‘BLTN Teachers’ Category
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Refuturing Dystopia: A Collaboration between Beyond the Page and the Canadian International School of Singapore
0May 27, 2025 by Rabiah Khalil
They walked in sunshine and drought, ran from conquerors who entered the city astride giant beasts, and witnessed mass arrests of neighbors whose behavior had never seemed suspicious before.
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Trusting Youth as Storytellers: A Decade of Social Action through Film
0May 27, 2025 by Tim O'Leary
For a decade, What’s the Story? The Young Filmmakers’ Social Action Team has done something both radical and simple: it has trusted youth to identify the most urgent issues in their communities and then given them the tools, mentors, and space to tell those stories powerfully through film.
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Meet the 2025-26 BLTN Fellows
0May 27, 2025 by BLTN Staff
This year, 41 BLTN fellows come to us from 18 U.S. states, Washington D.C., Canada, Scotland, and Singapore. They will …
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Putting Literacy to Work: BLTN-Funded Action Grants
0May 27, 2025 by BLTN Staff
Images from “Books Unleashed: Dialogues across Differences,” Jennifer Coreas’ literacy outreach project in El Salvador. Goswami Action Grants for 2024-25 …
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Voices of Others: Susan Miera Reflects on Three Decades with BLTN
0May 27, 2025 by Tom McKenna
In our conversation, Susan reflects on her transformation as a teacher as she discovered the power of connecting classrooms through BLRTN, and on her subsequent learning in the network over more than three decades, including what’s she’s learned about how to coordinate a successful student-run Writing Center.
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Berkeley High School Students Confer on Climate
0May 27, 2025 by Zia Grossman-Vendrillo
Berkeley High celebrated Earth Month with the third annual Universal Ninth Grade Climate Conference on April 18th. The event is the culmination of a week of climate learning in ninth grade core classes. Students have the opportunity to explore climate solutions through hands-on workshops from local experts.
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The People Can Fly: Exploring Black American Mythology and Folk Literature in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon
0May 27, 2025 by Angela Jones
Morrison understood why the mythology of flight resonated so deeply with Black Americans and why the oral literature around flight persists after two hundred years, even among today’s Black artists and intellectuals.
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BLTN Book Club Keeps Up Connection
2May 24, 2024 by Brian Hotchkiss
Every first Monday of the month, we convened BLTN Book Club to bring teachers closer: to one another and to the pedagogical principles and social justice virtues we aspired to in The Barn.
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Travelers, Interviewers & Historians: DC Students Take on a New Way of Learning in Panama
2May 24, 2024 by Danika Robison
On the surface, Portobelo’s surrounding crystal waters and quiet streets could lull one into thinking that it is a sleepy town, but our experiences there quickly taught us otherwise.
Category BLTN Teachers, Conflict Transformation, Spring / Summer 2024 | Tags:
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New Voices: A Networked Inquiry into Prison Reform
0May 24, 2024 by Jennifer Summers
We were excited to have our students connect and talk about their varied views on the criminal justice system and look into how prison systems differed among states.
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