TST BOCES Professional Development Day March 21, 2025
The Design Thinking Experience
Join Trumansburg's Paul Wiech and Rachel Paparone for a first-hand look at how project-based pedagogy can be implemented across the curriculum. Working through the Stanford dSchool Design Process, learners will experience our vision of "Creation, Learning, Joy." This will be a high energy workshop with hands-on creation and a discussion on how we can incorporate digital media, ePortfolios, etc.
Creating Classroom Culture Lunch!
Creating Projects
In this session with Trumansburg's Rachel Paparone and Paul Wiech, learners and collaborators will lead a conversation on the ways they are currently building large-scale, learner-driven projects. These include The Maple Syrup Project, a K-12 curriculum, The NYS Maple Network (statewide), and The Mushroom Project. For us, these projects go beyond typical science or ag projects to incorporate multiple disciplines, which allow learners to build multi-faceted real-world skills. Join our conversation to learn how you too can build impactful, learner-driven programming.
The Path to a Democratic Classroom
In this democratic workshop, a community of students, teachers, and leaders will critically investigate the four-pillar framework of democratic education. We will engage in various activities to reflect on these four pillars, asking what they mean, how they can appear in our schools and classrooms and what changes might need to be made to the framework to make it work for each individual. Importantly, we will try to live these four pillars as we engage in this work. Participants will leave with concrete protocols they can implement that will help them foster participatory democracy in their own learning environments.
