{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":1319,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1729692831,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Empowering Educators: Effective Coaching Strategies for Leaders and Teachers","Handle":"empowering_educators--effective_coaching_strategies_for_leaders_and_teachers","ShortDescription":"Our current educational environment can feel both fragile and sometimes hostile to teachers and leaders, leaving us on the edge of burnout. Coaching can be a tool to reinvigorate and reaffirm educators. Join me for an interactive session designed to elevate the art of coaching in educational settings. As the landscape of teaching continues to evolve, effective coaching is essential for fostering growth, enhancing collaboration, and improving student outcomes. How can we build a framework for coaching that is meaningful, based on trust and support, individualized in goal setting, and reflective? \r\n\r\nThis session will explore proven strategies for leaders and teachers to develop meaningful coaching relationships, promote reflective practices, and drive relevant professional development. Whether you are a school leader, an instructional coach, or a teacher seeking to enhance your coaching skills, this session will equip you with actionable insights and tools to transform your coaching practices. Come ready to collaborate, share experiences, and leave inspired to make a lasting impact in your educational community.","Description":"All of the above, plus the following:\r\n\r\nParticipants will engage in discussions and activities that cover:\r\nCoaching Models: An overview of various coaching frameworks, including peer coaching, instructional coaching, and collaborative coaching, with practical applications for each.\r\nBuilding Trust and Rapport: Techniques for establishing strong relationships that encourage open communication and vulnerability in coaching conversations.\r\nGoal Setting and Progress Monitoring: Strategies for setting achievable goals and tracking progress to ensure that coaching efforts lead to meaningful change.\r\nFeedback and Reflection: Best practices for giving and receiving constructive feedback that fosters continuous improvement among educators.","Link":["https:\/\/northstar-collaborative.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This will be a mix of small group, large group, sharing best practices, and ideally participants will take away some baseline ingredients that anyone should have when coaching someone else, and curiosity to explore more.","Presenter":["Alexa Dunn"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["alexa@northstar-collaborative.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":179,"ScheduleLocationID":35,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Thank you for considering me! :)","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":12},{"ID":1350,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1730470203,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Heroic Perspectives: Using Comics to Foster Empathy and Understanding","Handle":"heroic_perspectives--using_comics_to_foster_empathy_and_understanding","ShortDescription":"Explore comic book tropes of masked heroes and secret identities to empathize with others\u2019 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.","Description":"How might we use the comic book tropes of masked heroes and secret identities to demonstrate our understanding of others\u2019 struggles and perspectives?  During this interactive conversation, we will combine the visual language of comics, the cross-cultural archetype of heroism, and the empathy-fueled mindset of design thinking to create original comics that address the struggles and challenges facing our colleagues and communities around the world. This conversation will be held in an inner\/outer circle style, where there will be several creativity stations in the outer circle and a conversation circle for the inner circle. As participants complete activities in the outer circle, they will enter the inner circle to discuss and share their work with their colleagues to develop ideas they can use in their classrooms immediately. The four stations will include one on using a superhero design graphic organizer, one on the visual language of comics, one with examples and comic resources to gain inspiration, and one on infographic creation.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"As participants complete activities at the stations, they will join the inner circle to discuss and share their work and findings, and will discuss with each other how these activities could be integrated into their classroom practice. They will reflect on how their ideas and processes could ensure that their new materials are adaptable to various settings and accessible to diverse audiences.","Presenter":["Jacqueline Gardy","Dan Ryder"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Educator","Maryland and Dan Ryder","Community Regional Charter School","Skowhegan","ME"],"PresenterEmail":["jacquiegardy@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":179,"ScheduleLocationID":34,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"none :)","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":12},{"ID":1324,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1729870593,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Insider View of Inquiry & PBL","Handle":"insider_view_of_inquiry-pbl","ShortDescription":"Join SLA students and an SLA teacher to experience and examine learning in a classroom centered on Inquiry & PBL.","Description":"With the goal of using classroom practice to support students to redefine beliefs about themselves and understandings of the world around them, this experiential session will include learning experiences and student reflections about experiences in an inquiry and PBL centered classroom.","Link":["http:\/\/mrjblock.com"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"Many opportunities for participation of attendees.","Presenter":["Joshua Block"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA"],"PresenterEmail":["jblock@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":179,"ScheduleLocationID":31,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Please schedule me for Saturday.