{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":1100,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1666059050,"CreatorID":736,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Transparent & Dehydrated: Innovating with a Minimum Viable Curriculum","Handle":"transparent-dehydrated--innovating_with_a_minimum_viable_curriculum","ShortDescription":"Join the co-authors of a high-school inNOVAtion Lab for Self-Determined Learning as they open their minimum viable curriculum up for observations, questions, and, hopefully, a bit of water (insights) from the audience.","Description":"Sharing and transparency is central in this conversation.  The curriculum document for a HS inNOVAtion Lab will be a central text for study and discussion as the authors seek to offer insights and get help in revising the curriculum.  Student projects, both past and in process, will serve as mentor texts in looking at issues central to this type of open-source learning such as:   project management, assessment methods, grading, real-world connections. \r\n\r\nIntroduction to Unrulr.com,  a microdocumentation platform for assessment and community building will also be featured.\r\n\r\nA successful program of 4 years, (see pvhsnovalab.com), NOVA Lab's authors are seeking to both showcase the work and gain valuable feedback and insights from attendees.","Link":["https:\/\/pvhsnovalab.com"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"We will provide a brief genesis of the class and the 1st draft of our class's curriculum a text for others to learn from.  We also recognize the document as a work in progress and seek the input of others through open dialogue and interaction with the authors (adults and students) to help improve the curriculum.  Mindmaps, sketchnotes, and diagrams will serve to make the curriculum more visible and pliable.   \r\n\r\nWe will introduce and ask you to use Perusall.com and Unrulr.com to engage in social annotation and microdocumentation (respectively) to engage with documents as well as capture learning as it occurs.\r\n\r\nCode for perusall.com class for this session is:   HEIDT-72AAM \r\n\r\nHere is a copy of the curriculum document.  (https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/57zc96tr ) Reading through it ahead of time would be helpful for the work we will do in the session.\r\n\r\nHere is a link to a \"one pager\" about the class itself: https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/43a9ebpk","Presenter":["Garreth Heidt and Students"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Perkiomen Valley High School"],"PresenterEmail":["gheidt@pvsd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":142,"ScheduleLocationID":35,"SubmitterID":736,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":10},{"ID":1142,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1667352586,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Challenging Traditional School Leader Pathways and PD: Growing and Sustaining Equity-Centered Leaders","Handle":"challenging_traditional_school_leader_pathways_and_pd--growing_and_sustaining_equity-centered_leaders","ShortDescription":"In alignment with our districtwide equity framework, our vision of an equity-centered school leader is a leader who cultivates prosperity and liberation for students and staff, starting with historically marginalized populations, by increasing access and inclusion, building trusting relationships, removing barriers, and creating a shared culture of accountability. This vision reflects the transformative leadership orientation which focuses on equity, inclusion, and social justice. In this session, we will share the actualization of this vision, organized around three core drivers: increasing the accessibility of pathways to potential leaders committed to equity; sustaining aspiring and current principals with transformational coaching; professional learning that is responsive to equity considerations.","Description":"In this interactive workshop, participants will engage in exploring the characteristics of leaders, typical and unconventional, and discuss how to challenge dominant cultural norms that often define leadership, in order to increase access for those who have historically been excluded from leadership opportunities. Additionally, we will share how our transformative leadership vision and programming reflect and emphasize equity, inclusion, and social justice, focused on three core drivers: increasing the accessibility of pathways to potential equity-centered leaders; sustaining aspiring and current principals with human-centered, relational coaching; professional learning that is responsive to equity considerations. In alignment with the School District of Philadelphia districtwide equity framework, our vision of an equity-centered school leader is a leader who cultivates prosperity and liberation for students and staff, starting with historically marginalized populations. We guide and support our leaders to do this by increasing access and inclusion, building trusting relationships, removing barriers, and creating a shared culture of accountability.