|
|
|
_______________
THE
APPALACHIAN TEACHERS' NETWORK
_______________
ABOUT ATN
How does a teacher incorporate Appalachian or cultural
studies into his or her classroom? How does any educator, whatever grade
or discipline, encourage students to have pride in their culture, heritage,
and home? Such questions the Appalachian Teachers' Network
(ATN) strives to answer. As teachers from all levels, K-college, and all
disciplines, we believe that students who understand and respect their
own heritage will be better people because they will learn to respect
themselves, other individuals, and the places they call home. We invite
you to join our dialogue.
_______________
Appalachian Teachers’ Network
Eighteenth Annual Conference
“Appalachian Studies in the Classroom”
Featuring:
Keynote Speaker:
Sharon Wood
Retired Educator of over 30 years
Sessions
include:
-
Floyd County Migration Project
-
Shining
Light on the Youth for Our Future: Celebrating 10 Years of AASIS
-
AASIS
Scholar Presentations: Fort Chiswell and Rocky Gap High School Students
-
Tour
of the Farm at Selu
Saturday,
November 3, 2007
8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Selu Conservancy
_______________
One way
to participate is to write for the ATN annual newsletter, STITCHES.
We regularly publish
practical "teacher-helpers" as well as more scholarly essays
and reviews. We are now accepting the following submissions:
- articles on teaching
- reviews of books, films, or conferences
- news items
- interviews
- teaching idea
- articles on the heritage and culture of Appalachia
- photographs
- conference papers
- stories of learning from students and teachers
We also welcome ideas for submissions. Our last issue featured articles
on teaching Jack Tales, a history of Appalachian Studies bibliographies,
and reviews, reviews, resources, and student work. Our next deadline is
tba, so please write and share with others your ideas.
For more information, please email the editor, Theresa Burriss at
tburriss@radford.edu,
or contact the ARSC office.
- ______________________
Previous
conferences:
Appalachian Teachers’ Network
Seventeenth Annual Conference
“A Celebration of the Handbook”
Featuring Contributors to
A Handbook to Appalachia: An Introduction to the Region
A Handbook to Appalachia is a collection of thirteen essays by notable scholars and was designed in response to the question,
“What one book can I read to learn about Appalachia?”
The 2006 ATN Conference Featured
A panel of Handbook authors, sharing the latest word on these chapters:
Economy—Dr. Thomas Shannon, Radford University;
Folklife—Dr. Deborah Thompson, University of Kentucky;
Literature—Dr. Danny Miller, Northern Kentucky University;
Politics of Change—Dr. Stephen Fisher, Emory and Henry College
-
Feedback from teachers using the Handbook in college and high school classrooms
-
A review of Appalachian Studies resources and outreach at Radford University
-
An optional afternoon tour of the Farm at Selu
- Appalachian bookseller George Brosi with a special collection of children’s books!
Special Music for Lunch by Bill Adams and Ricky Cox
Saturday, November 4, 2006
8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Heth Hall, Radford University Campus
-
Fall 2003 &
2004 & 2005
“A Crash Course in Appalachian Studies”
Featuring Contributors to
the
Handbook to Appalachia: An Introduction to the Region:
The Handbook to Appalachia is an introductory text
of thirteen essays by notable scholars designed to answer the question,
“What one book can I read to learn about Appalachia?”
-
-
Insights
on being African American and
-
Appalachian
~
| Affrilachian
Poets:
|
|
Frank X Walker will once again educate
and entertain at this year's Appalachian Teachers' Network and Southwest
Virginia Multicultural Education Conference. Last year, over 450
people came to hear Walker read from his work during an evening
reading and conference presentation. |
| The RU bookstore
quickly sold out of Affrilachia, Walker’s collection of poetry
that powerfully explores the symbiosis of
African American and Appalachian roots. |
| Walker
will be joined this year by two other Affrilachian Poets, Crystal
Wilkinson and Bernard Clay, both from Kentucky. Clay, a former student
of Walker's, has produced several chapbooks of his poetry and fiction
and is a recent graduate of the University of Kentucky. Wilkinson,
a self-described Black, country girl, and poet from rural Kentucky,
explores the joys and pains of the woman’s Affrilachian experience
in her new book of fiction, Blackberries,
Blackberries,
from Toby Press.
|
 |
| Writes
one critic: "Crystal Wilkinson's characters live and breathe.
They walk, talk and leap off the page into your lap and living rooms
from their front porch. . . Let out the sleeper sofa. Throw in more
potatoes to stretch the soup. Her characters are about to move in."
Wilkinson
currently serves as assistant director at the Carnegie Center for
Literacy and Learning in Lexington, KY. |
| |
-
For more information on Frank X Walker, Crystal Wilkinson, and
the Affrilachian Poets, click on the link below.
-
-
Affrilachia,
a television documentary
-
__________________________
|
