So, it’s the second day of our last retreat, which feels odd somehow: maybe it’s just that we’re not quite in summative assessment mode in my other classes yet, though I’m not surprised that a) “What’s the Story?” […]

For most of my time in high school, I’ve been participating in forms of progressive education to further causes that I really believe in, but until this year I’d never experienced anything like “What’s the Story?” […]

Yesterday, I interviewed UVM associate professor Cynthia Reyes for the second time, along with a doctoral student with whom she works named Hemant Tamang-Ghising. I’d made a list of the topics Cynthia and I […]

Yesterday, our team visited Winooski and Burlington all day, conducting the bulk of our interviews. Organizing this was actually quite a feat, as the five of us go to four different schools and only one of us can […]

These past few weeks have definitely required the most consistent work for this course so far this year, in that it has really been composed of keeping up correspondences, making logistical decisions, and locking […]

I feel as though this retreat has served to catapult my group into the interview phase of the process. There’s definitely a tight timeline, and it will require consistent communication, updates, and mutual […]

A lot of what I did this week involved logistics to get myself and my team ready to move into the interviewing phase and the coming retreat. I read my teammates’ blogs to catch myself up on their thinking, I […]

A big part of my work this week was beginning to draft some interview questions (something I think will be a continued goal in the coming week), and one of my biggest challenges there was trying to create […]

This week, I mostly focused on doing some more research and thinking about the topic in light of the formation of our team and the new added focus on cross-/intercultural communication. I read Erin’s blogs (and […]

I wasn’t exactly sure how this retreat was going to look. I knew that we would have to come to consensus about which topics to focus on and the breakup of groups, but I was also a little nervous about that: the […]

I want to make Vermont educational communities more inclusive, appreciative, and effective places for New Americans and English Language Learner students in ways that allow everyone to grow in new directions […]

Imagine that there is a war in your country, one that threatens your rights and your safety and those of the people you love. You have no choice but to evacuate and emigrate to another country. You are young, […]