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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. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. Meet the 2024-2025 BLTN Fellows

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    May 24, 2024 by BLTN Staff

    BLTN Fellows come to us from 19 U.S. states, Washington D.C., and Scotland. They will study at all three of …
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  10. 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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