Andover Bread Loaf Fall Newsletter 2015
A Phillips Academy Outreach Program
From the Director
What a year for ABL! Andover Bread Loaf transforms students, teachers, schools, and communities by igniting a passion for learning through written self-expression.
Both locally and globally, Andover Bread Loaf continued to spread literacy and promote community development. Here are a few highlights:
> In partnership with the Lawrence
History Center, we added a new summer program, Rising Loaves, to serve fifth- and sixth-graders.
> ABL’s Writing Work
shop for Teachers trained 20 teachers from four countries. They attended the Bread Loaf School of English’s 28th annual professional learning conference in Vermont, where ABL Associate Director Rich Gorham and staff presented ABL’s work to about 150 English Language Arts teachers.
> ABL’s Slice program at the Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence engaged and inspired first- through fourth-graders.
> Five ABL alumni attended the Bread Loaf School of English master’s program at Middlebury College on full fellowships.
> The Lawrence Student Writers Workshop
> ABL’s fifth international conference, “Writing for a Better World,” was held in Mumbai.
at Phillips Academy drew 70 middle school students plus 25 high school and college writing leaders.
ABL summer programs now serve students from first grade to graduate school. These programs—intentionally developed as models to be shared across the network—serve as laboratories for teaching and learning. ABL satellites in New York City, New Orleans, Haiti, India, Pakistan, El Salvador, and Kenya continue to hold conferences and workshops to spread the word. Through it all, young people are at the center as creators of knowledge and writing leaders.
It’s important to integrate music with writing! Thanks to guidance from ABL staff member and NYC music teacher Alan Nuñez, ABL teachers Rosanne Driscoll and Daiana Garcia—along with workshop teachers and students—used Taiko drumming to help create their own group songs and lyrics.
Thank you for your past gifts to ABL! Your continued support ensures that thousands of deserving and motivated students, teachers, and community members can continue to learn, teach, grow, share, and inspire others.
Guest poet Anthony Morales (see page 2) gets his audience excited about telling their stories. His prompt for workshop students and teachers was to write a letter to their future selves.
What’s Inside? Rising Loaves launches
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Guest poet returns
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Pathways study update
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Our generous donors
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Photographers: Gil Talbot and John Hurley
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Lou Bernieri
New Partnership
Rising Loaves Learn First-Hand at Lawrence History Center
Thirty middle schoolers and writing leaders met daily for three weeks in the heart of Lawrence—in the compound where, more than 100 years ago, the Essex Company planned the city, constructed the dam for water power, and maintained maps and records. Along with learning to write, share, and express themselves the Andover Bread Loaf way, the group took advantage of the fact that they were surrounded by history. Students learned about the history of the mills, the Bread and Roses Strike, and the immigrant workers who built the city. They met in the stable and had small-group discussions in the carpenter and blacksmith shops. They visited the walk-in safes where all the maps and records are archived and then walked out into the community and
Students at the Rising Loaves workshop at the Lawrence History Center are intrigued by their city’s rich history, being shared here by ABL’s Lorena German, a codirector of the new program.
connected the images and maps to real structures that make up Lawrence today. “Lawrence is a big history book!” said one student. Their city has become a place to investigate the past. A parent, impressed with her son’s new knowledge, explained that before, when they traveled through the city by bus, her son would keep his head down. “Now Angel points to various buildings, names them, and explains some of their history,” she says. —Mary Guerrero ABL Rising Loaves codirector and former Lawrence teacher
Teach
A new ABL program for fifth- and sixthgraders, called “Rising Loaves,” finally became a reality this past summer, thanks to the direction of Lou Bernieri, the hard work of a team of teachers and community members, support from UMass Professor Robert Forrant, and a grant from the UMass Creative Economy Fund.
The students gained a sense of their place in the history of a city where many different immigrant groups have lived over the years.
Guest Spotlight
This Poet Loves Lawrence “Lawrence is a beautiful city with a rich history and energetic folks ready to make a difference in their own lives—even without outside input,” says Anthony Morales, spoken word poet, teacher, speaker, and actor. “The change and solutions to any community’s problems first have to come from the people. What are their ideas to solve their own issues?” Since graduating from Phillips Academy in 1998, Morales has returned every year to lead an ABL student or teacher workshop. “The folks I’ve worked with in Lawrence have stayed with me throughout my career as an educator, demonstrating the possibilities of change when we are dedicated to creating structures that support and platforms that provide power to the people,” says Morales. “I wish I could work in Lawrence full time!”
