Thursday, November 5th
12:00PM - 1:00PM EASTERN
WELCOME AND KEYNOTE
A Conversation with Jose Vilson
Jose will discuss the current state of education and the roles we play in ensuring equity for all school communities.
An alum of the first Nativity school, José Luis Vilson is a veteran math educator for a middle school in the Inwood / Washington Heights neighborhood of New York, NY. He’s also a committed writer, activist, web designer, and father. He's also a doctoral student at Teachers' College, Columbia University, focusing on sociology and education. He is the co-founder and executive director of EduColor, an organization dedicated to race and social justice issues in education. He is a National Board Certified Teacher and a Math for America Master Teacher.
His first book, This Is Not A Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and the Future of Education, was published by Haymarket Books in the Spring of 2014.
1:10PM - 2:00PM EASTERN
Session 1A
Building on the Success of Arrupe College with the Come to Believe Network
Facilitated by Steve Katsouros, S.J., President/CEO of Come to Believe Network
The Come to Believe (CTB) Network was formed to provide higher education institutions with a low-cost, high-yield, two-year college model that is inclusive and accessible to students who are often underrepresented at selective colleges and universities. This model is based on the first network college, Arrupe College at Loyola University Chicago, as well as the first replication at St. Thomas University, Dougherty Family College.
1:10PM - 2:00PM EASTERN
Session 1B
Combining Financial Literacy and Mathematics Instruction: Equality Relations and Net Worth
Facilitated by Philip Dituri, Ph.D., Director of Education at the not for profit, Financial Life Cycle Education and educational consultant for various schools and districts.
Learn how to develop your students’ understanding of the concept of equality in the context of understanding wealth. In this workshop we will look at the four basic concepts required to understand wealth: Income, Expense, Assets, and Liabilities. With this understanding we will focus on developing students’ understanding(s) around equality through looking at the net income and net worth equations. By examining these equations, which model real world phenomena, students will build understanding around both wealth and equality, paving the way for greater success in algebra and beyond. Materials are based on a series of lessons from Financial Life Cycle Mathematics (FiCycle) available for free download at www.ficycle.org.
2:10PM - 3:00PM EASTERN
Session 2A
STRATEGIC PLANNING JAZZ: REIMAGINING THE PROCESS
The multiple challenges facing NCM schools (the pandemic, the economy, social justice, politics as unusual, climate change, parent work, staffing, and others to come) offer those same schools the opportunity to re-imagine strategic planning. The process and the content of strategic planning for the Coalition and for member schools need as much improvisation as structure, as much innovation as tradition. We must all becomes educational jazz musicians in order for our students to thrive.
A panel of learning leaders will present an inclusive, innovative approach to strategic planning and will involve the participants as the inaugural focus group to identify the strategic priorities for NMC’s next strategic plan:
Don Grace, founder of Schooling for Hope (a nonprofit providing affordable leadership consulting to private schools serving predominantly students of color) will outline a new paradigm for funding the Coalition’s strategic planning process
Danny Perez, executive director of NMC, will map out the highlights of the Coalition’s strategic planning process
Randolph Carter, founder and associate director of East Educational Resource Collaborative (East Ed), will engage attendees in the first Coalition focus group discussion of the what the top priorities should be for NMC’s next strategic plan, which is due to launch in spring 2021
2:10PM - 3:00PM EASTERN
Session 2B
Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation at Georgetown University
Facilitated by Andrew Davenport, Doctoral Student, Doctor of Philosophy in History at Georgetown University and Elsa Barraza Mendoza, Georgetown Slavery Archive assistant curator,
Historians from the Georgetown Slavery Archive discuss the Maryland Province Jesuits and Georgetown University's ties to slavery. Elsa Barraza Mendoza, Georgetown Slavery Archive assistant curator, describes her pioneering research into the history of slavery and the oldest Catholic college in the United States, and Ph.D. student Andrew Davenport--a former teacher at Brooklyn Jesuit Prep--discusses designing curricula to teach middle and secondary school students about slavery and its legacies.
3:10PM - 4:00PM EASTERN
Session 3A
“Coming of Age in the Age of COVID-19: Adolescents’ Perspectives on the Pandemic’s Impacts on Their Lives”
Facilitated by Gabriel Velez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at College of Education, Educational Policy and Leadership -Marquette University
COVID-19 has affected us all, though the degrees and implications vary depending on how closely it has touched so many. Young people’s lives have been thrown off in key areas: their families, their schooling, their socializing, and their future trajectories. In this session, Dr. Velez will present findings and insights from a study of over 1,000 young people’s experiences of changes and challenges related to the pandemic. The survey, conducted between April and June of 2020, asked about trust in various institutions, sources of information on COVID-19, emotions, impacts of the pandemic on their lives, challenges they and their communities face, and changes they believed will occur.
3:10PM - 4:00PM EASTERN
Session 3B
Virtual Counseling Corner
Facilitated by Danielle West, MSW School Counselor at St. Andrew Nativity School (Portland)
The virtual Counseling Corner is a tool and resource that school counselors can use to provide their students with the tools and resources normally used in person. This breakout session highlights the benefits of having a virtual counseling space for students as well as guidance on creating a Bitmoji classroom.