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Making High School Relevant Through Adult Accomplishment!
Frontier Christian Academy
Every Course —> One or More Lucrative Adult Accomplishments
Full Year of Interactive Coaching from Certified High School Teacher
Peer Infusion, Collaboration, and Feedback
Incredible Value and Discounts!
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I first had the idea for Frontier Christian Academy several years ago, when I was pulling night watch in Stuttgart, Germany. We were al-
ways having to set the conditions for the soldiers that worked for us to be successful, and I got to thinking. What is necessary for our chil-
dren to be prepared for the “emerging world”: not the world that we graduated into, or even the current world, but the one that they
would have to lead as adults? I had been working with youth for a couple decades, so I wondered: what knowledge, skills, and characteris-
tics would high school graduates need to lead that world?
I had nothing else better to do while waiting for the phone not to ring, so I came up with a set of courses that, if combined, would make a
graduate a formidable leader, with skills that would always be in demand. I came home in the morning with a 9-page document, exhaust-
ed, but exuberant. We have come a long way since that night watch, but I am still just as obsessed with empowering high school graduates
to lead the emerging world. Welcome to the Frontier!
David E. Mugg
Founder and CEO
Frontier Christian Academy LLC
My name is David Mugg, certified high school teacher (NC), published author, West Point graduate, retired Army Special Operations
officer, founder of Frontier Christian Academy, and happily-married, proud father.
WELCOME TO FRONTIER CHRISTIAN ACADEMY!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABOUT US: 2-4 OUR COURSES: 5-16
HOW WE TEACH: 17-18 PRICING AND VALUE: 19
Frontier Christian Academy: Making High School Relevant Through Adult Accomplishment
Making High School Relevant Through Adult Accomplishment!
INVENTION AND DESIGN
NOVEL WRITING AND PUBLISHING
BIBLICAL HERMENEUTICS, APOLOGETICS,
AND COUNSELING
ECONOPOLICY
GEOGRAPHY, CULTURE, AND INFLUENCE
MILITARY ART AND SCIENCE
THE MEDIA AND THE MESSAGE
FOREIGN LANGUAGE I
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND OPTIMIZA-
TION
ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN
READING PEOPLE
ANATOMY: SYSTEMS AND DIAGNOSTICS
OUR COURSES:
Frontier Christian Academy
MAKING HIGH SCHOOL RELEVANT THROUGH ADULT ACCOMPLISH-MENT!
In the near future: ...It ’s your son, calling you from China, where he is spearheading
the marketing campaign for his new biomedical invention that allows quadriplegics
to walk, to needle you because he won your bet on who would win the Super Bowl.
He asks if you saw the Superbowl ad that he produced, and he tells you that he was
able to get the airtime for a steal through his negotiations with the studio exec, to
whom he had given a winning stock tip.
You smile as he calls (in Chinese) to your bilingual granddaughter to come to the
computer and tell Grandma and Grandpa about the neighborhood market that she
has set up to sell used toys.
While she is telling you this, along with how she used the Book of Proverbs to bright-
en the day of the grumpy old man next door, your son gets a phone call and has to
step away. When he comes back he tells you that he has to cut his trip a little shorter
because the Defense Department has just called him in to give a briefing on potential
military applications for his invention.
“Oh, and Dad,” he says, grinning, “I will collect the $20 you owe me for picking the
Superbowl winner before the season started.”
“Lucky guess,” you snort.
“Luck’s got nothing to do with it,” he chuckles. “And Mom and Dad, you have to
promise me to go see the movie when it comes out next month.”
“What movie?” you ask with an innocent grin.
“The one they are making of my book! Mom and Dad, you have to promise!”
“Yeah, Grandma and Grandpa, promise!” your granddaughter chimes in, bouncing
excitedly.
“Ok, ok,” you say, trying to sound reluctant as you pat the advance tickets that you
printed out 3 days ago sitting on the desk. “But using our granddaughter against us is
dirty pool.”
“Gotta go, Mom and Dad,” he grins, “Love you.”
“We love you too, son, and we’re very proud of you.”
As the screen goes blank, you sit back and think about all of the seemingly impossible
turns that your son’s life has taken. The seemingly impossible accomplishments that
he has made. Seemingly impossible. And yet...
Sounds Impossible? How Sure Are You?
What if it were not impossible? What if it were normal? What if it could be your son
or daughter? What would it be worth?
If the above scenario sounds like something that you would want to be a part of, then
read on, and I will show you a path that can take you to these and greater possibili-
ties! Welcome to Frontier Christian Academy!
Scan to learn more and get your
questions answered!
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ACCOMPLISHMENT MAKES US BEST
There are many excellent high school
programs out there, but when you fin-
ish them, you have a GPA. When you
finish with us, you take an entire
portfolio of adult accomplishments out
into the world.
INTERACTIVE FEEDBACK
Much of the course material out there,
while being good and thorough, is pre-
recorded and static. With us, you get a
certified high school teacher and your
classmates providing tailored input,
coaching, and feedback, as you take
your accomplishments to the world.
UNBEATABLE VALUE FOR THE $$$
To find a program that would coach
you through any one of the accom-
plishments that we do, you would
need a B.S. Degree, at a minimum,
which, on average, would cost you
$38,600 for an in-state public universi-
ty. With the Trailblazer Discount, we
charge you less than 1% of that!!!
