This is a longer version of a post that I edited down for Edutopia. You can read the full version here or the shorter version there. As part of my family’s summer travels we stayed with some friends who had recently moved into a new house. They discussed wanting to change a light over their table […]Read Post ›
Today my American Government classes wrapped up our unit on Democracy and Education. We started the class by viewing and commenting on the digital stories that students made to communicate unique ideas about democracy and education at this moment in Philadelphia. Students had done a great job of creating work that is poignant, insightful, and […]Read Post ›
The final assignment for my students is the creation of a final portfolio that shows evidence of their learning throughout the year. The portfolios are presented in the form of blog posts that contain actual quotes from students’ work throughout the year. Here is the complete assignment as I present it to the students. Below are quotes […]Read Post ›
Help us celebrate the fifth year of our collaboration with the Leah Stein Dance Company! Come out to see student-created site specific performance pieces on Friday, June 7th, between 1:00 and 3:00. A detailed schedule will be available here and inside the front door of SLA on performance day. You will never see the neighborhood […]Read Post ›
This short documentary, made by isashamedia.com, details the collaboration between the Leah Stein Dance Company and my students at Science Leadership Academy. The site specific performance pieces that they created were part of the Art in the Open Festival, 2012.
Mr J Block 