{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":1331,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1730059096,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Centering Student Stories Through Windows and Mirrors: A Deeper Look at Decentering Whiteness in Education","Handle":"centering_student_stories_through_windows_and_mirrors--a_deeper_look_at_decentering_whiteness_in_education","ShortDescription":"Research shows that critical conversations push white teachers to understand their own identities and the identities of their minoritized students. The SEED project uses Windows and Mirrors to foster dialogue, enhancing cultural competence. This conversation will share findings on white educators' growth after SEED. Participants will also experience SEED protocols.","Description":"This conversation shares the findings of my dissertation. My study looked at the Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity project to determine if participating in this project had any bearing on White educators\u2019 feelings of efficacy in their ability to be culturally responsive to their minoritized students. My research identified ways in which SEED structures provided white teachers with concrete steps for unpacking their own lived experiences and inviting the stories of minority students into the classroom. For this conversation, there are two possible approaches based on whatever is more appropriate for the Educon setting. The conversation can be centered around the findings of my study and specifically geared exclusively towards White participants as an accountability space. Alternatively, it can be restructured to focus less on the exclusive experience of White educators and provide all Educon participants with the opportunity to engage in a Windows and Mirrors activity across lines of difference and grounded in SEED norms. The Windows and Mirrors activity is an activity in which participants are given a selection of images and directed to find one that is a mirror of their own lived experience and one that is a window into the lived experience of others. Participants share these images with one another, engaging in serial testimony where they are given an allotted amount of time to speak uninterrupted. Participants then engage in cross talk. Finally, they journal about their reflections as a result of this conversation.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"The conversation will be structured similarly to a SEED seminar. The following activities and conversational protocols will be leveraged:\r\n-Serial Testimony and Cross Talk\r\n-Windows and Mirrors \r\n-Identity Mapping","Presenter":["Sarah Hanrahan"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Philadelphia Hebrew Public Charter School"],"PresenterEmail":["shanrahan@philadelphiahebrewpublic.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":185,"ScheduleLocationID":30,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Because my dissertation looked specifically at White educators, it is inherently geared towards White educators who bear the responsibility of reflecting on and addressing their privilege and lived experiences. This session would best be facilitated as a White accountability space. If this is not something Educon has capacity for, the conversation can also be modified to allow all participants to experience SEED practices and remove the reflections of exclusively White educators from the narrative.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":12},{"ID":1354,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1730491257,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Experience the Synergy: AI and Poetic Creation","Handle":"experience_the_synergy--ai_and_poetic_creation","ShortDescription":"This interactive workshop explores the powerful combination of AI-guided writing and poetry. Participants will learn to harness AI as a means to enhance their creative writing process. Through hands-on activities, educators will discover how to integrate this innovative approach into their classrooms, fostering creativity, critical thinking, and digital literacy.","Description":"Educators will embark on a journey to explore the powerful intersection of artificial intelligence and poetry. The participants will discover how the facilitators spent a summer writing and playing with the strategy and how she introduced it. Participants will discover how to leverage AI as a creative tool to enhance their own writing process and ways to introduce it to their learners. \r\nThe session begins with an introduction to generative AI and its applications in education. Participants will gain a foundational understanding of how AI can be used to support creativity and critical thinking. Through hands-on activities, educators will experiment with AI-powered image generation tools and Writing Partners to craft their poetry. By analyzing the generated images, participants will learn how to identify new perspectives, themes, and imagery to enrich their writing.\r\nThe workshop emphasizes the iterative nature of the creative process. Participants will engage in multiple rounds of poetry revision, continuously creating new AI-generated images as catalysts for inspiration and deeper revision. This cyclical approach fosters experimentation, risk-taking, and a deeper understanding of the poetic craft.\r\nThroughout the workshop, participants will reflect on the pedagogical implications of using AI in the classroom. We will discuss strategies for integrating AI into curriculum, assessment, and student projects. \r\nBy the end of the session, educators will have a solid foundation in using AI as a creative tool, practical strategies for incorporating AI into their teaching, and a renewed sense of inspiration for their own writing and their students' creative endeavors.