Sacred Heart Summit Digital Program by Society of the Sacred Heart, United States

SEPTEMBER 29-OCTOBER 2, 2024

Welcome

Dear Summit Participants,

Welcome to this historic, first-ever learning and action conference, where we hope to delve deeper into our Sacred Heart Goals and Criteria as we learn and work to make our world more sustainable and just. We offer a heartfelt welcome to our global Sacred Heart family including students, educators, mission partners and RSCJ. This intergenerational conference is our inaugural event as we recognize 50 years as a Network of Sacred Heart Schools- United in Mission.

The Summit offers a myriad of opportunities to learn, study, analyze and take action as we set our hearts firmly rooted in change. We have an opportunity to exchange ideas, build relationships and forge a future that makes the world more just, sustainable and inclusive. Community and relationships are at the core of the Sacred Heart mission. By coming together as one community, we hope to set forth on a common path of transformative action in our pursuit of a world characterized by compassion, hope, justice, and solidarity.

We ask for the inspiration of Saint Madeleine Sophie and the blessings of Our Lord for all Summit participants as we come together as a Sacred Heart community with our Hearts Rooted in Change.

In prayer and community,

Sheila Haggas Executive Director, Network of Sacred Heart Schools

Together, as “one body,” we will unite and open our hearts to transforming the world and becoming agents of change for the sake of humanity.

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About the Sacred Heart Summit

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The Sacred Heart Summit is an intergenerational learning & action conference for the global Sacred Heart Family - educators, students, Religious of the Sacred Heart, young alumnae and alumni, and mission partners. As members of the Sacred Heart family, we are called to act as agents of change rooted in the mission of Sacred Heart education and the charism of the Society of the Sacred Heart. The Summit aims to deepen our understanding of this call and our commitment to serving the common good and honoring the dignity of all humans on a global scale.

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Throughout the Summit, and true to the mission of Sacred Heart education, participants will engage in purposeful learning, analysis, and contemplation that promote informed, transformative action rooted in the love of Jesus Christ and in the community as one. Community and relationships are at the core of the Sacred Heart mission. By coming together as one community, we hope to set forth on a common path of transformative action in our pursuit of a world characterized by compassion, hope, justice, and solidarity.

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Hosted by the Network of Sacred Heart Schools United States & Canada

SUMMIT THEME & TRACKS

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The Summit will explore global issues of inequality and sustainable futures under the guiding theme of Hearts Rooted in Change: How Reflection, Analysis, & Transformative Action are Imperative to Our Future. This theme stems from our belief that our interconnected Hearts are bound together, or Rooted, in our common desire to bring forth Change for the betterment of the future. As Sacred Heart learning communities, we know that to create meaningful Change, we must engage in Reflection—time in silence and contemplation—and Analysis—purposeful learning and examination.

Within the context of our theme and global focus, there are four main tracks:

Call to Community & Participation

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This track focuses on current global issues and events and the importance of remaining informed, active citizens.

Integrity of Creation

Our Common Humanity

Solidarity & Action

Focused on transformative action, this track explores strategies and initiatives that translate reflection and analysis into tangible outcomes. It emphasizes the power of collective solidarity to drive meaningful change in addressing global inequalities and promoting sustainable futures.

Community Expectations

Who are we called to be in this space as members of the Sacred Heart Family?

As members of the Sacred Heart family, we are called to act as agents of change rooted in the mission of Sacred Heart education and the charism of the Society of the Sacred Heart. These norms serve as a guiding framework to embody our commitment to this shared mission and acting as ‘one body’ through:

HUMANIZATION

Actively listen to and respect the perspectives of all participants, fostering inclusive participation that recognizes each individual’s inherent dignity and worth.

TRANSFORMATION

Approach discussions with a willingness to learn and grow, embracing new ideas as opportunities for personal and collective transformation while committing to identifying and promoting innovative solutions for the common good.

INTENTIONALITY

Engage purposefully, ensuring that your contributions align with the mission and goals of the Sacred Heart community, and make decisions thoughtfully, considering their impact on social justice and human dignity.

INTEGRITY

Communicate with honesty and transparency, maintain ethical behavior, and take responsibility for your words and actions to uphold the principles of integrity and accountability.

OPEN-HEARTEDNESS

Approach every encounter with an open heart, embracing diversity of thought and experience while practicing empathy and compassion to understand and support others.

HUMILITY

Acknowledge your limitations and be open to learning from others, and lead with a spirit of humility by prioritizing the needs and well-being of others over personal gain.

JOY & HOPE

Celebrate progress and achievements, both small and significant, and foster a hopeful outlook that focuses on positive possibilities and the potential for meaningful change.

Summit Locations & Maps

HYATT REGENCY MCCORMICK PLACE

2233 South Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Chicago, IL 60616

The Hyatt Regency is the main hotel for the Summit. The hotel is connected to McCormick Place via a skywalk leading to the Summit conference site, the West Building of McCormick Place. You may also access the West Building from outside.

MCCORMICK PLACEWEST BUILDING

McCormick Place has multiple buildings and arenas. The Summit will take place in the West Building of McCormick Place. Our Main Room/ General Session space is W190 (on the first floor). Registration will be directly outside of this room. All Summit meeting spaces are on the 1st and 4th floors of the West Building.

4th Floor Spaces

W470A

W470B

W471A

W471B

W472

Choir Room

W473

W474A

W474B

W475

Espacio Room

Summit Schedule

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

2:00 PM

Summit Check-In Opens | 1st Floor West Building McCormick Place

3:40 PM

General Session | Doors Open | W190

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

General Session | Summit Begins

Welcome & Opening Ceremony | W190

5:00 PM – 5:45 PM

Keynote Speaker | Suzanne Cooke, RSCJ | W190

5:45 PM – 6:00 PM

Espacio & Evening Announcements | W190

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Community Building Activity by Group Adults, W196 | Students, W475

7:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Breakout Speakers/Info Sessions Orientation | W196

7:00 PM

Dinner Break & Close of Official Schedule

8:15 PM – 10:00 PM

Movie Night | Optional | See page 44

Bending the Arc, W190 | Paper Children, W196

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

8:15 AM

General Session | Doors Open | W190

8:30 AM

General Session |

Morning Prayer & Announcements | W190

9:00 AM – 9:50 AM

Keynote Speaker | Sheila Davis | W190

10:15 AM – 11:00 AM

Featured Speakers Section 1 | Various Locations

8 Session Options | See page 15

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Lunch Break | Exhibitor Hall Opens | 1st Floor

Additional Meetings

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Call to Action Group Project Facilitators Meeting | W195

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Book Club Facilitators Meeting | W193B

12:00 PM – 12:45 PM

Aspiring Leaders Cohort 1 Gathering | W193A

1:00 PM – 1:45 PM

Featured Speakers Section 2 | Various Locations

8 Session Options | See page 15

1:45 PM – 2:45 PM

Meet the Exhibitors & Break with Additional Options

2:00 PM – 2:45 PM

Information Sessions | Various Locations

2 Session Options | See page 43

2:15 PM – 2:45 PM

Student Activity (optional | Kit’s Korner | W194B

3:00 PM – 3:50 PM

Keynote Speaker | Betty Ogiel, Uganda | W190

4:15 PM – 5:00 PM

Breakout Session | Section 1 | Various Locations

13 Session Options | See page 20

5:15 PM – 6:00 PM

Breakout Session | Section 2 | Various Locations

13 Session Options | See page 24

6:15 PM – 6:40 PM

General Session | Evening Prayer & Reflection | W190

6:40 PM

Dinner Break & Close of Official Schedule

8:30 PM – 9:30 PM

Book Club Discussions | Optional

4 Discussion Options | See page 45

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2024

8:15 AM

General Session | Doors Open

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM

General Session |

Morning Prayer & Announcements | W190

9:00 AM – 9:50 AM

Keynote Speaker | Ali Codina | W190

10:15 AM – 11:00 AM

Breakout Session | Section 3 | Various Locations

13 Session Options | See page 28

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Lunch Break | Meet the Exhibitor | 1st Floor

1:15 PM – 1:50 PM

Keynote Speaker |

Rose Farah with sister, Rania Farah | W190

2:15 PM – 3:00 PM

Breakout Session | Section 4 | Various Locations

13 Session Options | See page 34

3:15 PM – 4:00 PM

Breakout Session | Section 5 | Various Locations

13 Session Options | See page 38

4:15 PM – 4:30 PM

General Session | Announcements & Action Project Information | W190

4:30 PM – 6:30 PM

A Call to Action Group Project | Various Locations

Groups predetermined | More at the Summit

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2024

8:45 AM

General Session | Doors Open 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM

General Session | Morning Examen & Announcements | W190

9:30 AM – 10:15 AM Action Projects Recap | W190

10:30 AM – 11:15 AM Keynote Speaker | Imma DeStefanis, RSCJ | W190

11:15 AM – 12:15 PM

Closing Remarks & Prayer Service Ceremony | W190 12:15 PM

Summit Concludes

Types of Sessions/Activities

GENERAL SESSIONS/KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS

All general sessions will take place in our main stage room and are for all participants. These times include our Keynote presentations, community prayer services/ceremonies, reflection, and announcements. Participants do not need to sign up for general session times, as they are built into the overall schedule.

FEATURED SPEAKER SESSIONS

In addition to our Keynotes, featured speaker sessions will offer key learning sessions highlighting our four Summit tracks. These sessions will run twice to allow participants the opportunity to attend the two sessions of their choice.

BREAKOUT PRESENTATION

During the summit, participants can choose from five different sections of breakout presentations. These 45-minute sessions will cover various topics related to the theme and Summit tracks.

EVENING ACTIVITIES

Each day includes additional, optional opportunities for all participants. These include a movie night on 9/29 and book club discussions on 9/30.

To ensure a smooth experience, please sign up for all featured speaker sessions, breakout presentations, and evening activities through the Summit app. General sessions and keynote presentations do not require separate sign-ups as they are included in the overall schedule. Be sure to register in advance for sessions and activities to secure your spot and make the most of your Summit experience.

Meet Our Host

DR. JENNIE

WEISS BLOCK, OP | Senior Health and Policy Advisor | Partners In Health

Dr. Jennie Weiss Block, OP is a Dominican laywoman and a practical theologian. She served as chief advisor to Dr. Paul Farmer from 2009 to 2022 and was his chief of staff in his role as United Nations Deputy Special Envoy under President Bill Clinton. In her current role as a chief advisor at Partners In Health, she provides strategic guidance on policy analysis and development, humanitarian disaster management, disability rights, foreign aid effectiveness, poverty reduction and global health equity, and serves as liaison with international NGOs, foundations and philanthropists.

Working closely with Dr. Farmer, Dr. Block assisted in the relief and recovery efforts in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake, including the founding of Zanmi Beni, a residential home for displaced and orphaned children. She oversaw the publication of several of Dr. Farmer’s books including Haiti After the Earthquake (in which she authored a chapter), and To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation. She is the co-editor of In the Company of the Poor: Conversations with Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez, and authored Paul Farmer: Servant to the Poor which received the Catholic Press Association Award.

Dr. Block is grateful for her lifelong relationship with the Religious of the Sacred Heart to whom she owes her spiritual formation. She and her family have been part of Carrollton School for over fifty years and Jennie has been a trustee, a teacher, and is currently a grandparent. She is particularly proud that her son Christopher Barat is named after St. Madeleine Sophie.

Dr. Block holds an MBA, an M.A. in Theology, and a Doctorate of Ministry from Barry University. She is the author of Copious Hosting: A Theology of Access for People with Disabilities that is widely considered to be a seminal text in the development of a theology of disability. She has lectured widely on a variety of topics including disability, spirituality, lay formation, Christian hospitality, social justice.

Keynote Speaker Biographies

SUZANNE COOKE, RSCJ | Keynote Speaker

Provincial | Society of the Sacred Heart, United States — Canada Province

Suzanne Cooke, RSCJ, is the Provincial for the Society of the Sacred Heart, United States — Canada Province. Prior to her role as Provincial, Sister Cooke served as the Head of the Conference of Sacred Heart Education and has held numerous leadership positions as an educator. Notably, she served as Head of School at Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bellevue, Washington, from 1990-1998, and at Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart in Miami, Florida, from 1998-2015. She has served on the board of trustees at several Network of Sacred Heart schools and as a member of the Sacred Heart Commission on Goals (SHCOG), the Network of Sacred Heart Schools board, the Northwest Association of Independent Schools, and the Florida Council of Independent Schools.

In 2000, 2016 and 2024 Sister Cooke was a delegate to the General Chapter of the Society of the Sacred Heart, the governing body of the international Society that represents all RSCJ. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English and history, cum laude, from Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, and an interdisciplinary Master of Arts in social sciences from the University of Chicago. She currently serves on the International Education Commission of the Society of the Sacred Heart and was recently appointed USC Provincial for another term.

