| Week 1: Community Building & Research Orientation The MBK fellows and CUNY researchers start to get to know each other, discuss the gifts they each bring, share their overall hopes for the project, and review the schedule for the summer research intensive. Fellows will learn about our research methods, create ethnographic epistolary data, and help to address key questions that inform our research design: What do MBK fellows want to know about MBK; what do fellows think the world needs to know about MBK; what does it mean to create intergenerational communities of care and responsibility through critical education/engagement and mutual support? |
Tuesday, June 28 June 28, 2022; 12-2PM: Introduce MBK fellows to Jordan Bell, one another, and the MBK research project with a community-building activity that entails writing letters about who our research is intended to support and what needs to be shared about MBK. MBK fellows will collectively discuss their MBK experiences. A historical overview of MBK be will provided to contextualize fellows’ MBK experience(s). Fellows will engage in a conversation about why MBK was created and targeted at Black and Brown boys in specific communities. Fellows will create MBK research portfolios. |
| Thursday, June 30 |
| June 30, 2022; 12-2PM: MBK fellows will be provided with a contextualization of MBK through a social, economic, and educational lens. Britney Moreira will provide fellows with exposure to YPAR projects and analyze some YPAR work to gain a better understanding of how MBK fellows would like to operationalize YPAR for our MBK program evaluation. Fellows will collaborate to create a sample YPAR survey. |
| Week 2: Introduction to Racial Literacy and Oral History MBK fellows will gain an introduction to racial literacy, build their capacity as oral historians, think through ethical commitments, and design interview protocols and pilot interviews. |
Tuesday, July 5 July 5, 2022; 12-2PM: Samuel (Sam) Finesurrey will provide the MBK fellows with an introduction to oral history, practice creating an oral history rubric, create a sample oral history questionnaire, conduct mock oral history interviews, and collaborate to discuss oral history interview strengths and opportunities. Fellows will free-write about their educational experiences, provide epistolary data about instances when MBK has either affirmed or denied their identity, analyze data both individually and collectively, and identify preliminary themes for the oral history questionnaire. |
| Thursday, July 7 |
| July 7, 2022; 12-2PM: Britney provides an introduction to surveys. MBK fellows create the first draft of the MBK survey to be distributed to MBK participants and stakeholders. MBK fellows conduct interviews with MBK peers and MBK fellows who were not able to complete MBK. Jordan will introduce racial literacy and provide a short activity so that fellows can better understand how they have experienced and practiced racial literacy. Jordan will provide a brief historicization of IQ tests and metrics of academic aptitude/intelligence to model the ways in which education is racialized. MBK fellows will make sense of how race, racialization, and racism affect and inform their lived experiences and positionalities. MBK fellows will use their fledgling racial literacy knowledge and their lived experiences/written ethnographies to assess the efficacy of the first draft of the oral history questionnaire. MBK fellows will also use their racial literacy to provide epistolary data for the following questions: Why is MBK targeted at Black and Brown male youth, and how does race inform or overlap with MBK? |
| Week 3: Oral History and MBK Work Continues and an Introduction to Critical Media Literacy |
| Tuesday, July 12 July 12, 2022; 12-2PM: Sam and MBK fellows evaluate the preliminary themes for the MBK oral history questionnaire. MBK fellows will practice conducting oral history interviews with one another. Sam and MBK fellows collaborate on creating rubrics for their oral history questionnaire. Fellows conduct oral history interviews with MBK elders, affiliates, and graduates. MBK fellows will determine two sites that they want to virtually visit for focus group interviews. |
| Thursday, July 14 |
| July 14, 2022; 12-2PM: Jordan will work with MBK fellows’ to develop their critical media literacy by having fellows bring in music that causes them to reflect upon their MBK experiences. Fellows will free-write about what opportunities pertaining to Black and Brown identity that schools missed; about experiences in a primarily white institution (PWI) or a predominantly Black/Brown institution; and about growing up in either rural, suburban, or urban NYS. Fellows will gain exposure to contemporary art that humanizes their school experiences. Fellows will engage in more racial literacy activities so that they can better understand how their complex identities and positionalities inform their choice of their MBK surveys and questionnaire questions. Fellows will finalize surveys. |
| Week 4: Revisiting Oral Histories |
| Tuesday, July 19 July 19, 2022; 12-2PM: Sam and MBK fellows will analyze, assess, and make meaning of all of the interview and questionnaire data that the MBK fellows collected. Jordan and MBK fellows will analyze key oral history excerpts to start thinking about and identifying emergent oral history themes. Fellows will free-write about their experiences as oral historians/researchers. Fellows will analyze and reflect upon their portfolio of free writes and epistolaries to identify key passages and quotes to be used in any final reports and scholarship that will be produced. |
| Thursday, July 21 |
| July 21, 2022; 12-2PM: Jordan and fellows conduct a preliminary evaluation of all of the state, anecdotal, epistolary, and oral history data to locate key findings. MBK fellows will create 2-minute testimonial/testimonio videos that speak to their experiences with MBK and the summer research intensive. |
| Week 5: Data Analysis |
| Tuesday, July 26 July 26, 2022; 12-2PM: Sam and MBK fellows collectively evaluate oral history interviews with MBK elders, affiliates, and graduates. Jordan and MBK fellows examine state-provided MBK data. |
| Thursday, July 28 |
| July 28, 2022; 12-2PM: MBK fellows work with Jordan to write about their experiences with MBK after reflecting upon the state-provided MBK data. Fellows individually and collectively discuss anecdotal evidence and analyze their anecdotal evidence in the context of the state MBK data. |
| Week 6: Production of Preliminary MBK Reports and Celebration |
| Tuesday, August 4 August 4, 2022; 12-2PM: Jordan and MBK fellows will produce a preliminary MBK program evaluation report. |
| Thursday, August 6 |
| August 6, 2022; 12-2PM: MBK Fellows will gather in person in NYC to present 2-minute MBK video testimonials/testimonios, celebrate the end of the program, provide final thoughts about MBK and the summer research experience, and identify opportunities for future collaborations. |
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