research conference/ social justice event

For my social justice event i went to the research conference at the biltmore hotel in providence. the conference was for all teacher administrators and well anyone in the education field. when i first got to the conference i noticed their were a ton of people in the room. i wasn't really expecting their to be so many people. after the first meeting was over where everyone had first met i went to the first workshop. this workshop was about student centers learning and reflection tool. in this workshop their were about 6-8 people in their. the instructor talked about how their were 4 types of ways to do so. one of them being competency based learning and proficiency based learning. another one is personalized learning. the third is student owned learning. and the last being anytime anywhere learning. after talking for a little while she went in to ask us to think about how we can relate to this. then asked us to talk to a partner about what we each can relate to the most. after doing that the time was up and we had to switch to another workshop. the next workshop i went to was about a research project done in Maine. the research project was about how students showed better progress in learning by doing more self directed work. the studies scores were based off the SAT's which i thought wasn't really the most accurate way of find out how they were most effective. we then had to talk with our tables about the certain topics that were brought up. i was sitting at a table with a few classmates and with some other people. one being a teacher for administrators. this person basally thought principles how to be good principles. another one being a teacher. another being a principle. this was interesting because i got to see what a each persons point of view was. from the higher up in schools down to the students. over all the conference was very interesting and fun. it wasn't what i expected it ti be at all.