Editor’s note: The following excerpt is from Director Emily Bartels’ opening night talk at the Vermont Campus, June, 2015. But there is a side to Bread Loaf that happens long after our intensive summer of study together is done. I’ve seen it across the country. On the Navajo Nation, Navajo students are taking the lead,
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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 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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Integrating Ethics into High School and Middle School English Class: A Workshop at Bread Loaf Vermont by Dr. Jim Sabin Dr. Sabin is a Clinical Professor of both Population Medicine and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Ethics Program June 26, 2015 From among several topics that
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by Bill Rich Vermont Bread Loaf Teacher Network Coordinator and Project Director MA ’99 Vermont BLTN Launches Credit-Earning Course for Vermont High School Students A group of Vermont students from area high schools gathered at Middlebury College on October 10 for the kickoff of What’s the Story: Investigating the Past, Present, and Future of the Vermont
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Writing Across the Curriculum: It’s Easier Than You Think Writing Across the Curriculum, Literacy and Technology Workshop, October 8-9, 2014 Hosted by Santa Fe Indian School, Bread Loaf School of English, and Write to Change by Susan Miera and Alicia Fritz Susan Miera is a founding member of the Bread Loaf (Rural) Teacher Network, a semi-retired
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The Bread Loaf School of English has received a gift of support for the Vermont Bread Loaf Teacher Network, which will bring together a diverse group of outstanding Vermont teachers committed to social change and community revitalization through education and collaboration. Through a combination of fellowships for two years of the teachers’ study at Bread
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by Susan Miera and Jennifer Guerin “My dream is that every classroom can become a writing center in its own right.” Those words have played and replayed themselves in my head a million times over the past year. In September 2012, the Santa Fe Indian School, Write to Change, and Bread Loaf School of English
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-by David Wandera PhD Candidate The Ohio State University M.A. 2008, M.Litt. 2013 “The writing center, year after year, has been the reason I do well at Bread Loaf. Keep up the good work.” (VT student, Summer 2013) 1 The number of writing centers in Vermont during the summer session 2013. 2 The number of
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Campus coordinators function as the “point people” for BLTN at each campus. In addition to holding weekly meetings, they take the lead in sharing information across campuses, they initiate special events, and they advise colleagues in planning school year collaborations. Susannah Kilbourne will coordinate at Oxford, while Susan Miera will take the lead at Santa
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