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Volume: 1 Issue: 1 January, 2012 |
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Welcome to the newsletter for the first ever International Colloquium on Jesuit Secondary Education. This inaugural gathering has generated excitement and enthusiasm from our global community, and we look forward to welcoming our incredible network to Boston. We hope this newsletter not only allows you to begin envisioning our time together, but also begins to paint a picture of the power of the Jesuit network! As our ultimate goal is to tap into the true potential of our community, we of course welcome your feedback, input, and suggestions throughout the planning process. Enjoy!
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Our Time Together
Our time together in Boston will begin with a focus on worldwide communities, emphasizing the importance of coming to know one another to better work in collaboration. The Secretaries of the Curia's Committee for the Mission will then help us to initiate an intense focus on the Jesuit mission and how we, as a network of schools, can stay faithful to that mission. Next, we will examine our Jesuit identity, and the challenge of maintaining that identity for generations to come. Technology now offers incredible opportunities for our students and for our network, and together we will commit to preparing students to succeed in a new and advanced technological world. Finally, we will recognize the vast potential of our global network and the opportunities we have through collaboration to be an incredible educational force in a truly global universe! Keynote speakers, small group discussions, panels, workshops, and regional gatherings will all be focused on helping us accomplish our ICJSE objectives. Our time together will conclude with a focused examination and practical plan for our continued work together as a network.View the program at a glance.
Colloquium Highlights
- Answer the call of General Congregation 35 to"act as a universal body with a universal mission"
- Address the challenge of maintaining Jesuit Identity
- Focus on how we can stay faithful to the Jesuit mission
- Explore and form mutually beneficial partnerships
- Learn about best practices and partnerships within the Jesuit secondary school network
- Examine the importance of preparing students to enter into an increasingly global climate
- Prepare schools and students to succeed in a highly technological world
- Examine ways technology can help to facilitate global partnerships
- Structure and plan how to continue efforts to strengthen the Jesuit secondary school network
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José Mesa, SJ, Secretary for Secondary and Pre-secondary Education, elaborates on why he and Father General hope your school will participate in our inaugural gathering! |
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Over 200 secondary school leaders from 44 countries and representing 165 institutions
have already registered! The 2012 ICJSE will create a strong foundation for collaborative efforts in the future, and help us continue to strengthen the Jesuit secondary school global Community. Be sure your school is not left out - register today!
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Call for Presenters
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We invite proposals for workshop presentations. We encourage presentation proposals that will advance conference objectives and promote conversation, collaboration, and community. Workshops may be presented in any of the three languages of the Jesuits: English, French, Spanish. Proposals are due by March 15, 2012. Please email your proposals to Dan Carmody at carmody@icjse.org
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Have You Registered?
See our New Registration Policy
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As a result of multiple global requests, we are happy to announce our new registration policy. Registration now calls for Heads of School, their leadership teams and Province Delegates and allows for 1-3 participants per institution! Please visit www.icjse.org to register today or to add a member of your leadership team. The registration deadline to pay the standard registration fee is March 15, 2012.
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Meet Our Keynote Speakers
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ICAJE PanelJesuit Worldwide Communities
In order to facilitate a better understanding of our worldwide communities, members of the International Commission on the Apostolate of Jesuit Secondary Education (ICAJE) will share vital information about their Jesuit secondary schools, along with the main challenges and accomplishments for each of the worldwide regions. They will also share their hopes and expectations concerning the Jesuit Global Network.
José Mesa, SJ, Secretary for Secondary and Pre-secondary Education, Curia Generalis
Edward Fassett, SJ, Secretary for Secondary Education, US Jesuit Conference - N. America
Norbert Menezes, SJ, JEA Secretary - South Asia
Marie-Therese Michel, Director of JECSE - Europe
Alejandro Pizarro Bermudez, SJ, President of FLACSI - Latin America
Emmanuel Ugwejeh, SJ, Secretary for JESAMED - Africa
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Curia Secretariat PanelThe Jesuit Mission and Reflections from General Congregation 35
We are fortunate to welcome five Secretariats from the Curia and are grateful to Father General for such a strong showing of support! The new Secretariats for our Jesuit mission will share perspectives from General Congregation 35 and the exciting challenges that it has posed to our schools. Each will also take time to reflect on how, as educators, we should go about meeting those challenges.