SHEILA DAVIS | Keynote Speaker

Chief Executive Officer | Partners in Health

Dr. Sheila Davis is the Chief Executive Officer at Partners In Health (PIH), a global health nonprofit organization rooted in social justice that brings the benefits of modern medical science to impoverished communities in 11 countries. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Northeastern University, as well as her Master of Science in Nursing as an Adult Nurse Practitioner and her Doctorate in Nursing Practice with a concentration in global health from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Institute of Health Professions. In 1999, she began working in a number of countries, responding to the global HIV pandemic. She was the co-founder of a small NGO that worked in South Africa and Boston from 2004 to 2010 on health implementation projects, including a rural village nurse clinic.

She was a clinician in the Infectious Diseases clinic at MGH and an HIV/AIDS activist for over 15 years. For the past decade, she has held multiple cross-site roles at Partners In Health, including Chief of Ebola Response, Chief of Clinical Operations, and Chief Nursing Officer overseeing nursing efforts as well as supply chain, medical informatics, laboratory, infrastructure, and quality improvement activities.

BETTY

OGIEL | Keynote Speaker

Professional Speaker, Author, & Sacred Heart Graduate | Uganda

Betty Ogiel is a Transformational Leadership and Career Coach, a passionate speaker, a Sacred Heart graduate, and member of the Maxwell Leadership Certified Team. She’s not just an author but also a beacon of resilience, having penned her inspirational book, Against All Odds, she courageously shares her extraordinary journey of triumphing over life’s adversities.

As a graduate of two Sacred Heart Schools in Uganda - Kangole Girls Senior Secondary School and St. Charles Lwanga Girls Training Center — Betty Ogiel is a valued member of the Sacred Heart family. With 20 years of experience as a multiaward-winning human resource practitioner, Betty’s professional journey has taken her to global giants like TotalEnergies in the Oil and Gas sector and Ernst & Young in Management Advisory. Her life motto, “There is greatness in everyone,” resonates in her daily work. Betty harnesses her skills, talents, and personal experiences to instill hope and awaken individuals to their life’s purpose, propelling them toward unlocking their boundless potential. Currently, Betty serves as an Executive Training Coordinator with EQUIP’s Beyond Success program, a non-profit organization affiliated with Maxwell Enterprises. She is also an integral part of the Maxwell Leadership Certified team, playing a pivotal role on the President’s Advisory Committee. Betty’s personal story, which includes a life-altering accident resulting in recovery from an extensive brain injury affecting her speech and motor skills, is a testament to the remarkable power of faith, determination, and revival. Despite the challenges life has thrown her way, Betty continues to break barriers. In 2017, she received the Global Prosperity and Peace Initiative’s Peacemaker Award in Kampala. She brought the Maxwell Leadership Certified Team Members DNA Culture Award for 2021 to the African Continent, alongside the Nurture Transformation award. Her commitment to empowering others earned her recognition as one of Uganda’s Top 40 under 40 Most Inspirational Women by the New Vision, a leading newspaper in Uganda along with the Human Resource Excellence Award in employee engagement from the Human Resource Managers Association of Uganda in 2016 and 2017. Betty’s life is a testament to the transformative power of resilience as she firmly believes our history need not dictate our future, and that the past is a mere stepping stone, not a prison.

ALEXANDRA CODINA | Keynote Speaker

Documentary Filmmaker & Sacred Heart Graduate | Miami, FL

Alexandra (Ali) Codina is a first-generation Cuban-American independent documentary filmmaker based in Miami. Her debut film “Monica & David”– the love story of two adults with Down Syndrome–premiered on HBO, was nominated for an Emmy Award, won Tribeca Film Festival’s Jury Award for Best Documentary, and broadcast in 33 countries. “Paper Children”– the story of 4 siblings who fled gang violence and are seeking asylum in the U.S.--premiered worldwide with YouTube Originals, with support from Sundance Institute, Knight Foundation, Good Pitch and Chicken & Egg Pictures. She recently made a short film, “En Manos de Dios,” the missing piece in the immigration narrative—what happens after the journey to refuge and navigating the immigration roulette. Ali is currently a consulting producer on “River of Grass,” about Florida’s water crisis and the imperiled Florida Everglades; and developing a film about the human brain, grounded in her experience surviving two brain aneurysm bleeds. She has been featured on: NPR’s All Things Considered, Newsweek, ABC.com, Univision’s Primer Impacto, The Huffington Post, CNN en Español, LATimes, Latina Magazine, etc.

Throughout her career, Ali has fought to include the communities reflected in her films as part of her distribution and impact strategies. In 2011, “Monica & David” set a precedent for accessibility, including audio description (for people who are blind or vision impaired) and closed captioning in both English and Spanish for all DVD content. In 2020, “Paper Children” launched in a fully bilingual format, allowing both English and Spanish-speaking audiences to share the same viewing experience. A passionate advocate deeply involved in her community, Ali has received awards from the National Down Syndrome Congress, Women’s Fund of Miami, Barry University, United Way, and Catholic Legal Services. The daughter of Cuban refugees, Alexandra grew up bilingual in Miami, where she currently lives with her two young boys. She is a graduate of Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart in Miami, FL.

ROSE FARAH | Keynote Speaker

Associate at CrossBoundary & Sacred Heart Graduate | NYC

CrossBoundary Group Dubai | United Arab Emirates

Rose is a member of the investment advisory team at CrossBoundary in Dubai. Prior to joining CrossBoundary, Rose was a strategy consultant at The Bridgespan Group in New York and Singapore, where she helped launch the firm’s presence in Southeast Asia. Rose serves on the Board of Directors at Jusoor, an international NGO focused on education and entrepreneurship for Syrian youth. She is a graduate of Convent of the Sacred Heart in New York, NY.

Facilitated by RANIA FARAH

Student at Duke University & Sacred Heart Graduate | NYC

Rania attended Convent of the Sacred Heart in New York City for 13 years. At Sacred Heart, Rania was captain of the varsity volleyball team, a member of the varsity Forensics Extemporaneous Speech team, a participant in the Exploring Entrepreneurship program, and the recipient of the Sister Nancy Salisbury Award, which is awared to a graduating student who has consistently demonstrated intellect and compassion. Outside of school, she was a St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Leadership Society peer advisor and member. Rania is currently a sophomore studying Computer Science and Philosophy at Duke University where she conducts neuroscience research and is a member of a professional community for female students in STEM.

IMMA DE STEFANIS, RSCJ | Keynote Speaker

Religious of the Sacred Heart | Society of the Sacred Heart

Imma De Stefanis, RSCJ, Ph.D., has more than 25 years in education, college administration and non-profit management. She holds a Master’s from the University of California, Berkeley, a Ph.D. from Boston College in Applied Developmental Psychology, and a Certificate in Change Management Leadership from Cornell University.

As a consultant, Imma works with small to mid-size non-profit organizations and educational institutions in such areas as strategic planning, sustainability planning, board development and leadership development. She has held a wide range of executive administrative positions and served on a number of committees for both the United States & Canada Province and the international Society.

She currently serves on the boards of the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón (Puerto Rico), Sacred Heart (Greenwich) and LPGA Amateurs, Westchester Chapter. Imma recently completed one term on the Provincial Team and currently serves on the International Planning Commission of the Society with a focus on global restructuring. She is bilingual in English and Spanish.

Featured Speaker Sessions

Featured speaker sessions will offer key learning sessions highlighting our four Summit tracks. These sessions will run twice to allow participants the opportunity to attend the two sessions of their choice.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Session 1 | 10:15 am - 11:00 am Session 2 | 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm

BEYOND MIGRATIONS: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR SHARED HUMANITY

Room: W471B | Rachel Guillien, RSCJ | Society of the Sacred Heart | JPIC commission

This session will focus on global migration and key issues migrants face through the lens of our shared humanity. It will delve into what enhances resilience on migrants’ journeys, the lessons they impart, and the inspiring stories of reconciliation that emerge. Participants will explore how transformative action can be fostered through participation and explore educational approaches inspired by St. Madeleine Sophie Barat.

RACHEL GUILLIEN, RSCJ

Member of the JPIC Commission | Society of the Sacred Heart Friendship with Jesus and the most vulnerable people makes my heartburn and gives it joy! After a career in business planning—mostly abroad—for a telecoms company, I spent two years in Amazonia running an educational center. Since I became an RSCJ, most of my missions have been in “social work” (human trafficking, homeless people, migrants, etc.) and spiritual activities in spiritual centers. The two dimensions complement each other very well.

CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES – FAITH KNOWS NO BOUNDS

Room: W474A | Desiré Findlay & Beth Knobbe | Catholic Relief Services

What does it mean to have an active faith in God? What can it look like when God works through us and our communities? At Catholic Relief Services, our faith knows no bounds. We truly believe there is no limit to creating lasting, positive change when we put our faith into action.

Through the Network of Sacred Heart Schools, you have already seen what an active faith can do in the strength of community. Do you want to know what that could look like on a global scale with additional partners like CRS? Then, we invite you to come find out how we can transform lives and work to uphold the dignity of all people together. Catholic Relief Services will not stop until all of God’s children can fulfill their God-given potential amid thriving, just, and peaceful societies. Let us share with you our past, our present, and what we’re building for the future.

DESIRÉ FINDLAY

Trainer/Facilitator | Catholic Relief Services

Desiré Findlay serves as a Trainer and Facilitator with Catholic Relief Services (CRS). She provides training and support to Chapters and Clubs across the country, offering virtual and in-person webinars and workshops that strengthen the network and mission of CRS. Alongside background information on legislative advocacy, she also offers workshops on the topics of diversity and equitable storytelling. Desiré earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Secondary Education from the University of New Mexico, using her classroom experience as the foundation in her work for justice.

BETH KNOBBE

Senior Trainer | Catholic Relief Services

Beth Knobbe serves as a Senior Trainer with Catholic Relief Services. She is a regular facilitator and workshop presenter for CRS webinars and national conferences. In her role, she develops inspiring content and coaches leaders to take action on behalf of vulnerable communities around the world. Beth holds a Master of Divinity degree from Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. She is also a published author who writes about spirituality and the single life.

CELEBRATION OF GOD’S LOVE IN CREATION

Room: W192C | Lydia Collado, RSCJ | Sacred Heart Institute for Transformative Education Foundation, Inc.

CELEBRATION OF GOD’S LOVE IN CREATION is a “one heart and one mind” effort to unite all of God’s creation, experience unity and diversity, and yet have one mission in the heart of Jesus. The session will allow the participants to enter into a new way of living among humans, animals, plants, and other creatures at Sophie’s Farm in the spirit of Laudato Si. In the expression of the RSCJ-JPIC documents, Sophie’s Farm is a community located in a rural area in Northern Samar, one of the poorest provinces in the Philippines. The workshop, hopefully, will provide a space for discovery and discernment on how to relate to all creatures in mutual and reciprocal relationships.

LYDIA COLLADO, RSCJ

Executive Director | Sacred Heart Institute for Transformative Education Foundation, Inc.

Lydia M. Collado, RSCJ, is a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart in the Philippines. She lives with a community at Sophie’s Farm in Northern Samar, Philippines. She is the Executive Director of the Sacred Heart Institute for Transformative Education Foundation, Inc. (SHIFT Foundation), the umbrella mission of the RSCJ among the people who are less privileged in society. SHIFT Foundation, a non-profit, non-stock organization that ministers to marginalized communities, offers nonformal education through campus ministry, pastoral work, scholarships for high school and college, organic agriculture, and other formation programs like retreats and recollections, psychological first aid, and annual Summer Institute programs (June -July). SHIFT foundation works in collaboration with the local Church, local government units, formal educational institutions, NGO’s and civil society.

Sophie’s Farm has a community composed of RSCJ, SHIFT Staff, local and international volunteers, and high school and college scholars. The RSCJ-SHIFT community aims to provide education that transforms the hearts and minds of underprivileged people and forms a global Sacred Heart mission partner, primarily through nonformal education. Lydia has been involved in the formation programs of women and men religious, priests, church leaders, children-women-families, etc.,and in writing formation programs on JPIC, evangelization, and psychological first aid. She is also involved in inter-religious and other networks in the Philippines and other Asian countries. She has Master’s Degrees in Psychology and Sociology, trained in life-long skills programs (organic agriculture, sewing, etc. These skills are needed to live and work with people in rural/poor areas. She is a Family Therapist. She is currently a PhD student in Applied Cosmic Anthropology.

EMPOWERING ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP THROUGH SUSTAINABLE MENSTRUAL SOLUTIONS

Room: W470B | Leslie Roy & Bobbie Monaco | Days for Girls International

This session delves into the intersection of environmental stewardship and menstrual health, highlighting the role of sustainable menstrual solutions in promoting global inequalities and sustainable futures. By focusing on initiatives led by Days for Girls International, participants will learn how educators and students can contribute to effective stewardship of the environment and accountability for God’s creations through the promotion of washable menstrual pads and menstrual cups. These sustainable alternatives not only reduce waste but also empower women and girls worldwide by providing them with access to affordable and eco-friendly menstrual hygiene products. Furthermore, this session aims to encourage individuals and communities to take concrete steps toward environmental sustainability by advocating for the adoption of reusable menstrual products and promoting education on menstrual health and environmental conservation. By fostering collaboration and knowledge-sharing, we can pave the way for a more equitable and sustainable future for all, where every person has access to safe, hygienic, and environmentally friendly menstrual hygiene solutions.

