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Bilingual Education

The Passionate Voice of Bobi Céspedes, Goddard alum

Bobi Céspedes is an Afro-Cuban singer and international recording artist. She is also a graduate of Goddard’s BA in Education in Seattle in 2009.  The bilingual education program was a good fit for the composer, band leader and educator.   Bobi Céspedes was interviewed by Renée Almatierra for Goddard College in May 2021. They discussed her […]

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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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Bachelor Degrees

Revolutionary Presence: Technologies, Collective Imagination, and Transformative Engagement

A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.  –Grace Lee Boggs A Shifting Landscape Amid pandemic the world is changing in ways that we are still learning to identify. Whether we are pixelated on screens, intertwined in global networks, […]

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Garifuna Journeys to Goddard
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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Nate Munroe
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 Image
Alumni News

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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Bilingual Teaching Image
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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Education Adventures in the Alaskan Tundra
Alumni News

Kipnuk Kindergarten: Education Adventures in the Alaskan Tundra

by Maureen Benoit Kipnuk is a special place to live. This small village of about 700 people on the southwest coast of Alaska is located on tundra with access to major waterways like the Kuskokwim River, the Kuguklik River, and 4 miles from the Bering Sea.  Kipnuk is in an extremely remote area accessible only […]

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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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Sustainability School in Guatemala is Inspired by Goddard College
Alumni News

Sustainability School in Guatemala is Inspired by Goddard

By Matt Paneitz I spent over a decade in San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala helping to transform 500 tons of trash (including 15,000 used tires) into a school campus. Many would call it “a crazy endeavor”. Through this work I started an NGO called Long Way Home with a mission “to use sustainable design and materials to construct […]

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