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Decolonization: What’s Love Got to Do With It?

“Decolonization: What’s Love Got to Do With It?” is a day-long festival that takes place September 25, 2021 at Goddard College. The program examines the ongoing impact of settler colonialism, and asks how we at Goddard can contribute to movements for decolonization and Indigenous sovereignty.   The title, “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” amplifies […]

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BA Education

Mamadou “Mr. Papis” Traore Brings the Goddard Model to West Africa

Goddard students seeking the path of rigorous, cultural inquiry hail from across the world. Mamadou Traore (BA EDU ’14), whose family and friends know him as “Papi,” embodies Goddard’s holistic approach to education. Originally from Senegal in West Africa, he traversed the globe to attend the Vermont campus where he earned his Bachelor of Arts […]

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Dual Language Early Childhood Education

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 […]

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BA Education

A Garifuna Journeys to Goddard

by Martha David, (EDU – Seattle Dual Language Concentration- Early Childhood Education ’19)  BEGINNINGS OF AN EDUCATOR At age of 5 years old my mother registered me in school.  She walked me to school and left me in front of the school and I had to find my way to the classroom.  I spoke my […]

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BA Education

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 […]

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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 […]

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BA Education

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 […]

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MA Education

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 […]

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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 […]

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Sophia Maravell earns Goddard Entrepreneur Sustainability grant

Sophia Maravell (MA ’15) received the Goddard Entrepreneur Sustainability grant for starting her business Ecología Rising. Sophia writes: “Ecología Rising grew out of my work in Community Education at Goddard College with the guidance of key faculty members Jackie Fischer and Karla Haas-Moskowitz.” The word ‘ecología’ expresses a Greek philosophy that Sophia adopted and encountered […]

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