FRONTIER CHRISTIAN ACADEMY MISSION:
The mission of Frontier Christian Academy is to honor Jesus Christ and make high
school relevant by unleashing Christian leaders into the emerging world with an
entire portfolio of adult accomplishments under their belt before the adult world
has a chance to tell them that it can't be done.
FRONTIER CHRISTIAN ACADEMY VISION:
Our vision is a community of competitive and cooperative excellence, built
around accomplishment, guided by a Biblical worldview, and focused on build-
ing the thought leaders to lead the generational narrative of tomorrow, with
the ability to cut through the "noise" of the demagogues.
Making High School Relevant Through Adult Accomplishment!
OUR BELIEFS:
The Bible is the only inspired Word of God, and exerts sovereign authori-
ty over all areas of faith and practice.
The fundamental core of the American psyche is the belief that “it can be
done.” While there are sometimes resourcing obstacles, if these were
removed, every true American believes that “it can be done.”
The emerging world is a different one than the one that we grew up in,
or even than the one that our children grew up in, so the skills required
to lead it are also different.
Events do not happen randomly, but through causal forces and in histor-
ical context, which means that proper understanding of the forces acting
on our world will enable accurate prediction of, and preparation for, its
trajectory.
Accomplishment trumps certification when it comes to expertise to be
consulted. Expertise can be gained independently of certification pro-
grams. The information environment has changed to where there is no
longer a requirement to master the basics before tackling more advanced
projects. Education needs to adapt to this new reality.
Scan to learn more and get your
questions answered!
Making High School Relevant Through Adult Accomplishment!
DESIGNED AND INVENTED PROTOTYPE
DEVICE/PRODUCT (THAT SOLVES A REAL-
WORLD PROBLEM FOR A REAL-WORLD
MARKET)
DETAILED DRAWING
ASSEMBLY DIAGRAM
BILL OF MATERIALS
DEVICE/PRODUCT TESTING/UNVEILING
VIDEO
CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN (TO FUND
PROTOTYPING PROCESS)
MARKETING PLAN FOR GENERATING IN-
TEREST IN THE INVENTED DEVICE/
PRODUCT
BUSINESS PLAN FOR HOW TO GET THE
DEVICE/PRODUCT TO MARKET
ADULT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Invention and Design
LET’S INVENT THE FUTURE!
What if every student coming out of high school already had an invention ready
for market, instead of having to figure out what they wanted to do when they
grew up? What if everyone that your son or daughter knew had demonstrated
the same skills and drive? How would it be if their friendships were inspiration
incubators? How would our world look different? How would our conversations
sound different? Would you want to be a part of bringing that about? Sounds
impossible? How sure are you?
We don’t believe that it is impossible. Our Invention and Design students will
produce and revise a working prototype of a device that solves an adult-world
problem that they have identified with real-world market analysis. Read on to
find out how you can be a part of inventing the world that exists beyond the next
horizon! Join us to help invent the future!
“Science classroom” or “incubator”? WITH A WORKING PROTOTYPE, CROWDFUNDING, AND A BUSINESS
AND MARKETING PLAN, STUDENTS ARE POISED AS ENTREPRENEURS!
THE MOTHER OF ALL OUR COURSES!
It came from Stradivarius, but that probably needs a little explanation.
The idea for this course actually came to me while I walked through Amsterdam Airport on
my way to Kenya for a mission for my last profession. I saw a copy of the Economist maga-
zine on the newsstand with a cover picture of what was very evidently, a plastic violin. The
caption read: “Print me a Stradivarius.”
It was an article about 3D printing (about which I knew nothing at the time), and I remem-
ber thinking two things. First, if I could print Stradivarius violins, I could finally buy that sub-
marine, private island, and a castle to go on it, that I had been dreaming about, but I di-
gress. Second, I thought: “How would a high school science class look different with one of
these (3D printers) in the classroom? What could I expect the students to do then that I
cannot expect them to do now?” The answer: I can expect them to design, invent, proto-
type, test, and refine a device to solve a real world problem! By the time these students
are 15-16 years old, they have said (or heard someone they care about say): “I wish I had
something that does _______.” What holds them back? In most cases, it is the lack of a
production facility to prototype and test such a device, or the costs associated with that
process.
That printed Stradivarius changed the game in my mind. I could have the students come up
with what goes in the blank above. Then they could go through the Engineering Design
Process to solve it. With a working prototype, they could test and refine it without having to
rent a factory to do it! Thanks, Stradivarius!
Scan to see more about Invention
and Design’s curriculum
COURSE VERSE: II CHRON. 26:15
Making High School Relevant Through Adult Accomplishment!
WRITTEN, EDITED, REVISED, AND PUB-
LISHED NOVEL (AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC
PURCHASE ON AMAZON)
SEVEN ROUNDS OF PEER EDITING ON
CLASSMATES’ NOVELS, BASED ON DIFFER-
ENT RUBRICS EACH TIME
BOOK VIDEO TRAILER
BOOK MARKETING PLAN (INCLUDING
BOTH TRADITIONAL AND SOCIAL MEDIA)
FOR GENERATING INTEREST IN THE BOOK
-BUYING PUBLIC
CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN (TO FUND
PUBLICATION PROCESS)
ADULT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Novel Writing and Publishing
FOR THE “GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL” INSIDE YOU!
