Editor’s note: We invite you to enjoy this short collage of memories of revered Bread Loaf professor Michael Armstrong. Please join the conversation via the comments section below, and share your reflections on Michael’s impact on your teaching and learning. Education as Critical Practice Michael Armstrong was a radical educator and teacher-researcher who held that a “pedagogy of
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Kentucky BLTN members met on a beautiful spring day in Lexington, Kentucky, to showcase successful exchanges and anticipate the coming summer at Bread Loaf. Emily Bartels hosted the meeting in collaboration with Fayette County Publics represented by Elizabeth Tronoski and The Fund for Transforming Kentucky represented by Renee Boss. The showcase featured the outstanding work
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Bread Loaf’s Associate Director, Django Paris, and H. Samy Alim have published “What Are We Seeking to Sustain Through Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy?” in the Spring, 2014 issue of Harvard Educational Review. Here’s the abstract: In this article, Django Paris and H. Samy Alim use the emergence of Paris’s concept of culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP) as
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Editor’s note: This piece is re-posted from the Spring 2014 Bread Loaf Newsletter. Two outstanding new faculty members will join the Bread Loaf community this summer. To help you get to know them better, we’ve provided short bios below. We also were able to catch up with Robert Sullivan to ask him a few questions.
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—by Emily C. Bartels, BLSE Director From its inception, the Bread Loaf Teacher Network has emphasized two things as vital to the digital writing projects its members undertake in their classrooms: one, the power of engaging students from different schools and cultures in critical dialogues about themselves and what they’re reading; and two, the grounding
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—by Tom McKenna BLTN Director of Communications, BLSE 1996 In a recent Middlebury Magazine clip featuring Bread Loaf courses that excited students, it’s hard to miss the sparkle in people’s eyes as they attest to loving Professor Michael Armstrong’s classes (“The Fantastic and the Marvelous: Exploring the Fictional Worlds of Italo Calvino” and “Describing
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—by Django Paris, Michigan State University; Associate Director, BLSE This piece is adapted from remarks at the BLSE Vermont Opening Ceremonies, June 24, 2013. One of the things I most cherish about Bread Loaf is that so many of us—faculty and students alike—are English teachers. We teach the discipline English as our chosen vocation. I’ve
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—by Andrea Lunsford Professor of English Emerita, Stanford University with photos and commentary by Brent Ashley English Instructor, Lynnfield High School Lynnfield, MA BLSE 2014 As each new year rolls toward summer, my heart rolls toward Bread Loaf. I can hear the birds outside the campus’ Victorian buildings, smell the newly mown grass where Bocci
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—by Dixie Goswami, BLTN Director “English Teaching: Prospect and Retrospect,” the final essay in James Britton’s 1982 collection of essays, Prospect and Retrospect, speaks about the future of the profession, the increasing recognition of the individual student’s needs and intentions, the centrality of humanistic education, and the role of the imagination, especially in turbulent times.
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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 In the years that I’ve been a faculty spouse since my wife Margery began teaching at the Vermont campus in 1992, I’d been making connections
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