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Early College Folio
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Rikers Island And The Crisis: Storytelling, Scholarship, Activism, Shana Russell
Rikers Island And The Crisis: Storytelling, Scholarship, Activism, Shana Russell
Early College Folio
This essay was originally shared by the author as the 24th annual W. E. B. Du Bois Memorial Lecture at Bard College at Simon’s Rock. It has been edited slightly for publication.
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 …
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.”
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.
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.
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.