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  1. Voices of Others: Susan Miera Reflects on Three Decades with BLTN

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    May 27, 2025 by Tom McKenna

    In our conversation, Susan reflects on her transformation as a teacher as she discovered the power of connecting classrooms through BLRTN, and on her subsequent learning in the network over more than three decades, including what’s she’s learned about how to coordinate a successful student-run Writing Center. 

    Category BLTN Teachers, Spring / Summer 2025 | Tags:

  2. Culture, Community, Connection: A Year of NextGen Advocacy and Action

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    May 24, 2024 by Tom McKenna

    The ten sites of the BLTN Next Generation Leadership Network (BLTN NextGen) were busy working locally and nationally this past …
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    Category BLTN NextGen, Conflict Transformation, Featured, Spring / Summer 2024 | Tags:

  3. Joy Notes – Full Text

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    May 31, 2023 by Tom McKenna

    Kayla Hostetler I have been blessed to have so many joyful moments in my classroom over the last twelve years …
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  4. NextGen Youth Learn, Write, Listen, Share, Act, Love, and Dance across Difference

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    May 31, 2023 by Tom McKenna

    Here are a few of the school year’s events and highlights from the BLTN’s youth leadership network, BLTN NextGen. To …
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    Category BLTN NextGen, Conflict Transformation, NextGen South Carolina, Spring / Summer 2023 | Tags:

  5. Change Action Grants: BLTN Sparks Conflict Transformation

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    May 31, 2023 by Tom McKenna

    Middlebury’s Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation fortified BLTN’s longstanding tradition of teaching and learning across difference by supporting grants to …
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    Category BLTN Teachers, Change Action Grants, Conflict Transformation, Spring / Summer 2023 | Tags:

  6. NextGen Confronts Violence

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    May 31, 2023 by Tom McKenna

    On May 18, NextGen members and supporters gathered to discuss safety and violence in their communities. The meeting had an …
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    Category BLTN and Policy, BLTN NextGen, NextGen South Carolina, Spring / Summer 2023 | Tags:

  7. BLTN Classroom Spotlights: Virtual Visits to Teachers’ Communities, Schools, and Classrooms

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    June 3, 2022 by Tom McKenna

    “Educators spend most of their time distanced from their colleagues. Instead of forcing them to compete with each other, we …
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    Category BLTN Teachers, Spring / Summer 2022 | Tags:

  8. BLTN NextGen: Learning and Growing in Community Spaces

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    June 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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    Category BLTN NextGen, Featured, Spring / Summer 2022 | Tags:

  9. A Day in the Pandemic: A BLTN NextGen Writing Retreat

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    May 28, 2021 by Tom McKenna

    On February 20, 2021, the Youth Advisory Board of the BLTN Next Generation Leadership held a virtual writing retreat drawing …
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    Category BLTN NextGen, Spring 2021 | Tags:

  10. Re-Imagining the Teaching of Writing: An International Collaboration

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    May 28, 2021 by Tom McKenna

    Early in the morning on February 27, 2021 for attendees from all U.S. time zones, and early in the evening …
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    Category BLTN Global, BLTN International, Spring 2021 | Tags:

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