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“How Do I Language?”: Linguistic Justice Lessons from Ninth Grade
0May 28, 2021 by Whitney Morgan and Collin LaJoie
Background Last summer we had the opportunity and privilege to meet with Bread Loaf professor Dr. April Baker-Bell as she …
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BLTN: Changing Lives and Changing Systems
0May 28, 2021 by BLTN Staff
Bread Loaf Teacher Network fellows compose reflective reports at key moments in a year. At the close of summer, they …
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Passion and Action: Hard Work, Intentional Rest, and Vulnerability in a Pandemic
0May 28, 2021 by Anna Russell Thornton
There is a piece of writing advice that floats around in my mind, the origin of which I no longer …
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Small Victories: Moments in the Pandemic
0May 28, 2021 by BLTN Staff
As BLTN members entered one of four Zoom meetings this year, they exchanged what Bread Loaf professor Ken Macrorie might …
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Reimagining the Classroom: BLTN Teachers Offer Support and Strategy
6May 21, 2020 by Tom McKenna
“…Even as they participate in supportive networks like BLTN, teachers are finding themselves bombarded with new demands and online resources…From one meeting to the next, teachers shared not only how they were surviving and striving to meet student needs, and how they were coping with ‘Zoom fatigue,’ but they gave sparkling accounts of the sources of joy they were finding despite quarantined life….”
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Reclaiming the Classroom: A Retrospective on Bread Loaf’s Foundational Work in Classroom Inquiry
0May 21, 2020 by Tom McKenna
“… former Bread Loaf faculty member James Britton’s call for ‘the decade of the classroom teacher,’ for ‘the full potential of interactive teaching and learning’ requiring ‘all the help we can give them’ may have arrived in 2020….”
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Affirmation and Invitation: Say Yes to Pears
3May 21, 2020 by Tom McKenna
“…This is no ordinary pedagogy book. Joe and Brent invite us graciously into their practice, involve us in planning the ingredients for our own contexts, and they provide literal and figurative feasts for experiences (in high schools of all places) of community and affirmation…”
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“Nothing, If Not Critical”: Learning Critical Thinking While Hanging Out with a Scholar
3May 21, 2020 by Kayla Hostetler
“…These young people and their teacher demonstrate the best of teaching and learning, and we are all lucky that our future is in their hands…”
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Opportunities out of Nowhere: Karachi Connections
0May 21, 2020 by Tom McKenna
“…The virus came from nowhere, but it also brought opportunities from nowhere. TSW was fortunate to be associated with Andover Bread Loaf and the wider Bread Loaf Teacher Network. Although these are trying times that are constantly evolving, one lesson learned is that collaboratives, collectives, and networks are the way to go…”
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Bread Loaf Teacher Network: A Resource for Virtual Teaching and Learning in Time of Pandemic
1May 21, 2020 by Dixie Goswami
“…When the pandemic hit our youth we were able immediately to access caring, knowledgeable adults and each other….”
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