{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":1095,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1664728899,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Case for Dreaming in Public","Handle":"the_case_for_dreaming_in_public","ShortDescription":"The process of igniting, sharing, and documenting public dreaming can lead to durable change and an increased sense of community. Hear about how this happened at SLA-MS and try it out for yourself.","Description":"Back in 2020-2021 Science Leadership Academy Middle School began to plot a significant physical redesign of our informal and classroom spaces. Faculty and kids met for a series of  interviews and design charrettes to dream about how we might want our spaces to be different, and what we could do to achieve those differences. The process led to significant new opportunities and more importantly, significant buy-in from students and staff. \r\n\r\nThis conversation seeks to wildly condense that experience so participants can begin to understand public dreaming as tool of community building and change management.\r\n\r\nSchool groups strongly encouraged.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"After opening with sharing the last, best, dream folks had, presenter(s) will briefly describe a change process at SLA-MS.\r\n\r\nParticipants will then form ad hoc groups to sketch, write, vision board, what-have-you,  a dream for their school\r\n\r\nGroups will share the elevator pitch (seconds not minutes) version of their dream. The majority of the debrief will be on how the process of public dreaming about a change invited a diversity of perspectives, what conditions made collaboration easier or more difficult, what fodder for dreaming you might want to do this \"back home\", and consideration of the ways in which capturing and sharing thoughts would could be more inclusive","Presenter":["Timothy M. Boyle","David Jakes"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA-MS","Jakes Consulting"],"PresenterEmail":["tmboyle@philasd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":142,"ScheduleLocationID":31,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":10},{"ID":1114,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1667150516,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"What in the World is Web3?","Handle":"what_in_the_world_is_web3","ShortDescription":"In this session, participants will get an overview of what is meant by the term \"web3\" and learn how schools and educators can begin to think about what it means to incorporate aspects of web3 and the next wave of technology innovations in their classroom and beyond.","Description":"If you have ever been curious about what an NFT is and why understanding this technology matters as an educator or if you have concerns about new blockchain technologies, bring them to this session.\r\n\r\nWeb3 is a new frontier.  Over a decade ago, Web 2.0 brought us a new way of thinking about how we use technology in the classroom. Similarly, web3's new token-based technology and ecosystem is growing fast and as educators there are opportunities in this technology as there were a decade ago with Web 2.0. It is important that we get out in front and understand its implications as many of our students are already in this space. This session is an opportunity to learn more about web3 technologies and start the process of imagining what impact they will have on education over the next decade and how we can play a part in that impact.","Link":["http:\/\/mbteach.com"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"After a brief intro to the term \"web3\" and its connotations, participants will get to dabble in AI generated art, explore NFT art galleries, and explore how blockchain technology applies to ownership and proof skill and knowledge acquisition.\r\n\r\nParticipants will have an opportunity to discuss what they know and what they want to know as well as concerns they have about the technology in the context of looking ahead to what this technology could look like over the next decade.\r\n\r\nParticipants will also be given the opportunity to set up their own digital wallet if they choose and receive a POAP (Proof of Attendance Protocol) NFT at the end of the session.","Presenter":["Mary Beth Hertz"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy at Beeber"],"PresenterEmail":["mhertz@slabeeber.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":143,"ScheduleLocationID":31,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":10},{"ID":1159,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1670449741,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Visible Thinking: Note-Making Skills Across Disciplines","Handle":"visible_thinking--note-making_skills_across_disciplines","ShortDescription":"In this session, participants will engage with visible thinking strategies and note-making applications that support deeper learning and understandings across all disciplines.","Description":"Thinking happens mostly in our heads, invisible to others and even to ourselves. Research shows the effectiveness of making thinking visible: directing, improving, and documenting thoughts for reflection, collaboration, and application. In this session, participants will engage with visible thinking strategies and note-making applications that support deeper learning and understandings across all disciplines.