{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":1131,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1667316642,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Re-identifying levels for Special Education Students","Handle":"re-identifying_levels_for_special_education_students","ShortDescription":"The current method of identifying reading and math levels by grade association is archaic as compared to the levels used in ESOL. The WIDA scale identifies by ability and skill instead of grade level","Description":"Special education identifies students as having a 2nd or 3rd grade reading level or a 4th grade math level. In the last 10 years the curriculums of lower grades have changed such that 1st graders now are learning past 3rd grade skills. By defining a reading\/math identifier like the WIDA scale teachers would have more on the spot information of special education students. Additionally, in SIS a teacher can scroll over an ELL students red flag to know their WIDA level. Imagine if that were the case for special education students?","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Conversational protocols will be used to discuss this idea\r\nPros\/Cons\r\nEducational practice","Presenter":["Frank Pinzarrone"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Kensington Health Science Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["fpinzarrone@philasd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":142,"ScheduleLocationID":32,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Special Education Level Identification System (SELIS) would be based on the 7 levels of comprehension in ELA and the set skills and applications in Math","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":10},{"ID":1146,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1667358586,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Using Community Based Partnerships to Foster Authentic Learning Experiences","Handle":"using_community_based_partnerships_to_foster_authentic_learning_experiences","ShortDescription":"Coming out of a turbulent and traumatic school year, schools around the country were looking for ways to re-engage and reanimate students in the process of learning. In order to do this, South Bronx Community Charter High School formed authentic, community-based partnerships with local cultural institutions.","Description":"The 2020 School Year was rough for all schools across America, but particularly for schools serving working class Black\/Latinx populations like our own due to students' lack of internet resources, home space, and family responsibility support. While we did our best to engage students, we did see a large number of student disengagement when remote. That is why during the summer of 2021, as schools were opening back up to in-person learning, we spent a lot of time brainstorming how we could reignite student engagement at the beginning of the year. Using design thinking processes, we eventually came up with the idea of using the first two months of the school year to engage in real-world project-based partnerships with NYC Cultural Institutions. We reached out to multiple institutions, but ultimately it was MCNY, The Bronx Zoo, the Schomburg Center, and the arts organization Thrive that agreed to develop a unique curriculum for our students.\r\n\r\nThe reason we reached out to MCNY in the first place was because one of our teachers had seen the Activist New York exhibit and thought that it was very aligned with our school mission of creating social justice leaders within our community. We were curious to see what working with a cultural institution could look like beyond a 1 day tour of an exhibit towards a more authentic engagement with the pieces and the history. The building of the curriculum was a true collaboration between the museum educators and our staff which resulted in answering the question, how can we get young people to express to their peers why this history still matters.","Link":["http:\/\/www.southbronxcommunity.org"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"This session will be a panel discussion. In this panel, participants will hear from a variety of stakeholders-- the Director of Education at the Museum of the City of New York, a humanities educator, and a 10th grade student-- about their experience engaging in authentic project based learning.\r\n\r\nAttendees will see the power of authentic project based learning experiences in the eyes of students, staff and community partners.\r\n\r\nAttendees will understand how to form community-based partnerships that empower students.\r\n\r\nAttendees will hear about how to create empowering learning experience for young people from multiple perspectives.","Presenter":["Robert Gulya","Yohenni Evangelista","Angela Aponte","Maeve Montalvo"],"PresenterAffiliation":["South Bronx Community Charter High School and The Museum of the City of New York"],"PresenterEmail":["john.clemente@southbronxcommunity.org","robert.gulya@southbronxcommunity.