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).
Veteran educators remember the rise of Web 2.0 and the excitement around the potential for collaboration, innovation, and creative technologies. Similar conversations are now happening around artificial intelligence. In this session, we will consider the lessons from the past that we can apply to the present to help lead to the kind of lasting change we envision for our students.
In this conversation, we will explore the role empathy plays in the Design Thinking Process. We will look at creating lessons that juggle standards and interdisciplinary connections, while still including the empathy component.
Explore comic book tropes of masked heroes and secret identities to empathize with others’ struggles. Use design thinking in this interactive session with creativity stations and a discussion circle. Participants will create and share original comics and develop classroom ideas for addressing local and global challenges.
We will be learning how to engage students in learning by leveraging a topic of interest (sneakers, sneakerhead culture, etc), use various principles of culturally responsive pedagogy to address the needs of our students in our curriculum writing, talk about how we build relationships with our students organically and of course you will leave here having a jumpstart knowledge on a little bit about sneakerhead culture and the history of sneakers to flex on with your students.
Discover how South Bronx Community Charter High School reimagines teacher recruitment with its Community Beacons Program, fostering diversity and equity. Learn actionable strategies to attract and retain educators through relational recruitment, embedded mental health support, and mentorship programs tailored for today's education challenges. Leave equipped to enhance your school’s educator pipeline.
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.
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