What’s inside

One SKILL.md (the playbook) + one starter template. A preview:

Education Explainer Kit

When to use

• You teach something (a product, a process, a school topic) and your videos get views but viewers still ask the same questions afterward
• Your explainers cram three ideas into one video and viewers drop off halfway
• You want a repeatable way to turn any topic into a teaching video, not a fresh invention each time
• Your videos look polished but nobody can say what the viewer should be able to do after watching
• You keep re-explaining the same concept because the first video never landed

Workflow

1. Scope the kit (input: your topics and audience → output: kit scope sheet)
   Define the audience's starting knowledge in one paragraph — what they already know, what vocabulary they already have, what they are trying to do with this knowledge. Then set the kit's iron rule: one concept per video, stated as a single sentence the viewer should be able to repeat afterward ("After this video, the viewer can explain why a loan's monthly payment barely dents the balance in year one"). Every skill in the kit serves that one sentence. A kit that allows two concepts per video is a kit that teaches neither.
2. Inventory the teaching skills (input: scope sheet → output: skill inventory)
   List the skills the kit needs, one per teaching job: Concept script (turns the one-concept sentence into a spoken script with a hook, a plain-language definition, and a recap), Visual metaphor (turns the abstract part of the concept into one concrete analogy with a matching visual brief), Worked example (turns the concept into a step-by-step example the viewer can follow with a pencil), Misconception check (turns the concept's common wrong turns into on-screen corrections and a self-test question), Production pack (turns script + visuals + example into a shot list, narration cues, and on-screen text). If the kit has no misconception skill, viewers will leave with the same wrong idea they arrived with — just more confidently held.
3. Write the contract for each skill (input: skill inventory → output: per-skill input/output contracts)
   For every skill, write the input, the output, and the pass bar. The pass bars are teaching bars, not production bars: Concept script — "a viewer with the stated starting knowledge can paraphrase the concept after one watch, no jargon left undefined"; Visual metaphor — "one analogy, carried through the whole video, never mixed with a second"; Worked example — "every step shown, no step skipped with 'and then you just…', viewer can redo it alone"; Misconception check — "names the two most common wrong answers and shows why each fails." A beautiful video that fails these bars is a failed lesson with nice lighting.

Template preview

Education Explainer Kit — Video Pack

One concept per video. If this template needs a second "viewer can…" sentence, it needs a second video.

1. Kit scope sheet

Audience starting knowledge: {what they already know, vocabulary they have, what they want to do with it} One-concept sentence: After this video, the viewer can {explain / do / decide} {concept}. Video length target: {minutes}

2. Concept script skeleton

Hook (≤15 sec): {why this matters, in the viewer's words} Plain-language definition: {concept in one paragraph, no jargon left undefined} Recap (viewer repeats it): {the concept restated as the viewer would say it}

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