Day 1 — SATURDAY, October 17, 2020
Keynote
9:00 - 9:50
Concurrent Sessions A
10:00 - 10:50
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Transforming Curriculum for Diverse Students
An Intentional, Integrated, Culturally Relevant Social Justice Curriculum
Lisa Hantman, Retired SDP Teacher, PhilWP TC
The presentation will describe the designing of an integrated, authentic curriculum and how it supports high level learning in an inclusive urban classroom. The discussion will be on creating a classroom community of invested learners, exploring issues in the community needing attention or support, offering opportunities that invite sustained engagement, choosing a single topic for in depth study, integrating all curriculum areas in the expert study, and responding to a call for action
Cherylann Schmidt, JP Chase Middle School, Flemington-Raritan School District
Use Your Words: Writing as a Tool to Build Community in a Virtual Space
How do we take traditional writing practices we do in our classrooms with our students and move this writing into the virtual world? This session will explore how we can leverage a multitude of online tools, such as Jamboard and Canvas to create spaces for students to write, share their writing, and interact with each other. The session will provide ideas for teachers to use writing as a mindfulness tool or to address students social emotional learning as well as ways to use writing to create community with our students in an online space. The workshop will be interactive and hands on, allowing participants to the techniques and apps discussed in the workshop.
EdTech, Big Data, and Surveillance
Kermit O, Community Educator
An interactive discussion of how EdTech leverages Big Data and personalized learning for the parallel purposes of profit and control. As COVID-19 forces us to consider new models of schooling (i.e. virtual), and concerns about equitable access for BIPOC students are weighted against disproportionate interactions with the carceral system, what motives should shape student futures?
Systemic Inequality in Philadelphia: Redlining, Gentrification, Exclusion
A History of Philadelphia: Redlining and the Founding Ideals of Democracy
Alexander de Arana, William W. Bodine High School for International Affairs
Heritage or Renewal: The Impacts of Gentrification
Matthew Menschner, Kensington Creative and Performing Arts High School
Host: Prof. Howard Spodek, Temple University
Two Philadelphia high school teachers will present units of study written in the TIP seminar “The City in History,” led by Temple historian Howard Spodek. The units examine the history, demographics and sociology of cities with a focus on the forces that have led to social inequities in Philadelphia and elsewhere.
Project Based Learning & Side Hustle For Social Good
Sam Reed III, U School; Dana Carter, Penrose School; Elizabeth Sims, Tredyffrin/Easttown School District
How can educators use their passion for Project Based Learning, teaching, and learning to support sustainable passion projects, side hustles, small businesses. Participants will explore how to use PBL Plan and Design Thinking to incubate school projects and sustainable Small Business and/or Side Hustle Accelerator Program.
Concurrent Sessions B
11:00 - 11:50
Creo En Ti: Publishing Bilingual Student Writing from the High School Classroom
Lara Paparo, Penn Literacy Network; Lisa Pietropola, Milton Hershey School
This will be a workshop about the way Pennsylvania educators are empowering student voices through Creo En Ti's mission to promote student learning and leadership. We will discuss how the project began, the mission of the project, its reach and impact, and the ways that other educators can promote student voices.
Beyond the Remote Island: Realizing Hope and Humanizing Moments of Isolation, Uncertainty, and Rage in Teaching and Learning
Jen Freed, Springfield High School; Beth Patten, Kutztown Middle School; Geena Molinaro, Thomas E. Harrington Middle School
In this workshop, educators will explore how remote teaching has exacerbated a range of inequities within school systems and communities. Interweaving personal testimonies and the adoption of humanizing digital literacy practices, the workshop will encourage educators to consider the ways in which we can both emotionally engage in and disrupt systems of student and teacher oppression within and beyond the classroom.
Using Analytic Skills to Understand the Fabric of Our City
Teachers who participated in TIP seminars during years 2019 and 2020 will present curriculum units they wrote that challenge students to use analytic thinking, including primary document analysis and math, to understand historical and environmental factors that have shaped their city.
Exploring Community Local and Global though Primary Documents and Artifacts: Where do I Stand and What Can I Learn from the Past?
Alla Dolderer, Northeast High School
Teaching for Equity: Environmental Humanities in the Math Classroom
Tracy Saltz, High School for Creative & Performing Arts
Philadelphia’s Population Change: Using Data Visualization to Understand a Historical Narrative
Andrew Guyon, School District of Philadelphia Office of Teaching and Learning
Host: Prof. Howard Spodek, Temple University
Writing Out for #Write-Out
Christina Cantrill, National Writing Project; Bethany Silva, University of New Hampshire
Write Out (writeout.nwp.org) runs October 11-25 - bookending the National Day of Writing and PhilWP’s Celebration - with writing about place outside the walls/screens of school. We will write outside, offer multiple resources, and provide planning/support time to consider how to participate with students and families.
Featured Session
12:00 - 1:30
Students as Agents of Change
Inspiring Wonder: Interdisciplinary "At the Source" Science
Scott Quitel, Founder, Land Health Institute, Director, Social Entrepreneurship, Charles D. Close School of Entrepreneurship, Drexel University; Liza Herzog, Interim Executive Director, Land-Health Institute; Director, Research and Assessment, Charles D. Close School of Entrepreneurship and Affiliated Faculty, School of Education, Drexel University; Sarah Sabu, Northeast High School; Luofei Li, Central High School; Mariah Wright-Jones, String Theory High School
In keeping with the core focus of the Land Health Institute’s Philadelphia Watershed Stewardship (PWS) program for Philadelphia high school students, Land Health will moderate a student panel which will reflect on their (virtual and in-person) learning experiences engaging in “ecological thinking.” Session participants will have the opportunity to visit an upcoming PWS session and explore other ways to partner with LandHealth.
Journalism for Students in the COVID Era
Dina Portnoy, PhilWP; Kit Bradley, George Washington Carver High School of Engineering and Science; Colin Chrestay, Franklin Learning Center; Nishka Avunoori, Conestoga High School; Lilly Rodriguez and Bethany Swan, George Washington Carver High School of Engineering and Science
Teachers and students from PhilWP's online summer Journalism Camp will reflect on how journalism amplifies student voice. This will be a panel discussion with the opportunity to "practice" ways of working that teachers used with students in the summer camp.