EduCon 2025Why Would Young People Come to Your School if They Didn't Have to?
In this conversation, participants will explore the question of what actually brings young people to school every day. Why do they come? How do educators and young people together create a context in which learning makes sense, inspires, and compels an intense desire to be a part of the community. What do young people do? What do adults do? How do they together become a collaborative teaching and learning community ? We want to converse, create, and collaboratively develop an "on the spot" field guide to share our co-constructed narrative in the Educon community and beyond. We believe that appreciative inquiry sets the stage for participants to emerge the strengths and assets of the “pop up” community in the room as they develop story shorts documenting pathways which support young people and adults of different interests, backgrounds, dispositions, experiences, and neurodivergency to form a community of learners and learning.
Conversational Practice
Participants will explore questions of why young people come to school - what compels them to want to be in a school community? In exploring the "why, how, and what" of school communities that set the stage for young people to have voice, agency, and influence in their own learning, participants will collaboratively create a field guide that narrates the "room's" responses to the question, "why would young people come to your school if they didn't have to?" This will be shared with the Educon community and beyond.
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