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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Fancypants, Pen Pals, and Real English: Making Space for Learning with Uncertainty
0February 11, 2019 by Gregory Masterson-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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BLTN NextGen: A Youth Social Action Movement
0February 11, 2019 by Dixie Goswami
The Next Generation Leadership Network (BLTN NextGen) is a collaboration between Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English (BLSE) and …
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Defying Perceived Limitations: Lessons from a BLTN NextGen Internship
0February 11, 2019 by Dewight Leupp
Dewight Leupp 2018 BLTN NextGen Summer Intern University of New Mexico The capacity and willingness to learn is great among …
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Caption That!
0February 11, 2019 by Tom McKenna
Why it is important to caption your videos? How might captioning add to your content, and why might you want …
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What’s the Story? at Bellows Free Academy: A Vermont Collaboration
0February 10, 2019 by Nathan Archambault
Nate Archambault English Teacher Bellows Free Academy St. Albans, VT BLSE 2018 The dust had barely settled on my Bread …
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