VIRTUAL General Schedule

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Structure of the Week

We will be using Zoom as our online platform for Virtual WISSIT. The five days making up WISSIT are full of a variety of ways of learning from and with others in attendance. Most of these are structured sessions, led by Project Zero researchers or educators steeped in Project Zero practices. We offer generous breaks throughout each day, however, so that you can reflect individually or with others along the way. Here are highlights of the week:

Each day we will have a plenary session--when we all come together for a talk focused on one of the WISSIT themes.
A variety of smaller sessions are then on offer, depending on the day. On all five days, we hold learning group sessions, which are a kind of “homeroom” for participants–you meet with the same group and facilitators to reflect on and process ideas you are learning.
Interactive courses will be held Monday-Thursday, which provide practical application of the institute’s big ideas. In addition to tried-and-true popular courses we’ve offered in the past, we are developing a number of new courses this year that address current issues in education and that include pedagogical tools recently developed at Project Zero, with a special emphasis on social justice, youth civic engagement, and health/wellbeing.
On Wednesday, we hold our ever-popular Day at the Museums, when we take a deep dive into learning with and through museum resources with educators from a selection of DC’s world-class museums.
Art Happenings take place on Tuesday and Thursday midday. These are 45-minute sessions that give you a fun, immersive experience with hands-on making. Individual Art Happening descriptions will include details about which materials you should have on hand (nothing very elaborate, we promise).
We’ll also provide time and space for groups to get together during the week to discuss how the institute ideas fit into particular contexts. Each year, participants coming on teams have gotten together, as well as folk from specific subject areas or from a specific interest group. You will be given opportunities to organize and announce such informal meetings.

Virtual WISSIT 2023 will differ from the in-person WISSIT in that the schedule will be somewhat more flexible and spaced out in order to limit screen time and also allow for those with other obligations at home/work to plan accordingly.

Plenary session talks will be recorded and made available to participants on a private site after WISSIT concludes.

We do expect full attendance and participation the entire week.

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