Courses 2024/2025

This 2024/2025 BLACK DANDELION: CONVERGENT VOICE™ (BDCV) Course Catalog, “The Art of the Unimagined Ecosystems” offers 9 flexible courses to accommodate many levels of learners, ranging from 4th grade to graduate studies. BDCV also offers professional development courses: An Overview of the PSL/Poetry as a Second Language: Semajian Method™ pedagogy, and a classroom management course, The Communal Classroom. In the metaphoric, magical world of the "Black Dandelion," people and plants align. Have fun exploring the limitless growth of the BLACK DANDELION.

Cover Art by Amanda Thomason

A combination of worlds unseen: space and the cell of a dandelion, both, at one time, were unimagined ecosystems

BD 100 - Being Black Dandelion & the Convergent Voice

Skill Reinforcement: literacy enhancement, reading comprehension, and interpretation; critical thinking skills (geosocial spectrum analysis), writing, cultural competency, social emotional learning applications

BD 250 - Players in the Black Dandelion Theatre: ANALYSIS OF THE CHARACTERS AND CONSTITUENTS IN THE “BLACK DANDELION” POEM.”

Skill Reinforcement: literacy, reading and comprehension, writing, vocabulary enhancement, critical thinking, public speaking and presentation, analogy development (compare and contrast), language and symbolism analytics

BD 280 - Vo Cab Bee

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Skill Reinforcement: vocabulary enhancement, lexicon development, spelling, writing and reading support

BD300 - Where Art Meets Poetry

(In partnership with The Flint Institute of Arts Department of Education) Matthew Osmon, Director of Education

Skill Reinforcement: literacy enhancement, reading/comprehension, critical thinking, writing, art making, imagination expansion, public speaking/presentation

BD 350 - Searching for Black Dandelions in Art & Ekphrastic Writing

(In collaboration with Mott-Warsh Gallery)

Skill Reinforcement: writing, critical thinking, analytical processes

BD 400 - Art of Unimagined Ecosystems

(In partnership with The Flint Institute of Arts Department of Education) Matthew Osmon, Director of Education

Skill Reinforcement: literacy, reading/comprehension, critical thinking, writing, public delivery, artistic expression, model scaping, synthesizing exercises, imaginative thinking

BD 450 - Black Dandelion Hive Life

(In partnership with The Flint Institute of Arts Department of Education) Matthew Osmon, Director of Education

Skill Reinforcement: reading/comprehension interpretation, collaborative learning/writing, critical thinking, art creation, introspection, Social Emotional Learning, Ecology of Bees/animal science, life mapping

SM 705 - Passcode to Literacies thoughPSL/POETRY AS A SECOND LANGUAGE: THE SEMAJIAN METHOD™

Skill Reinforcement: interdisciplinary/integrative learning and lesson planning, reading comprehension, test taking skills, writing

PSL800 - The Communal Classroom

Skill Reinforcement: classroom management, interclass room communication and flow, parent guardian communication, collaborative learning and socialization, discipline, contextual content focus

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