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":12},{"ID":1357,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1730499319,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Make the Invisible Visible: Multimodal Tools & Models for Fostering Agency in Daily Learning","Handle":"make_the_invisible_visible--multimodal_tools-models_for_fostering_agency_in_daily_learning","ShortDescription":"In this conversation, will explore tools and visual strategies, such as learning cycles, project pathways maps, illustrated concept briefs, and more, to make the process of learning transparent and accessible for students. Participants will have the opportunity to share their own favorite tools, respond to and critique provided examples, and explore new ideas for making the invisible visible.","Description":"In traditional classroom settings, learning is often linear, and complex cognitive processes often remain abstract and obfuscated for learners. The research behind Universal Design for Learning (UDL) points to the power of making learning processes accessible through multi-modal design. \r\n\r\nThis conversation will provide a space to share a range of tools and strategies to make learning processes transparent and shift power dynamics in the classroom. We'll discuss specific, high-leverage and repeatable frameworks like a learning cycle, as well as specific instructional techniques like metacognitive prompting, guided and gradual-release decision-making, and conferring\u2013all aimed to cultivating self-directed learning skills that position learners to lead increasingly more of their own learning pathway.\r\n\r\nWhy this? Because making the process of learning, and key cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies visible, accessible, and actionable, students can better develop their own procedural, conceptual, and metacognitive skills and knowledge, and ultimately expand their a sense of agency as learners. We\u2019ll explore how these approaches connect to such lifelong skillsets as working in collaborative teams, project leadership, and reflection, which are each critical to student-centered learning environments.","Link":["http:\/\/www.cblpartners.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This session will be highly interactive, launching with opportunities to explore models, share examples from our own practice, and discuss challenges and opportunities in the work. Participants will have the opportunity to workshop existing models and\/or co-design visual tools that could be used in their own classrooms. Using small group discussions, participants will examine and modify sample templates, brainstorm ways to implement them across different subjects, and share insights from their own practices. This session aims to equip educators with concrete tools and inspire a supportive, iterative learning environment that meets students where they are and supports their journey toward self-directed learning.","Presenter":["Sydney Schaef"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["sydney@cblpartners.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":179,"ScheduleLocationID":33,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Thank you for the opportunity to submit!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":12},{"ID":1363,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1731346877,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Meaningful Making With Middle Schoolers (Year 3)","Handle":"meaningful_making_with_middle_schoolers-year_3","ShortDescription":"In Year 3 of our 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?  What outcomes do we value when creating these programs? What did we learn from the past?","Description":"Making in middle schools can be both exhilarating and frustrating in equal measures.  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, creating capstone projects, and what we changed from the last two years.  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":["https:\/\/slams.philasd.org\/"],"Audience":["Middle School"],"Practice":"Presenters will facilitate conversation both within the whole group and smaller breakout groups.  Ideas and suggestions will be compiled in a shared Google Doc.","Presenter":["Michael Franklin","Meredith Martin"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA Middle School"],"PresenterEmail":["msfranklin@philasd.org","mbmartin@philasd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":179,"ScheduleLocationID":26,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"We work at SLAMS. I would really love to attend John Kamal's final year of educon for his session on engineering.  Please don't schedule us at the same time if possible.  Thank you!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":12},{"ID":1314,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1729107001,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Motivating Kids to Do Deep Thinking in Mathematics","Handle":"motivating_kids_to_do_deep_thinking_in_mathematics","ShortDescription":"A conversation about classroom practices and teacher moves that support independent thinking and wondering about math.","Description":"Teachers from Science Leadership Academy Middle School will lead a conversation about practices around projects, rubrics, and questioning strategies that support student understanding of the big ideas of math and creative problem solving.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"As a group we will co-generate practices and resources to be shared with the wider mathematics community.","Presenter":["Nancy Ironside and Justin Powell"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA-MS"],"PresenterEmail":["nironside@philasd.org","jpowell3@philasd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":179,"ScheduleLocationID":32,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"our schedules do not allow for a Sunday presentation. thank you!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":12},{"ID":1368,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1731969770,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Paradox of Tolerance and Care","Handle":"the_paradox_of_tolerance_and_care","ShortDescription":"We know that the coarsening of the national dialogue has an effect on schools.  All over, schools have reported an increase in hate speech. How do we take care of all our students in a time when adults on the national stage engage in hate speech that we would not allow in our classrooms?","Description":"We know that the coarsening of the national dialogue has an effect on schools. All over, schools have reported an increase in hate speech. How do we take care of all our students in a time when adults on the national stage engage in hate speech that we would not allow in our classrooms?