{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":1433,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1758021000,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Bridging History and STEM Towards A Sustainable Future","Handle":"bridging_history_and_stem_towards_a_sustainable_future","ShortDescription":"Concerned about climate change? Trying to combat student hopelessness and inspire them to take action for the future? Sign up! By working cross-curricularly, we can use examples from history on sustainable living, uncover everyday STEM practices of civilizations across the world, and build hopeful action for the future.","Description":"This workshop will focus on 3 things:\r\n1. Why it's important to study PAST examples of sustainable living and technology\/innovations so that students can see that we don't need wait for something new and shiny to save us from climate disaster.\r\n2. Use indigenous examples of sustainable STEM practices so that we can empower hidden histories and also so that students can more readily see that they and their ancestors have already been deeply involved in STEM practices, even if they don't identify with STEM related occupations.\r\n3. Work cross-curricularly between STEM and history teachers to foster a wraparound approach to climate education.\r\nThe workshop will go like this:\r\nA brief presentation setting up the central theses.\r\nTwo concrete examples of everyday sustainable STEM  practices of civilizations found in world history.\r\nCross-curricular team-up time to brainstorm an example and a cross-curricular lesson that educators can take with them and use in their classrooms.","Link":["https:\/\/my-climate-story.org\/exhibits\/climate-classrooms\/frankie\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Participants will have time firstly to brainstorm their own examples, but more importantly later to work with other educators across curriculum silos in order to create a lesson that they can turn around and use in their classrooms. I will be there to help brainstorm and plan as a resource, and I will be uplifting and highlighting their work to the whole group as they plan.","Presenter":["Freda Anderson"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Prentiss Charney fellowship","Deeper Discussions in World History curriculum writer","SDP World History Curriculum Writer","My Climate Story Curriculum Writer","Lindback Award Winner"],"PresenterEmail":["fandersonteaches@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":190,"ScheduleLocationID":32,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":13},{"ID":1412,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1757426048,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"From Audit to Action: Building a Staff-Led Equity Ecosystem","Handle":"from_audit_to_action--building_a_staff-led_equity_ecosystem","ShortDescription":"A practical case study of how a Philadelphia elementary school implemented a collaborative equity audit and staff-led equity team to build internal capacity, surface actionable data, and catalyze gradual schoolwide change.","Description":"This session will share a practical case study of how a Philadelphia elementary school implemented a collaborative equity audit and staff-led equity team to build internal capacity, surface actionable data, and catalyze gradual schoolwide change. Designed with sustainability and shared leadership in mind, the process leveraged data collection to activate a series of staff-led equity projects led by a diverse team with the support of an external consultant.\r\n\r\nParticipants will explore how to: (1) Design a collaborative, staff-led equity audit, (2) Lead a cross-role equity team, and (3) Play the \u201clong game\u201d of sustainable equity work.\r\n\r\nIdeal for school and district leaders, this session offers practical tools for deeper, sustainable equity work. We\u2019ll explore planning tools, role descriptions, and example agendas. Engagement methods include 2-minute stories in small groups, small and full group discussion, small-group resource exploration, group recommendations, serial testimony, and opportunities to apply best practices to individual contexts.","Link":["https:\/\/www.intersections.info\/"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"Engagement methods include 2-minute stories in small groups, small and full group discussion, small-group resource exploration, group recommendations, serial testimony, and opportunities to apply best practices to individual contexts.","Presenter":["Andrew Knips","Sarah Hosan"],"PresenterAffiliation":["intersections \u2122 & School District of Philadelphia"],"PresenterEmail":["andrew.knips@gmail.com","shosan@philasd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":190,"ScheduleLocationID":33,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":13},{"ID":1399,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1755985738,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"From Spark to Habit: Designing Classrooms Where Creativity Lives","Handle":"from_spark_to_habit--designing_classrooms_where_creativity_lives","ShortDescription":"We\u2019ll reimagine classrooms as spaces where creativity is practiced daily\u2014through risk-taking, curiosity, and problem-solving. We'll focus on the question: How do we give students not just tools, but the mindset to tackle complex problems with confidence, imagination, and resilience?","Description":"This conversation centers on a powerful question: How can we, as educators, design learning spaces where creativity is not a special occasion but an everyday habit? Together, we\u2019ll explore what it means to cultivate a creative mindset - spaces where learners are encouraged to take intellectual risks, embrace curiosity, and see learning as an iterative process. Rather than prescribing a one-size-fits-all formula, this conversation invites participants to surface their own experiences, challenges, and hope for building a creative mindset.\r\n\r\nThe main idea is simple but transformative: creativity is a practice, not a product. By modeling creativity as exploration, iteration, and reflection, educators can help students unlock new ways of approaching complex problems - whether in STEM, the humanities or beyond. We\u2019ll dig into practical strategies that make creative thinking visible in the classroom, a classroom where student voice and choice flourish. \r\nParticipants will leave not just with tools but with a renewed mindset\u2014one that sees creativity as both a discipline and a gift. In short, this conversation is less about learning \u201cwhat to do\u201d and more about practicing \u201chow to think.\u201d","Link":["http:\/\/www.marymountnyc.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"To make this workshop truly conversational, we\u2019ll use a rotating dialogue model called \u201cCreativity Circles.\u201d Participants will begin in small groups, each tackling a real classroom challenge around fostering creativity. After ten minutes, they will rotate to a new group, carrying one idea forward while gathering new perspectives. This creates a ripple effect where ideas evolve and strength with each exchange. \r\nAs a culminating step, the whole group will come together to surface patterns, insights, and actionable strategies. These collective insights will be captured visually in a shared digital mind map that we will build in real time. The process ensures that every voice is heard, ideas are cross-pollinated, and the group leaves with a tangible artifact of their co-created wisdom.\r\nInstead of passively receiving tips, participants will experience creativity as a collaborative, iterative process - just as they\u2019ll (hopefully) model with their own students.","Presenter":["Eric Walters","Don Buckley","Lillian Ritchie","Elizabeth Collins","Akio Iida","Josh Burker"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Marymount School of New York"],"PresenterEmail":["eric.walters@marymountnyc.org","donbuckley@gmail.com","lritchie@marymountnyc.org","ecollins@marymountnyc.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":190,"ScheduleLocationID":34,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Thank you for your consideration!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":13},{"ID":1420,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1757931818,"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":1396,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1753886771,"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},{"ID":1439,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1758298540,"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}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":13,"ScheduleSlotID":190},"total":6,"limit":false,"offset":false}