LESLIE ROY

Wayne PA Chapter Leader | Days for Girls International

Leslie Roy started the Wayne, PA Chapter for Days for Girls in 2016 after realizing during her trips to Uganda that girls did not always have access to menstrual products. During the past 8 years, more than 700 volunteers have helped make over 6,000 Days for Girls kits. These have been distributed in 18 different countries, including the USA. Leslie has personally helped with the distribution of kits in Uganda, Guatemala, Cuba, Ecuador, and Jamaica. Her team helped set up an enterprise in Uganda to make and distribute the kits. In addition to leading the Wayne, PA Chapter, Leslie is the Mid-Atlantic Regional Representative for Days for Girls, helping support 50 teams in six different states.

BOBBIE MONACO

Chapter Lead | Days for Girls, Eagleville, PA

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, MSN, CPNP-PC | Days for Girls International

Bobbie Monaco brings over 18 years of experience as a primary care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP) and works with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Care Network. She holds a BSN from Loyola University, an MSN in Parent Child Nursing from Russell Sage College, and a Post Master Certificate as a Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner from Villanova University. As a dedicated professional, Bobbie is a member of Sigma Theta Tau and the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP), and actively participates in the Education Committee of the Delaware Valley NAPNAP Chapter.

Recognized for her exceptional mentorship, Bobbie was awarded “Preceptor of the Year” in 2017 by the DelVal Chapter of NAPNAP. She has contributed significantly to professional conferences, presenting both podium and poster presentations at her local chapter and a poster presentation at the 2018 NAPNAP Conference on “Healthcare in Kenya: Educating A Community about General Hygiene and Nutrition.” In 2022, she presented “Period Poverty: What You Need to Know as a Healthcare Provider” at the NAPNAP Conference and the PA DelVal NAPNAP 2021 APRN Lecture Series.

Bobbie’s volunteer work is notable, including efforts to establish and sustain a medical clinic in Kisumu, Kenya, and distributing “Days for Girls” reusable menstrual kits while providing menstrual health education. As the Chapter Leader for the Eagleville PA Chapter of Days for Girls International, she manages and directs over 200 volunteers in the production and distribution of washable menstrual kits. Additionally, Bobbie was awarded a CHOP Care Network Grant for her project titled “Know Your Flow,” aimed at developing a video library to educate young people on puberty, menstruation, and sexual health and hygiene.

FROM GLOBAL TO LOCAL:

PATHWAYS TO SERVICE IN HEALTH EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

Room: W192B | Katie Bollbach | Partners In Health | Audience Type: All

Join Katie Bollbach (Executive Director of Partners In Health, United States, and cofounder of Global Health Corps) as she shares her personal and professional journey in health equity and social justice work, exploring the connections between global health and U.S. public health. In this session, she will reflect on how experiences abroad can inform and strengthen efforts to address issues of injustice at home, and vice versa.

KATIE BOLLBACH

Executive Director | Partners In Health United States

Katie Bollbach is the founding Executive Director of Partners In Health United States (PIH-US), the U.S. arm of Partners In Health, a global health and social justice organization. PIH-US works to build a stronger community-led public health infrastructure, more robust community health workforce, and more just U.S. health system. Bollbach worked with PIH in Sierra Leone as chief policy and program officer during the Ebola response and recovery in 2015 to 2018 and in Rwanda in 2007 to 2008, expanding social support services for people living with HIV. She co-founded and co-led Global Health Corps and FACE AIDS, which engage young people in the fight for global health equity and HIV treatment access. Bollbach also worked in South Africa on gender-based violence policy, in Zambia on refugee services, and as a strategy consultant at The Bridgespan Group. She has an MPH from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, and a BA in International Relations from Stanford University.

GROW TO SERVE: LESSONS IN THE UNIQUENESS AND UNIVERSALITY OF A SACRED HEART EDUCATION

Room: W471A | Jacqueline Gallo | The Presentation School

Jacqueline Gallo is pleased to present her doctoral research findings based on 18 months of living and studying at Kangole Girls Secondary School in Karamoja, Uganda. Jacqueline lived in the Sacred Heart convent on their boarding school campus to understand how a Sacred Heart education prepares students to transition out of secondary school into their unknown and impending futures. The presentation will discuss the uniqueness of how a Sacred Heart education prepares students for life beyond secondary school in an agropastoralist community in northern Uganda. She will provide a historical overview of an isolated part of the world and discuss how the charism and theological praxis of the Sacred Heart sisters brought them to Karamoja and inspired them to serve in this educational setting.

Rather than view the world and one’s navigation through it as a linear progression, Jacqueline will use Mudimbe’s concept of an intermediate space to understand how a Sacred Heart education provides resources and allows students to develop a skill set that offers the opportunity for well-being. She queries how the educational environment provides well-being whilst a student at school and how it offers skills to achieve well-being in the next chapters of a young woman’s life. Jacqueline will then relate her findings to the international network and discuss how the experience of Sacred Heart in this particular part of the world can be related and connected to all in the Sacred Heart community.

JACQUELINE GALLO

PhD researcher at the Faculty of Education | University of Cambridge Head of School | The Presentation School

Jacqueline Gallo is a PhD researcher at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. She performs ethnographic research at a girls’ secondary boarding school in Karamoja, Uganda. Jacqueline’s research explores how the unique education offered by an international congregation of women religious prepares students to transition out of secondary school into unknown and impending futures. Jacqueline’s research focuses on the unique cultural context of the agropastoralist Karamoja region in Northern Uganda to understand how young women might achieve a sense of well-being in relation to their personal aspirations and maintain connection and participation in their families and cultural community.

She earned a second Master’s Degree in Education at the University of Oxford. Her Master’s dissertation at Oxford explores, through ethnographic methods and writing, one American Catholic missionary orphanage in Kenya that provides safe community living and opportunity to attend school. Jacqueline’s master and doctoral research seeks to construct deeper knowledge and envision a new values debate in the under-researched world of contemporary Catholic education in East Africa. Outside of Jacqueline’s research interest, Jacqueline is the Head of School at The Presentation School in Sonoma, California. A life-long educator, Jacqueline has been a teacher and school administrator in public, charter, and independent schools in the United States, United Kingdom, and Italy. She also worked for a Catholic congregation of Women Religious, providing social services to marginalized women on the US/Mexican border.

Jacqueline has successfully defended her PhD in Anthropology of Education at the University of Cambridge. Jacqueline has a Master’s Degree in Educational Research from the University of Oxford, a Master’s Degree in Elementary Education from Mercy University, and a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Research interests include educational access to females and other marginalized groups, Catholic missionary context of the 21st century, American non-governmental interventions abroad, culture/value systems of children’s homes, Catholic feminine identity, and development projects for orphaned and vulnerable children.

HUMANIZING AMERICA’S IMMIGRATION NARRATIVE

Room: W470A | Alexandra Codina | Documentary Filmmaker

This session will be a case study in what inspired Ali Codina to make her documentary films, “Paper Children” and “En Manos de Dios”. We will discuss her process of telling a very intimate, personal story about one family to reflect much larger, complex issues. 2024 marks the 10-year anniversary of the Central American child refugee crisis. In 2014, roughly 70,000 unaccompanied children arrived in the US fleeing violence, including the 4 siblings featured in her films. America’s invisible refugee crisis continues–last year, well over 120,000 children fled horrific violence and trauma and arrived at our border alone.

ALEXANDRA CODINA

Documentary Filmmaker | Sacred Heart Graduate, Miami, FL

Alexandra (Ali) Codina is a first-generation Cuban-American independent documentary filmmaker based in Miami. Her debut film “Monica & David”–the love story of two adults with Down Syndrome–premiered on HBO, was nominated for an Emmy Award, won Tribeca Film Festival’s Jury Award for Best Documentary, and broadcast in 33 countries. “Paper Children”–the story of 4 siblings who fled gang violence and are seeking asylum in the U.S.--premiered worldwide with YouTube Originals, with support from Sundance Institute, Knight Foundation, Good Pitch and Chicken & Egg Pictures. She recently made a short film, “En Manos de Dios,” the missing piece in the immigration narrative—what happens after the journey to refuge and navigating the immigration roulette. Ali is currently a consulting producer on RIVER OF GRASS, about Florida’s water crisis and the imperiled Florida Everglades; and developing a film about the human brain, grounded in her experience surviving two brain aneurysm bleeds. She has been featured on: NPR’s All Things Considered, Newsweek, ABC.com, Univision’s Primer Impacto, The Huffington Post, CNN en Español, LATimes, Latina Magazine, etc.

RESPECTFUL ENGAGEMENT FOR DECOLONIAL FUTURES: SOLIDARITY WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

Room: W192A | Sheila Smith, RSCJ | Society of the Sacred Heart

How do we act in solidarity with the First Peoples of North America? Goal 3 of Sacred Heart education calls us to “analyze and work to eradicate social structures, practices, systems and values that perpetuate racism and other injustices”. In this featured presentation, we explore why and how Indigenous peoples continue to be disadvantaged by the same systems that privilege many others. We also look at potential ways forward for Sacred Heart learners today.

SHEILA SMITH, RSCJ

Society of the Sacred Heart

Sheila Smith, RSCJ, is a Religious of the Sacred Heart living in Ottawa, Canada, which is on the territory of the Anishinaabek Algonquin Nation. Currently, she teaches theology at Saint Paul University, Ottawa in the area of the Churches, Truth, and Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples. Before this, she represented the Society of the Sacred Heart at the United Nations in New York City, influenced by many years of experience living and working with Indigenous Peoples in Canada. The Kii-Ga-Do-Waak Nookimisuk (Grandmother Council) have asked her to be the keeper of their talking stick, which she carried to the UN on their behalf. Besides her academic work, she cares for her mother and volunteers with various organizations, including Kateri Native Ministry of Ottawa. To relax, Sheila enjoys tending her garden, walking or biking along the river trails in Ottawa, or cross-country skiing in the winter. Sheila was recently nominated to the Society’s General Council who will serve with new Superior General Claire Castaing, RSCJ, in Rome for an 8-year term.

Breakout Session | section 1

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2024 | 4:15 pm - 5:00 pm

BEARING THE TORCH OF THE SACRED HEART MISSION

Room: W193A | Audience Type: All

MEG RUSSELL | Lower & Middle School Campus Minister | Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, Bethesda, MD

In our global neighborhood, and in light of the Goals and Criteria of Sacred Heart Education, what does it look like to live the Mission? What should it look like? How do we empower and impassion our students and fellow educators to know, live and love the Mission, becoming torchbearers of both the Mission and the Gospel in the world? In the hopes of keeping the fire of Sophie’s vision burning bright, this session seeks to remind and rekindle our commitment to the Mission of Sacred Heart Education, with a focus on specific ideas and examples for educators and students alike. Attendees will reflect on and share best practices while examining what must change to meet the needs of the communities and students we choose to serve.

CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING: FROM EDUCATION TO ACTION TOOL TO ANALYZE AND TO ACT FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

Room: W192B | Audience Type: All

MEG CAUSEY, RSCJ | Consultant | Network of Sacred Heart Schools | Society of the Sacred Heart

RACHEL GUILLIEN, RSCJ | Member of the JPIC Commission | Society of the Sacred Heart

This session will explore resources on Catholic Social Teaching (CST) as a tool to analyze and act on social justice issues. It will include an overview of the evolving Sacred Heart Curriculum outline that integrates CST, the Sacred Heart mission, the Goals and Criteria and the Sacred Heart Way of reflection to the global calls from the United Nations and other religious groups to act together on behalf of justice.

CHARTING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE: BUILDING ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP IN COMMUNITY

Room: W471A | Audience Type: All

SACRED HEART GREENWICH:

Wil Smyers | Director of Grounds

Alyson Tockstein | AP Environmental Science and Biology Teacher

Kevin Williamson | Upper School Photography & Design Teacher

Isabella Nedder | Student

The presentation will delve into the foundational aspects of Sacred Heart Greenwich’s environmental sustainability efforts, using Goal 3, Criterion 4, which emphasizes accountability for the care of the Earth and alleviating the climate crisis as our foundation. We’ll explore the importance of environmental sustainability, defined as maintaining ecological balance and conserving resources for future generations and our utilization of key programs like the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program and Connecticut’s Green Leaf Schools to guide our initiatives. The presentation will feature an overview of our program utilization, which includes detailed self-assessments, forming diverse committees, implementing sustainability goals school-wide, fostering community connections and maximizing our campus facilities for sustainability efforts. Implementation details, student perspectives, demonstrations of initiatives like birdhouses and bee hotels, and accomplishments to date will also be discussed, including ongoing plans and additional goals for 2024.

COMPELLED TO TEACH COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS:

OUR SACRED HEART STORY WITH THE POTAWATOMI

Room: W193B | Audience Type: All

SCHOOLS OF THE SACRED HEART SAN FRANCISCO:

Alyson Barrett | Librarian & Academic Chairperson

Elaina LeGault | Religion - Theology, & Spirituality Teacher

This presentation will share the story of implementing an interdisciplinary workshop for students to encounter the story of the RSCJ and Potawatomi. It will include a discussion with RSCJ and Indigenous primary sources and images that inspired us to take action in the way we teach these topics and include a presentation on the workshop we created. The presentation will explore how we study perspectives of historical circumstances to create a more expansive understanding of the past.

