—by Sandy LeGault, Director of Admissions This past summer saw an unprecedented level of BLTN activity at all Bread Loaf campuses. Students attended the weekly BLTN meetings in unprecedented numbers, and teachers from public and private schools, teaching at every grade level, made connections that will continue into the school year. All current and former Bread
[continue reading…]
—by Debbie Alcorn, 2013 BLTN Coordinator, Bread Loaf/Vermont The Vermont BL Campus has been hopping this summer! There have been more guest speakers, readers, and workshops this summer than ever before, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Bread Loaf Teacher Network. Guest readers included Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize Winner Natasha Trethewey, poet and activist
[continue reading…]
—by Paul Barnwell, 2013 BLTN Coordinator, Bread Loaf/Oxford Though thousands of miles from their students and their jobs as teachers, members of the Bread Loaf Teacher Network at Oxford, England, maintained a steady presence at Lincoln College during the summer. Highlights included engaging presentations by veteran BLTN members Chris Moore (OH) and Susannah Kilbourne (KY),
[continue reading…]
—by Alfredo Lujan, Director’s Assistant; and Susan Miera, BLTN Coordinator, at Bread Loaf/Santa Fe, 2013 Bread Loaf/Santa Fe, 2013, can only be described as fast-paced with intense energy. The summer session, attended by ambitious and energetic students and an All-Star faculty, hosted several illustrious speakers and was the site of much fun and productive planning. Speakers Cindy
[continue reading…]
—by Alfredo Celedón Luján Bread Loaf/Santa Fe, BLTN Coordinator Bread Loaf, 1987 “… the one thing I have cared about in life is getting a lot out of our school system….” Robert Frost Robert Frost had a vision for the teaching of writing at the Bread Loaf School of English. He opened a discourse
[continue reading…]
—by Janet Atkins, 2013 BLTN Coordinator, Bread Loaf/Asheville Bread Loaf, 2013, in Asheville, North Carolina, was a rainy affair this summer. For Bread Loafers, however, it meant lots of time to read and write papers. But, wait! That’s the way it is at every Bread Loaf campus whether it rains or not! Forty graduate students
[continue reading…]
by Dixie Goswami, Bread Loaf Teacher Network Director. In July 2009, the Ken Macrorie Writing Centers were established to honor the memory of Ken Macrorie, who taught at Bread Loaf for almost two decades. Ken’s students, friends, and many others contributed to the writing centers, which are now flourishing at all four Bread Loaf campuses
[continue reading…]
by Tom McKenna, BLTN Director of Communication. Emily Bartels, Dixie Goswami, Doug Wood, Lou Bernieri and I met with Karen Cator, Director of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Education Technology in April 2012. We gathered to discuss how Bread Loaf Teacher Network teachers might inform the national dialogue on “Connected Teaching and Learning”–a core
[continue reading…]
Photographs by Ed Brown capture this summer’s celebration of the 25th year of the Andover Bread Loaf Partnership. Read more about the partnership on the Bread Loaf School of English website. ***
Notes on the Santa Fe Indian School/Bread Loaf School of English Writing Workshop, Teaching with Writing: It’s Easier than You Think.” * History of the Partnership* In the summer of 2011, sitting knee to knee in a tiny office at the Bread Loaf Santa Fe (BLSF) campus at St. John’s College, Alfredo Lujan, Cheryl Glenn, Jon
[continue reading…]
