LEARNING DESIGN

I design curriculum, assessment, and learning experiences for advanced secondary, International Baccalaureate, and early university contexts. My work sits at the intersection of literature, film, media studies, history, psychology, economics, and cultural theory, with a sustained focus on how students learn to interpret complex texts and social systems.

The projects here show how rigorous learning design can connect big ideas to practical classroom architecture: inquiry questions, seminar protocols, formative tasks, assessment rubrics, lecture scripts, media resources, and student-facing pathways through difficult material.

My teaching invites students to examine how institutions shape subjects, and how individuals and small groups negotiate, resist, or reconfigure power in everyday cultural spaces. Theory becomes a usable vocabulary for inquiry, not a doctrine to memorize.

For schools, curriculum teams, and education organizations, this portfolio demonstrates the kind of work I can build: IB literature units, interdisciplinary media studies courses, assessment frameworks, teacher-facing resources, and learning experiences that are intellectually ambitious without becoming inaccessible.

If you need a curriculum designer, assessment consultant, instructional designer, or education technologist for a serious learning project, the examples on this page are a practical starting point. For education-specific consulting, curriculum design, and assessment strategy, visit Quill Associates. For the broader intellectual context behind the work, read About John Hoare or the writing archive.