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"Participants will work with facilitators to experiment with visible thinking strategies.","Presenter":["Amal Giknis","Brad Latimer"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["agiknis@scienceleadership.org","blatimer@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":144,"ScheduleLocationID":31,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":10},{"ID":1111,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1666815865,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Secret Is Out: Recipes for Reinventing and Making a Difference in Your School with a Creative Credentialled Librarian","Handle":"the_secret_is_out--recipes_for_reinventing_and_making_a_difference_in_your_school_with_a_creative_credentialled_librarian","ShortDescription":"Discover how credentialed librarians are a recipe for low stress success as they partner with educators to enhance learning experiences through inquiry-based learning, instructional design, literacy, technology, SEL, and design thinking for every learner.","Description":"Rethinking the traditional role of the library and the librarian can make an exponential difference for stressed educators and our learners who are struggling to achieve. Unbelievable? YES! We\u2019d like to engage administrators, school board members, teachers, and parents in a major grassroots and free initiative at www.alivelibrary.info. Be invigorated by building your own recipe for success through combining your ideas with new strategies.  Be ready to go back home equipped and empowered to make a difference!","Link":["https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/alivesuperschoollibraries\/home"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Our presentation will facilitate a conversation through:\r\n\r\n-Ten minute introduction of the problem and possibilities using alivelibrary.info\r\n-Five minute Idea Blitzes from expert librarians\r\nFifteen minute topical Table talks think tank about how 21st Century Librarians and Libraries collaborate to support and enhance instruction for literacy, inquiry, and technology.\r\n-Repetition of these two activities up to 90 minutes\r\n-All participants (both virtual and in person) will contribute to the conversation by adding resources to a shared interactive Wakelet document.\r\n-A backchannel communication app will be employed to inclusively customize the presentation and facilitate communication between participants and presenters \r\n-Encouragement throughout the conversation to keep a personal list of action steps when returning home.\r\n-Handouts with QR code with curated information \r\n-All activities available both virtually and in person.","Presenter":["Dr. David Loertscher","Dr. Brian T. Johnson","Dr. Melaney Sanchez"],"PresenterAffiliation":["San Jose State University School of Information","Lakeside Junior High School","Calvert County Public Schools"],"PresenterEmail":["reader.david@gmail.com","bjohnson3@sdale.org","sanchezm@calvertnet.k12.md.us"],"ScheduleSlotID":145,"ScheduleLocationID":31,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Topics that might arise during the conversation would include: literacies, information, inquiry, instruction, innovation, technology, expertise, service and space. See details on the www.alivelibrary.info site! \r\n\r\nPresenter Qualifiers:\r\nMelaney Sanchez, NBCT,  Ph.D.\r\nMt. Harmony Library Website:https:\/\/calvertnet.libguides.com\/mheslibrary \r\nFulbright Capstone Project: https:\/\/drmelaneysanchez.weebly.com\/\r\nTeacher Librarian, Mount Harmony Elementary School\r\nCalvert County Public Schools\r\nTeachers for Global Classrooms France Fulbright Fellow 2022\r\nAASL National School Library Program of the Year, 2021\r\nCalvert County Teacher of the Year 2018\r\nTwitter: @TheLibraryDr\r\nYouTube Channel: The Library Dr.  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCFBIpq0-tEacQtM1dM2__Lw \r\n\r\nDr. Brian T. Johnson, NBCT, EdD\r\nProfessional Website (https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/briantjohnsoneddportfolio\/home)\r\nRobert M. Gagn\u00e9 Award for Graduate Student Research in Instructional Design\r\nArkansas School Librarian of the Year 2020\r\nTeacher Librarian, Lakeside Junior High School\r\nSpringdale Public Schools, Springdale, Arkansas. USA\r\nLakeside Library Website (https:\/\/sites.google.com\/sdale.org\/lakesidelibraryservice\/home)\r\nLakeside Library YouTube Channel (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UChfYkTD8x9fMGuLP_lsXY7w)\r\nInstagram: @GoldenEagleLMC (https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/goldeneaglelmc)\r\nTwitter: @GoldenEagleLMC ; @Brian_librarian\r\n\r\nDr. David Loertscher has degrees from the University of Utah, the University of Washington and a Ph.D. from Indiana University. He has been a school library media specialist in Nevada and Idaho at both the elementary and secondary school levels. He has taught at Purdue University, The University of Arkansas, The University of Oklahoma, and is presently a professor at the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University. He served as head of the editorial department at Libraries Unlimited for ten years and is President of Hi Willow Research & Publishing LMC Source.  He has been a president of the American Association of School Librarians. \r\nTwitter: @davidloertscher","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":10},{"ID":1140,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1667347512,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Navigating Mental Health in Schools","Handle":"navigating_mental_health_in_schools","ShortDescription":"With mental health resources overburdened, schools are increasingly finding themselves on the front lines of a larger mental health crisis. In this conversation, we will explore ways to meet the needs of our learners, support faculty and staff members, and continue to center joy.","Description":"As schools continue to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on community members, one thing is for certain\u2013 mental health challenges loom large. In the context of overburdened traditional mental healthcare resources, schools are often left as the support system for students and families struggling to maintain mental and emotional well being. \r\n\r\nOur community, John Hancock Demonstration Schools, is a neighborhood public K-8 school in the School District of Philadelphia. In the previous two years, it became abundantly clear that declining student mental health, manifesting in ways ranging from academic struggles to unsafe behaviors, was taking its toll not only on the students themselves, but also on families and staff members. In response, we have become more deeply interested in exploring ways to empower all community members to understand student mental health challenges and to meet students where they are as we work together to foster healthy 21st century citizens.