{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":112,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1322078018,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"It Takes a Village: Using Distributive Leadership to Make Small Schools Work","Handle":"It_Takes_a_Village-Using_Distributive_Leadership_to_Make_Small_Schools_Work","ShortDescription":"A conversation regarding best practices in distributive leadership in small schools. Teachers identify from their skills and interests in order to take leadership roles within the school.","Description":"","Link":["http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/7vbfhs7"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"","Presenter":["Zoe Siswick","Brad Latimer"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["zsiswick@scienceleadership.org","blatimer@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":6,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":".","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":46302,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1},{"ID":71,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1320108757,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Permission to Speak? Creating Communities of Advocacy in Education","Handle":"Permission_to_Speak-Creating_Communities_of_Advocacy_in_Education","ShortDescription":"New media and communications tools give teachers non-traditional ways to organize and work for change in their classrooms, schools, divisions, and country. Join Chad Sansing, Kirsten Olson, Christina Cantrill, and Paul Oh for a conversation about creating online spaces of permission for students, parents, and educators to speak and enact the changes they want to see in our shared work of education.","Description":"New media and communications tools give teachers non-traditional ways to organize and work for change in their classrooms, schools, divisions, and country. In this sessions, educators who have built online communities of practice around educational transformation will gather to facilitate a discussion about the nuts and bolts of creating self-sustaining spaces of permission to question schooling in constructive and provocative ways.\r\n\r\nFacilitators will also talk about translating online conversations and relationships into local change at the classroom, school, division, state and national levels. \r\n\r\nParticipants will be able to pose questions and provocations and will leave with an understanding of the planning, implementation, and stewardship of online communities of permission at a variety of scales and levels of web development.\r\n\r\nChad Sansing will facilitate from the perspective of a classroom teacher involved as a partner in several DIY efforts to impact educational practice and pedagogy, including #blog4nwp, Coperative Calatlyst, and the Occupy Education tumblr.\r\n\r\nKirsten Olson will facilitate from the perspective of a consultant, writer, and agitator for systems change in United States school and public education.\r\n\r\nChristina Cantrill will facilitate from the perspective of her research into teacher leadership and from her perspective as part of the National Writing Projects (NWP) efforts to build capacity for teacher leadership in professional development.\r\n\r\nPaul Oh will facilitate (virtually from CA) from his perspective as the coordinator of the NWPs technology liaison program and from the projects experience in building spaces such as Digital Is and NWP Connect.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will post to the communities we discuss before, during, and after the event. We will also Skypecast the session and host a Google+ hangout during it.","Presenter":["Chad Sansing","Kirsten Olson","Christina Cantrill","Paul Oh"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["csansing@gmail.com","kirsten@oldsow.net","ccantrill@nwp.org","poh@nwp.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":8,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"Paul will facilitate virtually from California if the conversation is accepted.\r\n\r\nWe will certainly post about this conversation - if accepted - before EduCon and actively solicit the participation of attendees from communities like the Educators' PLN, CopCatalyst, and #occupyedu\/#occupytheclassroom.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":46305,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1},{"ID":106,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1321415443,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Rise of the Introvert","Handle":"The_Rise_of_the_Introvert","ShortDescription":"Traditional school systems do not always support the needs of introverts.  This session will begin to address the needs of introverts in today's classrooms.","Description":"Traditional school systems do not always support the needs of introverts.  Brain research continues to shed light on the differences between introverts and extroverts and how we can best develop pedagogy around connective technologies to better meet individuals needs.  At this session, not only will I share my experience as an introverted leader, but well also discussion and school community practices that support the growth of both extroverts and introverts.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"I will share some of the current brain research associated with introverts and extroverts before opening floor to discussing best practices.","Presenter":["Tony Baldasaro"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Powerful Learning Practices & The Virtual Learning Academy Charter School"],"PresenterEmail":["tbaldasaro@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":9,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"There's a bigger conversation here about leader and introverts that I would like to get into if we have time.  However, I think that the bulk of our time together will be spent talking about classroom\/school practices.