Subject: Grants For Rural Teachers In Six States



Grants for rural K-12 teachers from six states to take part in
summer graduate program and continue work on a network

     The Bread Loaf School of English is pleased to announce the
DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund Fellowships for Rural Teachers.
Beginning in 1993 and continuing through 1996, the Bread Loaf
School will offer full-cost fellowships to 30 high school teachers
of English each summer from six target states: Alaska, Arizona,
Mississippi, New Mexico, South Carolina, and Vermont. Only first-
year Bread Loaf students are eligible for these awards. These
teachers will spend a full summer session at the Bread Loaf School
of English, just outside Middlebury, Vermont, with all expenses
paid: tuition, room, board, travel, and an allowance for books. In
addition, these teachers will be eligible to compete for full-cost
fellowships for a second and third summer at any of the three Bread
Loaf campuses, in Vermont, Lincoln College, Oxford, and St. John's
College Santa Fe, New Mexico.

     The DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund Fellows will be chosen
in approximately equal numbers from the six target states--
approximately five incoming Fellows per state each year. During
their first summer in Vermont, the Fellows will take a normal load
of two courses, in literature, writing, or theater. In addition,
the Fellows will meet regularly as a group to establish a sense of
solidarity and community of purpose, both within the individual
states represented and within the entire community of Fellows.
These meetings will be designed to prepare the Fellows to return to
their home schools and states ready to form networks of teachers to
help spread educational ideas. Fellows also will receive training
in Bread Loaf's telecommunications network, BreadNet, so they can
return to their home schools after the summer and, with close
supervision and assistance from the Bread Loaf staff, form
electronic networks--again, both within individual states and
within the entire community of Fellows. In addition to the full-
cost fellowships, each Fellow will also receive a $1000 stipend, to
finance telecommunications costs, to make modest equipment
purchases, and to finance the implementation of a classroom-
research project back at his or her home school.

     DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund Fellows must be devoted
teachers, interested in further education for themselves,
involvement of their students in educational improvements within
their schools, and development of state-wide and even national
networks of rural teachers with similar interests.

     The Bread Loaf School is committed to offering support and
advice to the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund Fellows at each
stage of this project, first during the normal Bread Loaf session
and later during the building of networks back in the Fellows' home
schools and states.

     For applications and additional information, write to:

          James Maddox, Director
          Bread Loaf School of English
          Middlebury College
          Middlebury, Vermont 05753

Or call the Bread Loaf School of English at (802) 388-3711, ext.
5418.
The fax number is (802) 388-0927.

     Applications must be received no later than April 1, 1993.
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