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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Teaching and Writing for Joy in the Anti-Woke Moment

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    May 31, 2023 by Beverly Moss

    What does it mean to teach and write for joy? Poet Toi Derricotte’s 2008 poem “Joy is an Act of …
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  8. Insight on Sight: Seeing One Another across Difference

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    May 31, 2023 by Rabiah Khalil and Lauren Davenport

    Editor’s note: Rabiah Khalil and Lauren Davenport met as neighbors on the shores of Lake Dunmore in Summer 2022, not …
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  9. Meet the Fellows: BLTN 2023-24

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    May 31, 2023 by BLTN Staff

    BLTN Fellows come to us from 21 U.S. states, Washington D.C., Egypt, and Scotland. They will study at all three …
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  10. Some Serious Joy: Notes from BLTN

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    May 31, 2023 by BLTN Staff

    Last July, working under the theme, “Teaching and Writing for Joy,” BLTN teachers from each campus prompted one another to …
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