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"In this session, we aim to engage the audience around these three programs. For each program, leads and co-leads of our office will open with an overview of our progress in this area, followed by a series of discussion questions and activities to invite the audience into the conversation and solicit ideas for deepening the scope and impact of our work. Additionally, We need to be able to evaluate the impact of all three learning pathways in terms of how they might be sustaining our leaders differently based on their identities and trajectories, and how leaders are reimagining their practices to influence more equitable outcomes for their students. We hope that the session participants will help us brainstorm creative evaluation strategies and participate in an enlightening discussion regarding what is working and alternative considerations to our process and offerings.","Presenter":["Katie Culver","Brandon Cummings","Rosie Tarnowski"],"PresenterAffiliation":["School District of Philadelphia"],"PresenterEmail":["kculver@philasd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":143,"ScheduleLocationID":35,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":10},{"ID":1147,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1667359301,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Preparing Students For Meaningful Work: Moving Beyond College Readiness","Handle":"preparing_students_for_meaningful_work--moving_beyond_college_readiness","ShortDescription":"How do you move beyond a narrow focus on college to preparing students for meaningful work?  At South Bronx Community a 60-hour internship is a graduation requirement. Learn how to weave career skills across student experiences from the classroom, to the internship, to the student capstone experience.","Description":"Participants will discuss how to move beyond a narrow focus on college towards a more expansive definition of life readiness and preparing students for meaningful work.  They will explore best practices at the school and classroom level with an opportunity for differentiated discussion based on role (principal, guidance counselor, career coordinator, teacher, etc.) Some of the areas explored will include defining competencies, setting a standard for work-based learning\/internships, and incorporating career readiness into curriculum.   \r\n\r\nAt SBC, all student apply to college as an option, but they also must complete a 60 hour internship that is aligned to the school's competency-based system in order to graduate.  A number of students also complete more in depth apprenticeships where they are working half of the time and in school half of the time.  Students begin career exploration early as a foundational project in their advisor space in 9th grade, and have authentic opportunities to build career skills over their four years (mock group interviews, career networking events, etc).  Students also present on their career plan each year as an element of their culminating gateway project, highlighting skills they are working on.  These same skills are a part of our competency framework which students receive feedback on across classroom spaces.\r\n\r\nWhile career readiness has always been at the center of SBC's framework, this is a timely topic given the number of students opting to not enroll directly in college post-COVID.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"The presentation will be tailored to the needs\/interests in the room. There will be differentiated break-out groups for deeper discussion based on role (eg classroom vs school level) and opportunity to explore artifacts.  Participants will discuss best practices but also walk away with an action plan to implement an element of what they learned.","Presenter":["Natalie Ferrell","Asia Cruz","Angela Aponte","Isaiah Williams"],"PresenterAffiliation":["South Bronx Community Charter High School"],"PresenterEmail":["natalie.ferrell@southbronxcommunity.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":144,"ScheduleLocationID":35,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":10},{"ID":1134,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1667332737,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Meaningful Making With Middle Schoolers","Handle":"meaningful_making_with_middle_schoolers","ShortDescription":"How can we create a multi-year, hands-on program to engage and educate middle school makers?  What best practices in STEM, STEAM, Makerspaces, Engineering, and more can be used to create an engaging and educational experience for our students?  What outcomes do we value when creating these programs?","Description":"Making in middle schools can be both exhilarating and frustrating in equal measure.  Planning hands-on projects for our students is a lot of fun, and also a lot of work.  From the initial planning to creating materials and activities, scaffolding lessons, managing projects, and designing assessments, a lot of work goes into a successful project.  Join a middle school Pre-Engineering teacher and Makerspace teacher for a discussion around best practices, planning, management, and projects for a broad spectrum of maker programs.  We\u2019ll dive into conversations around topics such as structuring a multi-year program, developing project ideas, managing creative spaces, and creating capstone projects.  Come prepared to share your experiences, both what has worked and what hasn\u2019t, as well as future goals and \u2018pie in the sky\u2019 ideas.  Don\u2019t have a standalone maker class?  No problem!  We\u2019ll also discuss ways to integrate these types of projects into more traditional classrooms.","Link":[],"Audience":["Middle School"],"Practice":"Presenters will facilitate conversation both within the whole group and in smaller breakout groups.  Ideas and suggestions will be compiled in a shared Google Doc.","Presenter":["Meredith Martin & Michael Franklin"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA Middle School"],"PresenterEmail":["mbmartin@philasd.org","msfranklin@philasd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":145,"ScheduleLocationID":35,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":10}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":10,"ScheduleLocationID":35},"total":4,"limit":false,"offset":false}