{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":1413,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1757446971,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Swords to Ploughshares: De-personalizing computing","Handle":"swords_to_ploughshares--de-personalizing_computing_and","ShortDescription":"Personal computing is not neutral and its effects feel different in 2025 than ten years ago. This is conversation on what we are seeing, and what we might do to create the technology environment we want","Description":"We aim to describe a technology environment we thought we wanted to create before SLA-MS opened in 2016, what the technology environment we found ourselves in at the end of 2024-2025 school year, the changes we made and the value propositions we used to get a different outcome. We will discuss the perceived and observed impacts of personal computing on our teaching, learning, culture, and equity initiatives. We aim to contextualize our experience through the voices of leadership, faculty, and students. We hope to gather outside perspectives on what an ideal technology environment would be and hear from others what they did the kinds of technology environments they want. We are not talking about AI because we like fresh water.","Link":["http:\/\/slams.philasd.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Opening with an ideal technology environment visioning exercise. Hearing from SLA-MS community members as a case study. Sharing what moves folks have done (or didn\u2019t do) to get the kinds of environments they value.","Presenter":["Timothy M. Boyle and company"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy Middle School"],"PresenterEmail":["tmboyle@philasd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":187,"ScheduleLocationID":36,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":13},{"ID":1441,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1758538729,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Abundance in education","Handle":"abundance_in_education","ShortDescription":"Unpacking the implications of the \"abundance\" agenda for education.","Description":"The \"abundance\" agenda, popularized by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's book of the same name, advances the argument that progressives have lost both momentum and credibility by focusing more on inputs (money spent) than tangible accomplishments. In Pennsylvania, Governor Josh Shapiro has made \"getting [stuff] done\" a rallying cry, while publications like the Philadelphia Citizen excoriate the democratic establishment for failing to turn more spending into better results.\r\n\r\nIt's not hard to translate the Klein and Thompson\u2019s critique to public education. From special education to Title I, an enormous amount of time, money and energy are directed toward regulatory compliance. More often than not, accountability follows policy adherence more than results. At its worst, this produces institutional cultures where following policy trumps solving actual problems or, as Klein and Thompson detail, building stuff. \r\n\r\nRegulation is the means through which we structure work toward goals or outcomes. And yet far too often it seems to serve divergent, or even contradictory, ends. How can we design policies, systems and practices that keep the main thing the main thing, while making better use of our resources and empowering people and systems to solve problems? \r\n\r\nThis is not a debate about the intention behind IDEA, Title I or a host of other policies. It\u2019s not even really a debate about the abundance agenda. It really comes down to a simple question: can we do better, and what might it look like if we did?","Link":["http:\/\/www.workshopschool.org","http:\/\/www.workshopu.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"The conversational practice here is literally a conversation. I'll kick us off with a lean framing of the argument behind Abundance, and some examples of how it translates to education. Mostly, however, I'll pose questions. My hope is that we can have a stimulating, open discussion that concludes with a debrief and synthesis.","Presenter":["Matthew Riggan"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Workshop Learning"],"PresenterEmail":["matthew.riggan@workshopschool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":188,"ScheduleLocationID":36,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":13},{"ID":1464,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1764086055,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Authentic Assessment in the Age of AI","Handle":"conversations_authentic_assessment_in_the_age_of_ai","ShortDescription":"AI has forced educators to reflect on their teaching and learning practices, especially when it comes to assessment. Author & educator Michael Hernandez leads this discussion about strategies for designing cheat-resistant assignments and how to foster cultures of academic integrity. See case studies, and begin designing uncheatable assessments.","Description":"Artificial intelligence has created existential challenges for educators, especially when it comes to assessment. This session addresses these challenges in two ways: practical strategies for designing authentic, uncheatable assessments, and disincentivizing cheating by creating a culture of academic integrity. Based on over two decades of teaching practice and research, this session is a response to AI founded on what we know to be good teaching and learning practices: curiosity, critical thinking, authenticity, and originality.