Rachel Marrow

Marrow’s innovative teaching idea, “Block Play,” focuses on providing elementary students with access to black play. Dating back to the 1960’s blocks have proven to have positive outcomes in student play, social/emotional, and academic development and growth. eStem East Village Elementary School has been looking for ways to incorporate play into its current curriculum and the “Block Play Project” helps to meet that goal. Through this project, Marrow hopes to build more social and emotional aspects into STEM subjects and classrooms, especially at the younger grade levels.