Big Ideas Fest, 2018
It was an honor to share my work at the Big Ideas Fest! Click on the picture below to view the slide deck, including links to student projects in the presenter notes.
Art
Planning to Change the World
Every year the good people at the Education for Liberation Network publish Planning to Change the World: A Plan Book for Social Justice Teachers. It is a wonderful, inspiring resource and well worth buying. This year they included a profile of me and my colleague Melanie Manuel: Here is the text: Please introduce yourselves. I’m Melanie Manuel and […]Read Post ›
Inside Out Project, 2016
I believe that art and creative, real-world experiences should be part of education year-round but there is something particularly joyful and rejuvenating about this work in spring, when collective exhaustion is a dominant theme. While many students spent time during the school day taking our statewide standardized tests, we took time after school to begin installation of a […]Read Post ›
The Beautiful Struggle
[Forgive me, Ta-Nehisi Coates, for using your book title for this post.] We did it! Of course, it rained. One group got kicked off their site two minutes before their performance. An SUV parked in the middle of another group’s site right as their performance was set to begin. Several other groups had to solve last minute crises […]Read Post ›
Art in the Open, 2016
I am so honored to once again be able to collaborate with the Leah Stein Dance Company as students create site-specific dance pieces for the Art in the Open Festival. The process is scary, challenging, quirky, and so much fun. We began with an intro workshop where students learned the process for creating this type of site […]Read Post ›
Mr J Block 