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).
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.
Building Anti-Racist White Educators (BARWE) will lead an interactive session regarding our inquiry series that is dedicated to helping teachers explore their biases, look at their practice through an anti-racist lens, and take action to build community and improve teaching practices with regards to racial equity.
Co-creating rubrics with students helps them understand assignments, increases autonomy over their learning, and offers motivation through ownership of the process. In this session we will explore how and when to co-create rubrics and how to support students in this process. We will also spend some time planning for implementation.
As math educators in 2024 we strive to find a balance between mastering procedural fluency and conceptual understanding. We want our students to have strong automaticity while becoming efficient problem solvers in the real world. Participants will leave with practical tools to apply in their classrooms and ideas for how to integrate fluency practice into everyday lessons.
Humans of all ages, have the innate desire to connect. When we connect, we trust one another and are able to tackle life's ups and downs. But...we need to create those safe spaces and time for people to connect while tapping into their own experiences and sharing them with others.
Planning in an inquiry driven classroom can be challenging! What tools, workflows, and techniques do SLA teachers use to ensure that planning is student-centered and meaningful? How do you plan? Join in on an open and honest conversation led by an SLA teacher about planning effective unit and day-to-day lesson.
Curiosity, questions, wonder - these human qualities serve as powerful drivers of learning in the age of AI. Join me in creating a plan for implementing a more human focused learning environment leveraging the effectiveness of inquiry. Specific classroom resources, action plans, walkthrough rubrics and coaching plans will be shared.
STEAM should not be siloed into one-off spaces or projects. This session will take you through the process of creating a unit that combines subtractive manufacturing with CNC machines, the design process, and ELA standards to create historic markers for people, places, or events in Philadelphia with the students who made them.
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