IMMERSIVE AND INTERDISCIPLINARY “Part site-based performance, part running tracker, part audio experience tour”. This is how Adrienne Mackey describes TrailOff, an innovative project partnering with the Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC), app developer Toasterlab, and ten storytellers from diverse backgrounds to bring interactive audio stories to the greater Philadelphia area trail systems using responsive technology and… Continue reading TrailOff: Stories, Tech, and Nature Converge in Site-Based Collaboration
Category: Master’s Degree
Activist Heather Jo Flores, author of Food Not Lawns.
Heather Jo Flores, a singer-songwriter, author and poet, permaculture activist, visual artist, and yogi, has led a far from ordinary life. Out of rough beginnings—she was a homeless youth; she comes from a low-income family; she was a high-school dropout; she was a sex worker in Santa Cruz; she was a pot trimmer—she learned to… Continue reading Activist Heather Jo Flores, author of Food Not Lawns.
Goddard Collaboration Inspires Poetry Chapbook
From “Sea to Shining Sea” Poet and writer Synnika Lofton teaches Literature, creates poetry, and operates a music and media production company in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia. Donnelle McGee writes poetry, operates a small publisher, and teaches at Mission College in Santa Clara California. Both artists met in Vermont at Goddard College. While three thousand miles… Continue reading Goddard Collaboration Inspires Poetry Chapbook
Transformative Educator is a Leader in Dual Language Higher Education
In first grade, Bárbara Martínez-Griego received Ds and Fs on her report card while in other areas, such as effort, courtesy, and conduct, she always got A’s. “The only comment made -every grading period- was, “Needs to speak more English at home,” always written in red ink.” While she may not have known it in… Continue reading Transformative Educator is a Leader in Dual Language Higher Education
A List of Awards Granted to Goddard’s MFA in Creative Writing Faculty
The writers who teach in the Goddard MFA in Creative Writing Program have been published and produced internationally, and are recognized in their fields. They are active writers. Collectively, current and recent faculty members have published more than 150 books, had plays produced around the world, and won most of the major U.S. literary awards.… Continue reading A List of Awards Granted to Goddard’s MFA in Creative Writing Faculty
BITING THROUGH: In recognition and celebration of Juneteenth
by Elena Georgiou “I think we often think of freedom as a destination. Freedom as a noun, freedom as a settled place, freedom as being settled. And this image to me is very much in line with, I think what my understanding of freedom is. That it is constantly in motion. It’s constantly shifting. There is… Continue reading BITING THROUGH: In recognition and celebration of Juneteenth
Interdisciplinary Arts MFA Alums are Still Resonating
Pugs (Daniel Seung) Pugliese, along with a couple of his peers, reflects on his his experience at Goddard’s low residency MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program. All photographs were taken by Pugs during graduating weekend, which took place in January 2020. Three months out from receiving my MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College, I find… Continue reading Interdisciplinary Arts MFA Alums are Still Resonating
Digitally Remastered: Theater in the Pandemic
Fran Sillau in Conversation with Ruth Wallen This interview with Fran Sillau one of several with Goddard alums exploring how they are adapting teaching and collaborative practices to the social isolation in which we find ourselves. This interview with MFAIA-VT Lead Faculty, Ruth Wallen, was conducted remotely in early May 2020. Fran Sillau graduated from Goddard College’s… Continue reading Digitally Remastered: Theater in the Pandemic
Teaching Pottery Online: Art Practices in a Pandemic
Willi Singleton in Conversation with MFAIA Lead Faculty, Ruth Wallen Willi Singleton has been wood-firing his climbing kiln in Kempton, Pennsylvania for thirty-three years, using mostly clay taken from Hawk Mountain mixed with Stancill’s clay from the northern Chesapeake coast. Willi studied Visual Art at The Evergreen State College 1981 before pursuing wood-fired ceramics in Japan… Continue reading Teaching Pottery Online: Art Practices in a Pandemic
What Uncertainty Teaches
By Polly Young-Eisendrath Originally published on March 30, 2020 Republished with permission from the author Living in the time of COVID-19 gives all of us a strong and clear taste of uncertainty. Our welfare is on the line and we are trapped at home with our questions, our vulnerabilities, and the vulnerabilities of others. Even… Continue reading What Uncertainty Teaches
