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Introduction, Ligaya Franklin, Jehan Senai Worthy
Introduction, Ligaya Franklin, Jehan Senai Worthy
Future Callings Lesson Plans
The authors provide an overview of the Future Callings project and explain the impetus for the creation of these lesson plans: to further inquiry about what professionalism is and how those in the early college network navigate between creating meaningful, committed, and sustainable worldmaking work while also maintaining their own sense of self." The authors also provide a statement on asynchronous work and share eight student learning outcomes.
Review: A Guide To Early College And Dual Enrollment Programs: Designing And Implementing Programs For Student Achievement By Russ Olwell, Ken Knox
Early College Folio
Review: A Guide to Early College and Dual Enrollment Programs: Designing and Implementing Programs for Achievement (Routledge, 2021) by Russ Olwell. Olwell is Associate Dean and Professor of Education at Merrimack College.
Transcript: "The House Of Education Needs Overhaul" Roundtable Discussion
Transcript: "The House Of Education Needs Overhaul" Roundtable Discussion
Early College Folio
This is a transcript of a recording of the June 24, 2021 Early College Folio launch event in celebration of the journal’s first issue. It includes a roundtable discussion, led by Issue Editor John Weinstein, with five of the authors who responded to Elizabeth Blodgett Hall's "The House of Education Needs Overhaul." The transcript has been edited slightly for publication. You can view the recording at this link: https:// youtu.be/LdbC7dq8TTc.
Local To Global: A Model For Engaged Activism And Student-Led Inquiry, Elisabeth Gambino
Local To Global: A Model For Engaged Activism And Student-Led Inquiry, Elisabeth Gambino
Early College Folio
Crafted during the Bard Early College Fellowship, this set of teacher guides and resources encourages engaged activism and stewardship within both the local and global communities, as exemplified through an arts and ecology curriculum.
Math And Politics, David Price
Math And Politics, David Price
Early College Folio
This lesson plan, crafted during the Bard Early College Fellowship, details a unit in which students develop their own voting systems and compare them to voting methods and other social choice procedures actually used throughout society. It reinforces the idea that many mathematical notions are human constructs, with strengths and weaknesses, rather than ideas that exist completely outside of human experience.
Social Justice In The Language Classroom Series: Argentina, Graciela Báez
Social Justice In The Language Classroom Series: Argentina, Graciela Báez
Early College Folio
This lesson plan, crafted during the Bard Early College Fellowship, details a unit in which students build their oral comprehension, speaking, reading and writing skills in Spanish. Students expand their vocabulary, adopt language to discuss and analyze films, and polish their writing and thinking skills in Spanish while learning about a historical moment that shaped an important social justice movement.
What Is History And How Do We Study History?, Jehan S. Worthy
What Is History And How Do We Study History?, Jehan S. Worthy
Early College Folio
This lesson plan, crafted during the Bard Early College Fellowship, details a six-lesson series to help set the foundations of writing a historical research paper by asking students to answer the following questions: Why does history matter? How do we study history?
Critical Writing: Challenging But Not Impossible, Nesrin Mcmeekin
Critical Writing: Challenging But Not Impossible, Nesrin Mcmeekin
Early College Folio
This lesson plan, crafted during the Bard Early College Fellowship, details a semester-long project during which students write one long essay in three different stages. The continuity in students’ written work will give them time to challenge their own arguments, consider counter-arguments to their thesis, and expand their paper with new texts they will encounter throughout the term.
Early College Pedagogy: An Introduction To The Bard Early College Fellowship, Ligaya Franklin
Early College Pedagogy: An Introduction To The Bard Early College Fellowship, Ligaya Franklin
Early College Folio
The author introduces the Bard Early College Fellowship, an opportunity for faculty from the network of Bard Early Colleges to craft a lesson series which centers Bardian pedagogical methods and student success. The author also highlights five projects that emerged from past fellows, also published in this issue.
Layers Of Inclusion: Arranging Music For Multi-Leveled Ensembles, John Myers
Layers Of Inclusion: Arranging Music For Multi-Leveled Ensembles, John Myers
Early College Folio
This paper describes the author’s practice of “layered arranging” in music education. As a response to the range of ages and skill levels of students at Bard Academy and Bard College at Simon’s Rock, this pedagogical approach allows for experienced students to work with level-appropriate material while less experienced students may participate supportively through simplified chord progressions.
The Insistence Of Inclusion: The Black Excellence Project, Cassandra St. Vil
The Insistence Of Inclusion: The Black Excellence Project, Cassandra St. Vil
Early College Folio
During the spring semester of 2020, COVID-19 did not stop this group of determined 9th graders at Bard Early College D.C. Together, they embarked on the Black Excellence Project (“BEP @ Bard”) with the partnership of Amateka College Prep. BEP @ Bard provided literacy-instruction while simultaneously teaching Black Excellence: the teaching of historical and contemporary exemplary Black figures who have impacted Washington, D.C. and raised awareness around topics like racism, social justice, and countering anti-Blackness. Throughout instruction, the students learned about multiple Black professionals from a variety of career pathways as they reflected on questions like, “what does Black Excellence …
Initiatives To Find The "Lost Einsteins" Through The Integration Of Independent Scientific Research Projects In Early College, Maria Agapito, Mini Jayaprakash, Tiffany Morris, Carla Stephens
Initiatives To Find The "Lost Einsteins" Through The Integration Of Independent Scientific Research Projects In Early College, Maria Agapito, Mini Jayaprakash, Tiffany Morris, Carla Stephens
Early College Folio
This exploratory study examines the effects of incorporating Independent Scientific Research Projects (ISRP) into early college biology curriculum. The authors present their findings, which are steeped in the goal of increasing minority students’ interest in STEM careers, by analyzing student engagement in classrooms with and without ISRP integration.