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":143,"ScheduleLocationID":32,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":10},{"ID":1158,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1668139103,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Perhaps We\u2019re Past EdTech","Handle":"perhaps_we-re_past_edtech","ShortDescription":"EdTech has had its moment. Perhaps it\u2019s over. Come let\u2019s talk about what\u2019s next and what never worked out.","Description":"While it\u2019s good to look to what\u2019s next, EdTech has been promising an almost here future for a good 100 years or so. In this conversation, we will unpack some broken promises and redirect our efforts towards doing better today rather than waiting for tomorrow.","Link":["http:\/\/budtheteacher.com\/killingedtech"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"After a brief introduction of some historical trends and patterns of \u201cjust around the corner\u201d proclamations, we will open the floor to those who wish to interrogate the practices of \u201cinnovation,\u201d leaning in to attention around how we can build the learning environments of good habits and practices right now, rather than looking ahead to what might be if only. \r\n\r\nParticipants will share their \u201cif only\u201d moments and their \u201clet\u2019s do this now\u201d ideas as we unpack the promises of a future that never quite was.","Presenter":["Bud Hunt"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Poudre School District"],"PresenterEmail":["budtheteacher@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":144,"ScheduleLocationID":32,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":10},{"ID":1102,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1666138943,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Foresight Thinking & Future Scenario Design for Human Beings","Handle":"foresight_thinking-future_scenario_design_for_human_beings","ShortDescription":"How might we as educators think 'like futurists and foresight strategists' so that we can best help our students purposefully respond to their unique futures?\r\n\r\nThis interactive session will use recognized foresight strategies used by professional futurists to guide research and clients. Most importantly, it will help us consider ways we might adopt foresight practices and tools to empower our students.","Description":"As a diverse tribe of progressive learner-focused educators, we are well-versed in a wide array of agile 21st Century Learning principles and methods. \r\n\r\nWe work doggedly and creatively -- in every way and setting imaginable -- to help our young people to be prepared for the 'future'. It's just in our DNA. \r\n\r\nYet, when was the last time that you were purposefully trained in the same techniques that futurists use to guide leaders and organizations across different industries or societal sectors to prepare for what lies ahead?\r\n\r\nBetter asked, could you use the same practices professional futurists and foresight strategists use to mentor your own students to make confident decisions about their future? \r\n\r\nIn this interactive conversation, we will explore and test a series of 'foresight thinking' strategies developed by leading organizations including The Institute for The Future, The Smithsonian Institute, TeachTheFuture.org, and the d.school's K-12 Lab. Our session will use these recognized foresight strategies used by these professional futurists -- who understand the mindsets of both youth and educators -- to guide research and clients. \r\n\r\nMost importantly, it will help us consider ways we might adopt foresight practices and tools to empower our students both for their immediate future and the many scenarios that may define the world they step into next. \r\n\r\nOur shared Educon experience will focus on (5) specific areas areas:\r\n\r\nPart 1: Activity -- \"Go Ahead: Predict the Future\" -- Tomorrow Morning vs Ten Years from Now.\r\n\r\nPart 2: Presentation -- Trends, Signals, Scenarios (and Urgent Futures, via Jane McGonigal's \"Imaginable\")\r\n\r\nPart 3: Activity -- Deploying gameplay and future scenario modeling via \"Your Future Thing\" and other games\/decks.\r\n\r\nPart 4: Activity -- How might we design a 'futures' classroom project or design challenge that empowers our students?\r\n\r\nPart 5: Discussion -- Big Picture Thinking: Why should we and our colleagues develop foresight techniques and future thinking skills? What happens if we don't?","Link":["https:\/\/thinklearningstudio.org\/"],"Audience":["High School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"The session will be balanced in the following ways:\r\n\r\n* 40% - series of 'small group' micro activities \r\n* 40% - 'small group' \/ 'full room' conversations and final 'full room' 'how might we...' reflections\r\n* 20% - presenter talk (simply to introduce context and terms)","Presenter":["Christian Long"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["clong@thinkglobalschool.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":145,"ScheduleLocationID":32,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":10},{"ID":1112,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1666981764,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"An Interdisciplinary Educational Lab - the \u201cConstructionist\u201d Approach","Handle":"an_interdisciplinary_educational_lab_-_the-constructionist-approach","ShortDescription":"In our interdisciplinary lab for innovation where every voice matters, students implement their learning from multiple disciplines into new domains (Constructionism). Through their mastery based projects, students create digital portfolios, reflecting on their growth, product, and performance. Through digital escape rooms, participants of this session, based on their level of mastery, will try hands-on how to design a similar course\/project.","Description":"The Constructionist approach developed by Seymour Papert, suggests