A cohort ends. You know parts of it didn’t work. The next run starts anyway, unchanged.
The notebook is blunt about why: «vague reflection produces vague revision.»
What it does
The Director’s Notebook asks five questions after a cohort: the vision check, what’s working, what’s not, how learners responded, and the next cut. It scores each out of 10, maps the five as a path and ranks three moves.
Five runs: Run 1, the rough cut (learn the fundamentals: what’s working, what’s broken). Run 2, the assembly (major structural changes: cut, add, reorganise). Run 3, the fine cut (refine: adjust pacing, improve explanations). Run 4, the polish (small adjustments, smooth rough edges). Run 5 and beyond, the director’s cut (maintain and evolve; the core structure is solid). The count describes how I work, and the scale and subject of a programme change it.
The Cinematic Curriculum Method, Appendix §21, The Iterative Editing Process
What you’ll do
After a cohort, answer each of the five prompts honestly.
Press «Review my cut».
Work through the three moves and review again.
What you get. A reflection-depth score out of 100 with a verdict, the five prompts mapped as a path, what the analysis noticed in your own words, and three priority moves. The report downloads as a one-page PDF.
Before and after
BeforeAs it opens: five prompts, each with its own question.AfterThe app’s own worked example, run: a score of 74, «Solid reflection», and the five prompts mapped as a path.
Watch it work
1 / 6Open The Director's Notebook. Five prompts, each with its own question.
How to use it
Open The Director's Notebook from My tools.
Under «The Reflection Prompts», answer the question for each of the five prompts. Watch the word count and the flags under each answer. «Load Worked Example» shows a finished set.
Press «Review my cut».
Read the score, the verdict, the path and what the analysis noticed.
Work through the three priority moves, strengthen the weakest answers and run it again.