As my friend and colleague Dr. Josh Powell told me when we first began working together at the Mount Vernon School in 2017, “If you don’t toot your own horn, no one is going to toot it for you.” In that light, I would like to share how proud I am of my Humanities students for getting showcased in this week’s MV Newsletter, sharing the work they did to create infographics on topics of their choosing from our first class novel, Kipling’s Choice.
The article was sourced and edited by our own Director of Student Engagement and Alumni Relations, Katie Trenney, and you can see it for yourself here:
This assignment is a great example of the voice and choice that we offer our students, as well and the real-life application and skills that are inherent in our student work: how might we create a visual representation of data, based on independent research, to teach others about our passions and interests?
I hope you enjoy the article and student work, and I look forward to a new rotation of Humanities students starting my class in just two short weeks’ time! (The first trimester concludes on November 1st, and MV Middle students will rotate to their second Humanities teacher, as well as to their third Art and Design teacher.)
Here is a link to the full spread of student work on this project: PDF
The Impossible Standard 