Submitted by Deep Center
Deep Center’s Seeds of Hope: A Change Makers Unconference, is a free, unique professional education experience, open to any P-12 educators from various education-related fields, related stakeholders, and others who work with young people within the Savannah Metropolitan Area. This unconference centers teachers as experts and provides meaningful opportunities for learning & collaborating with local educators by providing a forum for educators to organize, network, learn, and share their hopes and concerns for their schools and communities.
What is an Unconference?
An “unconference” is a participant-driven conference model. Unconferences prioritize participant voices (in this case local educators) as leaders and decision-makers, in contrast to traditional conferences that often feature researchers, academics, or experts that are unfamiliar with the specific challenges and strengths of a local context.
In addition, the spirit of an Unconference reflects our Deep Center approach to learning and community. Our Unconference will feature opportunities for participants to be playful, creative, and reflective, and serve as a platform to elevate participants’ visions for how teaching and learning could look like in Savannah-Chatham County and the surrounding areas.
The main goal of the 2023 Seeds of Hope: A Change Makers Unconference is to provide participants with concrete examples of manageable but meaningful changes they can make in their context that will contribute to creating the types of teaching and learning environments they would like to see. In other words: what can you do – without burning out – to address an issue that is important to you?
Session topics to include: Student-centered Learning, Family & Community partner engagement, Trauma-informed tools for Educator and Student Resilience, Engaging students from diverse backgrounds and with diverse sets of interests, and much more
If you go
When: 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Nov. 4
Where: Georgia Southern University, Armstrong Campus
To register, go to https://bit.ly/Seedsofhope2023
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