After a couple of days, I pulled together my teaching plan for 2024-2025. There remains a few details to scaffold out, but those placeholders will filled before 2025.

I feel good about it, though admittedly, I am weary of hammering away on this keyboard in its preparation. The schema all came about on Tuesday morning as I lamented to my wife on the necessity of reading up and finding bits of outside sources for some "7" courses. She remarked on teaching one course at a time—that's all I needed; I instantly fell in love with the construct.

Instead of this long, dragged-out subject and a slew of others with it, go deep into a single subject for a month and then leap to another discipline for the next 4 weeks! Rinse and repeat, "Whop bop b-luma b-lop bam bom."

It always amused me that I could take a university class for a July or take that same class for the end of an August, September, October, November and an opening of December. There is a LOT of filler in those traditional semester classes! The summer saved in drive time alone!

Overall, I am delighted with its focus. There is a healthy representation regarding where we'll be for 10,000+ years—fine, INFINITY—in there; hits state req's, and dumps a whole TRUCKLOAD of practicality. Regrettably, I couldn't slide in that coding class; my dance card was full. Perhaps it'll show up for the 2025-2026 season.

This is not what I chewed on in 1993-1994. I just drank Minute Maid in the cafeteria.

AND THUS, for the first time ever, I am serving up a single course, 3 hours every weekday for a summer term duration, departure from the past buffets which lasted all semester long. Additonally, the kids will continue to invest 3+ hours completing assignments daily, including readings and writing assignments. Weekly readings from the text-heavy classes are generally 150-180 pp. in length, though in the case of the leadership class, it is a book a week to offset Fall Break.