CONTEMPLATION AND ACTION AT THE INTERSECTION OF RACISM, FORCED MIGRATION AND CLIMATE

Room: W192C | Audience Type: All

BRIDGET BEARSS, RSCJ | Associate Director for Transformative Justice | LCWR

We are called to seek Gospel solutions to global problems. Around us, we see the impact of systemic racism, forced migration and the climate crisis. These three issues cross global boundaries and impact people across politics, geography and religion, rather than isolated initiatives to address singular issues, an approach that addresses root causes at the place where these three intersect and impact the most vulnerable in our world is required. This session will look at how an intersectional view may lead us towards addressing root causes grounded in the commitment of the universal Church to relieve the suffering both near and far, starting with our own change of heart. This session will include participant interaction as well as presentation.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE PANEL

Room: W474B | Audience Type: All

SERGE DANIELSON-FRANCOIS | Educator | Academy of the Sacred Heart | Bloomfield Hills, MI

Our Bloomfield Hills Sacred Heart team will share our work supporting vital community-based agency and faithbased ministry efforts to support criminal justice reform in the greater Detroit area, specifically in Wayne and Oakland Counties.

LOCAL EXPERIENCES OF POPULAR EDUCATION — LEON MINISTRY & IYOLOSIWA, MEXICO

Room: W471B | Audience Type: All

CO-PRESENTERS:

Clara Dorsch Callahan | Executive Director | Stuart Center for Mission, Washington, DC

Jennifer Morfin | Facilitator, Interpreter, Translator | Stuart Center for Mission, Washington, DC

Luisa Moreno, RSCJ | The Ministry of Leon | Guanajuato, Mexico

Socorro Martinez, RSCJ | Iyolosiwa Educación Popular A.C. (Women with Heart) | Mexico

The Local Experiences of Popular Education, which goes from sustainability and solidarity economy to peace schools, reading programs in school, art and emotional intelligence tools and women empowerment circles. In this session, you will learn about the local experiences of Popular Education, the Ministry of the Community of Leon, and Iyolosiwa Educación Popular A.C. (Women with Heart) in Mexico with RSCJ and their teams.

RECKONING WITH VIOLENCE: ENDING THE DEATH PENALTY & PROMOTING

RESTORATIVE

JUSTICE

Room: W195 | Audience Type: All

CAITLIN MORNEAU | Director of Restorative Justice | Catholic Mobilizing Network

It is no secret that the death penalty is the epitome of a United States’ legal system shaped by retribution and dehumanization. Restorative justice offers responses to harm rooted in human dignity, healing, accountability, and equity. Examining these issues together can help Catholics chart pathways of renewed encounter toward deeper kinship and systemic transformation. Join Catholic Mobilizing Network for an introduction to restorative justice and learn how our Catholic faith calls us to uphold and honor the dignity of all human life, regardless of the harm one has suffered or caused.

SACRED HEART AND THE COLLABORATIVE FOR SPIRITUALITY IN EDUCATION

Room: W474A | Audience Type: Educators & RSCJ

PAUL PRYOR LORENTZ | Chair of Community Spiritual Life | Schools of the Sacred Heart San Francisco

In 2017, Convent & Stuart Hall partnered with Dr. Lisa Miller of Columbia University and other independent schools from across the U.S. (including Stuart Country Day and Princeton Academy) to establish the Collaborative for Spirituality In Education. The Sacred Heart mission revealed much of what was to be named “The Twelve Drivers of Spiritually Supportive School Cultures.” The session will share an overview of the continuing work of the Awakened Schools Institute, which connects educators hoping to enliven spiritual practices within their independent, public, or religious schools. We aim to amplify the inherent invitiationality of Sacred Heart education for our diverse student and family populations.

THE STORIES WE SHAPE: CONTEXT, NARRATIVE, AND JUSTICE

Room: W470B | Audience Type: All

PIERLUIGI VALCESCHINI | History Faculty | Schools of the Sacred Heart San Francisco

This breakout session seeks to investigate the role which historical context plays in forming policy decisions. How can a deeper understanding of the root causes of the problems we face as a society lead to a more analytical approach to policymaking? How can contextualizing an issue promote a more profound reflection on our common humanity? In other words, is context the key to an empathetic understanding of problems and their solutions? Conversely, how does the lack of contextualization create shallow narratives that hinder our ability to extend full access to resources in our society? The session will ask participants to work through a contextualizing exercise that focuses on a particular policy field like immigration, incarceration, homelessness, or education.

UN 2030 AGENDA: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

Room: W192A | Audience Type: All

MARGARET MWARILI, RSCJ | UN-NGO Representative | Society of the Sacred Heart

The UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development created 17 goals adopted by all UN member states in 2015. The goals are to foster peace and prosperity for everyone and the planet. All global citizens and nations are invited to work together to find innovative ways to create economic growth while protecting the environment.

WELCOMING THE STRANGER: RESOURCES AND ROADBLOCKS

Room: W470A | Audience Type: All

DIANE ROCHE, RSCJ | Case Manager | Catholic Charities Office of Refugee Services

MARIA CORONADO | Case manager | Catholic Charities Office of Refugee Services

Through the use of stories and interactive engagement with breakout session participants, the presenters will share what they learned from the families and individuals whom they have served during their time as case managers for the Catholic Charities Office of Refugee Services in Washington, DC.

WHATSOEVER YOU DO: THE INEXTRICABLE LINK

BETWEEN MEXICO AND THE U.S.A.

Room: W194A | Audience Type: All

MOLLY PORTH CABRERA | Director of Resource Development | Via International

We, as Americans, see ourselves as separate from our neighbors in Mexico, but international policy, economic realities, and shared ecological and indigenous environments result in a highly interconnected and interdependent relationship. Come learn about some issues that impact both of our countries and make the case for more cooperation, not division. We will explore case studies of environmental protection, migration, education, linguistics, arts and culture, and more.

Explore Your SacredHeartDNA

Join us for an engaging panel discussion on SacredHeartDNA, an initiative from the Socie 's Young Adult and Vocation Ministry O ce. Hear inspiring personal stories from the Religious of the Sacred Heart (RSCJ) and young adults, showcasing how SacredHeartDNA has transformed lives. Discover how this initiative fosters a vibrant, intergenerational, and international communi rooted in our mission and values.

Connect with us and support this growing communi . Learn more at: bit.ly/SHDNA

Breakout Session | section 2

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2024 | 5:15 pm - 6:00 pm

AN INSPIRED AND SHARED MODEL FOR CIVIL DISCOURSE IN SACRED HEART SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES

Room: W474B | Audience Type: All

CHARLENE CHUANG | Director of Strategy + Entrepreneurship | Convent of the Sacred Heart, New York City

CHARLOTTE RILEY | French & Spanish Teacher | Exchange/ SHELL Experiential Learning Coordinator | Sacred Heart School of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Join us for an interactive session crafted for educators who are looking to enhance for both students and adults crucial skills such as seeking truth, cultivating curiosity, humanizing others, building balance, and nurturing civil discourse. We believe that dialogue empowers participants to authentically engage with the world and contribute to justice, peace, and the integrity of creation.

Building on the success of the network virtual dialogue exchange, offered from 2020 to 2022, this session will guide participants through an immersive exploration of transformative dialogue, emphasizing the development of hearts rooted in change. The session will provide an overview of the design and development of the virtual dialogue exchange, shedding light on the roles of students and educators in the shared experience. An experiential moment will allow session participants to better understand the elements and dynamics of the dialogue exchange.

Finally, we will collaboratively explore how to put our shared philosophy as Sacred Heart Educators, and as articulated in Sophie’s Gift, into action by framing concrete dialogue skills and embedding dialogue practices rooted in solidarity, compassion, and justice throughout our Sacred Heart communities. Let’s journey toward cultivating dialogue that fosters positive change within our educational spheres and transforms the world.

BREAKING THE BINARY: EMPOWERING GIRLS IN PROGRAMMING

Room: W470B | Audience Type: Educators & Students

THIEN CHAU | High School Faculty | Schools of the Sacred Heart San Francisco

A session focused on cultivating a diverse and inclusive environment in programming classes. We’ll explore gender diversity in computing, Convent & Stuart Hall’s (C&SH) approach to diversity, opportunities for change, and some stories from C&SH alumni. By challenging stereotypes and biases, we aim to empower girls to embrace their potential in programming and contribute to a more equitable future. The intended audience is students and educators.

CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING: FROM EDUCATION TO ACTION TOOL TO ANALYZE AND TO ACT FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

Room: W192B | Audience Type: All

MEG CAUSEY, RSCJ | Consultant | Network of Sacred Heart Schools | Society of the Sacred Heart

RACHEL GUILLIEN, RSCJ | Member of the JPIC Commission | Society of the Sacred Heart

DESIGNING SOLUTIONS FOR A BETTER WORLD

Room: W474A | Audience Type: Educators

ANIKA MALONI | Director of Academics | The Sacred Heart School of Montreal | Montreal, Canada

This breakout session shares ways that educators can create opportunities for students to thrive as positive changemakers in a complex future, and how they can develop innovative solutions that tackle the challenges facing our society. It gives educators a glimpse into a course designed at The Sacred Heart Montreal called Innovation & Design that helps students learn the skills critical for being agents of change. The course explores concepts such as the United Nations 17 sustainable goals, design thinking, business model canvas, social entrepreneurship, project design, prototyping, AI, and project pitch and promotion. Another large component of this course involves self-exploration that empowers students to think about who they are, the impact they want to make in the world and their communities, and finally how to go about making that impact.

FROM AWARENESS TO ACTION: SACRED HEART STUDENT-LED INITIATIVES TOWARDS A GREENER FUTURE

Room: W471A | Audience Type: All

CO-PRESENTERS:

Ellyn Stewart | Director of Media Studies, Design & Innovation | Sacred Heart Greenwich, Greenwich, CT

Matthew Blake | Upper School Theology Teacher | Convent of the Sacred Heart, New York, NY

Andrea Garza Estebanez | Student | Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart, Houston, TX

Annie Slocum | Student | Sacred Heart Greenwich, Greenwich, CT

During our session, we will explore how members of the Sacred Heart Network have made a positive environmental impact in their local communities. The focus of our workshop will be to share three Sacred Heart Greenwich programs: building a school-wide Earth Day celebration, creating a student-run herb garden, and forming the Sacred Heart Network Sustainability Summit. Rooted in Goal III, Criterion 4, our hope is to inspire students from every Network school to join our newly-formed Student Sustainability Network.

IN SOLIDARITY: INTERGENERATIONAL PARTICIPATION

Room: W193B | Audience Type: All

DAVID BOOTH | Studies in Literature & English Language | Schools of the Sacred Heart, San Francisco, CA

As the synodal church in the twenty-first century endeavors (by the definition of synodal) to include everyone, an active ethos of inclusion aligns with ministries’ discernments and charisms. In seeking God in prayer and scripture, so may congregations identify the people, talents, and vocations necessary to address specific social problems in their communities. Pope Francis is advocating synodality at a time when youth are leaving the church. Exploring this trend, the authors of Enlarge the Space of Your Tent (2022) make an observation vital to the concept of intergenerational participation: yYoung people do not want to be seen as “the future of the church,” but they do want to be recognized for their views and live experiences now. This presentation is about youth and their elders engaging a range of issues concerning everyday life, social justice, and the church, while honoring the wisdom and legacies of the Religious of the Sacred Heart.

PROJECT “CIUDADANÍA:” OUR NETWORK EXPERIENCE TEACHING CITIZENSHIP COMPETENCIES K-12

Room: W193A | Audience Type: All

KAROLA LAGUNA | Head of School | Colegio Guadalajara Sagrado Corazón, Guadalajara, Mexico

The Sacred Heart schools in Mexico have chosen a Citizenship Education project that enables our students to recognize needs, make decisions, and solve problems in their reality. This methodology allows them to work collectively and democratically in building a just and peaceful world and overcoming the serious socioenvironmental problems we face today. Guided by a facilitator, students design projects based on the actionresearch methodology, which arise from initiatives resulting from research in their own community, discussion of current problems, and searching solutions within their reach, with an emphasis on curriculum transversality and through a series of structured steps.

RECKONING WITH VIOLENCE: ENDING THE DEATH PENALTY & PROMOTING RESTORATIVE JUSTICE

Room: W195 | Audience Type: All

CAITLIN MORNEAU | Director of Restorative Justice | Catholic Mobilizing Network

SACRED HEART STORIES: NEW CURRICULUM RESOURCES FOR US AND WORLD HISTORY

Room: W194A | Audience Type: Educators

ROBERT COLE | History & Social Sciences Department Chair | Convent of the Sacred Heart, New York, NY

In June 2024, eight Sacred Heart educators gathered at the Society Archives in St. Louis to put together primary source-driven resources that history teachers throughout the network could use, showing the connections between the history of Sacred Heart education and the larger themes of U.S. and World History. In this session, we’ll introduce some of the materials we found, as well as offer some strategies as to how they might be easily used to supplement our curricula without having to carve out already-scarce classroom time to cover new topics.