To Be Beholden To Something Yet To Be Made: Points Of Departure For An Education In The Arts Of The Present, Asma Abbas
To Be Beholden To Something Yet To Be Made: Points Of Departure For An Education In The Arts Of The Present, Asma Abbas
Early College Folio
This essay, informed by the author’s prolonged experimentation with the triangulation of art, politics, and education, provides a framework for building spaces that transcend the institutional boundaries of the neoliberal university through the notion of the “arts of the present.”
The Need For Early College In The 21st Century, Donald E. Heller
The Need For Early College In The 21st Century, Donald E. Heller
Early College Folio
This essay, a response to Elizabeth Blodgett Hall’s “The House of Education Needs Overhaul,” details the evolution of the early college movement within the American educational system. The author then makes a case for the continued importance and success of early college models in the 50 years since Hall’s initial call for reform.
Early College Pedagogy: Intellectual Development In Community, Kristy Mcmorris
Early College Pedagogy: Intellectual Development In Community, Kristy Mcmorris
Early College Folio
This essay, a response to Elizabeth Blodgett Hall’s “The House of Education Needs Overhaul,” observes the early college classroom—a space for diverse and independent voices, community-driven intellectual development, and for growing social responsibility. The author describes her own experience as an early college educator and depicts this equity work in action.
Early College As Sites For "Moratorium", Michael Sadowski
Early College As Sites For "Moratorium", Michael Sadowski
Early College Folio
This essay, a response to Elizabeth Blodgett Hall’s “The House of Education Needs Overhaul,” finds common ground in Hall’s depiction of the self-exploration of young students entering her new school and the findings of child and adolescent psychologist Erik Erikson’s identification of a particular point in youth development he dubbed a “psychosocial moratorium.” The author grounds these pioneers’ theories in the transformations he witnessed in students as former director of a Bard Early College program.
Imagine, Patricia Sharpe
Imagine, Patricia Sharpe
Early College Folio
This essay, a response to Elizabeth Blodgett Hall’s “The House of Education Needs Overhaul,” places Hall’s 1967 defense for educational reform in the context of present-day Simon’s Rock and Bard Early College. The author describes the application of early college pedagogy as a disruption of the educational status quo, and details the philosophical and intellectual “overhaul” at work in these environments.
Educational "Overhaul" Expands Pathways To College And Career, Maria Suttmeier
Educational "Overhaul" Expands Pathways To College And Career, Maria Suttmeier
Early College Folio
This essay, a response to Elizabeth Blodgett Hall’s “The House of Education Needs Overhaul,” recognizes how the reform of education through low- or no-cost early college models supports practical and diverse pathways to college and career success.
In Praise Of "Powerful, Head-Strong, Young People", Francesca Gamber
In Praise Of "Powerful, Head-Strong, Young People", Francesca Gamber
Early College Folio
This essay, a response to Elizabeth Blodgett Hall’s “The House of Education Needs Overhaul,” details the ways in which Bard High School Early College students in Baltimore challenge the systemic racism and economic disadvantages through community and critical thinking. The author describes the ways in which educators must support the courageous actions of these students to seek the resources, power, and a place in American education that they’ve historically been denied.
The House Of Education Needs Overhaul: The Theory Behind Simon’S Rock, Elizabeth B. Hall
The House Of Education Needs Overhaul: The Theory Behind Simon’S Rock, Elizabeth B. Hall
Early College Folio
This essay, written by the founder of Simon’s Rock in the summer of 1967 after the school’s first academic year in operation, describes the societal and pedagogical underpinnings that inspired the author’s creation of an alternative educational pathway for bright, young, and motivated students. The piece reviews the academic structure and goals of a liberal arts education at Simon’s Rock, a residential early college.
Paradigm Of The Unknown, Vasia A. Pemberton
Paradigm Of The Unknown, Vasia A. Pemberton
Senior Projects Spring 2020
This project is about portraying the essence of certain unexplained or controversial areas of belief that affect the lives of each and every one of us whether or not we are aware of it. My focus is to explore these confusions over the paranormal, the existential, and the supernatural, by overlaying, compiling, and comparing these different narratives as well as connecting them to a sense of greater mystery, or a fundamental knowledge that we are somehow not privy to.
The Arts In The United States: Can The Arts Become A Public Good?, Alexander Van Der Veen
The Arts In The United States: Can The Arts Become A Public Good?, Alexander Van Der Veen
Senior Projects Fall 2018
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Computing Language And Thinking: Analysis, Design, And Assessment Of Introductory Computer Science Workshops In The Liberal Arts Experience, Kathleen Teresa Burke
Computing Language And Thinking: Analysis, Design, And Assessment Of Introductory Computer Science Workshops In The Liberal Arts Experience, Kathleen Teresa Burke
Senior Projects Spring 2016
This project seeks to assess and improve upon a new required introductory computer science workshop for first year students at Bard College. It addresses the design and implementation of the course itself, along with the improvements needed in order to continue the program. Many students are not offered computer science courses prior to college; this program has been designed to remedy that by requiring all students to learn key concepts in computer science as a part of their orientation. The program consists of a 90 minute lesson taught by professors with expertise in fields outside of computer science, in addition …