As I sit here preparing another “From the BLTN Director” statement, I am filled with anticipation and excitement that BLTN fellows will be gathering in person on our three Bread Loaf campuses this summer. I look forward to conversations in the Barn in Vermont and to the pictures posted on BLSE social media from our
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Five Bread Loaf Teacher Network fellows will attend the Bread Loaf School of English Summer Institute in Global Humanities: a three-week residential session, to run from July 18 to August 7, 2022, at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS) in Monterey, California. The fellows, who will be participating in BLTN conversations remotely, are Gladys Gitau-Damascus
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The Bread Loaf Teacher Network (BLTN) has named seven Teaching, Writing, and Acting for Change Fellows for 2022-23, a cohort to support the goals of the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation. Additionally, BLTN is offering Change Action Grants to active BLTN educators who undertake school or community projects focused on “conflict transformation”: the
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In December of this year, my students and I were made aware of an “innovation proposal” that would close our public, open-enrollment high school and re-open it beholden to a private board. The “innovation school” process takes advantage of a curious loophole in Massachusetts state law that allows any parent, teacher, or organization related to
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Leslie Schallock, English Teacher at Secure Juvenile Detention Center, VA: In the spring of 2020 I saw a blurb for a new book release, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, by Nicole Fleetwood. I bought it, read it, and let it simmer until last summer when I was inspired to do a
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Bread Loaf School of English Dean Emily Bartels, BLTN Director Beverly Moss, and BLTN Director of Communications Tom McKenna were featured in Middlebury College’s Faculty at Home series on March 29, 2022. The Faculty at Home webinar series “invites you to engage in the digital space, to stay connected with faculty members, with big ideas,
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Over the past two years, What’s the Story? Vermont has begun to redefine “community spaces.” Originally conceived as the Vermont Young People Social Action Team, the program is in its eighth year of offering an unparalleled opportunity for Vermont students to work on issues of local importance, conducting interviews and other forms of research. During
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BLTN Director of Communications, Tom McKenna interviewed Caroline Eisner, Director of BreadNet, about her decades of helping to support BreadNet, the longstanding digital community of the Bread Loaf School of English. The Guide to Conferencing referred to in this conversation–drafted by Caroline in 1992–is available here. A list of BreadNet conferences in 1995 shows the
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I am pleased to announce a new addition to the BLTN administrative team. BLSE alumna and former BLTN Fellow Yaneris Collado will be joining the Bread Loaf Teacher Network as our new associate director. Yaneris, who completed her M.A. at the Bread Loaf School of English in 2021, comes to us from Andover Bread Loaf/Phillips Academy where
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It has taken me several days just to get to a point where I am starting to somewhat feel like I am in another galaxy or atmosphere of recalibration, regulation, and reflection (or as my friend Anna has framed it, revolutionary rest) after finishing my 13th year of teaching. Growing up, I used to look
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