How would our world look different if every student coming out of high school had told
that story — the one that could explain their little piece of the Human Condition? What
if all of the books on your shelves at home were either written by your children, or by
their high school classmates? How would it be if their friendships were springboards to
inspiration? How would our world look different? How would your dinnertime conversa-
tions sound different? Would you want to be a part of bringing that about? Sounds impos-
sible? How sure are you?
We don’t believe that it’s impossible. Our Novel Writing and Publishing students plan,
write, edit, revise, publish, and market their novel.
We all understand the world through stories. Jesus taught us through stories. Read on to
find out how you and your student can help to teach the next generation with the stories
that are already locked inside them, just dying to get out! Join us, and tell your story!
“English classroom” or “author platform”? WITH A PUBLISHED NOVEL, A VIDEO BOOK TRAILER, CROWDFUND-
ING, AND A MARKETING PLAN, STUDENTS BECOME “AUTHORS”!
WE DON’T JUST READ STORIES, WE WRITE THEM!
From the time that I was very young, I used to love to make up and tell stories
to whomever would listen. Many times this was only to myself, but I digress.
The idea for this course actually came to me from a book called No Plot? No Problem.
This book told of a group of people who could help me get my story out to the world by
writing a novel in a month. You see, I said earlier that we do not think that this is im-
possible, but the truth is that I know that it is possible because I have done it! Every
year during the month of November, over 100,000 of people around the world write a
novel. It is called National Novel Writing Month (www.nanowrimo.org.) They define a
novel as 50,000 words, which, over the 30 days of November, comes out to slightly un-
der 1700 words per day, which, while being a commitment, is far from impossible.
So I thought that, if 100,000 people could do it, why can’t some of them be high school-
ers that I am coaching through the process.
Here’s what 100,000 people do not do in a month, or a year, or in many cases, a
lifetime: publish their novel. There are all sorts of reasons for this, but few are
sufficient.
But you say to me: “Publishing is expensive/difficult/time consuming/exclusive/etc.”
That was before self-publishing moved beyond the realm of vanity publishing to become
more mainstream! So I saw coaching students to write their story, revise it, publish it,
and market it to their generation, as a great way to put them in the driver’s seat for
selling their novel and getting their story out there!
Scan to see Novel Writing and
Publishing’s curriculum
COURSE VERSE: REV. 1:11, 19
Making High School Relevant Through Adult Accomplishment!
WEEKLY ENGAGEMENT WITH ACTUAL
SKEPTICS ON SKEPTIC PUBLIC FORUMS IN
DEFENSE OF EACH OF THE MAJOR DOC-
TRINES OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH
(WORKING WITH ROTATING PARTNERS)
BIBLICAL COUNSELING SOLUTION TO A
REAL-WORLD PSYCHOLOGICAL/
RELATIONAL PROBLEM, PUBLISHED IN A
RELEVANT FORUM
BIBLICAL COUNSELING SOLUTION TO A
REAL CHURCH’S ORGANIZATIONAL/
RELATIONAL PROBLEM, PUBLISHED IN A
RELEVANT FORUM
IDENTIFIED AND NAMED DISCIPLE, TO
WHOM THEY CAN PASS ON WHAT THEY
HAVE LEARNED IN THE COURSE!
ADULT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Biblical Hermeneutics, Apologetics, and Counseling
WHAT IF THE CHURCH COLLEGE GROUP WAS AS STRONG AS THE YOUTH GROUP?
What if you could send your son or daughter off to college across the country
with absolutely no fear for their faith because they had already faced and de-
feated everything that the enemy had to throw at them? What if all of the
young adults in the church had a track record of being victorious in defending the
faith, and could mentor the next generation, and encourage your child, on how to do
it? What if our young people could cite chapter and verse for everything that they
believed about their faith, instead of saying, “I know it says it somewhere, but…”?
How would our churches look different? Would you have more peace of mind about
your child’s fast-approaching adulthood? Their marriage prospects? Their col-
lege choices? Would you be interested in bringing that about? Sounds impossible?
How sure are you?
It is not impossible! I have done it, and your student can too. Join us to find
out how to “pull down the strongholds” and “edify the Body”!
“Bible classroom” or “training yard”? WITH ACTUAL EXPERIENCE IN BIBLICAL APOLOGETICS AND COUN-
SELING, STUDENTS WALK ARMED AND ARMORED INTO BATTLE!
TRAINING “SWORD WIELDERS” TO “BREAK THE GATES”!
Have you ever been attacked by a gate? Maybe a more embarrassing question
is, “Have you ever been defeated by one?” If Paul told us that our weapons are for
“tearing down strongholds,” and Jesus said that “the gates of Hell will not stand against
[the Church],” then why are we living on the defensive?
I learned this the hard way in two ways. The first is that my high school was
ranked 4th academically in the nation, with a debate team that had been national
champions for as long as anyone could remember — most of whom were hostile to
Christianity. Consequently, I learned early that I needed to carry my Bible to Math
class, or I was going to get waylaid by classmates and teachers. I was “standing
down” Ph.D.’s in apologetics battles from the time I was 15 years old.
