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Conflict Transformation in Action: BLTN Fellows Design Projects for Change
- Dixie Goswami Action Grants: Last Call Today!
NextGen at Navajo: Peacemaking
BLSE & BLTN at NCTE
BreadWeb: Staying Connected
BLTN Teacher Spotlight: Fallon Abel (MA '19) Receives Fulbright for Research in Finland
Reminder: Professor Eric Prichard Organizes Tracing the Stream: The Geographies of Black Feminist Literacies, Rhetorics, and Pedagogies Conference
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Conflict Transformation in Action: BLTN Fellows Design Projects for Change |
Thanks to the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation, thirteen BLTN teachers have been funded to address issues related to conflict transformation in their local contexts. Projects target a range of poverty, racial inequity, and disability issues. They address social-emotional needs, and cultural, linguistic, and geographic isolation. Approaches include a resource fair, purchase of texts and musical instruments, multilingual family literacy events, video documentary and drama club support, classroom to classroom visits, and student training in restorative justice. Congratulations to BLTN's Colin Baumgartner, Laura Benton, Yili Fan, Matthew Haughton, Genithia Hogges, Kayla Hostetler, Lauren Jewett, Rabiah Khalil, Susan Miera, Alex O’Brien, Marianela Rivera, Anna Russell Thornton, and Jamie Wilber.
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Last Call: Dixie Goswami Action Grant Applications due TODAY. |
NextGen at Navajo: Peacemaking |
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BLTN NextGen's Navajo Nation site, La Casa Roja, hosted a conference focused on Navajo peacemaking and conflict resolution initiatives. Based at Diné College, where Rex Lee Jim (MA ’01, MLitt ’19) serves as Dean, the conference featured Diné College faculty, and youth and mentors from La Casa Roja, Louisville, South Carolina, and Lawrence, MA.
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Held Oct. 7 and 8, the gathering was organized by La Casa Roja mentors, Rex Lee Jim and Dr. Ceci Lewis (MA ‘99) and supported by funds from Middlebury's Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation. BLTN NextGen youth and mentors will convene next in Lawrence as they attend the Andover Bread Loaf Fall Conference, November 5.
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The theme for the 2022 NCTE Annual Convention in Anaheim November 17-20 is ¡Sueños! Pursuing the Light! We've heard from presenters Dr. Kayla Hostetler, Dani Sorrels, and Ashlynn Wittchow (MA '18). Look for them in your programs and find the Bread Loaf booth in the vendor area. Registration details are here.
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BreadWeb: Staying Connected
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During and after the September 29 BLTN Zoom meeting, BLTNers weighed in on how they would like to keep in touch, in addition to our every-other-month synchronous meetings. Ideas included a mix of responding to writing prompts together, discussing "problems of practice," reading published pieces together, and virtual visits to classrooms (along the lines of last year's Classroom Spotlights). Jacob Belvery, a 2022 Change Fellow, will prompt us to write and respond to one another for the remainder of October. Stay tuned for his prompt on BreadWeb, in the group BLTN General. In coming months, we'll have discussions hosted by Erin Tabor, Leslie Schallock, Kayla Hostetler, and Clara Natanobah. All are welcome. Contact Tom McKenna if you have questions about participating, or if you have an interest in facilitating an asynchronous discussion.
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BLTN Teacher Spotlight: Fallon Abel (MA '19) Receives Fulbright for Research in Finland |
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In her own words, she expects “to develop project-based, student-directed Social Emotional Learning (SEL) curricula for teens at TSA and other VT schools that will help address the rising behavioral and mental health issues we’ve been seeing.”
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Reminder: Professor Eric Pritchard Organizes Tracing the Stream: The Geographies of Black Feminist Literacies, Rhetorics, and Pedagogies Conference |
From Jackie Chicalese, graduate assistant to Dr. Eric Darnell Pritchard, Bread Loaf professor and the Brown Chair in English Literacy at the University of Arkansas:
"…[O]ur Black Feminist Symposium…pays homage to longtime member of the Bread Loaf School of English faculty, Dr. Jacqueline Jones Royster and her work, and features other Bread Loaf School of English administrators and faculty, including Dr. Beverly Moss and Dr. Eric Pritchard as speakers. The symposium, Tracing the Stream: The Geographies of Black Feminist Literacies, Rhetorics, and Pedagogies, is co-convened by Dr. Pritchard, and Dr. Carmen Kynard, the Lillian Radford Chair in Rhetoric and Composition at Texas Christian University. You can find more symposium information, including daily schedules, speakers, and a playlist, at the website previously linked.
The symposium will be held virtually, over Zoom, October 27–29 and is free to attend. If you’d like to register for the symposium, you can follow this link or navigate your way to the registration form through the Tracing the Stream homepage. Registration deadline is 10/20."
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Please notify us of accomplishments you’d like to share in the monthly newsletter. Contact Tom McKenna if you’re interested in publishing in the BLTN Journal, under this year’s theme, “Teaching and Writing for Joy.”
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