by Teri Heisey 2013 Bickimer Fellow Lead Teacher Ecole Kenwood Immersion, Columbus, OH Bread Loaf has certainly returned to Ecole Kenwood in Columbus, Ohio. I remember sitting in the Barn between classes working on a paper and feeling so fully present, inspired, motivated, and productive. While in the barn, I would “come up for air” between
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by Chantal Kenol Desmornes Principal and Language Teacher Port-au-Prince Haiti I am co-principal of a private, all-girl, secondary school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, celebrating its golden jubilee this academic year. In addition to administrative responsibilities, I oversee all academic activities and supervise teachers. I conduct meetings and workshops with teachers and students and meet with parents
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by Nell Whitman English Teacher Henry Clay Liberal Arts Academy, Lexington, KY B.L.S.E. 2012, 2013, funded by the C. E. and S. Foundation Two years as a Bread Loaf student have made me a more qualified teacher and a professional with the confidence and commitment to lead. My Bread Loaf coursework prepared me to teach AP Literature
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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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-by Lou Bernieri Director, Andover Bread Loaf Real Talk: Stand Up, Speak Out! A conference for Youth and Adults about Creative Responses to Bullying Andover Bread Loaf’s organizing of a youth-driven public health campaign in Lawrence, Massachusetts, kicked off Friday, May 9, 2014, at Movement City with “REAL TALK: STAND UP, SPEAK OUT,” a conference for youth
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In 1995, Karen Mitchell was a third grade teacher in Juneau, Alaska, and a founding fellow of the Bread Loaf Rural Teacher Network (BLRTN), when she wrote “Reflections on the Evolution of a Teacher,” published in the Fall 1995 BLRTN Magazine. Her article included this passage: “I used to think it was a privilege to
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Brent Peters, English and Food Literacy teacher at Fern Creek High School in Lexington, Kentucky has written about the evolution of the “Navajo Kentuckians” group in each of the previous issues of the journal. (See “The Case for Food Literacy,” and “Navajo Kentuckians in the Garden of the Home God.”) In this excerpt from
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—by Brent Peters, funded by the C. E. and S. Foundation. Before becoming an English teacher and Bread Loaf student, Brent Peters worked as a chef at the Mayan Café in Louisville, Kentucky. Joe Franzen has been an urban gardener, sustainability enthusiast, environmental educator, and kitchen magician for years. He has turned Fern Creek Traditional High School
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