Skip to content
  • Teaching for a Living Democracy
  • Blog
  • Articles
  • Joshua Block
  • Media

Mr J Block

Art

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.

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 ›

Posts navigation

← Older posts

Tags

Art Arts Integration Choice Collaboration Colonialism Compassion Creating Creativity Curriculum Dance Democracy Drama Education Education Philosophy Engagement Globalization History Immigration Inquiry Language Learning lesson plan Literacy Narratives New Zealand Oral History Pedagogy Performance Personal history Playwrighting Poetry Portfolios Presentation Professional Development Project-based Learning Public Schools Reflection relationships School Culture Social Justice Students Student Voice Student Work Teaching Teaching Philosophy Technology Testing Vision World History Writing

Archives

  • June 2021 (1)
  • March 2021 (1)
  • January 2021 (1)
  • October 2020 (1)
  • May 2020 (1)
  • February 2020 (1)
  • October 2019 (1)
  • July 2019 (1)
  • December 2018 (1)
  • March 2018 (1)
  • January 2018 (1)
  • November 2017 (2)
  • July 2017 (2)
  • May 2017 (3)
  • April 2017 (2)
  • March 2017 (2)
  • February 2017 (2)
  • January 2017 (1)
  • December 2016 (1)
  • November 2016 (2)
  • October 2016 (1)
  • August 2016 (1)
  • July 2016 (1)
  • June 2016 (2)
  • May 2016 (5)
  • March 2016 (1)
  • February 2016 (3)
  • January 2016 (2)
  • December 2015 (1)
  • November 2015 (1)
  • October 2015 (3)
  • September 2015 (1)
  • July 2015 (1)
  • June 2015 (3)
  • May 2015 (1)
  • April 2015 (1)
  • March 2015 (2)
  • February 2015 (1)
  • January 2015 (3)
  • December 2014 (2)
  • November 2014 (3)
  • October 2014 (3)
  • September 2014 (2)
  • August 2014 (2)
  • July 2014 (2)
  • June 2014 (5)
  • May 2014 (4)
  • April 2014 (6)
  • March 2014 (8)
  • February 2014 (5)
  • January 2014 (5)
  • December 2013 (2)
  • October 2013 (3)
  • September 2013 (2)
  • August 2013 (1)
  • July 2013 (2)
  • June 2013 (2)
  • May 2013 (5)
  • April 2013 (1)
  • March 2013 (1)
  • February 2013 (4)
  • January 2013 (7)
  • December 2012 (12)

Search MrJBlock.com

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

My Tweets
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • Mr J Block
    • Join 136 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Mr J Block
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...