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Early Fall Gathering: Join BLTN Colleagues September 29 via Zoom
Dixie Goswami Action Grant Applications due October 15, 2022
Last Call: Join What’s the Story? The Vermont Young People Social Action Team for '22-'23 School Year
NCTE 2022: Who’s In?
Professor Eric Prichard Organizes Tracing the Stream: The Geographies of Black Feminist Literacies, Rhetorics, and Pedagogies Conference
- NextGen Preview: Navajo Nation and Andover Bread Loaf Ahead
Congratulations to BLTN Summer '22 BLSE Graduates
BLTN Teacher Spotlight: Andrew Marchesani
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Re-entry and Reflection: Join BLTN Colleagues September 29 via Zoom |
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Summer flew by. Recognizing our meetings were compressed, and hearing suggestions that you'd like some time to chat about your ideas, experiences, and questions, we're inviting you to set the agenda for our first fall meeting. All BLTN educators are invited to our first school year meeting from 7-8 pm Eastern on Thursday, September 29. Register for your Zoom link with the option of contributing comments, questions, or topics for our discussion. Sharing moments of Teaching and Writing for Joy (or less joyful aspects of post-Bread Loaf re-entry) always welcome!
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Dixie Goswami Action Grant Applications due October 15, 2022 |
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What's the Story? The Vermont Young People Social Action Team is a year-long program that provides middle and high school youth and educators with the tools, resources, and expertise they need to pursue their questions, collaborate with peers across the country, and create a documentary film produced to make a difference in their communities around a topic of their choosing. Formerly open only to Vermont students, the program this year is open to full participation from beyond Vermont. But tomorrow is the last day to apply for the full program. Contact Tim O’Leary and Bill Rich, Co-directors, asap if you intend to apply.
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Not quite ready to sign on for the full program? Affiliates are welcome any time! As an affiliate, you aren’t bound by the cohort’s schedules, but are supported in the principles and practices of What’s the Story?. View the information on becoming an affiliate here, and reach out to Tim and Bill at whatsthestoryvt@gmail.com with any questions. Don’t wait!
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The theme for the 2022 NCTE Annual Convention is ¡Sueños! Pursuing the Light! It would be our sueño to hear from you if you are attending and / or presenting. Let us know at bltn@middlebury.edu, or via BreadWeb, please. The conference is in Anaheim this year, November 17-20. Registration details are here. (Don’t forget that Goswami Action Grants could cover conference attendance.)
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Professor Eric Prichard Organizes Tracing the Stream: The Geographies of Black Feminist Literacies, Rhetorics, and Pedagogies Conference |
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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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NextGen Preview: Navajo Nation and Andover Bread Loaf Ahead
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The BLTN NextGeneration Leadership Network’s Youth Advisory Board will have its first meeting of the year on September 21. In addition to getting to know one another and reporting on site goals for the year, members will focus in on two upcoming NextGen travel opportunities, (thanks in part to the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation). La Casa Roja, our Navajo Nation site, has invited NextGen teams to a “peacemaking” workshop October 6, 7, and 8. Andover Bread Loaf (ABL) has invited small teams to come to their fall conference the weekend of November 5. Look for reports and insights as the young people staff the board and begin guiding the social action network.
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Congratulations to BLTN Summer '22 BLSE Graduates |
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BLTN congratulates Liz Farrow, Kurt Ostrow, Katie Jo Parrott, Leslie Schallock, Shaleisa Brewer, and Veronica Foster upon receipt of their M.A. degrees this summer. And we remind you all: Once a BLTNer, always a BLTNer!
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BLTN Teacher Spotlight: Andrew Marchesani |
Andrew Marchesani is three weeks into his first teaching job at Rosemont High School in Sacramento, CA teaching American Literature and English Language Development. Andrew has been a regular participant in BLTN for the past two summers, as he earned his M.A. in Education from the University of California Davis. During his student teaching year in Sacramento, Andrew conducted inquiry into his students’ experiences with visual literacy, paying special attention to graphic illustrated texts and animated films. Andrew’s group at C.K. McClatchy High School was a diverse group of students, many hailing from Afghanistan, China, Vietnam, and Latin America. A 2022 recipient of a Goswami Action Grant, Andrew purchased a class set of Thui Bui’s The Best We Could Do. His students were able to build community and deepen language skills based on this story of survival and cultural adaption. This year, Andrew hopes to collaborate with BLTN members around units on The Crucible and Raisin in the Sun. He will be working on The Crucible in October and A Raisin in The Sun in March. Anyone who would be interested in partnering is welcome to contact Andrew, who comments, "I feel lucky to be working with these students. This is such a fun job."
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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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