by Brendan McGrath Grade 3 Teacher Thomas Kenney School Dorchester, MA MA ’08 In the summer of 2005, while I was studying in a cubicle in Middlebury College’s library, I opened an email regarding my students’ Alaska state standards test scores. My students had shown massive growth with proficient scores, which was the first
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Editor’s note: Inspired by a quick drop-in to Professor Cheryl Glenn’s “Rhetoric’s Power” course in June 2015, this post has been collaboratively produced with Bread Loaf students Mary Sisson, Jessica Candlin, and Hayley Shapland, along with Professor Glenn. We welcome comments from other class participants who have generously shared work samples. As an advocate for including teacher voice in
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by Brent Peters English and Food Literacy Teacher Fern Creek Traditional High School Louisville, Kentucky BLSE ’16, funded by the C. E. and S. Foundation Editor’s note: Brent Peters composed this piece in Professor Jennifer Wicke’s Critical Writing class at BLSE Vermont, Summer 2015. We start our Food Lit. class at Fern Creek High School with a food
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by Bill Rich Vermont Bread Loaf Teacher Network Coordinator and Project Director MA ’99 On September 18—after a summer of restructuring, redesigning, and re-energizing—the VT-BLTN team welcomed this year’s cohort of 21 middle and high school students to Middlebury College for a day-long kickoff of What’s the Story? The Vermont Young People Social Action Team,
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Ty Fierce Metteba is a senior at Window Rock High School in Fort Defiance, Arizona. He represents Navajo Community Health Outreach as a youth ambassador. Ty loves to camp, hike, and travel, especially with Pollen Circles, Inc. He plays first viola in the Window Rock High School Orchestra. He lives in Deer Springs, Arizona, with his mom and
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Dariana Guerrero is a Lawrence High School graduate and now a sophomore at Smith College, majoring in English and Education. She’s been an Andover Bread Loaf (ABL) Writing Leader for five consecutive years, and she has presented at the National Council of Teachers of English annual conference. Dariana was inspired to write “Inner City Dreamer” in response to
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The first Lawrence Family Literacy Night of the 2015-2016 school year took place on Tuesday evening, September 29, at the Oliver Partnership School in Lawrence, coordinated by Bread Loaf teachers Yulissa Nunez and Richard Gorham. (The school is run through a partnership between the Lawrence Public School District and the American Federation of Teachers). There
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by Jessica Dean Adjunct English Instructor and Writing Tutor Pellissippi State Community College, Knoxville, TN MA ’15 Fourteen years ago I walked into a classroom. All of the students watched the television in silence. At 9 AM, our speech professor walked in and turned off the TV. He said something about . . . knowing there were things
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by Alfredo Celedón Luján Director’s Assistant, Bread Loaf Santa Fe MA ’87 I began my career as a “DA” (Director’s Assistant) at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Before that, I was a Bread Loaf student in Vermont. When I applied to Bread Loaf in 1981, Director Paul Cubeta had written to me
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by Tim O’Leary English Teacher Middlebury Union High School, Middlebury Vermont MA ’07 The creation of documentary-styled video contains many non-alphabetic literacies. I often group the component literacies into interpersonal, technological, and aesthetic understandings and skills. At times, they dance together in “real-time” situations when subjects are in front of a camera, and an interviewer is
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