$200k Gift Announced for MFAW Student Emergency Fund
We are delighted to announce that Goddard recently received an anonymous gift of $200,000 (plus an additional $30,000 to cover grant administration costs) to establish an emergency fund for students in the MFA in Writing Program. MFAW students will be able to apply for a grant of up to $3,000 per semester to help with unforeseen financial… Continue reading $200k Gift Announced for MFAW Student Emergency Fund
The Soft Parade: A Writer’s Response to COVID-19
While we all are destined to reach a point of stop-breath finality, our routes towards this summit traverse different topographies, navigate different twists of watercourse, and feel different illuminations of heat. Still, we mark similar paths: we all are, simply, in time, going to die. I think of this truth, in one way, as belonging… Continue reading The Soft Parade: A Writer’s Response to COVID-19
The Long Walk of a Teacher
Everyday, when I get home from student teaching, I silently bring in my bag to the house. Without saying a word, I put on a hat and head back outside for a walk. I watch the bus pull up across the road, students hopping out and into the arms of their family members. I walk… Continue reading The Long Walk of a Teacher
Manifesting Goddard in Your Life
I was like many Goddard students. I discovered this remarkable student-centered pathway in the 1990’s but did not enroll until 2006. It took that long to manifest Goddard in my life, but it was well worth the discovery. I was an artist, educator and social worker in the midwest growing my tribe of five beautiful… Continue reading Manifesting Goddard in Your Life
An Epiphany of Hope: Sherri L. Smith’s Writing Process for “The Blossom and the Firefly”
Sherri L. Smith had been working on writing her Young Adult novel The Blossom and the Firefly. Late one evening, Sherri made a declaration to her husband. Three days before the editors deadline, she announced that she had just completed her first draft. But the conversation that followed made her rethink everything. In an interview… Continue reading An Epiphany of Hope: Sherri L. Smith’s Writing Process for “The Blossom and the Firefly”
The Teacher as Student: Graduate Degrees For a New Educational Era
by Bernard Bull, President of Goddard College Something new is happening in classrooms around the country. Project-based learning schools, Montessori schools, Waldorf schools, schools where every student has a personalized learning plan, and schools that are committed to creating more space for learner voice, choice, ownership, and agency are all popping up. There are more… Continue reading The Teacher as Student: Graduate Degrees For a New Educational Era
Kipnuk Kindergarten: Education Adventures in the Alaskan Tundra
by Maureen Benoit Kipnuk is a special place to live. This small village of about 700 people on the southwest coast of Alaska is located on tundra with access to major waterways like the Kuskokwim River, the Kuguklik River, and 4 miles from the Bering Sea. Kipnuk is in an extremely remote area accessible only… Continue reading Kipnuk Kindergarten: Education Adventures in the Alaskan Tundra
Alternative Education Enters the Mainstream
by Bernard Bull People often tell me that at one point in their lives they wanted to be a teacher. Well, what happened? Usually, I find that their reasons for not pursuing education came from a limited view of what was available and possible in education. Or else they thought they missed their chance. If… Continue reading Alternative Education Enters the Mainstream
Sustainability School in Guatemala is Inspired by Goddard
By Matt Paneitz I spent over a decade in San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala helping to transform 500 tons of trash (including 15,000 used tires) into a school campus. Many would call it “a crazy endeavor”. Through this work I started an NGO called Long Way Home with a mission “to use sustainable design and materials to construct… Continue reading Sustainability School in Guatemala is Inspired by Goddard
Radical Love: Q&A with Gina Forbes, Director of One Tree Center
Gina Forbes is the Director of One Tree Center in South Portland, ME. The Center includes a preschool that holds the phrase Radical Love at the center of its principles. Radical, in the true meaning of the word, meaning “at the root”. This rooted focus on love informs Gina’s work and manifested itself through her… Continue reading Radical Love: Q&A with Gina Forbes, Director of One Tree Center