We hope you enjoy the first episode of a series of BLTN podcasts we’re calling BreadCast. See the podcast page— as part of the MiddCast series— to subscribe. Feel free to discuss Alfredo’s take on voice below. We’d love your ideas for future releases. Email to Tom_McKenna@breadnet.middlebury.edu with ideas.
Here’s a gallery of several photos from the Bread Loaf Teacher Network presentations and gatherings at the 2016 NCTE Annual Convention, “Faces of Advocacy.” Do you have photos to add? Send them to Tom McKenna.
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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Stories Walking – Costa Rica and the Beginning of an International Relationship Ceci Lewis English Department Chair, Cochise College Sierra Vista, AZ BLSE 1996 This August, Bread Loaf Teacher Network members Rex Lee Jim and I began a journey to make a shared dream a reality. Traveling with two Navajo Youth Leaders from the Navajo Community
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Join Lorena Germán (@nenagerman) on the first Monday of each month for Twitter chats on topics such as social justice, literacy, technology, and pedagogy. The chats are announced and archived on the BLTN working site. Bread Loaf faculty members Andrea Lunsford and Cruz Medina were featured guests in October and November respectively. To participate, log on to
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Editor’s Note: In each issue of the BLTN Journal, we feature teacher reflections on how their summer learning at Bread Loaf is likely to influence their professional work at home. The following experts from longer reports and articles are divided into sections on pedagogy in general, followed by plans for collaboration. Bringing it Back: Pedagogy Laura
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This past summer, we were always asking ourselves how we might critically incorporate technology into our teaching and why might we choose not to do so as well. What I was really impressed by was the level of creativity and willingness to experiment with technology that the members of our class engaged in while reflecting
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Andover Bread Loaf: Advocacy and Action by Chantal Kenol-Desmornes Bridge Academy and College Classique Feminin Port au Prince, Haiti BLSE 2015 Editor’s note: This talk was presented to the Bread Loaf Vermont community on July 14, 2016. Good evening everyone. It’s good to be back on this beautiful mountain. And it feels especially good to be
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Screened at Bread Loaf Vermont in July 2016, “What is Education” is a project of Elevated Thought and the Lawrence Youth Council. Read about successive projects, including the November 5, 2016 conference, “THIS is Education.” “What is Education” features Yulissa Nuñez , a recent recipient of the Lawrence Mayor’s Hispanic Heritage award, and a first
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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 On a sunny Saturday morning in July, 18 students at the Vermont campus, plus faculty members Dixie Goswami, Beverly Moss, and Margery Sabin, participated
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