Ignite Schedule

IGNITE-OVERVIEW OF THE SCHEDULE

PRE-SESSION: Monday, July 13, 2020 (9:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.)

THEME: Preparations Before Proceeding on the Journey: Welcoming the Cohort of Ignite Fellows

The pre-session is an opportunity for the Ignite Fellows to meet other members of the cohort, receive core reading materials in preparation for the seminar, and to receive the provincial blessing and sending forth by Rev. Scott Santarosa, SJ, Provincial of Jesuits West. For this gathering, each school site will host a welcome reception and orientation for Ignite Fellows.

9:00AM Opening Prayer, Community Gathering and Welcome

9:30AM Norm Setting and Small Group Introductions

10:00AM Prelection: Jesse Rodriguez & Jamal Adams

10:30AM Prep Materials Review in Small Group

10:45AM Closing Prayer and Looking Ahead

Monday, July 20^th, 2020: Day I

The Danger of the Single Story: Identity and Storytelling as Foundations to Building Understanding

While race is critical and even central, it is not experienced in isolation nor is it sufficient as an explanatory factor. An interjection of information provides the critical race theorist with a perspective to examine the interplay between power and authority within minority movements and communities (Montoya, 1994). Intersectionality is a concept in this interplay. This is the examination into how the combination of sex, class, national origin, sexual orientation, and race plays out in a range of settings. Here, individuals that occupy more than one category “exist at an intersection of recognized sites of oppression” (Delgado & Stefancic, 2001 p. 51; Solorzano & Yasso, 2001). The first day sets a foundation for participants to explore their own identity. Using selected readings and activities, participants will share the importance of their own story as a tool to build understanding.

9:00AM Welcome and Overview of Day

9:30AM Speaker: Amanda Montez Theme: Identities and Intersectionality

10:00AM Individual Activity: Privilege Inventory

10:15AM Small Group Sharing - (School Groups)

10:45AM Large Group Debrief and Share Out

11:00AM BREAK

1:00PM Welcome Back and Student Leader Reflection:

1:15PM Speaker: Yosimar Reyes

1:45PM Individual Activity: Storytelling

2:00PM School Group Sharing

2:20PM 1:1s Across Institutions: I am From Poem

2:45PM Closing and Looking Ahead

Tuesday, July 21^st, 2020: Day II

Dismantling Cycles of Inequality: Challenging Dominant Ideologies of Power and Privilege

Challenging normative or dominant ideology is paramount in dismantling the cycle of inequality. Challenges are made to the traditional claims of the educational system: meritocracy, equal opportunity, color-blindness, and objectivity (Austin, 1992; Montoya, 1994; Solorzano & Delgado Bernal, 2001). Challenging a dominant ideology requires a counter-narrative or story told as a means of exposing the dominant narrative’s inequities. This knowledge attempts to draw on the lived experiences of others using story-telling (“cuentos”) or consejos” (wisdom sayings or proverbs) as a means of reconciling two realities. In essence, story-telling relies on the centrality of experiential knowledge and the stories that have resided on the margins of life’s history (Greene, 1993). Using selected readings and activities, participants will explore the ways power may be used to access opportunities for change after exposing the cycle of inequality.

9:00AM Welcome and Overview of Day

9:30AM Speaker: Annie Fox, Jesuits West Theme: Call to Prophetic Power

10:00AM Small Group: Power Mapping

10:35AM Large Group Debrief/Activity and Share Out

11:00AM BREAK

1:00PM Welcome Back and Student Leader Reflection

1:15PM Speaker: Ruby Rivera, Theme: Power to the Youth

1:45PM Small Group Activity

2:00PM Small Group Sharing

2:30PM School Group Sharing

2:45PM Closing and Looking Ahead

Wednesday, July 22^nd, 2020: Day III

Expanding our Understanding: Encounters and Social Analysis as Tools for Disruption

People change in the contexts of deep relationships and profound encounters. The first step in the Theology of Organizing is building relationships-surfacing issues. From this encounter with others, disruption or an awakening and reorganizing of our relationships with self, others, and the Sacred is possible. This session will provide training on engaging in 1:1’s and learning from students on ways to disrupt the campus and awaken the students to the realities of lives of undocumented students in a Jesuit secondary school setting.

9:00AM Welcome and Overview of Day

9:30AM Speaker: Jose Arnulfo Cabrera, ISN Social Analysis – Root Causes of Injustice

10:00AM Group Activity - Social Analysis

10:40AM Large Group Sharing

11:00AM BREAK

1:00PM Welcome Back and Student Leader Reflection

1:10PM Speaker: Angel Mortel, LA Voice

1:45PM Large Group Activity: Breaking Down One-to-Ones

2:00PM Large Group Activity: Two “Mini” One-to-Ones

2:30PM William Rutt, Yael Balbuena Basto, Saul Rascon Salazar

2:45PM Closing and Looking Ahead

Thursday, July 23^rd, 2020: Day IV

Igniting the World on Fire: A Youth’s Way of Proceeding with Reimagination, Hope and Prophetic Action

Like counter-narratives, reimagination is the cultivation of a moral imagination and new way of looking (and doing) things. It is an invitation into prophetic action; into next steps where we demonstrate power and hold accountable those that can lead further change. This final session will bring together a panel of organizers across the province and share key aspects or elements of different organizing models and the relationships between organizers and communities. Participants will also be guided on next steps in the program.

9:00AM Welcome and Overview of Day

9:30AM Speaker: Mike McBride Theme: “Go and Set the World on Fire”

10:00AM Annie Fox: Introduction of CORE (Community Organizing & Racial Equity)

10:20AM Small Group Dreaming

11:00AM BREAK & Examen

1:00PM Welcome Back and Student Leader Reflection

1:15PM Student Leadership Panel

1:45PM Dreaming Groups

2:00PM Small Group Sharing

2:45PM Examen of Seminar and Gratitude