When was the last time you believed that you could change the world? I was ten years old. Fifth grade. I remember going out on the field for recess. It was an incredibly windy day that afternoon; the kind of wind where you could almost lean forward into the gusts and you didn’t fall down. Buster Keaton style. I got this crazy idea that I would attempt to stop the wind. I grabbed two sticks...
What is the purpose of a curriculum map? Let’s think about that for a minute. The academic definition: “Curriculum mapping is the process indexing or diagramming a curriculum to identify and address academic gaps, redundancies, and misalignments for purposes of improving the overall coherence of a course of study and, by extension, its effectiveness (Hidden curriculum, 2014). However, most teachers use a curriculum map in the same way we use Google Maps: finding...
