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Seeds of Change: Mini-Grants for Social Change and Conflict Transformation
0May 31, 2023 by Colin Baumgartner
This fall, my students at J.R.Tucker High School in Henrico, Virginia, received a BLTN Change Action Grant from Middlebury’s Kathryn …
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From the BLTN Director: Teaching and Writing for Joy
0June 3, 2022 by Beverly Moss
As I sit here preparing another “From the BLTN Director” statement, I am filled with anticipation and excitement that BLTN …
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Organizing Youth Voice when the Stakes are High
0June 3, 2022 by Cole Moran
In December of this year, my students and I were made aware of an “innovation proposal” that would close our …
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Fraught Imaginaries: The Messy and Necessary Work of Giving Voice to Incarcerated Youth
2June 3, 2022 by Michelle Fountain and Leslie Schallock
Leslie Schallock, English Teacher at Secure Juvenile Detention Center, VA: In the spring of 2020 I saw a blurb for …
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What’s the Story? A *National* Young People Social Action Team
0June 3, 2022 by BLTN Staff
Over the past two years, What’s the Story? Vermont has begun to redefine “community spaces.” Originally conceived as the Vermont …
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Yaneris Collado: From BLTN Fellow to BLTN Staff
0June 3, 2022 by Beverly Moss
I am pleased to announce a new addition to the BLTN administrative team. BLSE alumna and former BLTN Fellow Yaneris Collado …
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Revolutionary Rest: Reflections on Survival and Hope at Year’s End
0June 3, 2022 by Lauren Jewett
It has taken me several days just to get to a point where I am starting to somewhat feel like …
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BLTN NextGen: Learning and Growing in Community Spaces
0June 3, 2022 by Tom McKenna
Once again this year, the BLTN NextGen Youth Advisory Board (YAB) led cross-network planning for the network as a whole. …
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From the BLTN Director: Conversations about Anti-racist Pedagogies and Ethical Teaching
0May 28, 2021 by Beverly Moss
When I think about BLTN’s commitment to youth advocacy and activism through literacy, teacher and youth collaboration across and within …
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Parable of the Sower: A Positive Afrofuturist Obsession
1May 28, 2021 by John Hall
When I first read Parable of the Sower in a 2017 Bread Loaf School of English class titled Cli-fi, it …
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