{"id":3899,"date":"2018-02-28T09:26:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T15:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pen.local\/?p=3899"},"modified":"2018-02-28T09:28:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T15:28:05","slug":"sf-bay-area-winter-institute-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/progressiveeducationnetwork.org\/sf-bay-area-winter-institute-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Bay Area Winter Institute 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Progressive Educators from around the Greater San Francisco Bay Area gathered on January 20 for a Winter Institute, inspired by last fall\u2019s National PEN Conference theme of Amplifying Student Voices. The institute, organized through the Center for Progressive Education (CPE) at Presidio Hill School (a regional PEN affiliate organization), originally planned to leverage the good work of local presenters from the PEN Conference to hold a meeting for those unable to travel to Boston. While several local educators did reprise their Boston workshops, their numbers proved to be small, so other local educators stepped up to bring new workshop offerings to fill out the schedule. Forty educators gathered for the one-day institute on the expansive campus of the New School of San Francisco, a progressive public charter school that is part of the San Francisco Unified School District and a founding member of the CPE. Workshops were diverse, focussing on a wide swath of the curriculum and varied grade levels, and included such topics as:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Discovering Resilience Through Trial and Error, Failure and Risk: A Journey Into the Practical Arts\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Selecting and Sequencing Student Work: Making the Most of Student Voice in Math Class<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Biographies: Studying Change Makers to Understand Ourselves<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Using TED Talks to Promote Social Change<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Learning Naturally: Integrating a Nature Immersion Program at Your School<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Using Inquiry to Amplify Student Voice<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">A Model Railroad as a Vehicle for Math Engagement<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">The CPE is beginning planning for our second annual Summer Institute tentatively scheduled for June 22 in San Francisco. Be on the look out on the PEN website for additional information as our plans develop.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progressive Educators from around the Greater San Francisco Bay Area gathered on January 20 for a Winter Institute, inspired by last fall\u2019s National PEN Conference theme of Amplifying Student Voices. The institute, organized through the Center for Progressive Education (CPE) at Presidio Hill School (a regional PEN affiliate organization), originally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/progressiveeducationnetwork.org\/sf-bay-area-winter-institute-2018\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":3900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,30,28],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeducationnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeducationnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeducationnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeducationnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeducationnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeducationnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeducationnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeducationnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeducationnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progressiveeducationnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}