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Teaching and Writing for Joy in the Anti-Woke Moment
1May 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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Insight on Sight: Seeing One Another across Difference
0May 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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Meet the Fellows: BLTN 2023-24
1May 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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Some Serious Joy: Notes from BLTN
0May 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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Seeds of Change: Mini-Grants for Social Change and Conflict Transformation
0May 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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From the BLTN Director: Teaching and Writing for Joy
0June 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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Organizing Youth Voice when the Stakes are High
0June 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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Fraught Imaginaries: The Messy and Necessary Work of Giving Voice to Incarcerated Youth
2June 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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What’s the Story? A *National* Young People Social Action Team
0June 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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Yaneris Collado: From BLTN Fellow to BLTN Staff
0June 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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