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You're Invited: BLTN NextGen Youth Host February 18 Writing and Conversation Event
Important Deadlines Today: BLTN Mid-Year Reports, First Reading of 2023 BLTN Fellowship Applications
- BLSE Summer 2023: Courses, Fellowships, Re-enrollment
- 2023 Conflict Transformation Change Action Grant Applications Open
Spring 2023 Dixie Goswami Action Grants: Rolling Acceptance for Mini-Grants
NextGen Offers Affiliate Membership
- Fellow Feature: Colin Baumgartner's Students Write Mini-Grants for Social Change and Conflict Transformation
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Grant Opportunity: Community Literacies Collaboratory at the University of Arkansas
- BLTN Journal Call for Submissions: Teaching and Writing for Joy
- Bread Loaf Information Session: February 21
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You're Invited: BLTN NextGen Youth Host February 18 Writing and Conversation Event |
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Do you have students who love to write and discuss issues that matter to them and their communities? Youth (middle school or older and adults, too!) are welcome to join this youth-led writing and conversation event next Saturday morning, Feb. 18, 10 am Eastern until noon. The event has been conceived and planned by the BLTN NextGen Youth Advisory Board.
Please register for your Zoom link and encourage young people to do the same. (Attached is a PDF version of the flyer in case you'd like to print and post around your school.) The direct link to register is http://bit.ly/nexgenlove .
We hope to see you there!
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Important Deadlines Today: BLTN Mid-Year Reports, First Reading of 2023 BLTN Fellowship Applications
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Here's a reminder to current BLTN fellows to submit your Mid-Year Reports. Today is also the deadline for 2023 Fellowship Applications to be included in the first reading and first round of awards. If you have an application in progress and have any concerns or questions, Bread Loaf staff are happy to help. Contact us at blse@middlebury.edu.
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BLSE Summer 2023: Courses, Fellowships, Re-enrollment |
2023 Conflict Transformation Change Action Grants Open |
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Applications for awards ranging from $500-$3,500 are due by March 6.
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Spring 2023 Dixie Goswami Action Grants: Rolling Acceptance for Mini-Grants |
Since funding remains for the Spring 2023 Dixie Goswami Action Grants, BLTN teachers (current and former) may apply on a rolling basis for small grants ($250-$500) while funding lasts. Here's the link to guidelines.
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BLTN's NextGen Offers Affiliate Memberships |
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Are you a BLTN educator with a commitment to youth leadership and community action? Would you be interested in bringing a cohort in to the BLTN Next Generation Leadership Network?
Please contact Tom McKenna at tpmckenn@middlebury.edu for a preliminary discussion if you are interested in applying to join BLTN NextGen as an Affiliate Site. Affiliate members will be asked to name a Site Mentor, a Youth Advisor, and to bring a small cohort of youth into BLTN NextGen in 2023 for a year of learning and connecting. Through the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation, Bread Loaf will provide support for a Mentor, a Youth Advisor, and limited travel.
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Fellow Feature: Colin Baumgartner's Students Write Mini-Grants for Social Change and Conflict Transformation |
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Colin Baumgartner, who teaches at JR Tucker High School, in Richmond, Virginia used a Change Action Grant from the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation to challenge his students to write mini-grant proposals targeting local issues in their school and community. Students wrote proposals, including detailed budgets and narratives. Those who were funded conducted their projects and documented their work for public audiences. Proposals targeted recycling, art, reading, teacher appreciation, social exchange among students, equity in education, mental health awareness, makeup for disadvantaged women, neighborhood isolation, and trash spread.
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Samples of JR Tucker High School Students' "JRT Seeds of Change Projects" from a website in progress.
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Colin comments, "My big takeaway from this project is that students are often much more capable and thoughtful than we give them credit for. Students are deeply aware of the social issues and conflicts around them and most have an honest desire to do something about the conflicts in their communities. I have some students who are already working on larger grant applications and are taking initiative themselves outside of class. This was ultimately the goal of the project: to sow seeds and empower students to do things themselves once the grant projects have ended."
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Grant Opportunity: Community Literacies Collaboratory at the University of Arkansas |
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The Community Literacies Collaboratory (CLC), founded by Dr. Eric Darnell Pritchard, Bread Loaf faculty member, friend and advisor to BLTN, and Founding Director of the CLC / Brown Chair in English Literacy, University of Arkansas, offers grant programs that may be of interest to BLTN educators. The CLC grant programs give preference to work focused in Arkansas, but others are welcome to apply. The next deadline is February 28.
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BLTN Journal Call for Submissions: Teaching and Writing for Joy |
The theme for the Spring/Summer 2023 issue of the Bread Loaf Teacher Network Journal once again follows the summer scholarship, discussion, and planning around the topic of “Teaching and Writing for Joy.” We are seeking a wide range of responses to how you and your students employ teaching and writing to bring joy to your work. Our target length is 1500-2000 words. We welcome and encourage student voices and digital media. Contact Journal editor Tom McKenna for submission instructions, or to discuss an idea.
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Bread Loaf Information Session: February 21 |
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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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