. We'll also explore how to make these shifts happen \u2014 starting small, piloting, etc.","Link":["http:\/\/www.jenniferlmgunn.com","http:\/\/www.myuniquegenius.com"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"The entire session will be rooted in conversation and creation. We'll incorporate whole-group and small-group discussion and idea sharing throughout. Crowd-sourcing ideas, group brainstorming, and the creation of artifacts participants can take home to their schools. A really creative, and collaborative. environment","Presenter":["Jennifer L.M. Gunn","Bennett Smith"],"PresenterAffiliation":["NYC Dept. of Education","My Unique Genius"],"PresenterEmail":["jennifer@myuniquegenius.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":157,"ScheduleLocationID":32,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Jennifer L.M. Gunn is an educator, designer, and writer who believes passionately in progressive public education. She brings love and creativity to her work as an educator and instructional designer with over a decade of experience building highly engaging and impactful instructional materials for learning and development \u2014 for schools, companies and private clients. She believes ardently in education innovation, social-emotional learning, and meeting the diverse and evolving needs of learners. Jennifer created My Unique Genius, a new platform for career-connected learning and SEL. She also created Right to Read, a literacy acceleration series for teens, steeped in social justice. She also created the innovative learning models, The Big Idea Project and We the Change. Co-founder of the EDxEDNYC Education Conference for teacher-led innovation, she frequently writes about education, adolescent literacy and innovation in teaching and learning.\r\n\r\nGeoff Helt is the fonder of Forge School in Bend, Oregon. Forge provides a catalytic environment where kids can translate their passions and talents into more meaningful and impactful lives. Geoff\u2019s current portfolio of ventures is focused on creating paradigm shifts and innovation in education. In addition to Forge School, Geoff is leading the development of My Unique Genius to unlock the potential of millions of teens around the world.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":11},{"ID":1227,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1698880376,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Stay Hungry Stay Foolish: A Conversation on Teaching for a Lifetime","Handle":"stay_hungry_stay_foolish--a_conversation_on_teaching_for_a_lifetime","ShortDescription":"We have heard that teachers are fleeing the profession: retiring early, leaving for consulting jobs, or burning out.  But that's not true of all teachers.  So just how does one stay engaged and engaging while aging?  How might we avoid both burning out and fading away.","Description":"As we age, teachers invariably face a dilemma:  Our youth, which used to tie us so closely to our students and which was vital to our relationships with them, invariably fades. Curricula become stagnant.  Ideas that once excited us rebound as hollow echos, and the vitality we know is crucial to the life of the class wanes earlier in the day.  \r\n\r\nThis is not a fiction. It is an inevitability (though certainly heightened by a. bit of hyperbolic description here).    It has happened to me as a 30 year veteran.  Join this conversation to explore our pasts, presents, and futures as  career educators and how we might continue to bring energy and heart to this work, 15, 20, 30 years in.","Link":["https:\/\/pvhsnovalab.com","https:\/\/onlyconnects.wordpress.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Two main conversational practices are in play here:  \r\n1) Depending upon attendance, a modified version of the \"World Cafe Protocol\" \r\n2) A modified version of the \"Consultancy Protocol\" for dealing with dilemmas.\r\n(Both protocols, and others, found here:  https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1OMJSuPCX2pbne4vzZQ5K13bfGMtGQzmu\/view?usp=sharing)","Presenter":["Garreth Heidt"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Perkiomen Valley High School"],"PresenterEmail":["gheidt@pvsd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":158,"ScheduleLocationID":32,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"This session is open to everyone, students included.  Your presenter doesn't have the answers and has no particular expertise in this topic, other than 30 years of experience and a sense that he knew these days were coming, and still isn't prepared.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":11},{"ID":1228,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1698882043,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"It's time for Mid-21st Century technology in schools","Handle":"it-s_time_for_mid-21st_century_technology_in_schools","ShortDescription":"Schools all over continue to fight the battle against this century's technologies while they watch learners disengage and, now more than ever, stop showing up at all. Let's talk about learner-centered technologies, learner-centered technology policies, and what \"technology\" means as we enter this mid-century.","Description":"Schools have battled with learner uses of technology for 25 years now, beginning with wars against Wikipedia and, for this entire century, a corrosive battle against both phones and learner-controlled tech. These fights have increased the apparent irrelevance of schools - for both learners and their parents - while abandoning any effort to teach the best uses of this century's tools. Ira Socol and Pam Moran will provoke a conversation centered around questions that go to the heart of the why and how of school at a time when students are choosing to walk away, often with their parents consent.","Link":["https:\/\/www.socolmoran.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Hot topics discussed rationally - with evidence - is our style. Yes, we will be provocative but not angry and not accusatory. This isn't about right vs wrong, but about the strategies that we need to build around every school technology decision, and the societal costs and benefits of each decision.","Presenter":["Ira Socol","Pam Moran"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Socol Moran Partners LLC"],"PresenterEmail":["irasocol@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":159,"ScheduleLocationID":32,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":11},{"ID":1206,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1698680454,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Finding Joy in Centering Inclusion","Handle":"finding_joy_in_centering_inclusion","ShortDescription":"Where do we find joy in our schools, classrooms and communities? How can we center joy, and with that, also elevate inclusivity? In this session, we will explore how to more purposefully cultivate joy and center students\u2019 identities, experiences and perspectives. A collaborative and hopefully joyful conversation uplifting some practices from Gholdy Muhammad\u2019s Unearthing Joy.","Description":"1. Using Alok's quote: \"Your role on this earth is to cultivate the truest form of yourself, and other people are going to feel threatened by that because they are living an abbreviated version of their own joy\" We will reflect on our own identities and how they bring us joy and how they present challenges to showing up as our authentic selves. We will draw on this reflection to ask, when or how have we caused our students to live an abbreviated version of their own joy? What would it take in our schools to allow everyone to show up as the \u201ctruest form of themselves\u201d?