The second way was harder, and thus, more relevant. I worked with youth in Columbus,
GA, and had trained (or so I thought) several members of the group to use the Bible
effectively. They graduated, went to college, had their faith shredded there, came back,
and bled out in my arms. I swore in that day: NEVER AGAIN!!
These two experiences forged this course’s two student needs: for readiness to fight their
own battles by having to struggle to strength, and resilience so that they do not
despair before they succeed.
You see, there is nothing wrong with the Sword. It is only in the swordsman
where the failing lies. We are about training students to wield the Sword!
Scan to see more about the cur-
riculum
COURSE VERSE: II COR. 10:4-5
Making High School Relevant Through Adult Accomplishment!
WORKING, PREDICTIVE, MATHEMATICAL,
MODEL OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
(DERIVED BY A COMBINATION OF EACH
INDIVIDUAL AND THE CLASS)
WORKING PROGRAMMED COMPUTER
PROGRAM/APP WITH A USER INTERFACE
ENABLING SOMEONE WHO WAS NOT
PART OF THE MODELING EFFORT TO PRE-
DICT THE ECONOMY
WEEKLY PREDICTIONS OF ECONOMIC
EVENTS, BASED ON NEWS STORIES, WITH
MATHEMATICALLY CALCULATED UNCER-
TAINTIES (TEACHING CALCULATED MOD-
ESTY)
ADULT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Econopolicy
PREDICTING THE ECONOMY!
If I gave you $50 and a copy of next week’s Wall Street Journal, how much
money could you make? What if I continued to give you the following week’s
edition of the paper every day for the next year? Could you make a million dol-
lars? What if every student coming out of high school, knew how to invest com-
petently because they knew what was going to happen next in the economy?
How would that affect funding for college? For marriage? For life? How would
you feel differently about your child’s entrepreneurial ambitions? How would
your life look different if you could read a news story and know what it was going
to do to your investment portfolio today? Next week? Next month? Would you
want your children to have that expertise? Would you be interested in bringing
that about? Sound impossible? How sure are you?
We don’t think that it is impossible. Difficult? Maybe, but impossible? Not so
fast!. Join us to find out how you will turn news into cash!
“Economics classroom” or “futurist tank”? WITH A DERIVED ECONOMIC PREDICTION APP, STUDENTS WILL BE
POISED TO WIN AT INVESTING FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES!
EVERY HEADLINE A GOLD MINE!
This course started with a German stoplight, a joke, a book title, and a science fiction
robot. Yes, I realize that this requires a little explanation.
An old joke tells of two men encountering a bear. As one man bends down to put on
running shoes, his companion points out that a man cannot outrun a bear, in any
shoes. The other man replies: “I don’t have to outrun the bear; I just have to out-
run you!” This is how many economics decisions actually play out. If you are ahead of
the crowd, you win!
As I was walking to work in Germany, a stoplight directed pedestrian traffic across the
street. Over time, I learned the traffic light patterns, so I was able to start walking be-
fore the pedestrian light allowed it, much to the surprise and dismay of the Germans. I
realized that if this were us buying stocks, I would be rich because I had “outrun” them.
Robert Heinlein, in his book, Friday, tells of an android whose job it is to find correla-
tions between all of the events in the world in order to determine causation (and thus,
prediction.) This got me thinking about whether or not it was possible that seemingly
unrelated events had a causative “butterfly effect.”
Peter Navarro’s book, If It’s Raining In Brazil, Buy Starbucks, moved my speculations
out of the realm of science fiction. I realized that the ability to use unlikely indicators,
combined with sound analysis and careful modesty, could actually help
“outrun” all of the so-called experts who were trying to “outrun the bear.”
Scan to see Econopolicy’s curric-
ulum
COURSE VERSE: LUKE 16:8-13
Making High School Relevant Through Adult Accomplishment!
CULTURAL INFLUENCE STUDY ARTICLE,
AIMED AT CAUSING A TARGET BEHAVIOR
IN A PARTICULAR INTERNATIONAL TAR-
GET AUDIENCE, PUBLISHED IN A SCHOL-
ARLY JOURNAL
WORKING MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF
HOW TO INFLUENCE THEIR TARGET CUL-
TURE’S BEHAVIOR
INTERNATIONAL MARKETING PLAN SENT
TO AN AMERICAN COMPANY’S MARKET-
ING DIRECTOR TO SELL ITS WORST-
SELLING PRODUCT TO YOUR TARGET
CULTURE
ADULT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Geography, Culture, and Influence
GETTING FOREIGNERS TO DO THINGS “OUR WAY”!
What if we could get the members of other cultures to do what we wanted
them to do? How would that affect your business? What government functions
would no longer be necessary? What benefits could we take to the whole world?
What conflicts could be avoided or resolved? How would missionary endeavors be
affected? How marketable would your son or daughter be on the job market, if they
could walk in and guarantee that they could change foreign behavior on purpose and
on demand? What would the salary for that job be? Would you want your children to
have that skill set, as they enter the adult world? Sounds impossible? How sure are
you?
We don’t think that it is impossible. I have spent the last decade and a half studying
the concepts of culture and influence, and it is possible. Your students can do it as
well. Read on to find out how we can literally change the world by changing the be-
havior of those around the world!