\r\n\r\nThrough the use of case studies and hands-on activities, participants will practice the approaches they\u2019ll use with students, and learn how to design rigorous, standards-aligned, student-centered learning experiences. These strategies and mindsets help us solve multiple challenges at once by building on what teachers already do best, and integrate organically into classrooms of every level. The learning experience in this session will focus on using multimedia research projects for formative and summative assessment.\r\n\r\nWhether you are developing a portrait of a graduate program, hoping to address student engagement and integrity challenges, or cultivate a school culture that provides purpose and meaning beyond traditional metrics, this session provides guidance to help educators and leaders as they prepare students for success in a constantly changing world.","Link":["https:\/\/www.michael-hernandez.net\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Through a combination of discussions and design-thinking exercises, participants will identify key challenges, and design new assignment and assessment strategies for existing curriculum. Participants will contribute their work and reflections to an online forum such as Padlet, or a digital book, then shared as a public resource.","Presenter":["Michael Hernandez"],"PresenterAffiliation":["National Geographic Grosvenor Teacher Fellow"],"PresenterEmail":["cinehead3@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":189,"ScheduleLocationID":36,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":13},{"ID":1420,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1757935418,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Meeting the Moment(s) Together","Handle":"meeting_the_moment-s-together","ShortDescription":"How do we meet this moment? What does showing up for one another look like in our schools and communities? How do we create connections that sustain us through difficult times?","Description":"Remember when Francis Fukuyama declared the \"end of history\"? That optimistic moment when it seemed like we'd figured things out? Well, history's come roaring back. Political violence, authoritarianism on the rise, war, rising inequality. Technology promises connection but sometimes delivers isolation.\r\n\r\nIt's overwhelming at times and yet we persist.\r\n\r\nWhat's working? What small practices are sustaining you and your communities? How are you creating moments of authentic connection in your school or organization? What does it look like to respond to pain with presence?\r\n\r\nIn Sharon Salzberg's Real Life, she relayed a story about a kid who said: \"I need a God with skin.\" That kid got it\u2014sometimes we need the divine made manifest in human connection and care.\r\n\r\nThis session isn't about having all the answers\u2014it's about sharing what we're learning as we figure it out together. Come as you are. Bring your questions, your bright spots, and your honest struggles.","Link":["https:\/\/nycquakers.org","https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We'll open with a few moments of silence to settle in and focus. Everyone who wants to share gets to speak once\u2014no immediate responses or advice-giving, just deep listening. We'll let ideas sit and breathe instead of rushing to solve or respond. If time allows, we'll do a second round of sharing, then close with a moment of quiet reflection. This listening practice comes from a Quaker tradition but works for any group\u2014because sometimes the most powerful thing we can do is simply listen to each other without trying to fix or respond.","Presenter":["Ted Bongiovanni"],"PresenterAffiliation":["NYC Quakers"],"PresenterEmail":["ted@nycquakers.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":190,"ScheduleLocationID":36,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Really looking forward to returning to Educon!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":13},{"ID":1469,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1764984555,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"What's The Tea?","Handle":"what-s_the_tea","ShortDescription":"When students leave your classroom, what is the story they tell when they go home to their families or when they talk to their friends? The \"tea\" they spill is connected to the intentionality that goes into the planning in your class.","Description":"This conversation will center around 3 focus areas of intentional planning: students, school community , and the larger community. When you plan projects or lessons how do you consider your students? How do you engage the school community and how do you engage the larger community. The steps you take in planning and execution will determine the story the students will tell, the \"tea\", about their experience in your class. Are you creating experiences and opportunities in your classroom that are positive and enriching or do students leave your room will a trauma story. Participants will leave with a foundation for an upcoming project that will have students spilling good tea about their experience.","Link":["Https:\/\/linkeddestinies.academy"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"This session will be a group project planning session where participants will brainstorm collaboratively on intentional planning. Participants will leave with a foundation for an upcoming project.","Presenter":["Njemele Anderson"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Philadelphia Writing Project","School District of Philadelphia and Founder of Linked Destinies Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["Linkeddestiniesacademy@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":191,"ScheduleLocationID":36,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":13}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":13,"ScheduleLocationID":36},"total":5,"limit":false,"offset":false}