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  1. BLTN Book Club Keeps Up Connection

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    May 24, 2024 by Brian Hotchkiss

    Every first Monday of the month, we convened BLTN Book Club to bring teachers closer: to one another and to the pedagogical principles and social justice virtues we aspired to in The Barn.

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  2. Travelers, Interviewers & Historians: DC Students Take on a New Way of Learning in Panama 

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    May 24, 2024 by Danika Robison

    On the surface, Portobelo’s surrounding crystal waters and quiet streets could lull one into thinking that it is a sleepy town, but our experiences there quickly taught us otherwise.

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  3. New Voices: A Networked Inquiry into Prison Reform

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    May 24, 2024 by Jennifer Summers

    We were excited to have our students connect and talk about their varied views on the criminal justice system and look into how prison systems differed among states.

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  4. From the Director

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    May 24, 2024 by Beverly Moss

    “Stay woke”—words of warning that blues singer Lead Belly sang in a 1938 song about the Scottsboro Nine (nine young Black boys who were wrongly accused of raping two white women in 1931)—have been used, in Black communities for over a century to remind us to be aware, to be careful.

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  5. Making Space: Tenth Graders Explore Place, Self, and Identity

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    May 24, 2024 by Nora Britton, Katherine Cusick and Rebecca Rose

    Over the course of the 2023-2024 school year, our tenth-grade students from Queens, New York; Mercersburg, Pennsylvania; and Middletown, Delaware, created a multimedia map with images, poetry, and corresponding personal essays and vignettes that documented a chosen place for each student.

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  6. Interrogating Resistance in the Classroom

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    May 24, 2024 by Kurt Ostrow

    How can we foster thoughtful dialogue about freedom-seeking tactics? On charged subjects such as Israel-Palestine, the climate crisis, and white supremacy, how can we invite all our students to think critically as philosophers and strategists?

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  7. Culture, Community, Connection: A Year of NextGen Advocacy and Action

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    May 24, 2024 by Tom McKenna

    The ten sites of the BLTN Next Generation Leadership Network (BLTN NextGen) were busy working locally and nationally this past …
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  8. What Happens in BLTN Does Not Stay in BLTN: Awards, Publications, Presentations from the 2023-24 School Year

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    May 24, 2024 by BLTN Staff

    Mary Baillie (Grangemouth, Scotland) directed Our Day Out by Willy Russell and is currently directing Ben Elton’s We Will Rock …
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  9. Dixie Goswami Action Grants: Writing and Meeting to Make a Difference

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    May 24, 2024 by BLTN Staff

    BLTN Director Emerita Dixie Goswami changed many teaching lives by helping teachers understand how and why they might help their …
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  10. Change Action Grants Awarded and Enacted

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    May 24, 2024 by BLTN Staff

    During the 2023-24 school year, BLTN Awarded two rounds of Change Action Grants to teachers eager to empower their students …
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