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  1. From the Director

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    May 27, 2025 by Beverly Moss

    Making connections allows us to be more resilient, to take risks, to embrace learning, to listen, to reflect, to create, to play, and sometimes to fail. 

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  2. Podcasting in Louisville to Honor Orality

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    May 27, 2025 by Mackensi Crenshaw

    I designed the course Oral Literatures and Traditions as an attempt to not only think about the intricacies of language but also to find a way for students to use orality in their own creative expression.

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  3. “Do I Have An Accent?”: Reflections on a Language Exchange

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    May 27, 2025 by Katie Cheng

    The goal of this language exchange was to invite students to examine the concepts of accentism, dialect, language, and linguistic prejudice…

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  4. Exploring Creation Myths with English Learners

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    May 27, 2025 by Valeriana Dema

    Our ELA team soon realized that creation myth texts are a perfect fit for newcomers because they contain simple but rich language and deal with intellectually rigorous themes.

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  5. Refuturing Dystopia: A Collaboration between Beyond the Page and the Canadian International School of Singapore

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    May 27, 2025 by Rabiah Khalil

    They walked in sunshine and drought, ran from conquerors who entered the city astride giant beasts, and witnessed mass arrests of neighbors whose behavior had never seemed suspicious before.

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  6. Trusting Youth as Storytellers: A Decade of Social Action through Film

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    May 27, 2025 by Tim O'Leary

    For a decade, What’s the Story? The Young Filmmakers’ Social Action Team has done something both radical and simple: it has trusted youth to identify the most urgent issues in their communities and then given them the tools, mentors, and space to tell those stories powerfully through film.

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  7. Meet the 2025-26 BLTN Fellows

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    May 27, 2025 by BLTN Staff

    This year, 41 BLTN fellows come to us from 18 U.S. states, Washington D.C., Canada, Scotland, and Singapore. They will …
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  8. Putting Literacy to Work: BLTN-Funded Action Grants

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    May 27, 2025 by BLTN Staff

    Images from “Books Unleashed: Dialogues across Differences,” Jennifer Coreas’ literacy outreach project in El Salvador. Goswami Action Grants for 2024-25  …
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  9. Voices of Others: Susan Miera Reflects on Three Decades with BLTN

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    May 27, 2025 by Tom McKenna

    In our conversation, Susan reflects on her transformation as a teacher as she discovered the power of connecting classrooms through BLRTN, and on her subsequent learning in the network over more than three decades, including what’s she’s learned about how to coordinate a successful student-run Writing Center. 

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  10. Berkeley High School Students Confer on Climate

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    May 27, 2025 by Zia Grossman-Vendrillo

    Berkeley High celebrated Earth Month with the third annual Universal Ninth Grade Climate Conference on April 18th. The event is the culmination of a week of climate learning in ninth grade core classes. Students have the opportunity to explore climate solutions through hands-on workshops from local experts.

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