{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":1401,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1756592495,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Bullying Solutions Lab: Co-Creating Safer Classrooms","Handle":"bullying_solutions_lab--co-creating_safer_classrooms","ShortDescription":"This interactive session brings the attendees together to address bullying in schools. Through dialogue, scenarios, and collaborative problem-solving, participants will co-create practical strategies to recognize, prevent, and respond to bullying\u2014leaving with immediate action steps to foster safer, more inclusive classrooms and communities.","Description":"Bullying remains one of the most pressing challenges in schools, impacting the safety, confidence, and success of both students and educators. The Bullying Solutions Lab invites all attendees to come together in an interactive, solution-focused conversation designed to build safer, more inclusive classrooms and school communities.\r\n\r\nThrough guided dialogue, real-world scenarios, and role-play activities, participants will work side by side to identify the early warning signs of bullying and explore proactive strategies to prevent it. Together, the group will co-create one to two shared goals for addressing bullying and outline clear, actionable steps. These will include immediate strategies that can be applied by students and educators right away, as well as broader steps requiring school-wide or administrative support.\r\n\r\nThis session is not about theory alone\u2014it\u2019s about practice, collaboration, and empowerment. By the end, participants will leave with concrete tools, a deeper understanding of how to recognize and respond to bullying, and the confidence to take meaningful action. Most importantly, they will have contributed to a shared vision for schools where every student feels safe, valued, and supported.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"This will be a highly interactive session rather than a traditional presentation. The conversation will open with defining the core problem of bullying, then move into guided, thought-provoking questions designed to spark dialogue. Participants will brainstorm, share experiences, and build upon each other\u2019s ideas. Role-play activities and group discussions will deepen understanding and inspire practical strategies. Midway through, participants will collaboratively establish one or two shared goals and design both immediate and long-term action steps. This approach ensures the session is truly participant-driven, empowering educators to generate meaningful, sustainable solutions together.","Presenter":["Latrelle Nicholson"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["lacnick88@yahoo.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":188,"ScheduleLocationID":31,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"I am a former classroom teacher, of about 25 years from Pre-K through fifth grade, with most of my years as a fourth-grade teacher. For the past 6+ years I have coached and trained educators. In May 2024, I earned my doctorate degree in education, successfully defending my dissertation, entitled \"K-12 Teachers' Attitudes and Beliefs of Anti-Bullying Training Programs: A Phenomenological Study\".\r\nCombating bullying is my passion.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":13},{"ID":1396,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1753890371,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"No more portraits of a graduate","Handle":"no_more_portraits_of_a_graduate","ShortDescription":"A portrait of a graduate is a powerful symbol, but ultimately, it\u2019s static. It offers a snapshot of who we hope students will become, but too often it stops short. It tells us what the end goal is, without showing us how to get there.\r\n\r\nWhat we need is a path.","Description":"Most of us became educators because we wanted to help young people grow into thoughtful, creative, compassionate leaders. We believe in students. We believe in learning. But the systems we work in often make it hard to align our daily practice with our deepest values.\r\n\r\nInstead of bold action, we wait for mandates, for new initiatives, for permission. In the meantime, schools default to what\u2019s safe and familiar: ranking, sorting, testing, standardizing. The very opposite of the learning experiences we know students truly need.\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s time to change that.\r\n\r\nNot with more top-down reforms or vague \"portraits of a graduate\"\u2014but with a shared commitment to designing real, transformative experiences that reflect the kind of humans we hope our students become.\r\n\r\nExperiences rooted in relationships, in connection, in story\u2014not just data points.\r\n \r\nExperiences that give students space to be curious, to take risks, to ask big questions, and to practice empathy in real ways.\r\n \r\nExperiences that move beyond compliance and toward agency.\r\n\r\nThis isn\u2019t about waiting for the next big thing. It\u2019s about seeing our schools as sites of action research, where educators are leaders and designers of learning, not just implementers of mandates.\r\n\r\nSo let\u2019s stop asking each other to \u201cremember our why,\u201d and start doing the much braver work of redefining our how.\r\n \r\nLet\u2019s name the shared experiences that every student deserves\u2014and build a path that actually leads there.\r\n\r\nThis is our opportunity.\r\n\r\nNot just to reimagine education, but to rebuild it\u2014together.","Link":["https:\/\/www.growcreativethinkers.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"-Reflective questions throughout\r\n-Discussing ideas for the type of shared experiences students need","Presenter":["Jason Blair"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Dublin City Schools- Dublin","Ohio"],"PresenterEmail":["schoolteachers@mac.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":190,"ScheduleLocationID":31,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Thank you for the considering this conversation.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":13}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":13,"ScheduleLocationID":31},"total":2,"limit":false,"offset":false}