\r\n\r\nThere are two competing philosophies that inform how we can think about what to do in this moment in time. First, Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance tells us that any pluralistic society (like our schools) must be intolerant of intolerance or risk losing their openness. Second, Nel Noddings' Ethic of Care reminds us that creating caring schools is essential to creating a caring society? \r\n\r\nSo... how do we remain intolerant of intolerant ideas while caring for all our students -- even those who are experimenting with intolerant ideas? Is it possible in this moment in time?","Link":["http:\/\/www.practicaltheory.org"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"Participants will first play with the intersection of the ideas in their abstraction before taking on case studies and discussing ways that our schools can meet this moment with care while remaining true to the values of the open school and open society.","Presenter":["Chris Lehmann"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA"],"PresenterEmail":["clehmann@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":179,"ScheduleLocationID":37,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":12},{"ID":1337,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1730220016,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Who gives a crap? Fostering academic motivation in tweens and teens","Handle":"who_gives_a_crap-fostering_academic_motivation_in_tweens_and_teens","ShortDescription":"Drawing from interviews with young people all over the country, plus secondary research in positive psychology and education, this workshop lays out some basic principles for building sustainable motivation in the classroom and creates space for educators to collaborate and apply it to their context.","Description":"To really learn, students need to feel motivated by more than just panic about the next test or project, or anxiety about high academic performance. But what does it actually look like to cultivate the kind of environment that sustains motivation in the school building?\r\n\r\nIn this workshop, educator, author and researcher Rebecca Block, PhD, will lay out the basics of the ABCDs of sustainable motivation, with examples from student interviewees across the country. Participants will then have the chance to pick a theme that they're most interested in and collaborate with other educators who are also invested in that theme to brainstorm ideas, ask questions, get feedback, and emerge with something to try in your own classroom context.","Link":["http:\/\/www.beccablock.com","http:\/\/www.phareeducation.org"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"Once everyone's settled, I'll spend ly 10 minutes laying out the high level framework of the ABCDs of motivation, with classroom examples. Then I'll invite participants to pick one theme of interest and sit at tables (or in breakout rooms, if the request is to hold it as a virtual or hybrid session) with 2-3 other educators interested in the same theme. They'll have specific questions to prompt them to pick one area of their classroom\/school life they want to focus on boosting this motivation supporter and brainstorm ideas, brainstorm ideas, and get quick additive (not critical) feedback from others at the table. I'll circulate the room, answering questions as they arise (if a hybrid option is desirable, I have a colleague Ian ask to join to do the same in virtual breakout rooms). If there's time, groups can opt to share ideas back out to the full room at the end of the session.","Presenter":["Rebecca Block"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["blockrebeccar@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":179,"ScheduleLocationID":36,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"If the priority is to have educators leave with really concrete materials they can use in their classroom, then this workshop would ideally get a full 85-90 minutes. If leaving with new ideas and the start of how to apply them is enough, then 45 minutes is enough time to accomplish that. I can design the workshop to go either way, I just need to know which time constraint to use.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":12},{"ID":1356,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1730494295,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Write Out: Poetry for the Planet","Handle":"write_out--poetry_for_the_planet","ShortDescription":"Write outside during a conference about the future and the now of schools? YES! Join us to explore what it means to be human when living, learning, and teaching alongside machines. What better way to explore and embrace our questions about the implications of AI and other technologies than to go outside and write together.","Description":"This session invites participants to spend time outdoors and do some writing and sharing in the style of an event called Write Out hosted annually by the National Writing Project. Write Out is a free two-week celebration of writing, making, and sharing inspired by the great outdoors (see writeout.nwp.org). We invite the EduCon community to explore the theme of the 2024 Write Out event - Poetry for the Planet - as this feels to us to be an important focus in a moment of huge technological and climatic change. \r\n\r\nWhy Write Out? Through research as well as our lived experience, writing outside and in our place gets the creative juices flowing, engages learners, and supports important connections within communities. Write Out taps into the value of the outdoors in support of learning while also building on the importance of place-based writing and education. It surfaces the opportunity to engage connected literacy and civic engagement in public spaces, both on and offline, and in this way affords an unique opportunity to explore complex questions in more holistic ways. \r\n\r\nThis session will start with an indoor gathering to orient participants, followed by an invitation to go outside and find a space to write along with optional prompts. We will stay together to write and then share our writing (although participants are welcome to find a space of their own as they choose, or, if they do not wish to go outside, they can find an inside window to sit by and write instead). We will then regather inside to debrief the experience and have a discussion about the implications and possibilities of this kind of practice in our own communities. Participants will take away a range of resources and tools to do Write Out with their own students, neighbors, colleagues and friends.","Link":["https:\/\/writeout.nwp.org\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will write together and everyone will be invited to share in person as well as via the NWP Teacher Studio and\/or social media (always with the option to pass). We will use this experience to discuss what Write Out might look like in our places and spaces.","Presenter":["Willeena Booker","Christina Cantrill","Christina Puntel"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Hallowell Elementary School","National Writing Project","W.B. Saul High School"],"PresenterEmail":["willeenabooker@gmail.com","ccantrill@nwp.org","cpuntel@philasd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":179,"ScheduleLocationID":30,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Thank you for considering our proposal!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":12}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":12,"ScheduleSlotID":179},"total":9,"limit":false,"offset":false}