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Phase 1, Unit Y1: Kickoff & Planning Systems 3 lessons
- Lesson 1: Understanding the Yearbook as a Whole Project — What actually goes into producing a full school yearbook, and what are we responsible for? 1 Day
- Lesson 2: Assigning Sections & Roles — How do we divide the yearbook into sections with clear owners, and get the plan approved before we start? 2 Days
- Lesson 3: Setting Up Our Shared Systems: Drive, Planning Doc & Tracking Spreadsheet — How do we build the shared systems that will keep the whole class organized for months? 2 Days
Phase 1, Unit Y2: Content Collection 3 lessons
- Lesson 4: Building the Photo Submission Form — How do we build a self-serve system for classmates to submit their own photos and quotes? 2 Days
- Lesson 5: Planning & Running In-School Photoshoots — How do we plan and run photoshoots at school so every senior actually gets their portrait taken -- without disrupting anyone else's class? 3 Days
- Lesson 6: Collecting Senior Quotes & Baby Photos — How do we make sure every senior's quote and baby photo actually gets collected and tracked? 2 Days
Phase 1, Unit Y3: Layout Production 2 lessons
Phase 1, Unit Y4: Proofing & Print 3 lessons
- Lesson 9: Proofing & Teacher Approval Cycle — How do we catch errors and get every section approved before it goes to print? 3 Days
- Lesson 10: Finalizing & Preparing for Print — How do we assemble every approved section into one final book and prepare it correctly for the printer? 3 Days
- Lesson 11: Yearbook Wrap-Up & Reflection — What did we learn from producing a real, whole-class project from start to finish? 1 Day
Phase 2, Unit S1: Studio Orientation 3 lessons
- Lesson 12: Welcome to the Studio: What Is a Design Agency? — How does a real design studio operate, and how will our classroom studio be organized? 1 Day
- Lesson 13: Building Our Intake System: The Client Request Form — How do teachers, admin, and other staff actually request a design job from our studio? 2 Days
- Lesson 14: Triage & Assignment: How We Pick Up a Job — How does the class decide who works on which incoming request, and in what order? 1 Day
Phase 2, Unit S2: Real Client Work 3 lessons
- Lesson 15: The Design Process on a Real Deadline — How do we apply the full design process to an actual staff request instead of a hypothetical one? 2 Days
- Lesson 16: Client Approval & Revision Loop — How do we present a draft to a real staff client and manage their feedback professionally? 2 Days
- Lesson 20: Delivery & Installation: Getting Work Into the Building — How do we make sure finished studio work actually reaches where it needs to be used in the school? 1 Day
Phase 2, Unit S3: Production Skills 3 lessons
- Lesson 17: Production Skills: Large-Format & Photo Printing — How do we correctly prepare and run a design on our large-format and photo printers? 2 Days
- Lesson 18: Production Skills: 3D Printing for the School — How do we design and produce a useful 3D-printed object for a real school need? 2 Days
- Lesson 19: Production Skills: Video Capture & Editing Basics — How do we capture and edit a short video for a real school purpose? 3 Days
Unit S3.5: Extension & Enrichment (Optional) 6 lessons
- Lesson 21: Print Shop Partnership: Working with an External Vendor — How do we prepare a design job to be printed by an outside print vendor instead of our own printers? 2 Days
- Lesson 22: Design for Social Media: School Announcements & Promotion — How do we adapt our design skills to create effective social media graphics for the school? 2 Days
- Lesson 23: Mini Job Sprint: A Quick-Turnaround Request — How do we manage a small design job under a tight, realistic deadline? 2 Days
- Lesson 24: Team Leadership Rotation: Running the Studio for a Day — What does it take to lead and coordinate a whole team's work for a day? 2 Days
- Lesson 25: Studio Systems Retrospective: What Should We Improve? — Looking back at how our studio has operated this semester, what's working and what should change? 2 Days
- Lesson 26: Packaging & Handoff: Preparing Files a Client Can Actually Use — How do we package and organize a finished job so the client (or a print vendor) can actually open and use every file? 2 Days
Phase 2, Unit S4: Running Real Jobs 3 lessons
- Lesson 27: Studio Job Cycle: Complete a Real Request, Start to Finish — Can we run one full request through our entire studio pipeline -- intake, design, approval, production, and delivery -- on our own? 4 Days
- Lesson 28: Archive & Portfolio: Documenting Your Studio Work — How do we properly document finished studio work for our portfolios and for the school's records? 2 Days
- Lesson 29: Year-End Studio Showcase & Reflection — How do we celebrate and reflect on a full year that took us from the yearbook through real client work for the school? 2 Days
Phase 3, Unit C1: Capstone Orientation 1 lessons
Phase 3, Unit C2: Going Deeper 4 lessons
- Lesson 31: Specialization Sprint: Choose Your Lane — What happens when we take one production skill from 'competent' to genuinely strong? 4 Days
- Lesson 32: Mentoring the Next Wave: A Studio Job With an Underclassman Partner — What do we understand better about our own skills once we have to teach them to someone else? 3 Days
- Lesson 35: Closing the Loop: Presenting Finished Work Back to the Client — What happens to a client relationship after a job is delivered -- does it just end? 2 Days
- Lesson 40: Studio Job Sprint: One More Real Request — With everything we've learned this year, how efficiently can we run a full job now compared to the first time? 4 Days
Phase 3, Unit C3: Checkpoint 2 lessons
- Lesson 33: Midterm Capstone Showcase: Where We Stand — Halfway through this final stretch, what does our work actually prove -- and what's still missing? 2 Days
- Lesson 34: Internship & College Class Check-In: Documenting Outside Learning — How do we connect what we're learning outside this room back to the design skills we've built in it? 2 Days
Phase 3, Unit C4: The After-Graduation Plan 4 lessons
- Lesson 36: After Graduation, By Design: Research & Concept — What's actually next for me after this year, and how would I explain it to someone else in one page? 2 Days
- Lesson 37: After Graduation, By Design: Build the Presentation — How do we turn a real plan into something genuinely persuasive to look at? 3 Days
- Lesson 38: After Graduation, By Design: Present & Get Feedback — How does it feel to present a plan for your own actual future, not a hypothetical client's? 2 Days
- Lesson 41: Building Your After-High-School Leave-Behind — How do we package a full year of real work into one thing you'd actually hand someone? 2 Days