EduCon 2025A Better Justice
My students created a student run Youth Court that deals with disciplinary issues in the building and resolves them through Restorative Justice.
Conversations
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).
Building and Sustaining Successful Partnerships
Schools thrive when students are able to connect with and learn from members of the larger community. Community members also benefit from mentoring and embedding their work in schools.Participants will learn about best practices for finding, securing, and maintaining partnerships and seek a new partner for their school community.
Conversation Title Democratic Schools and Learning Environments: What does that mean?
Democracy is idealized but rarely fully realized, especially for young people. Schools offer one context where young people’s voices should shape their education. In this democratic workshop, we will critically interrogate the Four Pillars of Democratic Education, which arise from decades of experience of educators from around the world.
Deja Vu All Over Again
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.
Discovering and Visualizing Data
How can we teach students about the importance of data? This hands-on conversation will integrate math, science, arts, and creativity to introduce a relatable way to teach data, identify patterns, and correlations. Educators will walk away from this session with simple tools to integrate data into every subject in all grades.
Empowerment Through Belonging: Elevating LGBTQIA+ Voices in Education
Join us for an engaging session on fostering equity and mental health support for LGBTQIA+ youth and staff. Learn effective strategies, explore successful practices, and build a supportive community through collaborative discussions. Discover how Affinity Groups and Communities of Practice can create inclusive environments where everyone thrives.
Igniting Potential: Countering Stereotype threat and elevating the Academic Identity for Black and Latino Boys
This presentation highlights an in-school mentoring intervention addressing the achievement gap for Black and Latino males. It shares strategies for boosting academic self-confidence, countering stereotype threat, and fostering racial-ethnic pride. Backed by research and proven outcomes, it offers practical guidance for replicating these programs to improve greater academic confidence and outcomes.
May This Classroom Be a Haven: Creating Classroom Environments that are Protective and Proactive in Supporting Students' Social-Emotional Well-being
More than anything, students need and want to feel safe and seen in their classrooms. Join this conversation to discuss how to construct classrooms that are protective and proactive in supporting students' social-emotional wellness. We will discuss actionable ways to shape classrooms into safe spaces and you'll leave the discussion encouraged and hopeful for the lasting impact we will have on our students, ourselves, and our colleagues.
Powering Up Criticality and Creativity with AI-Guided Writing at SLA at Beeber
How are your students using AI to support their revising and thinking this year? Students at SLA at Beeber will show the work they have been doing on Writing Partners this semester. We will also invite you to power up your criticality and creativity with AI-guided writing.
Project-based Learning in Personal Finance
How many times do we as teachers hear, “When will I ever use this?!” Last year, Pennsylvania joined 25 other states to require all students in the class of 2030+ to complete at least one semester of personal finance before graduation. We intentionally incorporate a variety of math topics within the Personal Finance curriculum to help students answer these questions of “when” and “why.”
