‘Featured’ Category
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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…”
Category BLTN Teachers, Featured, Spring 2020 | Tags:
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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…”
Category BLTN Global, BLTN International, Featured, Spring 2020 | Tags:
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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….”
Category BLTN and Policy, BLTN NextGen, BLTN Teachers, Featured, Spring 2020 | Tags:
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Saving My Voice
0June 21, 2019 by Paul Barnwell
When I was asked–allowed–to untie my tongue in What’s the Story?, I began to understand that I was my own creator. I began to peel back my understandings of education and consider deeply what learning was. I worked for two years on multi-media campaigns exploring the experience of gender non-conforming students in Vermont middle in high schools. With that came an endless stream of events that have since changed my life.
Category BLTN NextGen, Featured, NextGen Vermont, Summer 2019 | Tags:
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Capable of Standing Up: Feeling Empowered to Create Change
0June 21, 2019 by Paul Barnwell
During the car ride home, we Vermonters reflected on the immense strength and possibility of NextGen. The Hazhó’ó Hólne’ Writing Conference would shape our social action work in Vermont as well as our personal roles in our communities for the rest of our lives.
Category BLTN NextGen, Featured, NextGen Vermont, Summer 2019 | Tags:
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NextGen: A Home for Change
0June 21, 2019 by Paul Barnwell
For the past few years my younger sister and I have been displaced, moving from house to house, never getting too comfortable or being too sure that we’d sleep in the same bed for more than a week. After being displaced again this past Christmas and feeling entirely alone with the weight of the world on my shoulders, I just mentally needed a place to go, a place where my situation didn’t exist, a place where I could be a kid—something I didn’t have the luxury of doing in my everyday life. I found that in NextGen.
Category BLTN NextGen, Featured, Summer 2019 | Tags:
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A Journey between Four Sacred Mountains
0June 21, 2019 by Paul Barnwell
As a group we all proposed ideas to stay in touch and ensure that NextGen survives. We owe that much to the youth that will come after us.
Category BLTN NextGen, Featured, Summer 2019 | Tags:
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Fancypants, Pen Pals, and Real English: Making Space for Learning with Uncertainty
0February 11, 2019 by Gregory Booth
Gregory Masterson Booth English Teacher Sheridan High School Thornville, OH “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks …
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Santa Fe Spotlight: Teaching Multimodal Writing in a Digital Age
0February 11, 2019 by Tom McKenna
Dr. Cruz Medina’s students rave about the balance of theory and practical application they experience in his course, Multimodal Composition …
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