Joshua Block

Humanities Teacher at Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia. Passionately believes that education is a tool to help people understand and transform their individual and collective realities.

Global Fiction Character Sketches

My Globalization students are currently reading several different works of Global Fiction with the goal of immersing themselves in other cultures. Below are some pictures of a recent character sketch assignment.

(Re)Creating Poets

[Cross-posted on Edutopia] The wonderful poet Naomi Shihab Nye first introduced me to William Stafford’s idea that no one becomes a poet. She says that we are all born poets, and it’s just that some of us choose to keep up the habit. At times, all of us inevitably get stuck viewing ourselves in static and limiting ways. When […]Read Post ›

Revolution Guidebook Digital Stories

Teaching is humbling. One of the best projects submitted by a student this past week used an idea that I initially discouraged. Thankfully I asked August to prove me wrong instead of preventing him from pursuing his alternate approach to the digital story project. Overall the structure of this project seemed to allow students to […]Read Post ›

The Revolution (Unit) Continues…

My 10th graders worked hard this past week researching and designing digital stories that use historic and contemporary evidence to create a guide to revolutions. We jokingly thanked the people of Ukraine in class for taking action at the perfect moment (in terms of the flow of our unit). This is the description of the […]Read Post ›

Transformative Teacher Profile

Thanks to Kira Baker-Doyle for publishing this very sweet profile on her blog and for creating this wonderful project. I am honored. Transformative Teacher Profile #6: Joshua Block