12th Grade — Building Your After-High-School Leave-Behind

⏰ Do Now — Start Here

If you handed this to a college admissions officer or a hiring manager tomorrow, would it actually represent you well?

🎯 Today's Big Question

How do we package a full year of real work into one thing you'd actually hand someone?

📈 By the End of Today, You Will Be Able To

Combine the final portfolio, the after-graduation plan, and a resume into one polished, cohesive leave-behind.
Choose a format (printed booklet, PDF, or portfolio site) appropriate to how it will actually be used.
Proofread and finalize the leave-behind to a professional standard.

🧰 What You'll Need

Finished portfolio
After-graduation presentation
Resume
Design software or portfolio site

📋 Your Plan for Today

Day 1: Combine & Format

Independent work (40 min): choose a format and combine the portfolio, after-graduation plan, and resume into one cohesive piece.

Day 2: Proofread & Finalize

Peer proofreading (15 min): trade with a classmate for a final check.
Finalize (25 min): correct issues and produce the final version.

🖥️ Today's Slide Deck

Short, on-the-board pacing slides — project these to follow along. (The full details are in the handout above, not here.)

Day 1

⬇️ Open / download this slide PDF

Day 2

⬇️ Open / download this slide PDF

📚 Key Words

Leave-Behind: A physical or digital item you hand someone after a meeting or interview so they remember you and can follow up.
Cohesive: Feeling like one connected, intentional piece instead of several unrelated documents stapled together.

✅ What Your Finished Work Should Include

Leave-behind assessed for cohesion, professional polish, and appropriate format for its real intended use.

Exit Ticket: Who is the first real person you're going to actually give this to?

📊 Before You Leave

Quick, anonymous class check-in -- takes less than a minute.

Class Check-In

📁 Portfolio Update — Once a Week

Once a week, add your best finished or in-progress yearbook (or, later, studio) work to your portfolio with a 1-2 sentence caption -- and once you're in the Design Studio phase, a photo of the piece in its real, installed location if possible. This is the same evidence trail you'll use for Archive & Portfolio and any PBAT/portfolio review.

✍️ Example description for your Google Sites portfolio (fill in YOUR blanks -- don't just copy this):

For this piece, I made ______________ (name what you made) for “Building Your After-High-School Leave-Behind.” This project asked: “How do we package a full year of real work into one thing you'd actually hand someone?” I used Leave-Behind by ______________ (explain how you used it in THIS piece). The hardest part was ______________, and I solved it by ______________. I'm proud of ______________ because ______________.

🔗 Want to Learn More?

No extra links for this lesson.

🚀 The Extra Mile

Cross-Class Connection: The same professional-communication skill a Business class covers.

Career Connection: A leave-behind is real, practical, and directly useful heading into any interview across the hub.

Go further -- turn this into a portfolio piece:

Get real feedback on the leave-behind from an adult outside class before finalizing it. Start here: show it to one adult, not a classmate, today and ask what's confusing before making any more changes.
Design a second, shorter "business card" version for quick handoffs. Start here: pick the single most important line from the full leave-behind — that's the one thing the business-card version has to keep.