\r\nThis workshop is designed for educators of all levels who are interested in exploring innovative teaching methods and harnessing the power of technology to enhance student learning. No prior experience with AI or poetry is required.","Link":["https:\/\/writingpartners.net","https:\/\/www.pocanticohills.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Introduction (10 minutes):\r\nGet to know everyone in the room by sharing names, positions, and one word that they connect with AI \r\nBrief overview of generative AI and its potential in education\r\nIntroduce the concept of using AI as a creative tool for poetry\r\nStory (10 minutes):\r\nWe will share the story of our experience working with pre-service teachers on working with generative AI through NowComment and how that sparked a creative approach for one of the facilitators\r\nThe facilitator will share how they developed authentic poems and matched them with ai generated images, which further developed the work\r\nThey facilitator will share how they took their personal writing experience and used it with their third graders.\r\n\r\nHands-on Activity: AI-Generated Imagery (30 minutes):\r\nParticipants write a short poem based on an image in Writing Partners.\r\nIntroduce an AI image generation tool or participants use one of their choice(e.g., Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Canva, Designer)\r\nParticipants will paste their poem into the AI tool and ask it to generate an image that matches their poem.\r\nEncourage participants to use the generated images as inspiration for revising their poems\r\nProvide prompts and guidance for incorporating new imagery and language\r\nShare poems and images \r\n\r\nReflection and Sharing (10 minutes):\r\nFacilitate a group discussion about the workshop experience\r\nShare ideas for integrating AI into classroom practice\r\nDiscuss ethical considerations and challenges","Presenter":["Paul Allison","Marina Pisto Lombardo"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Writing Partners","Pocantico Hills Central School"],"PresenterEmail":["allisonpr@gmail.com","marinaplombardo@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":185,"ScheduleLocationID":33,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":12},{"ID":1296,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1725475883,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Nurturing Neurodivergence","Handle":"nurturing_neurodivergence","ShortDescription":"Many Neurodivergent people struggle to thrive in school, because too many schools perpetuate deficit mindsets about brains that work differently. What if we asked new questions that challenge fundamental assumptions and nurture Neurodivergent identities? Let's explore these new questions and what they mean for creating radically inclusive learning spaces.","Description":"Join us for a conversation about nurturing Neurodivergence. \r\n\r\nTo date, I have attended hundreds of child study, student support, 504, IEP, and gifted team meetings at public, private, parochial, and charter schools in five different states in the roles of student, teacher, parent, administrator, and advocate. Across miles, decades, and contexts, each one brought adults together to solve the problems that arise when the needs of the learner and the typical learning path are in tension. Inevitably, the mostly neurotypical adults (who don\u2019t know viscerally what it's like to live in an ableist world) ask: What goals and specialized instruction will help this child overcome challenges and meet expectations?\r\n\r\nWhat if we asked new questions that challenge fundamental assumptions and have the potential to nurture Neurodivergent identities? \r\n\r\nDo trusted educators know deeply this student\u2019s strengths, passions, and needs?\r\n\r\nDoes the student find flow in learning?\r\n\r\nDoes the student glow in an inclusive learning community through care and acceptance?\r\n\r\nDoes the student grow skills and knowledge that matter for a hopeful future?\r\n\r\nFeeling known and glowing with the sense of belonging that authentic care and unconditional acceptance bring, then finding flow and growing skills and knowledge to actualize one\u2019s unique talents is desirable for any student. For Neurodivergent students, however, it may be the only destination that protects their highly vulnerable self-concept against adverse mental health outcomes. When schools can answer \u201cYes!\u201d to the questions above, more stories of Neurodivergent learners will have happy endings.","Link":["http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dani-shylit-23aa1063"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This conversation will be structured as a Socratic Seminar, facilitated in a circle. Using the four questions in the extended description above as a springboard, participants will engaged in imagining, sharing, and teasing out ways their own learning environments might get to \"yes,\" then co-crafting new questions to replace ones founded in old assumptions to curate opportunities that truly re-imagine belonging for ND students in schools.","Presenter":["Dani Shylit"],"PresenterAffiliation":["String Theory School of Design","Arcadia University","Philadelphia Learning Collaborative"],"PresenterEmail":["dshylit@arcadia.edu"],"ScheduleSlotID":185,"ScheduleLocationID":34,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"I loved being a presenter at EduCon in 2019 and would be grateful for the opportunity to return.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":12}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":12,"ScheduleSlotID":185},"total":3,"limit":false,"offset":false}