“Sociology classroom” or “influence lab”? WITH A PUBLISHED CULTURAL INFLUENCE STUDY AND INTERNA-
TIONAL MARKETING PLAN, STUDENTS ARE POISED FOR BUSINESS!
CHANGING FOREIGNERS ON PURPOSE!
This course has been a professional obsession of mine for over 15 years! It started when I
started working in U.S. Army Special Operations (Psychological Operations). Military
leaders and civilian leaders alike would talk about “intelligence support to win the infor-
mation war” or some such. What they really wanted was the ability to get people from
other cultures to do things that we wanted them to do without having to kill
them to get them to do it! So I came up with a plan to do that. I invented a pro-
cess. I developed a list of requirements. I envisioned an organizational design for how
one would do this professionally. The problem was that, even though there was a
(seemingly) never-ending stream of people and companies coming through, either beg-
ging for money or offering what someone had paid them a truckload of money to devel-
op, none of them ever answered the decision makers’ question. Meanwhile, I contin-
ued to try to get people to let me do it for them for free, but they were not interested in
what I had to say. I finally concluded that I was not charging enough. So I retired.
All this to say: there are a lot of people in the U.S. government that were more than
happy to pay millions of dollars for someone to solve this problem for them, so
go and get some of that money!
That brings me to the real reason that I chose to build this course (other than my per-
sonal obsession): I looked for someone, anyone, who had published anything like this,
and I couldn’t find anything!! So I decided to buck that trend, teach the next generation
how to do influence on purpose, and watch the attitude toward the practice of cultural
influence start to change.
Scan to see Geography, Culture,
and Influence’s curriculum
COURSE VERSE: I COR. 9:20-22
Making High School Relevant Through Adult Accomplishment!
DESIGNED, DEVELOPED, COMMERCIALLY-
RELEASED BOARD GAME SIMULATING
AMERICA’S NEXT WAR, BASED ON UNDER-
STANDING OF HISTORICAL TRAJECTORIES
OF DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THE MILITARY
ART
GROUP-DEVELOPED DRAFT LEGISLATION
SENT TO WASHINGTON DECISION MAK-
ERS TO TRANSFORM AMERICA’S CURRENT
MILITARY INTO A MILITARY OPTIMIZED
TO WIN AMERICA’S NEXT WAR
PUBLISHED AND SHARED
“TRANSFORMATION AND HOPE” VIDEO,
OUTLINING THE GLOBAL MILITARY
CHALLENGES AND THE PROPOSED SOLU-
TIONS THROUGH MILITARY TRANSFOR-
MATION
ADULT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Military Art and Science
PREDICTING AMERICA’S NEXT WAR!
How would your professional life have looked different if you had been the U.S.
Government’s #1 authority on Afghanistan on September 10, 2001? What if
you could have predicted 9-11? Would you have wanted your nation to have
known about it? What about your loved ones? What if there was a more efficient
and effective way of fighting wars? What if long wars were no longer necessary
because one side had such an advantage that fighting against them was just not
worth it? What if it were possible to predict where, when, and how America’s
next war would start? Would you want your children to have that expertise?
Would preparedness reduce the ravaging effects of repeated deployments on
families? Sounds impossible? How sure are you?
We don’t think that it is impossible. Mark Twain is quoted as saying, “History
does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Join us to find out how we can use
history’s rhyme scheme to save our children’s future!
“History classroom” or “Situation Room”? WITH A PUBLISHED BOARD GAME AND DRAFT TRANSFORMATION
LEGISLATION SENT, STUDENTS ARE ALREADY INFLUENCING POLICY!
MAKE BILLIONS STUDYING HISTORY!
This course started with a realization that, if you don’t have a good military history,
you really don’t get to spend much time writing the other kind! I also had a mil-
itary history professor at one point who was able to demonstrate that the trajectory of
military art and science, rather than some vague sense of lucky guessing, was
the real basis for military advancement. Working in Afghanistan, Qatar, Iraq,
Kenya, Jordan, and Lithuania also taught me the lucrative nature of military contract-
ing. These factors, combined with my personal love of history in general, made me want
to demonstrate how studying history could actually be lucrative.
When I was in my first Masters’ program, the department head, during his course on
Guerilla Warfare (awesome course title!) said: “The irony of military operations is
that the less time that you need to do it well, the more time the American pub-
lic is willing to give you to do it completely.” This stuck with me, as I studied ways
to “do it well.” I believed that criteria separated well-executed military operations from
badly-conducted ones, and the normal, proposed criteria didn’t seem to fit.
The more I learned, the more frustrated I was that the decision making I saw largely
ignored what I had learned.
I tried again and again to get various military leaders to engage my ideas, but they
would not. This scared me, as I continued to face adaptive foes in various far-off places,
so I decided that responsible citizens should be able to ask the right questions of their
military decision makers without it being either meddling or treasonous. De-
signing a game and proposing legislation helps to engage high schoolers in the process.
Scan to see Military Art and
Science’s curriculum
COURSE VERSE: PROV. 20:18
Making High School Relevant Through Adult Accomplishment!
