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Revolutionary Rest: Reflections on Survival and Hope at Year’s End
0June 3, 2022 by Lauren Jewett
It has taken me several days just to get to a point where I am starting to somewhat feel like …
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BLTN NextGen: Learning and Growing in Community Spaces
0June 3, 2022 by Tom McKenna
Once again this year, the BLTN NextGen Youth Advisory Board (YAB) led cross-network planning for the network as a whole. …
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From the BLTN Director: Conversations about Anti-racist Pedagogies and Ethical Teaching
0May 28, 2021 by Beverly Moss
When I think about BLTN’s commitment to youth advocacy and activism through literacy, teacher and youth collaboration across and within …
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Parable of the Sower: A Positive Afrofuturist Obsession
1May 28, 2021 by John Hall
When I first read Parable of the Sower in a 2017 Bread Loaf School of English class titled Cli-fi, it …
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“How Do I Language?”: Linguistic Justice Lessons from Ninth Grade
0May 28, 2021 by Whitney Morgan and Collin LaJoie
Background Last summer we had the opportunity and privilege to meet with Bread Loaf professor Dr. April Baker-Bell as she …
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BLTN: Changing Lives and Changing Systems
0May 28, 2021 by BLTN Staff
Bread Loaf Teacher Network fellows compose reflective reports at key moments in a year. At the close of summer, they …
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Passion and Action: Hard Work, Intentional Rest, and Vulnerability in a Pandemic
0May 28, 2021 by Anna Russell Thornton
There is a piece of writing advice that floats around in my mind, the origin of which I no longer …
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Small Victories: Moments in the Pandemic
0May 28, 2021 by BLTN Staff
As BLTN members entered one of four Zoom meetings this year, they exchanged what Bread Loaf professor Ken Macrorie might …
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Reimagining the Classroom: BLTN Teachers Offer Support and Strategy
6May 21, 2020 by Tom McKenna
“…Even as they participate in supportive networks like BLTN, teachers are finding themselves bombarded with new demands and online resources…From one meeting to the next, teachers shared not only how they were surviving and striving to meet student needs, and how they were coping with ‘Zoom fatigue,’ but they gave sparkling accounts of the sources of joy they were finding despite quarantined life….”
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Reclaiming the Classroom: A Retrospective on Bread Loaf’s Foundational Work in Classroom Inquiry
0May 21, 2020 by Tom McKenna
“… former Bread Loaf faculty member James Britton’s call for ‘the decade of the classroom teacher,’ for ‘the full potential of interactive teaching and learning’ requiring ‘all the help we can give them’ may have arrived in 2020….”
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