Building Outside the Blocks Blog BOBlog

Almost every week, for three years now, I look forward to connecting with an educator through their playlist. Starting this podcast was a...

Reflecting on the Last 4 Months at The Mentoree has been compelling. From the beginning, our goal was to provide teachers with the...

As I was saying goodbye to my class in our final Monday Morning Meeting of their elementary school experience yesterday, I asked them to...

As I was saying goodbye to my class in our final Monday Morning Meeting of their elementary school experience yesterday, I asked them to...

This post is about a project called My Living History M.E.M.E. to help my students creatively capture and curate their quarantine story.

Many things had to give when we shifted into emergency remote learning, but Snapshots endured. I had assigned them a week before March...

Last month culminated momentously in good and bad ways. Many teachers have been focusing on the mental health and well being of their...

I was singing One Love by Bob Marley in my mind when I started writing this post, but I didn’t mean the reference with its religious...

The first two times I facilitated the TTalk project, I was teaching a course called Individuals and Societies for the Middle Years...

Conversations are powerful because they are an exchange of ideas. I have never been able to learn deeply about anything without talking...