Laura Benton English Teacher Woodford County High School, Versailles, KY BLSE 2013, funded by the C. E. and S. Foundation In this interview conducted near the end of her first year as a Bread Loaf Teacher Network / C. E. & S Foundation Fellow, Laura Benton of Versailles, Kentucky reflects on how one summer at Bread Loaf
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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 Sheri Skelton English Teacher, White Mountain School, White Mountain, Alaska M.A. 1997 My Bread Loaf journey began in the summer of 1994 when I first traveled to Vermont from Shishmaref, a small Inupiaq village in northwestern rural Alaska. Summers at Bread Loaf provided academic challenges and conversations and the opportunity to focus on writing.
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Students of BLTN teachers Paul Barnwell, Ceci Lewis, Renee Moore, Brendan McGrath, and Tom McKenna, presented at this year’s Oregon Academic Technology Society (OAtS) annual meeting, organized by Scott Christian, BLTN member and co-founder of OAtS. McKenna and Moore each wrote about the event. Click on the thumbnail images to access each article.
by Chris McCurry English Teacher Lafayette High School, Lexington, KY BLSE 2012, 2013, funded by the C. E. and S. Foundation Each year, as my Bread Loaf summer progresses, my current ways of thinking and teaching slowly dissolve and reform around the ideas and pedagogy I learn from my instructors and the materials. In his Describing
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by Lorena German English Teacher Lawrence High School, Lawrence, MA Andover Bread Loaf 2010, BLSE Vermont, 2011-2013 Before, I was a passionate person teaching in a classroom. After four summers of Andover Bread Loaf, Bread Loaf School of English, and BLTN, I am now a passionate and strategic writer/educator, who teaches and impacts the lives
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by Holly Spinelli English Teacher, City-As-School High School, New York, NY BLSE 2010, 2012, 2013 My Bread Loaf experience this past summer transformed my teaching. At the request of my principal, I became an adjunct lecturer in the College Now program, a partnership at our school with C.U.N.Y. LaGuardia Community College. The program offers
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-by Paul Barnwell English and Digital Media Teacher Fern Creek Traditional High School, Louisville, KY M.A. 2013, funded by the C. E. and S. Foundation Attending the Bread Loaf School of English and participating in BLTN is a pedagogical journey not likely to be forgotten. In this journal last year, I wrote about why a
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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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