A Thing to improve in my teaching

I want to improve the scope and sequence of the units that I'm teaching. It was the first time through with new curriculum that we invented ourselves this year in 10th grade, and it was potentially good, but not quite as smoothly-integrated as I'd like it to be. I want to zoom in on specificity and the order in which I teach the grammatical concepts to be integrated, as well as how much time I spend on giving students work time, helping them to submit work, etc. When approaching new curriculum, I kind of think of it as adhering to a 3-year process - i.e. in 3 years, we'll have it in a state that's ready to publish (if we so chose).

Curricular Design - 21st century learning

I incorporated creativity and collaboration by having students conceive of, outline, and design superheroes' origin stories to go along with their multi genre writing projects. They had to conceive of the idea on their own, base the powers on a real-world desire / practice of theirs, think of how it should be related to an outside mythology / culture / area of the world, and, in general, be creative. The results were good, but I haven't seen the final products yet. I'm really excited to see them, though, since students are really into the novel we're basing it off of this time around!