\r\n2. We will present findings from SDP\u2019s Student Experience Survey and discuss the under-reporting of LGBTQ experiences. We will discuss and provide alternative measures to gather more accurate data on all students' experiences in schools. \r\n3. Cultivating Joy in\/and Inclusivity\r\nParticipants will explore Gholdy Muhammed's \"Unearthing Thought\" exercise, completing an evaluation regarding opportunities for Joy in schools. \r\nWe will explore, \u201cWhat is getting in the way of Joy in our schools?\u201d and tie this back to Alok\u2019s message that \u201cpeople are living an abbreviated version of their own joy.\u201d\r\n4. Finally, we will view art, listen to music and ask participants to share examples of how joy is cultivated in their own educational spaces. We will share strategies to center joy and create truly inclusive communities in schools, drawing on the facilitators\u2019 experiences facilitating Equity Centered PD with leaders and working to establish more inclusive communities in schools.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will provide many opportunities to discuss, collaborate and share ways to cultivate joy, and how we recognize and center the many beautiful identities in our schools. Drawing on the experiences of those in the group, we will reflect on when and how school was joyful for us and where and how we bring joy to our school communities now. Participants will view and discuss art, listen to music and spoken word, and problem solve around what is getting in the way of centering joy?","Presenter":["Katie Culver","Dylan Van Duyne"],"PresenterAffiliation":["School District of Philadelphia"],"PresenterEmail":["kculver@philasd.org","dvanduyne@philasd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":160,"ScheduleLocationID":32,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":11},{"ID":1225,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1698873276,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"How to Increase Rigour through College Partnerships and Experiences?","Handle":"how_to_increase_rigour_through_college_partnerships_and_experiences","ShortDescription":"Participants will go through a series of guided conversations and curriculum that helps build a college-going mindset in high school by increasing students' access to college courses through school partnerships.","Description":"Participants will go through a series of guided conversations and curriculum that helps build a college-going mindset in high school by increasing students' access to college courses through school partnerships.  \r\n\r\nIn these conversations, participants will develop a plan to increase the college-going mindset in their class either through curriculum building or partnerships and in their school through intentional partnerships","Link":["https:\/\/southbronxcommunity.org\/"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"Participants will use the discussion protocol and consensus statement actions to engage in courageous conversations around access to college experiences in high school for Black and Brown students.","Presenter":["Christipher Fleming","Pablo Lopez","Alex D. and Yanil"],"PresenterAffiliation":["South Bronx Community Charter High School"],"PresenterEmail":["christipher.fleming@southbronxcommunity.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":161,"ScheduleLocationID":32,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":11},{"ID":1211,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1698681830,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Debugging Creativity and Imagination: The Fusion of AI and creative writing","Handle":"debugging_creativity_and_imagination--the_fusion_of_ai_and_creative_writing","ShortDescription":"This conversation will navigate the crossroads of generative artificial intelligence and ELA. Using prompt engineering, students can convert their written thoughts into astonishing AI-generated images and allow educators to view writing through the lens of computational thinking, providing a unique approach to the creative writing process. This conversation will dive into an innovative and enriching exploration into the fusion of creativity, analytical thinking, and collaborative learning.","Description":"This session will navigate the crossroads of generative artificial intelligence and ELA. Using prompt engineering, students can convert their written thoughts into astonishing AI-generated images and allow educators to view writing through the lens of computational thinking, providing a unique, algorithmic approach to the creative writing process. Students are guided to use an algorithm to write their prompts and then 'debug' them, similar to how programmers optimize their algorithms, resulting in the best possible image representation of their written words. This journey provides an innovative and enriching exploration into the fusion of creativity, analytical thinking, and collaborative learning, set within the context of the increasingly digital and AI-driven world.","Link":["https:\/\/www.AlanaWinnick.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"The presenter will facilitate roundtable conversations by handing out bags with spark topics that participants will pull from to discuss. We will come back together and share.","Presenter":["Marina Lombardo"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Pocantico Hills CSD"],"PresenterEmail":["mlombardo@pocanticohills.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":162,"ScheduleLocationID":32,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Cofacilitator Alana Winnick is the esteemed author of \"The Generative Age: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Education.\" Over the past year, Alana has dedicated her time to extensive research, experimentation, and staying abreast of the ever-changing educational landscape. Her expertise and commitment have greatly contributed to the depth and relevance of our content.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":11}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":11,"ScheduleLocationID":32},"total":6,"limit":false,"offset":false}