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Welcome Fallon Abel, BLTN Associate Director
- Join BLTN Colleagues October 5 via Zoom
- Change Action Grants are Due Today!
NCTE 23: Come to the BLSE Reception
Last Call: Join What's the Story? The Young Filmmakers' Social Action Team for the '23-'24 School Year
Understanding College Admissions: Middlebury Offers Information Session to BLTN Educators
Congratulations to BLTN Summer '23 BLSE Graduates
BLTN Book Club: Fellows Create Year-long Professional Learning Sequence
- NextGen Preview: Gun Violence Prevention, Santa Fe Indian School, and Andover Bread Loaf Visits Ahead
- BLSE Re-Enrollment Opens
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Welcome back! After a vibrant and productive summer, with 36 fellows spread over three campuses and online, we're pleased to resume our school year communications. This newsletter will be published monthly through April.
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Welcome Fallon Abel, BLTN Associate Director |
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We’re thrilled to welcome Fallon Abel (MA ’19) to our leadership team. Beginning in October, Fallon will serve as BLTN’s Associate Director. In that capacity, she’ll assist Director Beverly Moss in all aspects of BLTN programming. She’ll be onsite in Vermont during the summers, and available online year-round. Fallon, who just completed a Fullbright Fellowship in Finland, teaches at The Sharon Academy in Sharon, Vermont. "The relationships I've made with other educators through the Bread Loaf Teacher Network have had an indelible influence on my teaching and students," she remarks. "It's an honor and privilege to get to support other teachers in developing collaborations and projects that will enrich their communities."
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Join BLTN Colleagues October 5 via Zoom |
You're invited to join BLTN colleagues Thursday, October 5 for an informal catch-up via Zoom. Please let us know what you'd like to discuss by emailing to tpmckenn@middlebury.edu. This is the first in a series of optional BLTN meetings, open to past and present fellows, and all supporters of BLTN. Register for your personal Zoom link.
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Change Action Grant Applications are Due Today |
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What's the Story? The Young Filmmakers' 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 to make a difference in their communities around a topic of their choosing. Formerly open only to Vermont students, the program is now open to full participation from beyond Vermont for small groups of youth with a local mentor available. Contact Tim O’Leary, Director, immediately if you plan to apply.
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NCTE 2023: Come to the BLSE Reception
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The theme for the 2023 NCTE Annual Convention is "Conexiones: Communicate, Collaborate, Create." The conference is in Columbus, Ohio this year, November 16-19.
The Bread Loaf School of English invites you to a student and alumni reunion Friday, November 17, 2023, from 6-9 pm at Barley's Brewing Company Appetizers and drinks will be served, and spirits will be high! This event is open to all Bread Loaf students and alums, whether you’re attending the conference or not. Hosted by the BLTN team of Beverly, Tom, and Gillian, this festive event will be a time to reconnect with BLTN folks from near and far.
We hope to see you there!
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RSVP by October 30th, 2023, to Gillian at gzieger@middlebury.edu, and please indicate whether you’re bringing a guest(s).
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Understanding College Admissions: Middlebury Offers Information Session to BLTN Educators
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Do your students ever ask for your advice and input when they are applying to college? Have you ever wondered what becomes of the recommendations you write? What kinds of essays leave an impression on those who read college applications and make enrollment decisions? How are colleges and universities responding to the recent SCOTUS decision regarding the use of race in the admissions process?
Perhaps you’ve asked yourself some of these questions in your work with students, especially of late as the landscape of selective college admissions has been changing. We’d like to give you an opportunity to have these questions answered and to ask any others that might inform your work with high school students as they begin applying to college.
Sam Prouty, Executive Director of Admissions at Middlebury College (and Bread Loaf graduate), will offer a virtual “Understanding College Admissions” session to BLTN teachers on Tuesday, September 19 at 7:30 pm (ET). To register, please click here. Please note that the session is intended to convey general information about the admission process; it is not intended to address admission to Middlebury in particular.
The session will allow plenty of time for Q&A, so bring your questions! If you would like to send questions before the session, email them to bmoss@middlebury.edu before September 19th. We hope to see you on Zoom on 9/19!
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Congratulations to BLTN Summer '23 BLSE Graduates |
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BLTN congratulates five veteran and dedicated fellows who each earned their Master of Arts in English this summer. We look forward to many years of collaboration to come, John, Lauren, Alex, Erin, and Michelle!
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John Hall, who teaches at Waggener High School in Louisville, KY, graduated at the Monterey Campus.
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| Lauren Jewett, who teaches at KIPP Earnest N. Dutch Morial Primary in New Orleans, LA, graduated in Vermont.
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| Also a Vermont Campus graduate, Alex O'Brien teaches at Rick Marcotte Central School in South Burlington, VT.
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| BLSE graduates assemble on the quad at Lincoln College, August 2023. Photo by Simon Justice.
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Erin Tabor graduated at the Lincoln College, Oxford Campus. She teaches at Fordson High School in Dearborn, MI.
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| | Michelle Wnuk graduated in Vermont and returned to teach at Canton High School in Canton, CT.
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BLTN Book Club: Fellows Create Year-Long Professional Learning Sequence |
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Inspired by their learning in Professor Michelle Bachelor Robinson's Teaching African American Rhetorics course, fellows Genithia Hogges and Brian Hotchkiss planned a year-long sequence of collaborative text study and conversation as, in Genithia's words, "a space to keep the conversations going throughout the year so that we can continue to serve as thought partners for one another." Brian adds, "We will also choose work for ourselves, to inform, frame, and shape our thinking about our teaching practice, our students, and ourselves; and to affirm, encourage, and uplift us in our critical, urgent, righteous roles so that we may stay committed and resilient in them." Twenty BLTN fellows have signed up to participate. The first planning session is September 18, with the first meeting October 2.
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NextGen Preview: Gun Violence Prevention, Santa Fe Indian School, and Andover Bread Loaf Visits Ahead
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Amid an epidemic of gun-violence in schools and communities BLTN NextGeneration Leadership Network’s Youth Advisory Board closed last year with a commitment to learning how to safely advocate for peace and safety. In its first gathering of this year (September 20), the board will meet with leaders from the national advocacy groups Students Demand Action and Everytown in order to plan a panel discussion for the October meeting. Look for reports and insights as the young people staff the board and begin guiding the social action network.
Meanwhile, members will focus on two upcoming NextGen travel opportunities (thanks in part to the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation). Santa Fe Indian School (SFIS) has invited NextGen teams to a conference, "Remembering Who We Are and Where We Come From," leading up to the SFIS "feast day" as part of the Indigenous People's Day celebration in Santa Fe. Andover Bread Loaf (ABL) has invited small teams to come to their fall conference the weekend of November 4. Network director Tom McKenna comments, "There's nothing like youth hosting their peers, having fun together, and learning about local culture and traditions. These cross-site visits open hearts and minds in beautiful ways."
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Current Bread Loaf students should have received a notice with a link to re-enroll. (Be sure to select "Returning users.") Dates and courses will be added to the BLSE website later in the fall. dolsen@middlebury.edu .
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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 in the Anti-Woke Moment: Stories that Sustain Us.”
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