{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":1139,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1667346360,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Student Engagement and the Creation of Student-Centered Space","Handle":"student_engagement_and_the_creation_of_student-centered_space","ShortDescription":"How do we make learning environments more engaging for students? Answer: Put students first.\r\n\r\nWe will explore seven proven engagement strategies that position students to contribute in profound and impactful ways throughout the design process. Together, we will identify tangible, real-world solutions that directly leverage student perspectives, experiences, and insight.","Description":"Overview\r\nOregon City School District recognized that gaining an authentic, first-hand understanding of how students viewed their middle school experience would be the key to reimagining traditional middle school education. District leaders partnered with the design team to convene a Design Committee that included 12 middle school students. This significant committee representation empowered students to contribute fully to design discussions and share their perspectives, experiences, and insights.\r\n\r\nOur proposed conversation will explore the seven proven student engagement strategies we developed to position students to contribute in profound and impactful ways throughout the design process. We will illustrate how design teams ultimately leveraged student contributions to create tangible solutions throughout the two new middle schools.\r\n\r\n\r\nOutcomes\r\nThrough the exploration of seven student engagement strategies, participants will understand the importance of the following key ideas:\r\n\u2022\tStudent-centered schools inherently look and feel different;\r\n\u2022\tSpaces that support deeper learning, exploration, and celebration of student accomplishment empower students to take ownership of their learning;\r\n\u2022\tFlexible, dynamic spaces stimulate engagement and respond to diverse needs;\r\n\u2022\tEnvironments that support individual needs can simultaneously foster a sense of community among learners;\r\n\u2022\tDaily access to trusted adults is an invaluable component of building equitable student-teacher relationships\r\n\r\nObjectives\r\n1: Describe strategies to successfully engage students in the design of educational facilities\r\n\r\n2: Identify examples of architectural solutions that resulted directly from student engagement and input\r\n\r\n3: Evaluate engagement strategies and resulting outcomes in relation to stated goals\r\n\r\n4: Identify lessons learned and opportunities for meaningful engagement moving forward","Link":["https:\/\/www.bric-arch.com\/","https:\/\/twitter.com\/bric_arch","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bric_arch\/","https:\/\/linkedin.com\/company\/bric-arch","https:\/\/twitter.com\/ruizpdx (Karina Ruiz \u2013 Twitter)"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Student engagement is typically approached as a formality or smaller component of a larger engagement strategy. We will engage attendees in an interactive, multimedia conversation to explore what happens when sustained, meaningful student engagement is made to be a central pillar of the school design process. As a result, we will leverage the \u201ctransformational\u201d adult learning principle to illustrate how a shift in perspective can yield invaluable and unexpected insight to transform learning environments.","Presenter":["Karina Ruiz"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Karina Ruiz (BRIC Architecture) AIA","NOMA","LEED AP"],"PresenterEmail":["karina.ruiz@bric-arch.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":142,"ScheduleLocationID":29,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":10},{"ID":1136,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1667336710,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Thinking, inside-out: creativity in learning and life","Handle":"thinking-inside-out--creativity_in_learning_and_life","ShortDescription":"Just about everyone agrees that creativity is important in both school and life. This conversation is about where creativity comes from, how it relates to both inspiration and critical thinking, and how we can cultivate it in our learning spaces.","Description":"Creativity is as complex as it is important. It requires imagination and inspiration but demands that they be called into some kind of action. It applies to situations where we need to understand problems, but also to our need to express an idea or a feeling. It asks us to break through constraints and limitations, yet the creative process often feeds on constraints. It is cognitive, linguistic, and emotional. It is punctuated by epiphanies, yet these breakthrough moments rest on a lifetime of experiences, thoughts and feelings. It can be both deeply personal and highly social. In schools, we mostly treat it as a step in the problem solving process: let's brainstorm!\r\n\r\nIn this conversation, participants will experience and reflect on different facets of the creative process with the goal of unpacking one big question: how do we cultivate creativity in our learning spaces? We will tackle questions such as: \r\n\r\n* Where does inspiration come from? How do we imagine? \r\n* How do we act on our imagination?\r\n* How do we get out of our own heads? How do we make peace with doubts and fears?\r\n* What do we need from each other to be, and feel, creative?\r\n\r\nThroughout, we will draw on the work of researchers, artists, and designers but keep the focus on our own experience and the learning environments in which we operate.","Link":["http:\/\/www.workshopschool.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Parts of this conversation will feel like a seminar. I want to hear about what participants associate with creativity - what it means to them, how it has showed up in their lives, and what they think contributed to their own creative experiences. We'll use some structured prompts but will also allow for facilitated conversation.