AGIS Conference 2024 Potsdam

Students identify their strengths and passions. This allows them to connect to others and their community at different levels. In doing so, they are able to find their place to belong at the local level as well as on a global stage. Participants in this workshop will familiarize themselves with a set of tools and frameworks that can be used in their classrooms for student learning and projects. These may include the Sustainability Compass and Iceberg from Compass Education, Empathy to Impact from Inspire Citizens, and our own planning frameworks that we have created to fit our needs at our school.

The workshop will introduce Magic School - a teacher-oriented AI platform - by giving teachers an overview of how some of the key features work. Specific examples of how some of the features can be integrated into a teacher workflow will also be presented and teachers will be given time to experiment with Magic School on their own.

This session will demonstrate how Student Support Team at Berlin Metropolitan School operationalizes the strength based model, composed of four components: theory of multiple intelligence, positive psychology, positive psychiatry and vectors of development based on the Stanford Neurodiversity Project (Fung, 2023) as a model applied in educational settings.

By focusing on intentional language with an empathetic lens and critical discourse, teachers will be presented with practical tools to guide students through difficult conversations. This session’s goal is to support being able to foster inclusive and reflective discussion in the classroom around war and conflict.