“During ABL workshops, you can truly witness the magic being cultivated one student at a time, one story of a life,” says Anthony Morales, who performed his poetry on campus this past summer. “I am grateful for all the chances to share my own experiences with young people who remind me so much of myself.”
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Morales says his transition from growing up in the Bronx to life at Andover was very difficult, but he eventually found good friends through a student club for African Americans and Latinos, developed pride in his own culture, and started writing and performing poetry on campus. Morales describes Lou Bernieri, his former English instructor, as a mentor and colleague, but also as “a father figure who has given so much to people around him.” Morales returned to NYC after Andover to get closer to his family, community, and opportunities to study and explore Nuyorican literature. He graduated from Columbia with a degree in English and Latino Studies in 2002 and has been teaching ever since. Most recently, Morales facilitated a spoken word/hip hop class meant to push students to share their voices with their peers and communities.
Yearlong Study Continues
Pathways Notes ABL Accomplishments As part of a yearlong assessment of ABL and its many activities, Eva Gold, PhD, of Pathway Strategies, has observed ABL workshops, classrooms, and Family Literacy Nights in Lawrence and interviewed program staff, partner organizations, students, teachers, parents, and writing leaders. Her colleague, Elaine Simon, PhD, has conducted phone interviews with ABL teacher-leaders in other cities and parts of the world. Their July report to the board noted:
> ABL pursues a model of educational
change unique in its depth and breadth of community involvement.
> The program’s purposeful expansion
outside the school system builds valuable community partnerships.
> ABL offers many opportunities for
Lawrence citizens to become acquainted with and part of the ABL community.
> ABL provides youth with opportunities
to become writing leaders who help others learn the power of their voice and the value of self-expression.
> The program offers professional devel-
opment opportunities to teachers from Lawrence, other U.S. cities, and around the world.
> Educators who are part of the ABL
network have additional learning opportunities at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English and access to a supportive group of peers who can learn from one another.
This study is made possible by a grant from ABL Advisory Board member Scobie Ward.
ABL’s Lou Bernieri and Rich Gorham, director and associate director, respectively, received the Lawrence History Center’s 2015 Eartha Dengler History Award on June 18 for their role in developing a writing program that inspires young people, teachers, and community members to tell their stories.
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Our Generous Donors We gratefully acknowledge our 2014–2015 donors, whose generous contributions once again supported 100 percent of the Andover Bread Loaf operating budget.
Foundations & Organizations During a workshop on the Phillips Academy campus, writing leader Celeste Cruz (right) and her students find a quiet place to review their project.
ABL Advisory Board Michael T. Cahill ’84, Chair New York, N.Y.
Sanjiv S. Desai ’89 Coconut Grove, Fla. José A. Dobles ’98 Brooklyn, N.Y. Ricardo Dobles ’85 Holden, Mass. Richard B. Gorham ’86 Andover, Mass. Cynthia L. Greene ’87 Newton, Mass. Donald M. Kendall ’85 Weston, Conn. Tucker Levy ’88 Charlestown, Mass. Abby J. Shuman ’84 Cambridge, Mass. Gabriela Poma Traynor ’88 Cambridge, Mass.
Support
Timothy P.F. Davenport ’80, P’17, ’17 New Canaan, Conn.
Scobie D. Ward ’84 Hong Kong Sturgis P. Woodberry ’84 Darien, Conn.
Andover Bread Loaf
Betty Beland Greater Lawrence Summer Fund Center for the Collaborative Classroom City of Lawrence City of Springfield Edward S. & Winifred G. Moseley Foundation Merrimack Valley People for Peace Rogers Family Foundation South School PTO Abbot and Dorothy H. Stevens Foundation The White Fund, Inc.
