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.

(Almost) Completed Before I Die/Wish I Could/I Believe Wall

Thanks to Candy Chang for the inspiration. You can see more photos of the process and the project here.

More Installation of Before I Die/Wish I Could/I Believe Wall

Installation of Before I Die/Wish I Could/I Believe Wall

Remembering to Wait and Trust

The other day, as part of our colonialism unit in World History, I asked my students to write about which they believe is more powerful, violence or non-violence. My intention was to start us all thinking about strategies for social change before we read Gandhi’s essay “My Faith in Nonviolence.” This was followed up over […]Read Post ›

SLA Hidden City Site Specific Dance Festival 2009

The warm weather makes me look forward to the amazing annual collaboration that my classes have with the Leah Stein Dance Company. This video is a collection of student performances from 2009. This was the first year of our collaboration. Despite an incredibly rainy day, student performances were stunning. Overall this collaboration, and the student […]Read Post ›