UNDERSTANDING HOW ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AFFECTS MIGRATION

Room: W471B | Audience Type: All

CO-PRESENTERS:

Clara Dorsch Callahan | Executive Director | Stuart Center for Mission, Washington, DC

Jennifer Morfin | Facilitator, Interpreter, Translator | Stuart Center for Mission, Washington, DC

Andrea Landeros | ARISE Environmental Justice Pillar

Ramona Casas | ARISE Social Justice Coordinator

Understanding how Environmental Justice affects migration and learning about how community members take action around climate and environmental racism in the immigrant community.

WELCOMING THE STRANGER: RESOURCES AND ROADBLOCKS

Room: W470A | Audience Type: All

DIANE ROCHE, RSCJ | Case Manager | Catholic Charities Office of Refugee Services

MARIA CORONADO | Case manager | Catholic Charities Office of Refugee Services

“The Sacred Heart never asks that we become perfect all at once, but that we work at becoming so day by day as God gives us grace and light.”

~

Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat

The Society of the Sacred Heart United States –Canada is proud to sponsor the 2024 Sacred Heart Summit: Hearts Rooted in Change and the Network of Sacred Heart Schools..

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Breakout Session | section 3

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2024 | 10:15 am - 11:00 am

BIGGER HISTORY, BIGGER IMPACT: FOR EDUCATORS

Room: W474A | Audience Type: Educators

HEATHER LEAL | Senior School Teacher | Sacred Heart School of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Big History is a full curriculum designed to tell the human story from the beginning of the universe to the present day. It reminds us that humanity is part of all creation and asks us to evaluate our present–or make decisions about our futures–by examining our pasts. It helps us see ourselves as richly connected to history, to the planet, and to each other, thereby leading students to widen their views when approaching global issues. This presentation is offered as an introduction to Big History’s core concepts and will explain how “bigger thinking” can be used to build empathy. It will also highlight resources available to teachers who wish to incorporate some or all of its outcomes and will include activities designed to leave participants feeling more connected themselves. While ideal for the History/Social Studies classroom, this presentation is for anyone interested in thinking big!

BRIDGES TO NEW FRONTIERS: WHERE WE’VE BEEN, WHERE WE ARE, & WHERE WE’RE GOING

Room: W470B | Audience Type: All

ACADEMY OF THE SACRED HEART NEW ORLEANS

Amanda Collongues | Lower School Teacher | Preschool and Lower School Global Education

Shara Hammet | Lower School Division Head

Soline Holmes | Librarian

Alyson Igoe | Preschool/Lower School Campus Minister

Jada Johnson | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Coordinator

As Sacred Heart Educators, we are called to reflect on and refine pedagogy to form students who love the world, cherish justice, and act with compassion in our increasingly complex world. Through collaboration between the Lower School Division Head, Open Hearts Open Minds Coordinator, Global Education Coordinator, Campus Minister, and Librarian, we will illustrate how teaching and learning can be transformative. We will show how connections are made and bridges are built as faculty and staff reflect on instructional practices and how these practices support the Goals and Criteria. We will highlight how Global Education has proven to be a platform for this work, showcasing the transformation of a Fourth Grade project on extreme weather from “book reports” to the global inequalities and sustainable futures of our world. This project encouraged students to use a variety of resources to investigate the world with intellectual curiosity and cultural literacy to recognize and value diverse perspectives. The unit culminated in the students’ design and creation of 3-D models of structures to protect against extreme weather based on students’ identification of and reflection on specific needs for improvement to provide communities equitable access to safe structures and necessities during extreme weather events. Just as we built out our Global Education competencies and curriculum guided by the Goals and Criteria, we are starting a similar process to build out and incorporate our community engagement program into the curriculum, allowing students to take responsible action that builds bridges to promote peace and justice.

EMPOWERING MENSTRUAL HEALTH EDUCATION & ACCESS FOR ALL

Room: W471B | Audience Type: All

LESLIE ROY | Wayne PA Chapter Leader

BOBBIE MONACO | Chapter Lead | Days for Girls | Eagleville, PA

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, MSN, CPNP-PC | Days for Girls International

This session aims to shed light on the critical issue of menstrual health education and access to supplies, particularly focusing on its relevance within the broader context of global inequalities and sustainable futures. Menstruation remains a taboo subject in many societies, leading to significant disparities in access to menstrual hygiene resources, education, and healthcare services. By educating participants on the importance of menstrual health and its impact on women and girls’ well-being, this session seeks to foster a deeper understanding of how addressing this issue is integral to achieving gender equality and sustainable development goals. Attendees will explore the multifaceted challenges faced by marginalized communities worldwide and the innovative solutions that organizations like Days for Girls International are implementing to promote empowerment and resilience. Ultimately, by prioritizing menstrual health education and access to supplies, we can not only improve the lives of millions of women and girls but also contribute to the realization of a more just, sustainable, and prosperous future for all.

IMPELLED TO ACTION: ONE SACRED HEART FAMILY’S RESPONSE TO THE NEEDS OF VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN HAITI

Room: W470A | Audience Type: All

JENNIE WEISS BLOCK, OP | Senior Health and Policy Advisor | Partners In Health

LAURIE WEISS NUELL | Summit Planning Committee, Board Member & Alum | Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart MOLLY NUELL | First Grade Teacher | Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart, Miami, FL

In 2010, after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, many children were left orphaned. One Sacred Heart family heard of the plight of these children and was impelled to social action. Joining forces with the international NGO Partners in Health, the family helped to found, Zanmi Beni, a residential children’s center for 64 children. Over the past 15 years, this Sacred Heart family has developed close personal relationships with the children and staff and built a successful non-profit to provide on-going support. Millions of dollars have been raised, many lives have been saved and improved. Hear this amazing story and learn strategies for starting your own organization to help those who need it most.

LAUDATO SI ACTION PLATFORM: A STRATEGY FOR ADDRESSING INTEGRAL ECOLOGY

Room: W192B | Audience Type: All

BRIDGET BEARSS, RSCJ | Associate Director for Transformative Justice | LCWR

The Laudato Si’ Action Platform is an initiative of the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and is inspired by Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’. As a global initiative, the Action Platform provides resources for families, school communities and parishes to join together towards a single purpose: Concrete actions to protect our common home. This session provides participants with hands-on resources and the wealth of experience of school communities around the country who have used the provided tools to deepen the integration of ecological conversion and practical tools.

LIVING SOLIDARITY AT THE HEART OF OUR CHARISM

Room: W194A | Audience Type: All

MELANIE GUSTE, RSCJ, PH.D. | Society of the Sacred Heart

“Solidarity is at the heart of our charism.” (General Chapter of the Society of the Sacred Heart, 1988). The Constitutions of the Society of the Sacred Heart, letters of Superior Generals, and Chapter priorities reflect the ongoing imperative of “solidarity” as an essential dimension of mission and charism. What does it mean to live this call to solidarity in our world today? To what does that impel us regarding our choices, our collaboration with others, our use of resources, our educational programs, and institutional policies? How do we foster those values and attitudes in ourselves and our communities that are congruent with the call to solidarity?

This session will provide a brief overview of the theme of “solidarity” as a core principle of Catholic Social Teaching and time for dialogue and reflective inquiry among the participants.

Together, we will create a space for (1) listening to the persistent movement of the Holy Spirit through Scripture, our Church and its teaching, the Constitutions of the Society of the Sacred Heart, and its Chapter priorities over the past years on the theme of “the spirit of solidarity” and (2) probing this vital dimension of our call to the “open heart” and “open side” of Christ as a pathway for conversion and transformative action in our personal and community lives, and our ministerial commitments.

LIVING THE MISSION: THE PERSONAL AND GLOBAL IMPACT

OF SacredHeartDNA

Room: W192C | Audience Type: All

MEMBERS OF THE SacredHeartDNA CORE TEAM:

Claudia Itzel Gonzalez Moreno

Yannina Raziel González Samilpa

Julka Bakowska

Karla Reyes

Bonnie Kearney, RSCJ

Erin Everson

Reyna Gonzalez, RSCJ

Join us for an engaging panel discussion that explores SacredHeartDNA – the latest initiative from the Society’s Young Adult and Vocation Ministry Office – through personal stories and shared experiences. Featuring the diverse voices of Religious of the Sacred Heart (RSCJ) and young adults, this session will share how SacredHeartDNA has impacted its members’ lives and fostered a vibrant, intergenerational, international community rooted in the mission and values of the Society of the Sacred Heart. Discover how you can connect with and support this growing community.

REAL WORLD FILMMAKING: MAKING MOVIES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Room: W471A | Audience Type: All

SACRED HEART GREENWICH:

Ellyn Stewart | Director of Media Studies, Design & Innovation

Mia Ritossa | Student

Olivia Franco | Student

Hear first-hand from student filmmakers from Sacred Heart Greenwich’s award-winning filmmaking program. Watch inspiring student-produced Public Service Announcements and documentaries. See how our work embodies Goal III by educating to a social awareness which impels to action.

SCIENCE & THE SACRED: EXPLORATIONS IN OUTDOOR EDUCATION

Room: W474B | Audience Type: All

STONE RIDGE SCHOOL OF THE SACRED HEART:

Holly Zindulis | US English Department Chair

Sky Lesnick | Upper School Science Teacher

Stella Lesnick | Student

Sophia Moraczewski | Student

Megan Stickles | Student

Imagine hiking through high plains meadows filled with blueberries and beaver dams, watching lightning flash over the mountains, and building campfires under the stars. Over the past two summers, small groups of Stone Ridge students and teachers backpacked in West Virginia’s Dolly Sods Wilderness. These six-day trips incorporate nature poems, journaling, and scientific observation, seeking to build deeper relationships with nature rooted in curiosity, gratitude, and wonder. Backpacking creates a unique environment for living out the Sacred Heart Goals, inviting hikers to grow in courage and confidence, form deep connections with others, and develop a critical consciousness of our impact on the environment. In this interactive session, we will share stories, readings, and activities from our trips, inviting participants to reflect upon their own experiences in nature and to consider outdoor education as a vital tool for Sacred Heart education. All are welcome to join in this conversation about living simply and seeking awe in nature.

SOPHIE’S FARM: A LOCAL-INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOR AN

EDUCATION THAT TRANSFORMS

Room: W193A | Audience Type: All SACRED HEART INSTITUTE FOR TRANSFORMATIVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION, INC.:

Lydia Collado, RSCJ | Executive Director

Gerardo Acibar | HR Officer

Isidoro ‘Syd’ Baradi IV | Program Officer | Agricultural Extension Service Delivery

The session will focus on searching for and recognizing global expressions of “building communities” at Sophie’s Farm, an organic farm-formation ground on many levels of the Sacred Heart Institute for Transformative Education Foundation (SHIFT Foundation), the umbrella mission of the RSCJ among the indigent (poor) people - children, youth, women, farmers, fisherfolks, construction workers, rebel returnees, etc - in Northern Samar, one of the poorest provinces in the Philippines. The presentation will highlight how the RSCJ and lay people, mission partners (SHIFT staff, RSCJ, local -international volunteers... dogs, cats, ducks, turkeys, rabbits, etc --- live as one big community at Sophie’s Farm), of diverse cultures and nationalities share life and work as a community where the charism and spirituality of the Society are expressed through non-formal education, using each one’s gifts, for a joint mission: an education that transforms.

STEPS BEYOND BORDERS: INTEGRATING COSMIC INNOVATION AND COMMUNITY IN EDUCATION

Room: W195 | Audience Type: All

SACRED HEART SCHOOLS ATHERTON:

Jennifer Buonafede | Director of Instructional Technology

Cristina Paredes-Murrell | STEAM educator

“Steps Beyond Borders” sets out on an enlightening journey to weave the principles of cosmic innovation into global education. This session draws a compelling parallel between the human experience of migration, be it across countries or potentially to other planets, and the diverse, transient nature of today’s student populations. Our mission is to develop an educational framework that mirrors the ingenuity and adaptability of space technology. Inspired by the rich legacy of problem-solving that dates back to ancient civilizations like the Egyptians, and the innovative thinking at the forefront of organizations like NASA, we aim to create educational strategies that are inclusive, flexible, responsive, and multidisciplinary. These strategies are specifically tailored to meet the evolving needs of the global educational landscape at Sacred Heart Schools. Designed as an interactive session, participants will engage in hands-on activities that bring these concepts to life. By adopting lessons from the fields that epitomize adaptability and forward-thinking, this session aims to equip participants with unique insights and practical tools, envisioning an educational future as boundless and evolving as the cosmos itself. Our vision is to shape an educational future that is as limitless and ever-evolving as the cosmos itself, preparing students to navigate and succeed in an increasingly interconnected world.

THE LAND ON WHICH WE SHARE

Room: W193B | Audience Type: All

ELINOR WRIGHT | Student | Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart | Bethesda, MD

As a Sacred Heart student at my Sacred Heart School, Elinor has been given the opportunity to gain a greater insight into the values and Goals of the Sacred Heart Education. She has been taught the true definition of serving my community. In this presentation, she will share the lessons she has learned over the past four years thanks to her Sacred Heart experiences that have taken me across the country and the world while bringing me closer to God.

