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

Skills for Teachers

When to use

• You plan lessons late at night, reinventing worksheets and feedback comments from scratch every week
• Your lesson plans look good on paper but the materials, assessment, and parent message for the same lesson don't match
• Feedback to students is either generic ("good effort") or takes so long it arrives after the next assignment
• You want one kit that covers a whole unit — plan, materials, assessment, feedback, parent communication — to a single standard
• You're mentoring a new teacher or sharing resources with a department and need the way you plan written down

Workflow

1. Audit a real unit (input: one recent unit you taught → output: unit inventory)
   Pick one unit you actually taught — not your ideal unit — and lay out everything it involved: the unit plan, each lesson plan, worksheets, quizzes, answer keys, rubrics, feedback you gave, parent messages you sent. Note what got reused, what got rebuilt under time pressure, and where the pieces disagreed (worksheet practicing one thing, quiz testing another, parent email describing a third). The audit decides what the kit must contain; a kit built for a fantasy timetable gets used once and shelved.
2. Scope the kit around the unit loop (input: unit inventory → output: kit scope)
   A teacher's kit has one spine: unit plan → lesson plan → materials → assessment → feedback → parent communication, then back to the next unit with what you learned. Scope nine skills around that loop: unit planner, lesson plan builder, worksheet generator, differentiated task designer, quiz + answer key builder, rubric maker, feedback comment bank, parent communication writer, and reteach planner. Each skill owns exactly one artifact. Skills that don't serve a lesson you're actually going to teach get cut — a kit full of "nice to have" generators is a kit that never gets opened on a Sunday night.
3. Set the quality bar (input: kit scope → output: quality standard)
   Every skill in the kit must meet the same bar before it ships: every activity names its learning goal in student-facing language ("by the end you can…"); every worksheet includes its answer key and the common wrong answers to watch for; every assessment can be traced back to something that was actually taught; every feedback comment names one specific thing done well and one specific next step. Write the bar as a checklist and run each skill's first output through it. A kit where the lesson plan is rigorous and the quiz is guesswork teaches students not to trust the plan.

Template preview

Skills for Teachers — Kit Template

One kit = nine skills around the unit loop. Fill this in from one real unit you taught, then build in teaching order.

1. Unit inventory (one real unit you taught)

Unit: {topic} | Year group: {year} | Weeks: {n}

Mismatch found: {e.g. worksheet practiced X, quiz tested Y, parent email described Z}

2. Kit scope (nine skills, one artifact each)

Cut list (not serving a lesson you'll actually teach): {…}

3. Quality standard (checklist — every skill's output must pass)

[ ] Every activity names its learning goal in student-facing language: "By the end you can {…}"

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