Breakouts Made Easy: A guide to working with Breakout boxes

Breakout boxes are innovative, hands-on, interactive, and engaging alternatives to traditional classroom activities like worksheets, textbooks, and lectures. Whether you’re just getting started with Breakout boxes or ready to take the next step and customize your own, this book is for you. We’ve created dozens of Breakout games from scratch, a skill we believe is necessary if you want Breakout boxes to become a truly integrated part of your curriculum. In Breakouts Made Easy, you’ll learn about:

• Breakout basics: What you need to know if you’re just getting started
• How to decide between purchasing a pre-made box and making your own
• The advantages and disadvantages to the five major ways to set up and format your Breakout
• Our simple 10-step process for creating your own Breakout activity, including a complete example of how to make one from scratch
• How to get your students to work collaboratively and think critically with innovative, tech-friendly clues
• Tips, tricks, resources, and things to avoid while running your Breakout sessions
• Our experiences running Breakout sessions through real-world stories and examples

We know teacher prep time is valuable. Custom Breakout boxes don’t have to be confusing, time-consuming, or overwhelming to create and set up. Let us share our Breakout experiences with you and be your "guide on the side" in Breakouts Made Easy.

Pete and Haley are educational technology leaders. They work together to provide professional development to schools across the country, including sessions on Breakout boxes. Pete is founder and President of Dulany Consulting Inc., a leader in professional development and technology consulting. With 15 years of teaching experience in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, Pete is passionate about using Breakout boxes in the classroom. Pete is also a part-time instructor at Concordia University Chicago, where he shows future teachers best strategies for incorporating technology into the classroom. Haley is a senior consultant at Dulany Consulting, where she delivers innovative professional development sessions for Breakout boxes, SMART boards, iOS apps, 3D printing, and Google Suite for Education. Originally from the beautifully sunny state of Arizona, Haley graduated from Concordia University Chicago where she was awarded an Elementary Education degree with endorsements in Middle School Math and Language Arts.