F. Gerald R. Blaszczak, SJ, Secretary for the Promotion of the Faith,
F. Francisco Javier Álvarez, SJ, Secretary for Social Justice and Ecology,
F. Anthony D'Silva, SJ, Secretary for Collaboration with Others
F. Michael Garanzini, SJ, Secretary for Higher Education
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 Staying Faithful to the Jesuit Mission in our Schools Federico Lombardi, SJ Director, Holy See Press Office The Vatican As the current Director of the Holy See Press Office Federico Lombardi, SJ works closely with the Pope, overseeing papal communications and publications. Ordained as a Jesuit priest in 1972, he joined Vatican Radio in 1991 and was appointed general director of the Vatican Television Centre (CTV) in 2001. Father Lombardi will speak on how Jesuit educators, as a network, can best stay faithful to the very essence of the society - the Jesuit Mission. |
An Eye to the Future: Our Continued Collaboration 
Jose Alberto Mesa, SJ
Secretary for Secondary and Pre-secondary Education
Society of Jesus
José Alberto Mesa, SJ, PhD is the Secretary for Secondary and Pre-secondary Education for the Society of Jesus throughout the world. As such, he is responsible for the coordination of the Jesuit school global network. Aside from his primary role as a member of the Jesuit Curia, this year Father Mesa is a visiting professor in the Cultural and Educational Policy Studies program at Loyola University in Chicago. Father Mesa will open the Colloquium by sharing his vision of the direction of our Jesuit network of secondary schools in the 21st century. Father Mesa will also guide a discussion on how we can best continue our collaborative efforts following the Colloquium.
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 The Global Classroom: Preparing for a New Era in Education
Vivien Stewart
Vice President of Education
Asia Society
An expert on global education and Vice President of Education at the Asia Society, Vivien Stewart is focused on promoting international studies in education and fostering collaboration. She has spearheaded various education reforms and has served as an adviser to the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict and to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Ms. Stewart will highlight the importance of global programs within educational institutions and offer practical ways we can actively prepare our students to be leaders in an increasingly globalized world.
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 Maintaining our Jesuit Identity in the 21st Century Daniel Patrick Huang, SJ, PhD General Counsel and Regional Assistant for Asia Pacific Society of Jesus With experience as a teacher, administrator, parish priest, theologian, and rector, Daniel Huang, SJ was appointed Provincial Superior of the Philippine Province in 2004. He began service as Regional Assistant for the Asia Pacific Region in 2008, and is currently General Councilor for the Committee on Mission. Father Huang will address how we best approach the crucial challenge of maintaining our Jesuit identity in contemporary society and will outline the various roles each of us as educators, administrators, Jesuits and lay people can play in strengthening Jesuit identity in our schools. |
 The Power and Potential of the Jesuit Network Martin T. Connell, SJ, PhD Headmaster, St Peter Claver High School Tanzania
Martin T. Connell, SJ is a member of the Chicago-Detroit Province of the Society of Jesus and former Provincial Assistant for Education of the Eastern Africa Province. He is also the headmaster of both Our Lady Queen of Peace Educational Centre and St. Peter Claver High School, a school he helped open in 2009 in Dodoma, Tanzania. Father Connell will share his global educational experiences to highlight the power and potential of the Jesuit network. He will show how collaborative efforts within our network are enhancing the work we do and how we can learn from our own pedagogical models how to interact as a network.
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 Leadership: Born from the Jesuit Network Chris Lowney Author and Lecturer Chris Lowney is an author and former Jesuit seminarian and businessman. His first book, Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company that Changed the World, highlights the history of the Society of Jesus. The book was the #1 ranked bestseller of the CBPA and was named a finalist for a 2003 Book of the Year Award from ForeWord magazine. Mr. Lowney has spoken to countless Jesuit communities about the power of Ignatian leadership, and for the first time will do so with a focus on the entire network of Jesuit secondary schools. |
The Jesuit Network and Technology
Daniel Villanueva, SJ
Daniel Villanueva, SJ,originally from Spain, is currently completing his Tertianship in Havana, Cuba. Villanueva has extensive experience with the Jesuit Refugee Service, has authored a thesis entitled "The Jesuit Way of Going Global". He has emerged as the Society's primary leader in the use of technology to build, strengthen and connect our global network. Villanueva joins us in Boston to highlight the various methods and importance of using technology within the Society of Jesus to enhance the work we do at the international level.
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The perspective of our global community is important to us.
We would love to hear from you.
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