Individuals Fred L. Adair Jr. ’69 Fernando R. Alonso Julia A. Alvarez ’67 Luis B. Andrade ’86 AJ Augustin ’15 Sharyn Bahn Broughton H. Bishop Jr. ’79 Philip J. Bond, P’10 Phoebe W. Brown ’84 Julie Welch-Bucceri & Mark J. Bucceri Michael T. Cahill ’84 & Hilary W. Addington Berit K. Campion ’92 Charles W. Carl Jr. ’48 David A. Carnoy ’83 Martin A. Clarke ’83 Margaret W. Coffin ’03 Laura J. Cox ’88 Timothy P.F. Davenport ’80, P’17, ’17 Sanjiv S. Desai ’89 Tenley E. Eakin ’02 Patricia H. & George H. Edmonds, P’79, ’82 Patrick J. & Karen J. Farrell, P’08 Lisa M. Foster ’84, P’12 David N. Frechette ’89 Martha Abbruzzese Genieser ’87 John H. Goldsmith
Alice S. Goldsmith Cynthia L. Greene ’87 & David L. Jegen Galen R. McNemar Hamann ’95 Anja-Britt Hanson ’84 Roberta E. Hantgan Steven A. Harrington ’81 Richard B. Harrington ’85 R.D. Alexander Humphreys Uzoma K. Iheagwara ’04 Robert & Michelle S. Janoschek, P’16 Wayne T. Jervis III ’87 Abigail C. Johnson ’71 Tiffany D. Joseph ’00 Margaret M. Kobelski Michael J. Koehler ’94 Elee E. Kraljii Gardiner ’88 Jonathan P. Kukk ’86 Samuel Kit Bunn Lai ’00 & Sachiko Ozawa ’99 Katrina Moiso Lamkin ’83 Marcella Larsen ’84, P’18 Tucker Levy ’88 Ann M. Libbey ’85 Thomas P. Lockerby & Kathleen J. McCrickerd Eudy D. Lopez Sr. & Niurka Diaz, P’17 Angela S. Lorenz ’83, P’14 Elizabeth V. MacMillan ’08 Charlotte L. MacMillan ’05 Ashley E. MacMillan ’04 Wanda Y. Mann ’90 Anne Marino Patrick J. McCormick ’83 Olivia D. Morgan ’90 Peter B. ’73 & Elizabeth Roscoe Morin ’76, P’07 Michael W. Morris Jr. ’86 John H. Moulton ’88 Kevin L. Murphy ’80 Eric Neyman ’86 Kevin J. O’Brien ’92 Constance Drayton Old ’80 Tyler S. Olkowski ’13 John G. Palfrey & Catherine A. Carter
Caroline Goodson Parker ’88 Louise Parsons Parry ’90 Peggy Potts Edward M. ’72 & Deborah Rogers Pratt ’75 Margaret W. Ramsey ’03 Bruce Reider ’67, P’10 Nicole E. Roberts ’02 Linda M. Rodriguez ’93 Christopher P. Rokous ’80 Wilfred J. Romero & Elizabeth Nelson, P’12 Norman H. Rothschild ’86, P’10 Wendy Bolton Rowland ’60 & Daniel B. Rowland ’58 Larry Russell Alisa Savetamal ’85 Mary E. Schiavoni ’69 Michael T. & Carolyn O. Shannon, P’07, ’12 Masood A. Sheikh Katherine S. Sherrill ’10 Matthew D. Shine ’86 Rosanne P. & Daniel Shine Jr., P’86, ’91 Daniel G. Shleifer Abby J. Shuman ’84 & Dean Eaton Veronique S. Prado-Lacoste Smondack ’98 R. Jordan Smyth Jr. ’84 Robert C. Spang III ’05 Lisa A. Stott Catherine D. Tousignant ’88 Gabriela Poma Traynor ’88 Ernesto & Cristina G. Valdesolo, P’96, ’99 Heidi L. Van Horn ’86 Suzanne E. Sherrill Waggoner ’80 Scobie D. Ward ’84 Nathaniel L. Waters ’95 Juma O. Waugh ’98 R. Kingman & Dee Webster George & June Wermers Allen C. West ’48 John K. Wilson ’86 Carolyn & Sturgis P. Woodberry ’84 Torrance B. York ’84 Anonymous (1)
P = Parent of current or former Phillips Academy student Donor list reflects gifts received between July 1, 2014, and June 30, 2015.
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