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  1. Teaching and Writing for Joy in the Anti-Woke Moment

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    May 31, 2023 by Beverly Moss

    What does it mean to teach and write for joy? Poet Toi Derricotte’s 2008 poem “Joy is an Act of …
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  2. Insight on Sight: Seeing One Another across Difference

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    May 31, 2023 by Rabiah Khalil and Lauren Davenport

    Editor’s note: Rabiah Khalil and Lauren Davenport met as neighbors on the shores of Lake Dunmore in Summer 2022, not …
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  3. Meet the Fellows: BLTN 2023-24

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    May 31, 2023 by Tom McKenna and BLTN Staff

    BLTN Fellows come to us from 21 U.S. states, Washington D.C., Egypt, and Scotland. They will study at all three …
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  4. Some Serious Joy: Notes from BLTN

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    May 31, 2023 by BLTN Staff

    Last July, working under the theme, “Teaching and Writing for Joy,” BLTN teachers from each campus prompted one another to …
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  5. Seeds of Change: Mini-Grants for Social Change and Conflict Transformation

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    May 31, 2023 by Colin Baumgartner

    This fall, my students at J.R.Tucker High School in Henrico, Virginia, received a BLTN Change Action Grant from Middlebury’s Kathryn …
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  6. From the BLTN Director: Teaching and Writing for Joy

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    June 3, 2022 by Beverly Moss

    As I sit here preparing another “From the BLTN Director” statement, I am filled with anticipation and excitement that BLTN …
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  7. Organizing Youth Voice when the Stakes are High

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    June 3, 2022 by Cole Moran

    In December of this year, my students and I were made aware of an “innovation proposal” that would close our …
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  8. Fraught Imaginaries: The Messy and Necessary Work of Giving Voice to Incarcerated Youth

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    June 3, 2022 by Michelle Fountain and Leslie Schallock

    Leslie Schallock, English Teacher at Secure Juvenile Detention Center, VA: In the spring of 2020 I saw a blurb for …
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  9. What’s the Story? A *National* Young People Social Action Team

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    June 3, 2022 by BLTN Staff

    Over the past two years, What’s the Story? Vermont has begun to redefine “community spaces.” Originally conceived as the Vermont …
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  10. Yaneris Collado: From BLTN Fellow to BLTN Staff

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    June 3, 2022 by Beverly Moss

    I am pleased to announce a new addition to the BLTN administrative team. BLSE alumna and former BLTN Fellow Yaneris Collado …
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