Another grant that I was so fortunate to receive was the new BREAKOUT EDU kits. This year I became departmentalized, teaching 3rd and 4th grade math, and very quickly realized that my students were performing below grade level at the beginning of the year. I began researching ways to combat this and words such as activating strategy, limited lecture, movement, higher order thinking questions, rigor, and student centered continuously came up. Implementing the breakout boxes this year will allow the transfer of ownership of learning from myself to my students, integrate activities that will require critical thinking, collaboration, creativity and communication, provide my students to “fail forward” as every unsuccessful attempt to open a lock forces players to try again. I hope that these boxes will create memorable and engaging lessons for my students throughout the remainder of the year.