One of the aspects of my responsibilities at North Shore that I enjoy the most is rethinking curriculum units or projects. Sometimes that they fall somewhat flat, but usually the projects are successful and push students into new modes of thinking. In my mind, the success of these projects is centered around the asking of an open-ended question that challenges students to become active learners. Four years ago, our History Department Chair and United States History teacher, Kevin Randolph, and I began to reconstruct his United States History curriculum to incorporate more elements of visual literacy into the curriculum. Students […]