\r\n\r\nIn this conversation we will intentionally avoid \u201cadmiring the problem,\u201d while also allowing the space for participants to speak openly about problems of practice and build community around a common challenge. Our school will share how our community meetings, use of data, and the practice of centering joy have kept us afloat during these difficult times, though we are primarily interested in facilitating a conversation that pulls together best practices and deeper questions from all participants.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Facilitated by the Hancock administrative team and Philadelphia Inquirer mental health reporter Abraham Gutman, the goal of this conversation is to promote networking among educators from a variety of school contexts who are wrestling with the common challenge of student mental health, as well as to share solution-oriented strategies for maintaining healthy school communities. As such, this session will be interactive with time set for individual reflection and sharing of ideas.","Presenter":["Melissa Bragg","Abraham Gutman","Kevin Kelly","Christopher Oswald","Stacy Schwab"],"PresenterAffiliation":["School District of Philadelphia","Philadelphia Inquirer"],"PresenterEmail":["mbragg@philasd.org","agutman@inquirer.com","kmkelly@philasd.org","ceoswald@philasd.org","sschwab@philasd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":146,"ScheduleLocationID":31,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":10},{"ID":1090,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1663880476,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Why it may be more important for schools to provide networks than knowledge.","Handle":"why_it_may_be_more_important_for_schools_to_provide_networks_than_knowledge.","ShortDescription":"A recent article from the New York Times highlights how cross-class relationships are a key indicator of student mobility after high school. In particular the article pointed out:\r\nThese cross-class friendships \u2014 what the researchers called economic connectedness \u2014 had a stronger impact than school quality, family structure, job availability or a community\u2019s racial composition. The people you know, the study suggests, open up opportunities, and the growing class divide in the United States closes them off.","Description":"There is research that challenges the historic assumptions about the role of school in the lives of young people. Specifically, we are learning that the ability of school to provide diverse networks of 'who students know' may offer more post-school opportunity than 'what students know' through core-content instruction. As a recent NYT times article called out:\r\n\"[W]hat the researchers called economic connectedness \u2014 had a stronger impact than school quality, family structure, job availability or a community\u2019s racial composition. The people you know, the study suggests, open up opportunities, and the growing class divide in the United States closes them off.\"\r\n\r\nThis assertion may challenge the traditional notion of the educator as deliverer of content, but it also may be an opportunity for educators to redefine their role in an age of just-in-time online learning for digital natives. In this proposition, educators can begin to support and measure not just what students know, but also who they know.\r\n\r\nThis session gives an overview of some of the emerging research and offers insight and disruptive tools that allow educators to shift to this new reality of their role in the lives of young people.","Link":["https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/08\/01\/upshot\/rich-poor-friendships.html?referringSource=articleShare","https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Who-You-Know-Unlocking-Innovations\/dp\/1119452929","https:\/\/www.bigpicturelearning.org"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"I would like to include practitioners in this work from the Philadelphia. Those folks can offer insight. I will also challenge attendees to offer tips and hacks for providing students enduring connections to a broad array of people. This is an inherently disruptive topic, so we are looking forward to facilitating an active conversation. This will include prompts and table-group conversations.","Presenter":["David Berg"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Big Picture Learning"],"PresenterEmail":["david@bigpicturelearning.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":147,"ScheduleLocationID":31,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"As part of the BPL network and co-creator of the ImBlaze platform, I would be eager to include other Real World Learning practitioners from the region. I am also happy to modify this proposal if needed to align to the Educon intent.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":10}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":10,"ScheduleLocationID":31},"total":6,"limit":false,"offset":false}