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March 8, 2019 By Sean Leon

Welcome to Blackboarddreams.com! During the summer of 2012, I envisioned using a blog as a meaningful extension of my classroom where there would be resources aplenty and a communication hub. After a summer of trial and many an error, the website went live in the spring of 2013 and has been an e-home away from home for my students ever since. Here, parents and students can access the following: homework assignments, updates on the happenings and direction of the class, complementary materials, writing and research resources, exemplars, class forums, and more! I am most excited about using this website as an e-community built on the Blackboarddreams forums. My students and I use the forums to examine author’s craft in search of a deeper understanding of the readings and to use those readings as a catalyst for critical discussion of our world and ourselves.

So that is Blackboard Dreams! Here’s a bit about me: My name is Sean Leon. In 2002 I moved to NYC to join the NYC Teaching Fellowship. After teaching four years at a middle school in the Bronx, I was offered and accepted a high school English position at The Beacon School in Manhattan. Beacon—a prestigious college preparatory public high school known for its portfolio-based assessments, art and technological infusion across disciplines, and international travel—gave me an opportunity to give life to my vision of the English classroom. This vision is fundamentally shaped by the understanding that all instruction and assessment take place in a dynamic, human environment that must be factored into the day-to-day pedagogy of the class. So, as a priority, the English experience should be humanized in design and humanizing in effect. My classroom becomes an inclusive, democratic learning community where literacy acts as a conduit for holistic education.

Pedagogically, an inquiry-based framework shapes all literacy instruction and assessment. As a principle, I believe all instruction and assessment—formative and summative—should recognize the multiple intelligences and learning styles of the student body and should be varied accordingly. To that end, my classroom features an infusion of technology and the arts to help communicate content and to assess understanding. Additionally, I use the Socratic seminar and Socratic hybrids to facilitate discussion and catalyze the writing process. Ultimately, in satisfying the educational and civic responsibilities of a humanities classroom, I hope that quantitative and qualitative metrics show my students to be improved analytical and critical thinkers. [Read more…]

1984 and Invitation to a Beheading Comparative Essay by E.Y.

June 23, 2022 By Sean Leon

The terrifying nature of freedom causes individuals to assimilate into society to shirk their responsibilities. Societies thus take advantage of this by oppressing individuals to maintain stability. 1984, by George Orwell, and Invitation to a Beheading, by Vladimir Nabokov, both exhibit oppressive environments and individuals who accept these societies. The protagonists believe in the ideals and opinions perpetuated by their respective powers, and choose to subject themselves to the oppression put forth by those in control. Jean-Paul Sartre’s essay, “Existentialism is a Humanism”, discusses the freedom and responsibility inherent to humanity. In Orwell and Nabokov’s works, the protagonists, faced with the burden of decision and consequent responsibility, choose to suppress their freedom. Out of fear, not of oppressive forces but of self-dependence, they turn to another to control their lives. Thus they ultimately engage in deceiving themselves and choose lives of bad faith, where they are dishonest with themselves and refuse to embrace despair and anguish. They suppress their individuality to ignore the responsibility inherent to freedom. Both 1984 and Invitation to a Beheading exhibit the intrinsically oppressive nature of society and show that, through an existentialist lens, structured society is unnatural and accepting it is ultimately a form of self-deception as it suppresses an individual’s freedom. [Read more…]

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College Essay by MB, 2010

August 24, 2013 By Sean Leon

I thought it was nothing more than pure noise, and I could not understand what anyone heard in it. The first time I listened to it, its dense mix of obscure influences ranging from contemporary classical to electronic dance music confounded me. I thought it was nothing more than pure noise and I could not understand what anyone heard in it. It was unlike any music I had ever heard before, and I did not know what to make of it. Lying on my bed wearing headphones, listening to Radiohead’s album Kid A for the first time, I never thought that it would completely change the way I view music, art in general, and life.

Radiohead had always been one of my favorite bands, and since I knew this album had been hailed as a masterpiece, I decided to stick with it. Listening through the first few times, I was still unable to glean any value from the aural assault that was Kid A. However, my instincts told me to give the obscure song structures and unorthodox rhythms a chance. I compulsively listened, desperately trying to make sense of the sonic clutter that was hitting my eardrums. And then something changed. After repeated listening, the melodies began to surface. I began to hear music, rather than an arbitrary collection of notes and sounds randomly sequenced together.

Coming to appreciate this wildly original and brilliant masterwork has made me a more sophisticated consumer of all art forms, as well as a more mature, interesting, and open-minded person. I have come to realize that greatness in art, music, and other aspects of life is not always easy to recognize. Often, some of the greatest creative works can be the most difficult to understand. Before I came to appreciate Kid A, I would discredit a book or painting simply because I could not understand its significance upon my first encounter with it. However, when I encounter an obtuse piece now, I wonder what more there is to the work that I am missing. I wonder what is preventing me from wholly understanding it, rather than dismissing it as inaccessible or illogical.

My experience with Kid A also taught me that life, like art, is often difficult to appreciate without the proper perspective. Many times, people I who have not gotten long with at first have ended up becoming some of my closest and most reliable friends. Similarly, events in my life that I once viewed as negative have greatly contributed to my personal growth and were highly beneficial to me in the long run. I do not think I would have had the serenity to realize this had I never encountered this ground breaking and idiosyncratic work.

Looking ahead to college and beyond, I think that these subtle changes in my perspective will continue to enhance my experiences, both as a student and as a person. I feel I have gained the maturity to be open to the different types of people and ideas which I will surely encounter in college. As a musician, this growth will benefit me because I have learned to be open to music which may be vastly different from anything I have previously heard. I will not judge a piece upon playing or hearing it for the first time simply because it is complex and difficult to appreciate. Rather, I will embrace the uniqueness of each encounter and do my best to understand the brilliance that often lies beneath the surface.

College Essay by M. B.

Untitled by E.D.

December 28, 2013 By Sean Leon

It’s like hearing the right words and wishing you had said them.
And it’s like wanting to be a writer because writing is beautiful, but I can see the divide now
Do you see friend that we’re matter, we’re just made of matter.
I’d always thought you needed both but it has to do with changing forms.
The matter we exist in is the only one worth trying to understand, and we are so much less transitive than we think we are.
And I have found that there is nostalgia in questions the way there is in winter and piano keys. And we only ask the same questions, from the point that we are old enough to be conflicted.
I have been old enough to be conflicted for far too long.
And the strangest part is that no part of me is definitive
If I knew how to collect my thoughts,
I would not write.

Poem by E.D.