{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":1432,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1757988736,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Critical Creativity for Leadership & Change Making","Handle":"critical_creativity_for_leadership-change_making","ShortDescription":"How might we use creative forms of expression to help us identify solutions, communicate expectations, guide processes, and innovate education?  Experiment with strategies and discuss methods that bring purposeful creativity into our committee meetings and conference rooms.","Description":"Progressive educators struggle to break paradigms and make lasting meaningful change in the face of myopic traditions, false comfort, and alleged efficiency.  We want something new for our learners and families, we want something more equitable and accessible for our communities and edu-ecosystem.   And though we seek to engage our learners with multiple modalities and transformative thinking experience,  we largely continue to use the same ol\u2019 sit in a circle, brainstorm and discuss, reach consensus and run a pilot approach to problem solving.   Our conversation intends to explore ways in which critical creativity \u2013 the synergy of critical thinking, meaningful content, and creative expression \u2013  may help educational leaders get out of their self-imposed ruts and guide learning communities toward effective solutions to complex challenges.   Through a series of stations and voice-and-choice explorations, participants in this session will discuss myriad ways to use their beloved chart paper, sharpie markers, and post-it notes that go beyond brainstorming lists, casting votes, and organizing ideas.  From crafting lyrics to composing comics, from painting possibilities to choreographing concepts, participants in this conversation will challenge themselves and others to create in the service of change.","Link":["https:\/\/www.jacquiegardy.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Participants in this session can expect to find a space arranged into a series of six to eight stations with each station featuring a  critical creativity strategy coupled with a challenge facing progressive education.  These challenges intend to reflect the topics that frequently surface in staff meetings and district committees:  assessing and reporting achievement, improving attendance, managing technology, engaging families, developing educators, and supporting social emotional learning.  The critical creativity strategies will come from the Critical Creativity in Action deck, a free set of 50 instructional strategies using creative expression, proven to improve learning outcomes in classroom learners and just as well suited to problem solving in professional capacities.  Strategies included will range from those incorporating sculpture and comics creation, to those involving lyricism and choreography.   After ten minutes of station exploration, we will reconvene for fifteen minutes of circle-style conversation, and alternate this pattern through the duration of the session.","Presenter":["Jacqueline Gardy","Dan Ryder"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Community Regional Charter School","Skowhegan","ME","Gardy Learning Design Studio"],"PresenterEmail":["hello@jacquiegardy.com","danryder207@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":187,"ScheduleLocationID":37,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"We love EduCon!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":13},{"ID":1414,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1757447046,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Beyond Burnout: Moving from survival to sustainability","Handle":"beyond_burnout--moving_from_survival_to_sustainability","ShortDescription":"Educator burnout is real\u2014but it can also be a turning point. In this session, we\u2019ll share stories, explore systemic causes, and co-create strategies for renewal. Together we\u2019ll build a collective toolkit for sustaining joy, purpose, and impact in teaching and learning.","Description":"Burnout among educators is reaching critical levels, and while many of us know the signs, the bigger question is: what comes next? How do we, as individuals and communities, move beyond survival toward sustainability, joy, and meaningful impact in our work? This session will explore the realities of educator burnout, not only as a personal experience but also as a systemic issue. Together, we\u2019ll consider what it means to reimagine our professional lives\u2014whether through boundary-setting, shifting practices within our schools, or envisioning new paths entirely. The main idea is that burnout can be a turning point: a moment that calls us to change how we work, how we support each other, and how we sustain our passion for teaching and learning.","Link":["https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lizbdavis\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This will not be a presentation of \u201canswers\u201d but a co-created dialogue. We\u2019ll begin with a brief framing to surface common experiences and questions, then use conversational protocols (like paired storytelling and small-group discussions) to ensure all voices are heard. Participants will contribute to a shared digital space (Padlet or collaborative doc) to capture insights, strategies, and resources, creating a collective toolkit that extends beyond the session. By leaning on participants\u2019 lived experiences and wisdom, the conversation will move from personal reflection to community building to imagining systemic shifts. The goal is for every participant to leave with both a sense of solidarity and a few concrete next steps for themselves or their schools.","Presenter":["Liz B. Davis"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Board Member Girls Middle School","Palo Alto","Previously Head of Middle School","Alta Vista School","San Francisco"],"PresenterEmail":["davislizb@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":188,"ScheduleLocationID":37,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"I have worked in education since 1993, beginning as a 6th-grade teacher and later serving as a Technology Integrator, Director of Academic Technology, Director of Curriculum, Assistant Head of School, and most recently, Head of Middle School. After more than three decades in education, I am taking a year away from school leadership to reflect on the challenges facing educators today and to explore sustainable paths forward for both individuals and schools.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":13},{"ID":1448,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1759944067,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Process and Product: What Do We Value?","Handle":"process_and_product--what_do_we_value-2","ShortDescription":"With the advent of AI, students can now create products in ways they never could before, but how do we know when those products represent deeper student learning?","Description":"At the root of progressive education is the idea of \"Learn by Doing\" and project-based learning. But what happens when educators can no longer determine the products that students submit represent a process of student learning?\r\n\r\nHow do educators have to adapt their instructional design and assessment practices to recognize the shifting landscape?\r\n\r\nHow do we recognize the difference between when a technological tool such as AI transforms learning processes compared to when it supplants it?\r\n\r\nHow do we remain open to how students can leverage new technologies to learn more deeply while understanding the reality that these technologies can also be used to create products that sidestep the learning process?\r\n\r\nAnd what does \"Productive Struggle\" look like in the age of AI?","Link":["http:\/\/practicaltheory.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This will be a dialogic session where we grapple with questions that don't lead to easy answers.","Presenter":["Chris Lehmann"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["clehmann@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":189,"ScheduleLocationID":37,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":13},{"ID":1439,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1758302140,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Prompting Deeper Discussions","Handle":"prompting_deeper_discussions","ShortDescription":"Sometimes, it's really just the prompt! A lot of times, when class discussions go flat, we blame our personalities, the lethargy of \"kids these days\", or the curriculum. But often, if we had just asked the question a different way, changed a few words, we would have had success! This session is about sharing best strategies to ask the best questions.","Description":"We'll practice making questions and workshop them. I'll work a case study into it as well.","Link":["http:\/\/www.notlight.com"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"We'll form questions about to text and workshop them together.","Presenter":["Matthew Kay"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA"],"PresenterEmail":["mkay@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":190,"ScheduleLocationID":37,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":13},{"ID":1445,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1759107686,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Self-Care in an Uncaring World","Handle":"self-care_in_an_uncaring_woman","ShortDescription":"The pressures on educators (and on everyone) are significant in this moment. How do we care for ourselves so that we can continue to care for others?","Description":"For educators to continue to do our work we must find ways to care for ourselves. Finding a way to balance the demands and expectations of our profession with our own lives and the demands on us there is critical to remaining educators. While this will not look the same for everyone, hopefully we can find some big ideas that can support us and other educators in the future.","Link":["https:\/\/jenorr.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"I don\u2019t have the answers to this question so the session will be driven by attendees and their ideas and questions.","Presenter":["Jennifer Orr"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Alice West Fleet Elementary School"],"PresenterEmail":["jenorr@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":191,"ScheduleLocationID":37,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":13}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":13,"ScheduleLocationID":37},"total":5,"limit":false,"offset":false}