Literacy and Community Service Networks promotes and assists with programs that give young people a chance to communicate in writing, orally, and electronically with members of their communities. An important goal is to promote and include young people and teachers as leaders in community organizations and agencies, working with their peers and with adults.

Training, materials, technical assistance and qualitative evaluation of school and community projects are among Literacy and Community Service Networks' activities. Literacy and Community Service Networks works with partners to develop ways of using technology to support networking and action research projects.

	Resources and Project Links
		Neighbors: Stories of Fountain Inn edited by Chris Benson, Strom Thurmond Institute, Clemson University and Write to Change Neighbors is the product of the collaboration between the Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life and the STI and is acollection of stories by and about the people of Fountain Inn, SC. For a pdf copy of the book, click here Newspaper Articles: Book Highlights FI as safe place for kids - Tribune-Times, March 14, 2007 Fountain Inn neighbors share their stories - Greenville News, April 1, 2007 Fountain Inn kids write book on togetherness - Greenville News, April 16, 2007 Book celebrates Fountain Inn - Greenville News, April 3, 2007
		Program Evaluation at the Strom Thurmond Institute
			The Village Green (Greenville School District)
		Bread Loaf School of English
		Greenville Connections -- News about the Bread Loaf Teachers' Network for Greenville County Teachers and Students Supported by the School District of Greenville County and Bread Loaf School of English.
			Vol.1, Issue One, Fall/Winter 2002-2003
			Vol.1, Issue Two, Spring/Summer 2003
			Vol.3, Issue One, Winter 2004
		Bread Loaf Teacher Network (SC, GA, MS, VT, CO, NM, AZ, AK)
		Bread Loaf Teacher Network Magazine
			Fall 2006 Bread Loaf Teacher Network Magazine
		Bread Loaf Rural School Network (an Annenberg Rural Challenge partnership)
		Bread Loaf News, Articles & Information -- News about the Bread Loaf Teachers' Network and the Bread Loaf School of English.
			Denton Helps Students Find Online Voice Gail Denton, 2006 Bread Loaf School of English graduate and editor of the Winter 2005 and Fall 2006 Bead Loaf Teacher Network Magazines (more info here) and the Greenville Connection was selected as Teacher of the Week on April 18, 2007.
			Writing and School Reform The Bread Loaf School of English was listed in the 2006 report of The National Commission on Writing as one of the most prominent national resources for best practices in the teaching of writing.
			Students at the Center in New Orleans:  Literacy & Social Action This Segue electronic portfolio is about a program in several New Orleans public schools that uses writing for and with the community to create learning and change with young people. It's also about a group of Bread Loaf graduate students.
			Students, Bread Loaf mentors finally get to meet face-to-face -- by Sandi Chaney, theItem.com
			Carnegie Corporation Awards $1.2 Million to Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English for Urban Teacher Network
			Technology and Education at the Bread Loaf School of English
			Successful BreadNet Project Requirements
			1999 South Carolina Bread Loaf Rural Teacher Network Heritage Project
			The Hub of Learning -- by DeeAnne Kimmel
		Write to Change Partnership Projects
		The Way Hands Write - Northwest Middle School Literary Magazine.   Writing selections by students of Janet Atkins and other faculty members of the Travelers Rest, SC school.
			The Way Hands Write -- Volume I, 2001-2002.
			The Way Hands Write -- Volume III, May 2004.
		Students at the Center Program in New Orleans
		The Bee Project - Archibald Rutledge Academy, McClellanville, SC
		The Honey Bee Project - by Meredith Reeves
		Long Nails - a tribal story translated from Yup'ik by the 6th Grade Students of Lewis Angapak Memorial School (Alaska) BLSE Breadnet Exchange with Navajo Nation class partners in New Mexico.
		Clarks Point, Alaska - a book written by 6-8th grade students about life in Alaska and of their Yup'ik Native American history and culture.
		The Aleknagik Way:  Alaskan Style - a book written by 5-8th grade Aleknagik School students about life in Alaska and of their Yup'ik Native American history and culture.
		A Young Naturalist's Guide To Living Things of the South Carolina Lowcountry - by Mrs. Lanie Youngman's Second Grade Class, St. James-Santee Elementary School, Charleston County Public Schools *Note: A 10.6 Mb PDF file, please be patient downloading this.
		International Cultural Cybermuseum of Lawrence
			"Whispers From the City" - by the Lawrence Student Writers Workshop
			"Innocence Lost:  The reality of child labor in India" - A photojournalism project of the Diamond Jubilee High School for Boys (DJB) in Mumbai (Bombay), India
		News Articles
			"A Young Writers' Round Table, via the Web" and "Helping Hands for Homework" - by Lisa Guernsey of the New York Times
			"YLI hosts Media, Literacy and Civic Engagement Summer Institute" - by Pam Bryant
		Spencer Foundation Teacher Research Project
		School and Community Program Evaluation
		Writing and Performing Across Communities Partnership Projects
		Online Resources
			Language Arts Curricula & Pedagogy
			On-line Libraries
			Language Arts Index Sites

	Publications
		Writing to Make a Difference:  Classroom Projects for Community Change - By Chris Benson and Scott Christian and Walter H. Gooch and Dixie Goswami
		Shaped by the Landscape:  Communities and Classrooms - By Dixie Goswami
		Andover Bread Loaf Writing Workshop Newsletter
		Electronic Networks - a book written by practicing classroom teachers about actual instructional computing projects in real classrooms.
		Exploring the Rhetoric of International Communication: An Agenda for Teachers and Researchers Edited by Carl R. Lovitt with Dixie Goswami
		Computer Conferencing, Networking, and the Changing Nature of School Work
		Annotating a Life: A Bio-bibliography, 1968-1976
		Writing Poetry in the Chat Room
		Good Country Practice: Put the Horse Before the Cart and Curriculum Before Assessment
		Native American Ways of Learning: Profile of a Navajo Teacher
		Chatting Up Poetry: The Genesis of Two Poems

	Our Team
	Dixie Goswami (leader)
	Carolyn Benson (staff support)

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