‘Spring 2020’ Category
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Reimagining the Classroom: BLTN Teachers Offer Support and Strategy
6May 21, 2020 by Tom McKenna
“…Even as they participate in supportive networks like BLTN, teachers are finding themselves bombarded with new demands and online resources…From one meeting to the next, teachers shared not only how they were surviving and striving to meet student needs, and how they were coping with ‘Zoom fatigue,’ but they gave sparkling accounts of the sources of joy they were finding despite quarantined life….”
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Reclaiming the Classroom: A Retrospective on Bread Loaf’s Foundational Work in Classroom Inquiry
0May 21, 2020 by Tom McKenna
“… former Bread Loaf faculty member James Britton’s call for ‘the decade of the classroom teacher,’ for ‘the full potential of interactive teaching and learning’ requiring ‘all the help we can give them’ may have arrived in 2020….”
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Affirmation and Invitation: Say Yes to Pears
3May 21, 2020 by Tom McKenna
“…This is no ordinary pedagogy book. Joe and Brent invite us graciously into their practice, involve us in planning the ingredients for our own contexts, and they provide literal and figurative feasts for experiences (in high schools of all places) of community and affirmation…”
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“Nothing, If Not Critical”: Learning Critical Thinking While Hanging Out with a Scholar
3May 21, 2020 by Kayla Hostetler
“…These young people and their teacher demonstrate the best of teaching and learning, and we are all lucky that our future is in their hands…”
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Heart and Action: Virtual Family Literacy Night Brings Youth Network Together
0May 21, 2020 by Tom McKenna
“…’Peace looks like you and me,’ remarked one writer, ‘a 15-gallery view in Zoom, people writing and sharing in virtual spaces connected through the airways and our hearts’…”
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Opportunities out of Nowhere: Karachi Connections
0May 21, 2020 by Tom McKenna
“…The virus came from nowhere, but it also brought opportunities from nowhere. TSW was fortunate to be associated with Andover Bread Loaf and the wider Bread Loaf Teacher Network. Although these are trying times that are constantly evolving, one lesson learned is that collaboratives, collectives, and networks are the way to go…”
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Changemakers and Filmmakers: Vermont and South Carolina Students Learn from One Another
1May 21, 2020 by Tom McKenna
“…This is why we do this—for youth to learn ways to better understand themselves and help to change their worlds…”
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Bread Loaf Teacher Network: A Resource for Virtual Teaching and Learning in Time of Pandemic
1May 21, 2020 by Dixie Goswami
“…When the pandemic hit our youth we were able immediately to access caring, knowledgeable adults and each other….”
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A Teacher’s Call to Teachers: Review of Lorena German’s The Anti Racist Teacher: Reading Instruction Workbook
3May 21, 2020 by David Wandera
Dr. David Wandera is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Special Education, Language & Literacy at The College of …
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Not Another Statistic: SFIS Youth Address Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
0May 21, 2020 by Clara Natonabah
Clara Natanobah teaches at Santa Fe Indian School (SFIS) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is a BLTN Fellow, a …
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