[1] Bissell left Edmonton in 1955 to become supervisor of the music program for the Scarborough school district, a position he held into the 1970s.
In 1960 he went on a sabbatical to study music education methods with Gunild Keetman and Carl Orff in Munich.
His success in this area led to his invitation to lecture on the Orff Schulwerk method at many universities and music conservatories throughout North America.
In 1963 he and John Adaskin organized the first Canadian composers symposium in music education in Toronto.
In 1976 a trust fund was established in his name that annually commissions a choral work to be written for school use by a Canadian composer.