THE SOCIETY OF THE SACRED HEART AT THE UN

Room: W192A | Audience Type: All

MARGARET MWARILI, RSCJ | UN-NGO Representative | Society of the Sacred Heart

All global citizens and nations are invited to work together, to find innovative ways to create economic growth while protecting the environment. The Society of the Sacred Heart joins the global citizens in creating a better world by influencing international policy.

Photo by Erick Julian Spath/CRS

Breakout Session | section 4

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2024 | 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm

BEEKEEPING, POLLINATORS, AND NATIVE PLANTINGS AT SCHOOLS

Room: W471A | Audience Type: All

SACRED HEART GREENWICH:

William Mottolese | Upper School English Teacher

Margaret Von Dermeden | Mustard Seed Program Teacher

The goal of our presentation is to foster curiosity about implementing a thriving beekeeping curriculum in both rural and urban schools. Such a curriculum blends natural science with practical skills, fostering a comprehensive understanding of beekeeping -- including an awareness of the connection of bees to native plantings -- teamwork, and environmental awareness. Sacred Heart Greenwich’s beekeeping program includes engaging activities suitable for different age groups, from basic bee knowledge for younger students to hands-on honey extraction for high schoolers. The involvement of beekeeping experts on campus ensures a rich learning environment, promotes teamwork, and ignites stewardship for God’s creation among students.

BEYOND BORDERS: AN ALUMNA’S JOURNEY TO A LIFE OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND SOLIDARITY ON THE BORDER

Room: W192B | Audience Type: Educators

MOLLY PORTH CABRERA | Director of Resource Development | Via International

Are your students concerned about the climate change and the environment? Are you hoping to help them learn how our actions not only affect the natural world but also the wellbeing of people all over the globe?

In this workshop, I will share elements of the Laudato Si’ unit I created for the 4th grade and share how a culminating project helped students move from anxious paralysis to meaningful action. Although I developed content with 4th graders in mind, you will be able to use the framework and adapt the content for higher grades. The second half of the workshop will be reserved for open sharing so that we can all take home additional ideas for engaging students in compassionate stewardship.

EMPOWERING FUTURE LEADERS THROUGH THE STUART LEADERSHIP ENDORSEMENT

Room: W195 | Audience Type: All

STUART COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL OF THE SACRED HEART PRINCETON:

Marissa Muoio | Head of Upper School | Director of the NCGLS

Cynthia Michalak | Director of College Counseling

Join us for an immersive 45-minute workshop exploring the National Center for Girls’ Leadership at Stuart Leadership Endorsement, a unique program designed to cultivate authentic leadership skills in high school girls. Discover how this personalized and research-based program empowers students to pursue their passions through experiential learning in concentrations such as STEM, Arts & Humanities, Social Justice, and Business & Entrepreneurship. Learn how each girl is guided through a clear, organized framework to transform casual interests into productive academic inquiry, preparing them to become confident and capable leaders.

HOW DO WE BEST SYSTEMATIZE SERVICE, JUSTICE, AND IMMERSION AT SACRED HEART SCHOOLS

Room: W192A | Audience Type: All

DUCHESNE ACADEMY OF THE SACRED HEART OMAHA:

Katie Grudle | Theology Teacher & Campus Minister

Scott Quinn | Campus Ministry Director

Sara McConnell | Theology Teacher

TJ Mullaney | Theology, Campus Ministry

Mandatory service hours may provide students with an introduction to service-learning, but often create just another box for our students to “check off” on their list of graduation requirements. We will host a roundtable discussion that provides students and educators an opportunity to both share and listen to successful models of Goal 3 in our schools. As a part of the discussion, Duchesne Omaha will share its model for service immersion which pauses its academics for six days in the spring semester so that seniors can create space – an espacio – for solidarity.

IMPELLED TO ACTION: ONE SACRED HEART FAMILY’S RESPONSE TO THE NEEDS OF VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN HAITI

Room: W470A | Audience Type: All

JENNIE WEISS BLOCK, OP | Senior Health and Policy Advisor | Partners In Health

LAURIE WEISS NUELL | Summit Planning Committee, Board Member & Alum | Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart

MOLLY NUELL | First Grade Teacher | Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart, Miami, FL

INTEGRATING THE TEACHINGS OF LAUDATO SI’ INTO CURRICULA

Room: W471B | Audience Type: Educators

ELIZABETH MOORE | Teacher | Washington Jesuit Academy

NETWORKING FOR BELONGING

Room: W474A | Audience Type: Educators, RSCJ & Mission Partners

KRISTA HINTON | Exchange Program Director

JENNIFER CHEUNG | Spanish Teacher | Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton, CA

GABRIELA GUTIERREZ | Innovation Coordinator | Colegio Guadalajara Sagrado Corazón, Guadalajara, Mexico

We live in a world that imagines “networking” as a process of leveraging relationships for one’s own benefit. In this session, we flip that notion on its head and consider how perspective-taking and mutual listening within and across our Sacred Heart Network is the first step to building solidarity. We will share lessons and experiences we’ve developed as colleagues across domestic and international Sacred Heart schools to encourage our students to form connections beyond themselves, their own contexts, and their own schools in order to create kinship across continents. By bringing together diverse perspectives and experiences, we have brought our students closer to the call of solidarity by rooting them in the knowledge that we belong to one another.

SACRED HEART & ARISE ADELANTE: UNVEILING BORDER

REALITIES

AND INSPIRING ACTION

Room: W192C | Audience Type: All

MONTSERRAT GARCIA | Upper School Spanish Teacher & Network Exchange Coordinator | Sacred Heart Greenwich

MICHAEL MAIDA | Upper School Mathematics Teacher | Sacred Heart Greenwich

In this session, participants will learn about the established relationship between Sacred Heart Greenwich and ARISE (A Resource In Serving Equality) Adelante. Sacred Heart students spend one week during the summer immersing themselves in the immigrant community of the Rio Grande Valley. Students run ARISE’s Summer Program, as well as participate in their Border Witness Program. We hope to inspire you to begin this worthwhile project at your school!

SEEDS OF CHANGE: PROJECT TERM @ SACRED HEART BLOOMFIELD HILLS

Room: W470B | Audience Type: All

SERGE DANIELSON-FRANCOIS | Educator | Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield Hills, MI

RON ROSSI | Dean of Experiential Learning | Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Join us for an insightful session on Project Term, the Academy of the Sacred Heart’s distinctive experiential learning program designed to cultivate collaborative problem solvers and transformational leaders. This innovative, seven-month program immerses Upper School students in design thinking to address complex global issues, partnering with organizations from Pontiac, Michigan, to the Amazon in Peru. Discover how students engage in week-long field studies, working directly with non-profits and experts to tackle challenges such as climate change, homelessness, and educational equity. Hear firsthand how these experiences shape students’ futures and strengthen their commitment to making a positive impact on the world. Additionally, Clare DePorre and Eva Drolet, two of our senior students, will share their personal experiences with Project Term and discuss the profound effects it has had on their lives.

SERVING THOSE WHO SERVED AMERICA: HONOR THEIR STORIES

Room: W193B | Audience Type: Young Americans and future changemakers

RACHAEL HENSKE | Student | Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, Bethesda, MD

This presentation will focus on how we can take our faith in God and put it to action, to help America’s veterans. God tells us to be warriors for righteousness, to use our Free Will for good, and to use our voices to call out society’s injustices. There are 40,000 homeless veterans in America right now, who are struggling with food insecurity, mental health challenges, and employment hurdles. That’s 40K people who have been kicked to the margins; it is our duty to give them a voice when theirs have been silenced for too long. Nobody who has served their country should have to worry about any of those things.

THE LEGACY OF THE “SAINTES SAVANTES”: EDUCATING SACRED HEART STUDENTS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Room: W474B | Audience Type: All

RACHEL SIMPSON | Chief Academic Officer & Convent High School Division Head | Schools of the Sacred Heart San Francisco

This interactive presentation will focus on the foundational concept of “saintes savantes” and what this means for Sacred Heart schools in the 21st century. Translated as “knowledgeable saints”, the concept of “saintes savantes” was St. Madeleine Sophie Barat’s desire for how rigorously the RSCJ as part of a religious order whose mission would center on transformative education. As Sacred Heart educators of the 21st Century, we are called to examine how we engage and promote Sophie’s aspirational educational vision: What does it mean to “know” in the 21st century in the context of the internet, AI and social media? The session will ask and examine to what extent we as current Sacred Heart educators are delivering on the promise of “saintes savantes” for a superior academic experience comprising all five goals. Assessing the greatest strengths of and opportunities within our Sacred Heart schools as well as the greatest weaknesses and threats, attendees will leave the session with greater awareness of to what their school does really well from a curricular standpoint as well as renewing commitments to curricular goals that could be more fully realized.

UNDERSTANDING THE TRANSFORMATIVE METHODOLOGY BEHIND POPULAR EDUCATION

Room: W193A | Audience Type: All

STUART CENTER FOR MISSION:

Jennifer Morfín | Facilitator, Interpreter, Translator, Clara Dorsch Callahan | Executive Director

“Boris” Aurora Zendejas Aguila | Teacher

This session will provide participants with a unique opportunity to delve into the Sacred Heart educational mission, exploring its foundational principles and values. Attendees will engage with the Dialectical Methodology of Popular Education, fostering critical thinking and collaborative learning. Through this immersive experience, participants will have the chance to apply these concepts to four distinct courses: Being Human, which examines the essence of humanity; Interculturality, focusing on the importance of cultural exchange and understanding; Education Today, addressing contemporary challenges in the educational landscape; and Solidarity Economy, exploring alternative economic models grounded in community and cooperation. Join us for a transformative experience that aims to deepen your understanding and inspire practical applications in various educational contexts.

USING QUANTCRIT AS A TOOL FOR PROMOTING TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION

Room: W194A | Audience Type: Educators, RSCJ, Alumni, and Mission Partners

ANTHONY CLEMONS | Mathematics Faculty | Schools of the Sacred Heart San Francisco

This session will explore QuantCrit, the intersection of quantitative methods and critical theory, and its use in classrooms to drive social change. Participants will receive an overview of QuantCrit and learn how it combines data analysis with social justice goals. The session will demonstrate how QuantCrit can expose institutional biases and discrimination, making these issues more concrete. Additionally, real examples of student-led projects using QuantCrit will be showcased, and participants will discuss ways to incorporate QuantCrit tenets into their curriculum, projects, or work to promote transformative change.

Breakout Session | section 5

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2024 | 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm

ADDRESSING POLARIZATION AND DIVISION THROUGH THE LENS OF OUR SACRED HEART CHARISM

Room: W192A | Audience Type: All

BRIDGET BEARSS, RSCJ | Associate Director for Transformative Justice | LCWR

We find ourselves in an increasingly polarized and divided times within our families, church, schools, government and global community. Silence and avoidance has become the antidote to difficult and divisive conversations, creating further isolation in all sectors of our lives. Our Sacred Heart Charism calls us to be those who build bridges between and among people of difference. This session will explore the skills necessary to create common ground and to embrace our call to be healers of division with those closest to us with both the sharing of ideas and role-playing ways of presence with those who see the world through different eyes.

AWAKENING OUR HEARTS TO LOVE OF CREATION

Room: W193A | Audience Type: All

MARY FROHLICH, RSCJ | Society of the Sacred Heart

In recent encyclicals, Pope Francis has reminded us that not only our physical life, but also our spiritual life, is meant to be deeply intertwined with our Mother Earth and her creatures. How can we awaken our hearts to the God who dwells at the heart of the world? This session offers a spirituality of “the Heart at the heart of the world” as well as practical suggestions for how we can both reconnect to Earth and help others do the same. Practices discussed will include awakening the senses, Forest Therapy, “sit spot,” befriending a tree, and medicine walk. Please bring your own creative insights to share, as well! Mary Frohlich, RSCJ is a Certified Forest Therapy Guide and the author of The Heart at the Heart of the World: Re-Visioning the Sacred Heart for an Ecozoic Era (Orbis 2024).

BIGGER HISTORY, BIGGER IMPACT: FOR STUDENTS

Room: W474A | Audience Type: Students

HEATHER LEAL | Senior School Teacher | Sacred Heart School of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Big History is a course that tells the human story from the beginning of the universe to the present day. It is a way of thinking that helps us see ourselves as richly connected to history, to the planet, and to each other. By taking a wider view, suddenly we see our own individual existence in a new light, and we also think about global issues in ways that give us deeper understanding. Ultimately, this can lead to more meaningful and empathetic problemsolving. This presentation is designed to explain what we mean by “Big History” and to teach you exactly how to start thinking big.

BUILDING A BETTER WORLD

Room: W193B | Audience Type: All

DESIRÉ FINDLAY | Trainer/Facilitator | Catholic Relief Services

BETH KNOBBE | Senior Trainer | Catholic Relief Services

The enormity of the world’s problems can, at times, feel overwhelming. Global poverty, hunger, conflict and other humanitarian issues plague our world. At Catholic Relief Services, we believe a more just world is possible. Young people have the power, energy and passion to drive real change, and their actions are essential to achieve our vision—God’s vision—of a world free of hunger, violence and injustice. Learn how CRS Clubs across the country are taking meaningful action to make this vision a reality, and how you can mobilize your own community to create a better world characterized by compassion, hope, justice, and solidarity!