\r\n\r\nI'll share a diverse set of examples of creative process, and as a group we will unpack the stories behind them. The goal is not to define the \"recipe\" for being creative, but rather to tease out what makes creativity possible, and then reflect on how schools and classrooms can work more intentionally toward cultivating it. \r\n\r\nBecause these sessions are short, the conversation will not include as much hands-on work as I might ideally like. But I will intersperse our discussion with brief prompts and activities designed to reframe participants' understanding of the creative process and what inspires it.","Presenter":["Matthew Riggan"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Workshop School"],"PresenterEmail":["matthew.riggan@workshopschool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":143,"ScheduleLocationID":29,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":10},{"ID":1120,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1667239708,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Design Thinking Beyond the Classroom","Handle":"design_thinking_beyond_the_classroom","ShortDescription":"Participants will consider how to use the design thinking model on a school wide level. Learn from our experiences as administrators from redesigning Back to School Night to reframing student support. Participants will explore how this model can center empathy, purpose, and a prototyping mindset to improve your school.","Description":"Starting with a short presentation on the design thinking model and how the presenters have used it to lead and redesign experiences at their own school, participants will have the chance to work with breakout groups to consider how design thinking can help them with their own challenges. Seeking empathy helps you understand experiences and challenges through a different lens. A prototyping mindset allows you to work and fail fast, while gaining critical feedback to improve an overall experience. Our experience has also helped us recognize the importance of setting a purpose for everything from large projects to the smallest team meetings. Participants should walk away with quick tips, useful strategies, and the motivation to work through school wide challenges with a new set of tools.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"A short presentation will precede a mini-design thinking session and then small breakout groups. In the design thinking session, the group will choose one challenge and tackle it together to practice the steps of the process. Breakout groups will give participants the chance to think through the steps they can take to rethink their own challenge. With the support of group leaders and other participants, everyone should walk away with a plan to use empathy and prototyping to find a solution to one of their own challenges.","Presenter":["Chris Loeffler","Julie Rodowsky"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Wilmington Friends School"],"PresenterEmail":["cloeffler@wilmingtonfriends.org","jrodowsky@wilmingtonfriends.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":144,"ScheduleLocationID":29,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":10},{"ID":1115,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1667161173,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Let's Design a School!","Handle":"let-s_design_a_school","ShortDescription":"Students from SLA Beeber share their vision of what school could be and work with participants to design the ideal school.","Description":"The session will begin with a brief panel discussion around what students envision for what school should be and could be. Participants will then be given a framework to design a school that meets the moment and considers what school is for and how it can be done.\r\n\r\nParticipants will break into small groups and, assisted by students, will complete a design exercise that explores the structure of school, the hows and whys of school and learning experiences. Participants will leave with concrete ideas to bring back to their schools and classrooms.","Link":["http:\/\/mbteach.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Participants will have an opportunity to ask questions of students and after the brief panel discussion (~15 minutes) students will circulate to groups working through small group work around building a simple framework school plan and engage in discussions around what school could look like. Time permitting, groups will get to share their ideas with each other.","Presenter":["Mary Beth Hertz"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy at Beeber"],"PresenterEmail":["mhertz@slabeeber.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":146,"ScheduleLocationID":29,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":10},{"ID":1130,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1667312208,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Creating and Strengthening Resilient Communities through PK-12 School Design and Partnerships","Handle":"creating_and_strengthening_resilient_communities_through_pk-12_school_design_and_partnerships","ShortDescription":"How can a school\u2019s design and programming enhance learning, resiliency, and wellness for not only students and teachers, but the community as a whole?  Exploring one promising strategy, this session will share on-going research into community school models and environments that offer a wider array of services than conventional schools.","Description":"Schools, now more than ever, are anchors in communities and require intentional programmatic and physical designs to support their communities.  This leads us to ask, how can a school\u2019s design and programming enhance learning, resiliency, and wellness for not only students and teachers, but the community as a whole? After engaging with stakeholders across the country, we have seen growing interest in community school models that offer a wider array of services than conventional schools.  \r\n\r\nWhile each school and community context is unique with regard to student population, geographical location, funding, and leadership, there are existing best practices for building resiliency within communities that can be applied at various levels in each context.   The physical and programmatic design of schools can support programs and communities, and fill gaps to increase resilience and community wellbeing.  Applying these practices, community partners can ensure the programmatic and physical designs of schools best serve their students, staff, and families, while ultimately enhancing resiliency of the whole community.  \r\n\r\nThese communities need tools to assess the unique needs and assets of their schools and communities to create sustainable change and growth. To help, we are creating a toolkit with interactive resources and actionable plans that they can use to start the conversation. This session will provide a summary of our research to date, focused on community school partnerships with a variety of organizations (health, food access and nutrition, and social emotional learning\/support) and community schools in different geographical contexts (rural and urban).","Link":["https:\/\/www.drexel.edu\/soe","https:\/\/www.perkinseastman.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"The participants will have the opportunity to discuss, review and provide inputs on the draft toolkit, helping the team refine the resources to be leveraged by communities pursuing these expanded services.","Presenter":["Sean O'Donnell & Katrina Struloeff"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Drexel University School of Education","Perkins Eastman Architects"],"PresenterEmail":["s.odonnell@perkinseastman.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":147,"ScheduleLocationID":29,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":10}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":10,"ScheduleLocationID":29},"total":5,"limit":false,"offset":false}