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":46306,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1},{"ID":69,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1320103862,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"From Thinking to Becoming: Being a Risk-Taking Educator","Handle":"From_Thinking_to_Becoming-Being_a_Risk-Taking_Educator","ShortDescription":"Risk-taking for educators can feel just that, risky. What pushes us as educators and what holds us back? Through visible thinking strategies, we will spark dialogue about classroom risk-taking, encourage teacher reflection, and share ways to break out of our comfort zones.","Description":"Teaching is a risky profession in todays world of ever changing expectations. One of the ways that teachers can manage the risks that surround them is to be clear in their own understanding of what is really at risk. Together teachers must begin to make their thinking visible to themselves and others. What does it mean to make thinking visible? Using a variety of visual thinking models, teachers will wrestle with what keeps them in their comfort zones. They will see how thoughts grow as they share, listen and collaborate. One goal is to model Visual Thinking as an important new strategy for understanding what keeps us from taking risks and learning how to move beyond those obstacles. This strategy is one teachers can use for their own Professional Development as well as model for students learning and collaborating in the classroom. The second goal is to challenge the teachers to leave their Comfort Zones, moving forward together for the benefit of the students.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"After a short introduction, the teachers will answer several questions by traveling to different parts of the room based on their responses. Once there they will share ideas with those of similar opinions, add a summary of their groups ideas to a wiki and share to the group. Then the wiki page will be projected on the front screen, with comments and reactions solicited. The next question will be posed, and the process will repeat. After two questions, there will be a time for reflection about the benefits and challenges of this strategy and a directed conversation about both the process of visible thinking and teacher risk-taking. Our hope is that teachers take away from the discussion a sense of optimism and enthusiasm for thoughtful change and risk-taking as well as several ways to evaluate their own ideas on this or other topics.","Presenter":["Philip Cummings","Wendy Eiteljorg","Hadley Ferguson"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Presbyterian Day School","Memphis TN; Shipley School","Bryn Mawr","PA; Springside Chestnut Hill Academy","Phila.","P"],"PresenterEmail":["pcummings@pdsmemphis.org","weiteljorg@shipleyschool.org","hferguson@sch.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":14,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":46307,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1},{"ID":8,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1315928118,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Reimagining Community","Handle":"Reimagining_Community","ShortDescription":"Explore changing definitions of community and the implications for education. How can schools partner with their communities in ways that reflect local needs and the future of learning? How may we rethink teaching community preK to 12 to help prepare students for these new understandings?","Description":"Social technologies have disrupted traditional notions of community. Instead of geographical hometowns, community is thriving within digital, interest-based global networks. While many lament the demise of the town square, many individuals utilize global networks to innovate, create, and solve problems. How do we engage our students in the exploration of this global network of collective action?\r\n\r\nWe will consider how the digital age affects how we teach community, not only in terms of tools but also conceptually. For example, traditionally, students move from small to big, i.e., classroom to town to state to region to nation to world and so on. This progression is certainly logical, but does it prepare students for the complex, fluid notions of community with which they must engage? Does it address the growing tension between private and public space, or the push and pull of globalization on community structures?\r\n\r\nTo frame this conversation, we will consider the role of systems thinking, technology, and community-based learning. What is systems thinking, how is it being taught in the K-12 setting, and what role does it play in developing student understanding of what a community is and what it can be? What role do mobile technologies play in connecting students internationally, in addition to engaging the local community? How may we rethink authentic learning, typically implemented through field trips, project-based learning, and experiential learning, in a way that reflects modern perspectives of community, collaboration and collective action?","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will use visual thinking strategies to explore changing definitions of community and then use Corkboard.me to collectively brainstorm what role systems thinking and technology play in teaching community, and how community-based learning and other areas of focus suggested by the group may look differently based on our definition. We can then share our brainstorming via the Corkboard.me link.","Presenter":["Teresa DeFlitch"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Winchester Thurston School"],"PresenterEmail":["deflitcht@winchesterthurston.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":16,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":46308,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1},{"ID":39,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1319122844,"CreatorID":219,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Google Chromebooks in the Classroom: A Report from Project Learn","Handle":"Google_Chromebooks_in_the_Classroom-A_Report_from_Project_Learn","ShortDescription":"Report on the first three months of Project Learn School's experiment with Google Chromebooks","Description":"This is a report describing the establishment of a 1:1 laptop program for Project Learn's 8th grade students using Google's Chromebooks. Review of issues relating to installation, use and support over the first three months.","Link":["http:\/\/www.projectlearnschool.org\/"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"Use Google Docs to deliver the presentation, show updates and allow commentary for this project. We'll also set up a Hangout in Google Plus.","Presenter":["Liam Gallagher","Cartwright Reed"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Project Learn School"],"PresenterEmail":["liamtunes@gmail.com","lizbenyaacov@gmail.com","cart@ebooq.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":17,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":219,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":46309,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":1,"ScheduleLocationID":7},"total":6,"limit":false,"offset":false}