CALLED TO ENCOUNTER: IMMERSION EDUCATION IN THE SERVICE OF THE COMMON GOOD

Room: W470B | Audience Type: All

MATTHEW CARROLL | Religious Studies Teacher | Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton, CA

Since the beginning of his papacy, Pope Francis has called the faithful to radically embrace a theology of encounter. Advancing a vision of a church that “smells like the sheep,” serves as a “field hospital,” and “goes out into the streets,” Francis’s vision reflects that of the Second Vatican Council and St. Madeleine Sophie for people of faith to engage meaningfully with the blessed and broken world as it is. Service-immersion programs offer us a way to step forth from the cloister, the pew, and the classroom to heed this call. This session will offer a framework for pedagogy, spirituality and important ancillary considerations (risk management, logistics, budgeting, etc.) in creating successful service-immersion programs at a time when the nature of service and volunteer work, risk-mitigation, polarization, and academic pressures all pose unique challenges to the kind of transformative education to which we’re called.

DAYS FOR GIRLS: TURNING PERIODS INTO PATHWAYS

Room: W471B | Audience Type: All

LESLIE ROY | Wayne PA Chapter Leader

BOBBIE MONACO | Chapter Lead, Days for Girls, Eagleville, PA

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, MSN, CPNP-PC | Days for Girls International

This session focuses on key strategies to ensure equitable access to menstrual products and education for all, particularly in the face of global inequalities. Through discussions and case studies, participants will learn how Days for Girls is addressing these inequalities. Days for Girls increases access to menstrual care and education by developing global partnerships, cultivating Social Enterprises, mobilizing volunteers and innovating sustainable solutions that shatter stigma and limitations for women and girls.

EMPOWERING FUTURE LEADERS THROUGH THE STUART LEADERSHIP ENDORSEMENT

Room: W195 | Audience Type: All

MARISSA MUOIO | Head of Upper School | Director of the NCGLS | Stuart Country Day School Princeton

CYNTHIA MICHALAK | Director of College Counseling | Stuart Country Day School Princeton

FAITH AND JUSTICE IN ACTION

Room: W192B | Audience Type: All

Robin Vincent | Director of Faith and Justice | Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart Bellevue

This presentation and breakout space will focus on the results of integrating DEI efforts with Campus Ministry in an interdependent department. The fruits of both faith and justice are seen through school culture, contemplative student activism, empowered educators, and a community rooted in Sophie’s vision. This is an interactive presentation, which will also include movement. Stop by to see how Forest Ridge is living out the mission of the Sacred Heart of Christ!

LIVING THE MISSION: THE PERSONAL AND GLOBAL IMPACT OF SacredHeartDNA

Room: W192C | Audience Type: All

MEMBERS OF THE SacredHeartDNA CORE TEAM:

Claudia Itzel Gonzalez Moreno

Yannina Raziel González Samilpa

Julka Bakowska

Karla Reyes

Bonnie Kearney, RSCJ

Erin Everson

Reyna Gonzalez, RSCJ

ROOTED IN THE SACRED HEART: AN EXAMEN TO SEE PEOPLE THROUGH THE EYES OF JESUS

Room: W194A | Audience Type: All

JULIET MOUSSEAU, RSCJ | Vice President for Academic Affairs | Franciscan School of Theology

The foundational belief in the intrinsic dignity of the human person, that each one is created in God’s image and likeness, is the centerpiece of Catholic Social Teaching. This was St. Madeleine Sophie’s starting point for Sacred Heart education, and it continues to guide Sacred Heart schools and educators to help each child become the unique and beautiful person he/she was created to be. Starting with Sophie’s writings and the Church’s social teaching, this session will reflect on the inherent goodness of human beings. How we look at one another shapes how we treat them, and recognizing the goodness of others is fundamental to healing the wounds in our world. Viewing one another through the lens of the Holy Spirit (through Christ’s eyes) will also help us examine the impact of our actions--intentional or unintentional -- on those around us and around the globe. This session will be a prayerful opportunity for self-examination and reflection. Participants will receive a model for a Sacred Heart examen to bring us into contemplative space, opening our hearts to the Spirit’s transformative action.

SOLIDARITY THROUGH EMPATHY - CREATING CONNECTION THROUGH THEATRE

Room: W471A | Audience Type: All

DAVID FEHR | Fine Arts Chair and Lead | Performing Arts Teacher | Josephinum Academy of the Sacred Heart

One of the great privileges in teaching at a Sacred Heart institution is getting the chance to engage with students from diverse backgrounds. Often, one of the most challenging things to do is create a sense of empathy and understanding that bridges one student’s experiences with their neighbor’s. This shared understanding of diverse material - about common themes - serves as the connective tissue that binds the class together, and allows them to pursue their work with solidarity and ensemble, as well as individualized understanding and agency. Arts work, facilitated in this manner promotes the building of community though shared social awareness, in an atmosphere of wise freedom. Disciplines in the Arts, and specifically Theatre, offer the school an opportunity to craft the Student Actor’s practice with precision. This session will help instructors engage in dialogue that allow them to assess what topics and themes are most germane, how to find material that explores those ideas, and how to offer permission for Student Actors to engage with material that is outside of their specific milieu. By highlighting dramatic texts in this way (analysis, craft, and performance), Students will personalize moments that have an immediate resonance for themselves and their cohort.

TEACHING EMPATHY AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Room: W474B | Audience Type: Educators, RSCJ & Mission Partners

SHERIE LO GIUDICE | Instructor of Science | Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton, CA

Motivation and strength for action can come from time spent building empathy and exploring, something we need more than ever as we face the growing issue of climate change. When examined closely, the Goals and Criteria of the RSJC and Sacred Heart Network are largely rooted in empathy. Learn how to build empathy in your classroom and guide exploration to help students feel empowered to make change and take action. We will explore this empathy framework as it relates to the topic of climate change, but this framework can be widely applied, whether you are teaching about climate change, environmental science or beyond. It is also appropriate for learners of any age. Embracing the integrity of creation, this session hopes to help educators guide students in becoming stewards of the Earth by providing unique and research-based practices rooted in empathy.

UNITING THE NETWORK IN SERVICE: MEXICO CITY AND NEW ORLEANS SH INVITES US AND CANADIAN SCHOOLS TO BUILD HOUSES IN THE INAUGURAL INTERNATIONAL PROJECT

Room: W470A | Audience Type: All

PARKER CAMPBELL | Global Education Coordinator

CHARLOTTE BUSH | Student | Academy of the Sacred Heart, New Orleans, LA

ANA HERRERA | Alumnae and Alumni of the Sacred Heart | Colegio Sagrado Corazon, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico Academy of the Sacred Heart in New Orleans has been working with Sacred Heart Mexico City to collaborate on the first-ever SH international service project. The goal is to unite students from Sacred Heart schools in the US, Canada, and Mexico. This project is an extension of the service project our Mexico City school has run for several years, currently with the organization Construyendo con Corazon. Sacred Heart schools from the US and Canada are asked to send representatives to be part of this first project in March 2025. Please attend this session to find out how your school can join.

who are the A ociat ?

Associates of the Sacred Heart are women and men called to live the spirituality of the Society of the Sacred Heart. Associates make an annual commitment to engage in prayer and ongoing spiritual formation, attend meetings, and respond to the needs and suffering of the world.

want to learn more?

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22 7PM AT / 6PM ET / 5PM CT / 3PM PT

Join us for the Associate FAQ ZOOM session. • hear from a panel of Associates about their experiences; • ask YOUR questions about the Associates; and • listen as we answer FAQs about the Associates. To register, scan the QR code or visit: bit.ly/AssociatesFAQ

“The way to do much in a short time is to love much. People will do great things if they are stirred with enthusiasm and love.”

~ Janet Erskine Stuart

Congratulations to the Network of Sacred Heart Schools! May this next 50 years continue to be “stirred with enthusiasm and love”

Optional Sessions & Offerings information sessions

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2024 | 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm

GIRLS’ SCHOOLS RESEARCH AND TEACHING RESOURCES

Room: W192B | Audience Type: Educators, Adults, & Mission Partners

GENEVIEVE MADIGAN | Chief Financial Officer | International Coalition of Girls’ Schools

CATHERINE KARRELS | Head of School & International Coalition of Girls’ Schools Board Member | Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart Bethesda

This session provides a dedicated space for girls’ school leaders and educators to come together and discuss the unique challenges and opportunities facing girls’ schools. The key objectives of the gathering include discovering the Coalition’s resources, programming, and new initiatives designed to advance girls’ education as well as to share updates on the latest research on trends in girls’ education.

VILLA LANTE IN ROME - SOCIETY OF THE SACRED HEART

Room: W192C | Audience Type: Educators, Adults, & Mission Partners

CHIARA CRIPPA | Director | Villa Lante Center Rome

This session will provide participants with more information on the Villa Lante and options for group to travel there. Since 1837, the Villa Lante in Rome has been one of the most important historical properties of the Society of the Sacred Heart. This is where St. Madeleine Sophie Barat lived during her time in Rome and where our RSCJ sisters continue to experience their period of formation before professing final vows in the Villa Lante Church.

Since 2020, the Villa Lante has experienced a period of huge renovation. Now the Villa Lante has been reborn as a Center for Religious and Lay Formation in the heart of the global capital of Christianity and we are happy to announce that we are finally ready to welcome groups of members and friends of the Sacred Heart Family.

The Villa Lante is magnificent. Immersed in a centuries-old park you will find the Church where St. Madeleine Sophie prayed every day and the Museum dedicated to her life, the General Archives of the Society of the Sacred Heart, multimedia rooms for organizing conferences with interpretation, and many single or double bedrooms to accommodate our guests with modern standards of comfort. The Villa Lante is located in the heart of Rome, in the Trastevere neighborhood, close to Vatican City. It’s one of the most characteristic areas of the city, famous throughout the world for its lively atmosphere of streets full of small shops and restaurants, from which it is possible to reach on foot many important places such as St. Peter’s Basilica, Castel Sant’Angelo, Piazza Navona, the Roman Forum and the Colosseum, to name just a few. From our large park you will have a spectacular view of the city and you will feel like you are on a peaceful island in the center of one of the great European capitals.

The Villa Lante staff is made up of creative and enthusiastic religious and lay people, at the service of the Society of the Sacred Heart and its mission.

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CEDC is proud to be a creative partner working with the Network of Sacred Heart Schools on educational projects like the 2024 Sacred Heart Summit.

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2024 | 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM

TRACK 1: CALL TO FAMILY, COMMUNITY & PARTICIPATION ACROSS SO MANY SEAS

by Ruth Behar

Room: W192A | Middle Grades Fiction

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Ruth Baher’s novel Across So Many Seas delves into the untold stories of four Jewish girls across a 500-year period, many of whom are forced to flee their country and begin again somewhere new. Baher’s characters reveal the resilience and humanity of those who became refugees in hopes of protecting their family, faith, and freedoms.

TRACK 2: INTEGRITY OF CREATION

BRAIDING SWEETGRASS: INDIGENOUS WISDOM,

SCIENTIFIC

KNOWLEDGE

by Robin Wall Kimmer

& THE TEACHINGS OF PLANTS

Room: W192C | Adult & Young Adult Nonfiction | Spanish & French Translations

As both a botanist & a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Robin Wall Kimmerer beautifully intertwines Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and personal reflections in Braiding Sweetgrass to explore the deep connections between humans & the natural world. Through lyrical prose, Kimmerer invites readers to reconsider their relationship with the earth, offering profound insights into ecological stewardship and the reciprocity of nature.

TRACK 3: OUR COMMON HUMANITY

MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS

by Tracy Kidder

Room: W193A | Adult Nonfiction

Mountains Beyond Mountains tells the inspiring true story of Dr. Paul Farmer’s relentless quest to provide medical care to the world’s poorest communities, focusing particularly on his work in Haiti. Through vivid storytelling, it explores his unwavering commitment to social justice and the profound impact of his efforts on global health initiatives.

TRACK 4: SOLIDARITY & ACTION THE SUN DOES SHINE: HOW I FOUND LIFE AND FREEDOM ON DEATH ROW

by Anthony Ray Hinton with Lara Love Hardin

Room: W192B | Adult & Young Adult Nonfiction

The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton, with Lara Love Hardin, chronicles Hinton’s harrowing experience of being wrongly convicted and sentenced to death for crimes he did not commit. It is a powerful memoir of endurance, faith, and eventual exoneration, highlighting the flaws in the criminal justice system and the triumph of the human spirit against all odds.

Exhibitor Hall

Associates of the Sacred Heart

Associates of the Sacred Heart are women and men who live out the spirituality of the Society of the Sacred Heart. We give witness to the love of God, expressed in Jesus, in humanity and in creation. This love calls us to collaborate in God’s transformation of our lives and the world around us through community building, prayer and action. Associates commit to ongoing personal prayer, with individual spiritual guidance and formation to discern God’s call in our lives; spiritual formation in the knowledge, understanding, and living of the call of the Society’s charism: to be “wholly contemplative and wholly apostolic”; regular attendance at group meetings that foster faith sharing and relationships among Associates and RSCJ; and attentiveness to the needs and suffering of the world and to living God’s love in our daily lives.