16 EPISODES OF A CONTINUOUS BI-
WEEKLY COMIC STRIP, EITHER PUB-
LISHED OR SUBMITTED FOR SYNDICA-
TION
FOUR EPISODE TV SERIES PRODUCED
AND PUBLISHED AS A MEMBER OF A
FOUR-PERSON PRODUCTION TEAM
FOUR DIFFERENT VIDEO ADVERTISE-
MENTS, PUBLISHED TO YOUTUBE, FOR
DIFFERENT PRODUCTS, SERVICES, OR
ORGANIZATIONS
MARKETING “PITCH” PACKETS FOR THEIR
VARIOUS PRODUCTS, INCLUDING VIDEO
TRAILER(S) AND/OR COVER LETTERS, AS
APPROPRIATE
ADULT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
The Media and the Message
ENLARGING THE “MEGAPHONE”!
What would the world look like if what you were watching on TV had been
written and produced by people you knew? Have you ever been astounded at
the stupidity and moral decay of so many of the programs available on TV? Have
you ever watched a commercial or a TV show, and thought: I could do that so
much better! How would your life be different if your children were making com-
ics instead of reading comics; making videos instead of watching them; or making
TV episodes instead of watching them? What message have you wished every-
one would know? What if you had a way to get the message out there effective-
ly? Would you want your children to have that skill set, as they enter the adult
world? Sounds impossible? How sure are you?
We don’t think that it is impossible. With the availability of video technology out
there today, anyone can be a videographer. Join us to find out how you can get
your message out there by turning your students into visual storytellers!
“Art classroom” or “Production Studio”? WITH A BI-WEEKLY COMIC STRIP, VIDEO ADS, AND A PUBLISHED TV
SERIES, STUDENTS ARE LEADING THEIR GENERATIONAL NARRATIVE!
HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO BE A TV PRODUCER?
This course started with some parables and an LA hot tub, but that requires
some explanation.
This is a course about storytelling: specifically, visual storytelling. Jesus taught
with stories, throughout His ministry. God used visual examples with several of the
prophets (Ezekiel, Jeremiah, etc.) to convey His message to His people, Nathan used a
story to set my namesake’s rebellion straight. Suffice it to say that people get most of
the important things that they remember from stories.
Today, most people get the majority of their stories from either mass media or social
media. Until relatively recently, the media was governed by powerful people who had
absolute editorial power over which stories the public heard (and thereby what
they remembered.) That has changed.
Enter the LA hot tub. Many years ago, my cousin, his wife, and four friends started a
worldwide film movement — from their hot tub! They had all gone out to Hollywood to
make movies, and they were working in the industry, but they were not making movies.
So they decided one night, while sitting in the hot tub, to each make a short film every
month. They would screen their work for, and critique, each other, thus enhancing their
craft. Thus was born the worldwide film movement: “Group 101 Films.”
Frontier Christian Academy is giving students something meaningful to say, so it
seemed reasonable to use similar mechanisms to get it to a wider audience.
Scan to see The Media and the
Message’s curriculum
COURSE VERSE: PROV. 16:21
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INTERNATIONALLY-RECOGNIZED FLUEN-
CY IN SPEAKING: EITHER A “B2” ON THE
COMMON EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK OF
REFERENCE FOR LANGUAGES (CEFRL), OR
A “2” ON THE INTERNATIONAL LAN-
GUAGE ROUNDTABLE (ILR) SCALE
TELL A JOKE TO A NATIVE-SPEAKING
STRANGER, ON VIDEO
TELL A BIBLE STORY TO A NATIVE-
SPEAKING STRANGER, ON VIDEO
DELIVER “ELEVATOR SPEECHES” OF VARI-
OUS LENGTHS FOR VARIOUS PRODUCTS,
SERVICES, AND ORGANIZATIONS TO A
NATIVE-SPEAKING STRANGER, ON VIDEO
ADULT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Foreign Language I
LET’S ACTUALLY SPEAK FLUENTLY!
If you could speak any language, which would it be? Why? How would your life
be different if you could travel without needing a tour guide? What knowledge
could you gain from other cultures and countries if you only spoke the language?
What missionary opportunities open up to those who are fluent? What would
it be like to “write your own paycheck” by being the executive or account man-
ager that does not need a translator to communicate with your top overseas cli-
ent? How nice would it be to be able to pay dramatically less for university in
another country, where the prices are cheaper, because your son or daughter is
certified fluent in the language? Sounds impossible? How sure are you?
We don’t think it’s impossible. Remember my first two questions? Which do you
think is more important? Join us to learn how, with more efficient sequencing,
and understanding of which question is most important, fluency is within reach!
“Language classroom” or “fluency lab”? WITH INTERNATIONAL FLUENCY CERTIFICATION, AND SITUATIONAL
PRACTICE, STUDENTS ARE PREPARED TO ENGAGE THE WORLD!
OUR FOREIGN LANGUAGE COURSE ACTUALLY BRINGS FLUENCY!
Did you ever take a foreign language course in high school? Were you fluent
when you finished?
Foreign languages have always fascinated me. I majored in German and Arabic in col-
lege, and was fluent in Spanish, while I could speak a little bit of Hebrew, self-
taught Irish, and self-taught Russian. I later commanded the Army Special Op-
erations Language School, teaching 10 different core languages to military pro-
fessionals. Learning and teaching foreign languages has always been a part of my life,
and I have tried all sorts of things to learn more languages.
