During each of the six breakout sessions throughout the weekend, a large number of conversations will take place. This site will help you organize your plan for the weekend and provide the relevant information for each conversation. After signing in, search through the conversations below and mark the sessions you are interested in to populate your personal schedule on the right (or below if on your mobile phone).
What is a good job? Are we preparing ALL our students for access? We know that there are multiple pathways to high-demand careers - how do we discuss this with students and families? Let’s put our biases on the table and think through how we’re preparing all our graduates for the careers of their future.
This interactive panel presentation will demonstrate the power of Asset Mapping to incubate school projects and sustainable educator and students side hustles. It will discuss how educators and students responded to the pandemic and racial unrest by developing cause-oriented businesses/side hustles. The presentation will focus on an entrepreneurial mindset and leadership development program based on design Connected Learning principles and the Arts and Business Council’s Creative Exchange program.
Teacher and Students from a gradeless class discuss different ways they assess learning and how students are guided to take charge of and tell the stories of their learning journeys.
The World Affairs Council will be discussing effective ways to engage Philadelphia students in educational opportunities fostering cross-cultural collaboration, core skills of diplomacy, STEM entrepreneurship, and social innovation towards well-informed citizenship and 21st-century competencies.
EduCon 2023