Building Outside the Blocks Blog BOBlog

I first conceived of the idea for the Healthy Start project last year. I was teaching a Grade 3/4 split, and this project worked better...

You can smell it in the air. Something exciting and, for many, nerve-inducing, was on the agenda for class yesterday. “Happy Thursday...

Coming into 2018, I had taken a huge leap. After 22 years of teaching, I had left my tenured job teaching in an independent IB school and...

Audience is something that has been discussed a lot over the past few years education and deserves serious consideration. The goal of...

Last year, I wrote a post for Nexus Education on one of my Building Outside the Blocks projects called What’s in a Name which is the...

This is my first stream-of-consciousness post, but I want to settle something in my head. For many years, I have been creating and...

A new Building Outside the Blocks project can come from a variety of places. It can stem from something I’ve read, a place that I’ve...

Whether you called it Rock and Roll or We Will Rock You, Rock On or Rock It, it’s a great way to begin a unit on Rocks and Minerals. I...

The Healthy Start project is over, and now I have time to reflect. It was the beginning of a half day LTO in York Region, and I wanted to...

I was sitting with my friend Gayle at a training session for the upcoming EdTechCamp on Air for YRDSB. We were learning all the features...