BLTN Fellows come to us from 21 U.S. states, Washington D.C., Egypt, and Scotland. They will study at all three of our campuses this summer, and some will participate as online students. Throughout the summer they will discuss issues in the field with a special focus for finding voice and impact in the anti-woke climate.
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Last July, working under the theme, “Teaching and Writing for Joy,” BLTN teachers from each campus prompted one another to write about the joy they had found in the 2021-22 school year, or the joy they were finding during summer study. This piece samples those posts from BreadWeb, Bread Loaf’s social network. In a lovely
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Professor David Wandera (MA ‘08, MLitt ‘13) will serve as the 2023 BLTN Faculty Fellow , sharing his expertise in intercultural communication, and engaging in conversations about pedagogies in our “diverse, globalizing world.” We asked Professor Wandera to answer a few questions about his background and his work this summer, and we relay his responses here.
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Thanks to generous donor support, each year BLTN teachers (current and former fellows) are eligible to apply for grants support BLTN-related classroom programs, projects, events, and travel. We’re pleased to profile the 2022-23 Goswami Action Grants. Values of Home and Community: Beyond the Page at Rosemont High School BLTN member and BLSE student Andrew Marchesani and his
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Here are just a few news items from BLTNers over the course of the 2022-23 academic year. Please feel free to update us on awards, presentations, new roles, or programs via comments below or an email to bltn@middlebury.edu . Fallon Abel (MA ’19) received a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching Research to “develop project-based, student-directed Social
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The Bread Loaf Teacher Network (BLTN) has named seven Teaching, Writing, and Acting for Change Fellows for 2022-23, a cohort to support the goals of the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation. Additionally, BLTN is offering Change Action Grants to active BLTN educators who undertake school or community projects focused on “conflict transformation”: the
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Five Bread Loaf Teacher Network fellows will attend the Bread Loaf School of English Summer Institute in Global Humanities: a three-week residential session, to run from July 18 to August 7, 2022, at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS) in Monterey, California. The fellows, who will be participating in BLTN conversations remotely, are Gladys Gitau-Damascus
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Bread Loaf School of English Dean Emily Bartels, BLTN Director Beverly Moss, and BLTN Director of Communications Tom McKenna were featured in Middlebury College’s Faculty at Home series on March 29, 2022. The Faculty at Home webinar series “invites you to engage in the digital space, to stay connected with faculty members, with big ideas,
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BLTN Director of Communications, Tom McKenna interviewed Caroline Eisner, Director of BreadNet, about her decades of helping to support BreadNet, the longstanding digital community of the Bread Loaf School of English. The Guide to Conferencing referred to in this conversation–drafted by Caroline in 1992–is available here. A list of BreadNet conferences in 1995 shows the
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Over the past two years, What’s the Story? Vermont has begun to redefine “community spaces.” Originally conceived as the Vermont Young People Social Action Team, the program is in its eighth year of offering an unparalleled opportunity for Vermont students to work on issues of local importance, conducting interviews and other forms of research. During
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