that students through a discovery approach and the use of previously acquired knowledge, gain new skills and implement them in a new learning domain. Our interdisciplinary learning implements this approach throughout the entire school. Each grade has a year-long essential question that is attended to, by each of the disciplines, demonstrating the complexity and the multiple approaches which each problem can be dealt with. In a new learning space, coined the Kol-lab (kol, in Hebrew - voice, meaning where every voice, that of the learner and that of the client, is being celebrated), our students further practice the constructionist approach. They implement knowledge acquired in one or more disciplines, into hands-on projects, integrating maker, arts, engineer, computer science, science, music,  and design process to execute their products. Students interact with professionals and clients to inspire and elicit feedback on their design. Throughout their projects, students are required to create a digital portfolio where they document their progression and mastery of skills. These portfolios are presented side by side with the end products. Finally, students discuss their portfolios and products with their mentors using a  one point rubric.","Link":["https:\/\/sites.google.com\/rashi.org\/kol-lab\/home"],"Audience":["Middle School","Elementary School"],"Practice":"After a brief introduction, participants of this session will be introduced into our virtual escape rooms. In these rooms and based on their needs and level of expertise, participants will progress individually, or in teams, designing their own course or parts of it. \r\nThe experience will be divided into four parts\/rooms, and participants based on their needs and choice will progress from one room to another. The rooms are: Implementing learning (in any discipline or grade) to another domain, mapping skills from each domain that have to be mastered for a successful completion of the project, crafting tools and steps towards the creation of a digital portfolio, and lastly, creating one point rubrics (a conversational tool for both teachers and students) to assess multifaceted projects.\r\nTowards the last part of the conversation participants will be asked to create their own digital portfolio for this session, including a personalized logo, and to attend to the new skills they mastered, including social emotional skills, and to their satisfaction\/reflection on the process and the product.","Presenter":["Melissa Rosenblatt","Michelle Bernstein","Patrick Kerrigan","Jen Blum","Nitzan Resnick"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Rashi School"],"PresenterEmail":["mrosenblatt@rashi.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":146,"ScheduleLocationID":32,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Some members of the STEAM Team will be joining to present, but we have not yet decided which members.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":10},{"ID":1155,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1667859245,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"STEM Student-Teaching in Philadelphia: Observations & Insights on Pre-Service Work + Participatory Discourse Workshop","Handle":"stem_student-teaching_in_philadelphia--observations-insights_on_pre-service_work-participatory_discourse_workshop","ShortDescription":"Recent student-teachers now working in Philadelphia will share their experience with pre-service teaching in an urban district. Their experiences will be shared in the form of an interview protocol which participants of this session will use to interview each other about their own experience as pre-service teachers or in leadership.","Description":"From magnet schools to neighborhood schools, recent student-teachers and graduates of the Urban Teaching Apprenticeship Program at Penn GSE now working in Philadelphia will share their experience with pre-service teaching in an urban district. Their experiences, as well as those of their peers, will be shared in the form of an interview protocol which will be shared with the participants of this session, who will take their turn to interview each other about their own experience as pre-service teachers or even in leadership.  Additional insights will be drawn from peers, colleagues, and workshop participants, and collected at the end of the session.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"Introducing the interview protocol used to gather pre-service teacher experiences to the participants for use within the workshop itself is sure to lend itself to effective engagements and collaboration among the participants, contributing to a collective advancements in understanding for all who attend.","Presenter":["Alexander Kruszewski"],"PresenterAffiliation":["School District of Philadelphia (The U School & Science Leadership Academy CC); Woodrow Wilson PA Teaching Fellowship; Urban Teaching Apprenticeship Program (Penn GSE)"],"PresenterEmail":["anakruszewski@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":147,"ScheduleLocationID":32,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"This conversation\/workshop is still in development.\r\nAdditional presented will likely be Ashley Bernardo, fellow UTAP graduate and Wilson Teaching Fellow currently teaching Horticulture at Saul HS.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":10}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":10,"ScheduleLocationID":32},"total":6,"limit":false,"offset":false}