Editor’s Note: In Fall 2020, mid-pandemic, Gregory Booth of Sheridan High School in Ohio, and Sheilla Lupao of Rusinga School in Nairobi, Kenya enacted plans following the time-honored BLTN tradition of fostering meaning-making through written dialogue, scaffolding that dialogue from personal exchanges of perspective to more academic forms for thinking. What follows is a set of

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Return to “Fancy Pants and Pen Pals.” Editor’s note: Below is an excerpt of correspondence among Gergory Masterson Booth’s students at Sheridan High School in Thornville, Ohio, and Pierre Carmona’s students at San Francisco University High School in San Francisco. Gregory’s students’ entries are in blue, while Pierre’s are in black. STUDENT CORRESPONDENCE Margaret:​ Hi Block

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Gregory Masterson Booth English Teacher Sheridan High School Thornville, OH “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”—Epictetus I’m stating the obvious when I say schools exist as a mechanism to help shape a society through the shaping of individuals, and that we seek to shape those individuals by instilling

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