Start with Welcome to the Year and then Class Expectations + The Rubric Explained. The other pages add depth as you need them. Parents and guardians: read this primer instead.
Start here
Welcome to the Year
A letter to read on Day 1: what you'll be able to do by June, the four threads, the eight defenses, and what we both commit to.
Class Expectations
The two-way contract. Five things you commit to, five things I commit to, and what to do when something feels stuck.
The Rubric Explained
K/U + T/T + C on the 8-point scale. Three numbers, not one. The AI Documentation requirement. How to read a grade profile.
How This Class Works
Every routine in this course, what it produces, and where it runs. If you're ever lost, start here.
Core frameworks
OPVL Framework
Origin, Purpose, Value, Limitation: the method we use to judge every source, including AI outputs.
AI Documentation Protocol
When you use an AI partner, what you record and why. The load-bearing trust mechanism of the course.
Standards Map
What this course teaches, unit by unit: NGSS performance expectations and the OECD AILit competences behind every block.
Skills for this class
Your Two Notebooks
A paper Field Notebook for bell ringers and sketches, and a Class Notebook in Google Docs that indexes the year.
Notetaking & Notemaking
Notetaking is what your hand does; notemaking is what your brain does. AI can do the first; AI cannot do the second.
Defending Your Work
Five question types. Five moves. How to anticipate, how to answer under pressure, when to revise, when to hold.
Peer Review
Two skills, not one: giving feedback well, and receiving it without dismissing or collapsing. Four protocols.