Workshop is always first, checkpoint is always last. The middle stretches.
Every month follows the same pattern. Graphic Design runs the same one on purpose, so both classes keep the same rhythm. Plan first, two signatures second, build third.
Thirty minutes on the idea, then Sensei demos one technique that’s hard to learn from a video. Then you plan your spread. By the end of week one: a plan, not a page.
Your chair signs, Sensei signs, you build. Nothing gets built with one signature.
Someone else marks up your mistakes. You fix them. Like a critique, except you’re hunting typos.
Thursday: pages are due. Then Friday, which is the whole reason the checkpoint is on Thursday.
The phases stretch or shrink to fit each cycle. The first cycle is 51 school days and CP2 is 13, so a cycle can be three weeks or eleven. That’s why the Calendar never says “week 2 of 4.”
Post your progress report in your department channel. 30 seconds: what you did, what’s slowing you down. Screenshot. Dojo-kun scores it.
Post your work in the first 5 minutes. Nothing new? Your last standup post gets shown. Nothing posted, nothing shown: zero. Then 90 seconds out loud. Then 10 minutes with your department. The Standup.
Do the one thing that phase asks for. The Calendar shows which phase you’re in and what to do today.
1.5 to 2 hours on yearbook, reported Wednesday. Shooting, designing, filming, planning, selling all count.
Say what your work does, what you’d change, what’s next. You can’t skip your turn or say “same as him.” The trick: say your own weak spot first. Then the room stops hunting for a flaw and starts helping you fix the one you found.
Short day. Post in the first 5, talk for 90 seconds, 10 minutes with your department. That’s most of the period, which is why the posting happens first.
Walsworth, the grid, and how a spread is really built.
Lightroom Classic: pick your best photos, fix them, Sync Settings, export.
Type and hierarchy, and why your spread looks amateur.
Interviewing, and copy that’s more than a caption.
Main photo, modular layout, eyeline.
CMYK and color, and how printing changes what you see on screen.
Proofing and hunting for mistakes. The last push.
Each workshop gets its own student guide as it comes up.