You see, I collect them. I have materials for dozens of languages, in which I can only say
a few words, on my shelves at home. Some are good teaching programs. Some are not.
Then I discovered Benny Lewis. In his book Fluent In 3 Months, he outlines how to learn
and use foreign language to change your life.
I really started to realize the importance of language certification while living in Germa-
ny. My sister-in-law’s boyfriend was an American who wanted to study in Germany. But
to study in the German universities, he had to achieve a certain score on the CEFRL
(certification test.)
So this got me thinking: why not focus on speaking (the skill that most people want)
any world foreign language (the offi cial language of at least 3 countries) to cer-
tified fluency (so that it would actually be recognized outside of high school)?
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curriculum
COURSE VERSE: ACTS 2:5-11
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DIGITAL 3D MODEL OF A DESIGNED
BUILDING: OPTIMIZED FOR FUNCTION,
ACOUSTICS, AESTHETICS, EFFICIENCY,
AND COST
BLUEPRINT OF THE DESIGNED BUILDING
COST ESTIMATE TO BUILD DESIGNED
BUILDING
“VIRTUAL TOUR” VIDEO, GUIDING A PO-
TENTIAL TENANT/OCCUPANT THROUGH
THE FEATURES OF THIS BUILDING THAT
MAKE THE SPACE OPTIMAL
MARKETING PACKET FOR THE BUILDING,
INCLUDING THE TOUR VIDEO AND COST
ESTIMATE, TARGETING INTENDED OCCU-
PANTS OF THE BUILDING
ADULT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Architectural Design and Optimization
CREATING SPACE FOR TOMORROW!
Why do people travel all the way around the world to look at buildings? How
much wasted space is there in your home? Your office? Your church? Your town?
How many people and organizations are in need of space? What if space could
be tailored to the needs of the ones who need it, and wasted space could be
eliminated? What if that space could also be designed for beauty? Why are there
no Sistine Chapels being built today? Why are so many buildings barely function-
al and rarely beautiful? What if you could redesign the space in your life? Would
you? How would that skill change the conversation when you are looking at
renting or buying the space that another has designed? Would you want your
children to have this skill as they become adults and are looking at buying a
house or starting a business? Sounds impossible? How sure are you?
We don’t think that it is impossible. Join us to design tomorrow’s space today!
“Art classroom” or “architecture lab”? WITH A DESIGNED AND OPTIMIZED BUILDING WITH VIRTUAL TOUR
VIDEO, STUDENTS ARE READY FOR THE “LOCATION” DISCUSSION!
WHAT IF EVERY SPACE WERE A PERFECT FIT TO ITS PURPOSE?
I am a little obsessed with castles. It is my intent to eventually have my own castle, with
towers, a wall, a moat with crocodiles and a drawbridge to go over it. My wife says that
I can have the crocodiles when she can have chickens, to which I pointed out that our
goals may actually converge nicely on that point, but I digress.
This course came from a question that rang in my head as I was living in, and traveling
around, Europe: “With all these beautiful buildings that people built so long ago,
why did we quit?” When I was traveling in Russia and Ukraine, I saw the Orthodox
churches, and even in the ones that had been turned into museums, the people still
functioned as if it were “sacred space.” How does this happen, and more important-
ly, why have we lost it?
When I was working in Egypt, I visited Alexandria and saw a Roman amphitheater with
a one meter diameter stone circle. The acoustics were designed such that if you stood on
that circle, you could talk in a normal tone of voice, and everyone could hear
you. I saw the same thing in Machu Picchu, with an even bigger amphitheater.
Such extravagant efficiency inspired me, and I decided that it would be a good
idea to have the students design more beautiful and functional spaces for the future.
Is it possible to live in more austere environments, if the structured space was more
efficient in terms of flow, waste, and energy? Is it possible to design cities that
are modern, beautiful, and functional? These are the questions that you will
answer for future generations with Architectural Design and Optimization!
Scan to see Architectural Design
and Optimization’s curriculum
COURSE VERSE: I KINGS 9:1-3
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ORGANIZATION DESIGNED TO FUNCTION
OPTIMALLY IN ITS ENVIRONMENT, AN-
SWER ITS STAKEHOLDERS, AND PERFORM
ITS FUNCTIONS EFFECTIVELY AND EFFI-
CIENTLY
PRODUCE ORGANIZATIONAL HAND-
BOOKS, OUTLINING POLICIES AND PRO-
CEDURES FOR VARIOUS CATEGORIES OF
STAKEHOLDERS IN THEIR INTERACTION
WITH THE ORGANIZATION
PRODUCE TARGETED INSTRUCTIONAL
VIDEOS FOR VARIOUS CATEGORIES OF
STAKEHOLDERS
PRODUCE A RECRUITING VIDEO TO
BRING IN THE RIGHT KIND OF TALENT
FOR THE ORGANIZATION
ADULT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Organizational Design
WORKING TOGETHER FOR AN INSPIRED TOMORROW!
What if every organization of which you were a part functioned efficiently, in-
spiring you to give your best effort every day? How would you feel about work?