Days for Girls

Days for Girls (DfG) increases access to menstrual care and education by developing global partnerships, cultivating Social Entrepreneurs, mobilizing volunteers and innovating sustainable solutions that shatter stigma and limitations for women and girls

Catholic Relief Services

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS’s mission has been to assist impoverished and disadvantaged people overseas, working in the spirit of Catholic social teaching to promote the sacredness of human life and the dignity of the human person. CRS promotes human development by responding to major emergencies, fighting disease and poverty, and nurturing peaceful and just societies. CRS also serves Catholics in the United States as they live their faith in solidarity with their brothers and sisters around the world.

H.E.A.R.T Helping Education in Africa-Reaching Together

Through creative fundraising, many U.S. schools support our Sacred Heart schools in Uganda and Kenya. Hundreds of students attend these boarding schools on full scholarship thanks to U.S. support. Donations also provide nourishing meals and safe housing for the students during the school year. Stop by our table to see how your school can get involved (or expand your involvement!).

SacredHeartDNA

SacredHeartDNA is the flagship initiative of the Young Adult and Vocation Ministry Office of the Society of the Sacred Heart, United States – Canada Province. SacredHeartDNA is a growing community of young adults who collaborate with Religious of the Sacred Heart (RSCJ) to organize, facilitate and lead programs for young people and young adults (~ages 17-35) who are seeking a spiritual community of support as they discern, discover and navigate their life call. SacredHeartDNA programs are intergenerational, international, intercultural, and interfaith. SacredHeartDNA draws from and beyond the vast network of collaborators across the international Society of the Sacred Heart – Sisters, Associates, educators, friends, Sacred Heart schools, alumnae/i and other partnering organizations – to create formative experiences rooted in the Society of the Sacred Heart’s mission to reveal God’s love in the world.

Sophie’s Farm

Sacred Heart Institute For Transformative Education Foundation Inc. (SHIFT) - SHIFT Foundation is a faithdriven, non-stock, non-profit organization.

Established in 2001, it started formal operations in 2005 at Sophie’s Farm, Brgy. Doña Lucia, Mondragon, Northern Samar, Philippines. SHIFT is deeply rooted and guided by the spirituality of the Society of the Sacred Heart, a congregation founded by St. Madeleine Sophie Barat in 1800 in France.

Stuart Center for Mission

The Stuart Center for Mission works for social justice through education, empowerment and partnership with others at the national and international level. A just world is characterized by recognizing the dignity of each person and the integrity of all creation. The Stuart Center seeks to create a more just world where the dignity of each person and the integrity of all creation are fully recognized.

The Betty Ogiel Foundation

Founded by Betty Ogiel, the author of Against All Odds, the Foundation is a non-profit organisation based in Kampala, Uganda. The Foundation supports education especially at a higher level. Just like Madeleine Sophie Barat said “For the sake of one child, I would have founded the Society of Sacred Heart”. The Founder was inspired to give back to society and humanity after having been a beneficiary of acts of kindness from wellwishers.

Villa Lante Center

Since 1837, the Villa Lante in Rome has been one of the most important historical properties of the Society of the Sacred Heart. This is where St. Madeleine Sophie Barat lived during her time in Rome and where our RSCJ sisters continue to experience their period of formation before professing final vows in the Villa Lante Church. Since 2020, the Villa Lante has experienced a period of huge renovation. Now the Villa Lante has been reborn as a Center for Religious and Lay Formation in the heart of the global capital of Christianity and we are happy to announce that we are finally ready to welcome groups of members and friends of the Sacred Heart Family.

Zanmi Beni

Located in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, Zanmi Beni is a residential community for 64 abandoned and vulnerable children, half of whom have physical or mental disabilities. Zanmi Beni is a program of Partners In Health and Zanmi Lasante, managed in partnership with Operation Blessing International. It is funded by private donations from individuals and foundations.

Community Spaces

KIT’S KORNER | STUDENT COMMUNITY SPACE

Throughout the Summit, Kit’s Korner W194B will open at designated times as a community space for all students. This space is named in honor of Sister Kit Collins, RSCJ, who developed the structure for the Network of Sacred Heart Schools — United States & Canada. Ongoing activities include bracelet exchanges, trivia, meeting an RSCJ, bookmark making, and more. Students can win prizes for participating in Summit Bingo and/or Tuesday Night Sacred Heart Trivia.

KIT’S KORNER SCHEDULE

September 30, 2024

8:00 am - 8:20 am | Kit’s Korner Official Open

11:00 am - 12:45 pm | Open Time

1:45 pm - 2:45 pm | Open with Activity

8:00 - 8: 30 pm | Open time

October 1, 2024

8:00 am - 8:20 am | Kit’s Korner Open

11:00 am - 1:00 pm | Open Time (12:15 Trivia)

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Last Call/Bingo Drop

ESPACIO/MEDITATION ROOM

“Espacio quite literally means space. As a practice, espacio entails carving space from our schedule, our use of time and our consciousness in order to develop competency as one who can be silent, as one who desires to be in tune with Mystery. The daily practice of taking time, even as a few as five minutes, in silence allows us to nurture our sensitivity to the Spirit dwelling within.” (www.sacredheartusc.education)

Throughout the Summit, Room W475 will be a space dedicated for personal espacio or meditation and is open to all participants throughout the Summit.

Summit Planning Committee & Subcommittee Members

SUMMIT PLANNING COMMITTEE

LYANA AZAN

Dean of Teaching and Learning

Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart | Miami, FL

CLARA CALLAHAN

Executive Director

Stuart Center for Mission | Washington, DC

MEG CAUSEY, RSCJ

Religious of the Sacred Heart & Consultant for the Network of Sacred Heart Schools

Society of the Sacred Heart

MICHAEL CHUNG

Director of Community Outreach

Convent of the Sacred Heart | New York, NY

AMANDA CODINA | committee chair

Director of Student Programs & Special Initiatives

Network of Sacred Heart Schools | US & Canada

SERGE DANIELSON-FRANCOIS

Upper School English & Social Studies Teacher

Academy of the Sacred Heart | Bloomfield Hills, MI

LAURIE NUELL

Alum & Board Member

Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart | Miami, FL

BETH PONTICELLO

Creative Director | CEDC & Society of the Sacred Heart, United States — Canada Province

MARK POTTER

Chair, Religious Studies Department

Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart | Newton, MA

CHARLOTTE RILEY

French, Spanish Teacher, Network Exchange and SHELL Coordinator

Sacred Heart School of Halifax | Halifax, NS

SALLY SHARP

Trustee & Former Head of Student Life

Sacred Heart Schools Chicago | Chicago, IL

KELLY WEBER

History Department Chair & Coordinator of Social Action and Awareness

Sacred Heart Academy | Bryn Mawr, PA

KATIE WHITE

Director of Social Action

Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart | Bethesda, MD

ACTION PROJECT SUBCOMMITTEE

LYANA AZAN*

Dean of Teaching and Learning

Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart | Miami, FL

JENNIFER BROSTROM

English Teacher, Freshman Fine Arts, Drama Co-Director Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart | Lake Forest, IL

MEG CAUSEY, RSCJ*

Religious of the Sacred Heart & Consultant for the Network of Sacred Heart Schools Society of the Sacred Heart

JILLIAN KNAPCZYK

Dean of Students, Humanities Teacher

Josephinum School of the Sacred Heart | Chicago, IL

KATE MOTRONI-FISH

Director of Mission and Ministry

Sacred Heart Schools | Atherton, CA

MARIANNE PALACIOS | subcommittee chair

Middle School Dean of Students Convent of the Sacred Heart | New York, NY

CAROLINA ROJAS

Upper School Science Teacher

Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart | Miami, FL

*Indicates they are also on the summit planning committee

BREAKOUT SPEAKERS

SUBCOMMITTEE

LYANA AZAN* | subcommittee co-chair

Dean of Teaching and Learning & Upper School English

Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart | Miami, FL

AMANDA CODINA*

Director of Student Programs & Special Initiatives

Network of Sacred Heart Schools | US & Canada

KATIE WHITE* | subcommittee co-chair

Director of Social Action

Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart | Bethesda, MD

*Indicates they are also on the summit planning committee

SPIRITUALITY SUBCOMMITTEE

MEG CAUSEY, RSCJ*

Religious of the Sacred Heart & Consultant for the Network of Sacred Heart Schools

Society of the Sacred Heart

SUNHEE LIM

Upper School Music Teacher

Convent of the Sacred Heart | New York, NY

JEN MACARTHUR

Campus Minister

Villa Duchesne School of the Sacred Heart | St. Louis MO

KATRINA PIERCE

Music Teacher

Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart | Omaha, NE

MARK POTTER* | subcommittee chair

Chair, Religious Studies Department

Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart | Newton, MA

*Indicates they are also on the summit planning committee

STUDENT EXPERIENCE & COMMUNITY SUBCOMMITTEE

SHARON KARAM, RSCJ

Religious of the Sacred Heart & Board Member Houston, TX

CHARLOTTE RILEY*

French, Spanish Teacher, Network Exchange and SHELL Coordinator

Sacred Heart School of Halifax | Halifax, NS

SALLY SHARP*

Trustee & Former Head of Student Life

Sacred Heart Schools Chicago | Chicago, IL

MICHELLE VIGOA

Upper School Religion & Social Science Teacher

Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart | Miami, FL

KELLY WEBER* | subcommittee chair History Department Chair & Coordinator of Social Action and Awareness

Sacred Heart Academy | Bryn Mawr, PA

*Indicates they are also on the summit planning committee

Summit Choir

SUNHEE LIM | choir co - director

Upper School Music Teacher

Convent of the Sacred Heart New York, NY

KATRINA PIERCE | choir co - director

Music Teacher

Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart Omaha, NE

LUCIA ACANFORA | student

Saint Philomena School Portsmouth, RI

SARAH ANGLADE | student | viola

Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart Bethesda, MD

LINDSAY BAKER | student

Saint Philomena School Portsmouth, RI

ADELAIDE BAWUAH | student

Convent of the Sacred Heart New York, NY

NORA BARTH | student

Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart Omaha, NE

MAD BEAN | student | violin

Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart Omaha, NE

ERIN BOURQUE | student

Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart Newton, MA

GRACIE BRENNAN | student

Villa Duchesne School of the Sacred Heart St. Louis MO

HELEN CAREY | student

Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart Newton, MA

GRACE CASKEY | student

Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart Omaha, NE

CAMILA CASTRO | student | violin

Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart Omaha, NE

MAGGIE CROWLEY | student

Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart Newton, MA

LEXI DEUTSCH | student

Convent of the Sacred Heart New York, NY

ALICE DICKHERBER | faculty

Villa Duchesne School of the Sacred Heart

St. Louis MO

MADDY DIXON | student

Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart Bellevue, WA

LEAH DONOVAN | student

Saint Philomena School Portsmouth, RI

ALEXANDRA DURISH | student

Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart Princeton, NJ

EPHRATA FIKREMARIAM | student

Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart Bethesda, MD

GRACE GORI | student

Villa Duchesne School of the Sacred Heart

St. Louis MO

EMILY KAPLAN | faculty

Villa Duchesne School of the Sacred Heart St. Louis MO

MOLLY KREIKEMEIER | student

Villa Duchesne School of the Sacred Heart St. Louis MO

KELSEY LEWIS | faculty

Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart Princeton, NJ

LILA LOWERY | student

Villa Duchesne School of the Sacred Heart

St. Louis MO

JEN MACARTHUR | faculty

Villa Duchesne School of the Sacred Heart

St. Louis MO

MARIA ELISA MARINI | student

Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart Miami, FL

SOPHIA MATZZIE | student

Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart Bethesda, MD

MIA MENDOZA | student

Villa Duchesne School of the Sacred Heart

St. Louis MO

NAOMI MOLINA | student

Villa Duchesne School of the Sacred Heart St. Louis MO

SOPHIA MORACZEWSKI | student | clarinet

Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart Bethesda, MD

SUHAILA O’DOWD | student

Convent of the Sacred Heart New York, NY

RYAN O’HARA | student

Saint Philomena School Portsmouth, RI

CHRISTINE PHILLIPS | faculty

Villa Duchesne School of the Sacred Heart St. Louis MO

MARY FRANCES RICHARDSON | student

Saint Philomena School Portsmouth, RI

PAIGE ROMAN | student

Saint Philomena School Portsmouth, RI

LIBBY SAAL | student | cello

Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart Omaha, NE

GRACE STOLL | student

Villa Duchesne School of the Sacred Heart St. Louis MO

LANA STOTT | student

Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart Bellevue, WA

SKYLAR STOTT | student

Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart Bellevue, WA

SOPHIA THOMAS | student

Convent of the Sacred Heart New York, NY

ZAHRA TOURE | student

Convent of the Sacred Heart New York, NY

VANESSA TREVINO | student

Villa Duchesne School of the Sacred Heart St. Louis MO

GRACE YOUNG | student

Villa Duchesne School of the Sacred Heart St. Louis MO

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