Middle School Elective · Grades 7–8
An elective where you don't study business — you build one, together. In teams that run like a real creative agency, every one of you holding a real role, from strategy to design.
Week 01 · Welcome to the Agency · Fall CohortFaith and craft belong together here. Every class hour opens with the week's anchor verse, and the values — wisdom, integrity, service, diligence, humility — lead the work.
The same disciplined shape every week — you'll know it by heart within a month.
Stand-up: your name + one thing you love to make or do.
Those posters you just saw? That's what an agency ships. This semester, your team builds one — for real.
Owns the plan and the calendar. Opens the sprint, closes the sprint, forgets nothing.
Asks the big questions. Right problem? Right idea? Slows the team down at the right moments.
Names, colors, drawings, words. Makes the pod's work feel like yours.
When the pod decides, they build. Finished beats perfect.
The talker, the artist, the organizer, the quiet deep thinker — all have a home here. Seats rotate; nobody is stuck. And nobody is the boss — iron sharpens iron.
Something specific you loved about their charter. Specific beats nice — "great job" is not a cheer.
One way to make it even better. Kind, useful, and about the work — that's iron sharpening iron.
Next week: you become Problem Detectives. Between now and then, start noticing what bugs people at home — the tangled cords, the lunchbox chaos, the thing everyone complains about. Bring what you notice.