⏰ Do Now — Start Here
In one sentence, what are you most proud of from the yearbook project?
🎯 Today's Big Question
- What did we learn from producing a real, whole-class project from start to finish?
📈 By the End of Today, You Will Be Able To
- Reflect in writing on their individual contribution to the yearbook.
- Identify one specific collaboration or communication skill they grew during the project.
- Preview Phase 2: the school design studio, and how the same systems (intake, planning, approval, production) will be reused.
🧰 What You'll Need
- Written reflection template
- Finished/printed yearbook, if available
📋 Your Plan for Today
- Celebrate: share out favorite moments/pages from the finished book as a class (10 min).
- Written reflection: each student writes on their individual contribution, one collaboration/communication skill they grew, and one thing they'd do differently next time (20 min).
- Preview Phase 2: introduce the School Design Studio -- same systems (intake, planning, client approval, production), but for real school clients instead of the whole class (15 min).
📚 Key Words
- Reflection
- Thinking and writing back on your own contribution and growth during a project.
- Transferable Skill
- A skill (like project coordination) that applies beyond the specific project you learned it in.
✅ What Your Finished Work Should Include
Reflection collected and checked for specific, genuine insight (not just "it was good").
Exit Ticket: Name one system we built for the yearbook (Drive, Doc, Spreadsheet, Form, or approval process) that you think will carry over well to real client work.
📊 Before You Leave
Quick, anonymous class check-in -- takes less than a minute.
🔗 Want to Learn More?
- No extra links for this lesson.
🚀 The Extra Mile
Cross-Class Connection: The same structured reflective-writing an English class end-of-project reflection requires.
Career Connection: A finished, shipped publication is one of the strongest possible portfolio pieces for Web Design or Advertising & Marketing entry applications.
Go further -- turn this into a portfolio piece:
- Write the whole yearbook process up as a full case study (brief, roles, challenges, result) for your portfolio. Start here: pull up your Lesson 1 project charter first — your case study should show how, or whether, reality matched that original plan.
- Design a "lessons learned" poster for next year's team — real institutional knowledge instead of starting from zero. Start here: write down the single biggest mistake your team made this year before designing anything — that becomes the poster's headline lesson.