Ketchikan High School, Ketchikan, AK
Schoenbar Middle School, Ketchikan, AK
Ganado Intermediate School, Ganado, AZ
Pojoaque High School, Pojoaque, NM,
Laguna Middle School, Laguna, NM.

The mission of the Bread Loaf Rural School Network is to encourage exchange of reform ideas across diverse rural communities. Each school sends teachers to the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College for summer graduate study and training in online technology. During the school year, representatives from each school attend meetings together, visiting each other's schools and communities and sharing ideas for addressing rural problems and building on the assets of rural communities.

A particular interest of the BLRSN is developing "pedagogy of place," or curriculum that is rooted in the specific community where a school is located. Using the community as a laboratory for learning, teachers incorporate native plants and animals, local cultural rituals, and community resources in their teaching.

Carolyn Benson
Literacy and Community Service Networks
Thurmond Institute
Perimeter Road
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634-0125

email: carolyn@strom.clemson.edu
phone: 864-656-4463
fax: 864-656-4780