How much more productive would you be? How would that world look different?
Would having your children graduate into this kind of world be something of val-
ue to you? Would you want your son or daughter to be known as “the good
boss” who does all of these things for the people for whom he or she is responsi-
ble? Sounds impossible? How sure are you?
We don’t think that it is impossible. We think that one of the main reasons that
organizations do not function the way that they should is that they are either
poorly designed or poorly led. In many cases, they are designed for an organiza-
tional environment different than their situation. Join us to learn how you can
change the organizations of tomorrow into learning, inspirational environments!
“Management classroom” or “group fix”? WITH AN OPTIMIZED ORGANIZATION, STUDENTS WILL BE POISED TO
LEAD GROUPS TO COLLABORATIVE PRODUCTIVITY!
WHAT IF EVERYONE ACTUALLY DID THEIR JOB?
Having had to reinvent almost every organization that I have ever led, I am well ac-
quainted with organizational design. Having spent 25 years navigating through the
Living Organizational Graveyard that is the U.S. Government, I have seen the results of
poor organizational design.
This course came from the reality that, in order to get anything done that really mat-
ters, our students will need other people. In order to achieve a competitive advantage in
business, our students will have to do more than just find better things to do. They will
have to find better, and more efficient, ways of doing the things that everyone has to do.
For this, they will need skills in effective organizational design.
Organizational design causes much frustration. Anyone been to the DMV lately?
If our students are really going to inspire tomorrow’s generation, they will have to be
able to organize the efforts of others get their best work. That requires the abil-
ity to do the various organizational flows (work, resources, information, and talent) on
purpose!
There are exciting frontiers in organizational design. Two books have inspired me in
this area. The first is Ashkenas (et.al.’s) The Boundary-less Organization. The second is
Brafman and Beckstrom’s The Starfish and the Spider. These two push the boundaries of
efficiency and durability. Another idea that pushes the boundaries of adaptability is the
idea of a “learning organization.” These frontiers provide exciting territory for explora-
tion in developing the organizations to inspire the future.
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Design’s curriculum
COURSE VERSE: EPH. 4:16
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DEVELOP A “TYPE-TESTING” APP DE-
SIGNED TO TAKE USER INPUTS OF INDI-
CATORS, AND GIVE TYPE ANALYSIS
DESIGNED ORGANIZATIONAL RECRUIT-
ING GUIDE, PAIRING FUNCTION AND EN-
VIRONMENT WITH TYPE TO ACHIEVE
THE BEST TALENT FIT FOR THE ORGANI-
ZATIONAL GROUP DYNAMICS
SCRIPTED INTERVIEW/HIRING PROCESS
DESIGNED TO DETERMINE TYPE AS A
MEANS OF ACCOMPLISHING THE RE-
CRUITING GUIDE
DEMONSTRATED PROFICIENCY IN MICRO
-EXPRESSIONS TEST
ADULT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Reading People
LEARNING TO READ MINDS!
What if you could tell what the other person was thinking in an important con-
versation, even if they did not want you to? Would it make you more successful
at work? More plugged in at home? A more valuable friend? What if you could
choose the people with whom your companions based on how well they would
fit the circumstances and group dynamics required of them? Would you choose
different colleagues? What if your company could do that as part of the hiring
process? What if you were always able to tell if someone was lying to you?
Would that be useful? Would you want your son or daughter to have the skill to
do that? Sounds impossible? How sure are you?
We don’t think it’s impossible. Lots of research has been done into categories of
people. There has also been a lot of research into body language. Join us to learn
to read people in order to be a more effective leader, teacher, and friend!
“Psych classroom” or “mind reading”? WITH A RECRUITING GUIDE AND THE ABILITY TO READ BODY LAN-
GUAGE, STUDENTS WILL BE SUCCESSFUL NEGOTIATORS!
KNOW THYSELF...AND THINE ENEMY!
Ok, I admit that this course, in many ways was inspired by the work of Paul Ekman and
the show Lie To Me. My wife and I love to analyze people together. We have found this
to be very helpful in several areas of life.
I have been acquiring materials on various typologies of people, and what I have found
is that there is a richness in combining understanding of multiple typologies.
I have a friend who in one typology is the same as I am, but there are some pretty pro-
found differences between him and me that are beautifully explained by another typolo-
gy, where we differ.
When I came into contact with the work of Dr. Paul Ekman, and his pioneering work
into the science of micro-expressions, I realized that this would add a powerful dimen-
sion to understanding people individually. (For more on understanding people in
groups, please see our Geography, Culture, and Influence Course.) The ability to use
body language as an indicator of type and type as an interpreter of body lan-
guage made for a powerful synergy in my mind.
And besides, who doesn’t want to be a Jedi? The ability to tell what someone else is
thinking gives you the advantage in a negotiation and gives you indispensable
insight in a teaching or training situation. Since it was highly likely that our students
would encounter one or more of these situations, it seemed like a good skill to train.
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curriculum
COURSE VERSE: MATT. 7:15-20
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DEVELOP A DIAGNOSIS AND PRESCRIP-
TION APP DESIGNED TO TELL YOU
WHICH SYSTEMS IN YOUR BODY ARE
MALFUCTIONING, AND WHAT SHOULD
BE DONE TO GET THEM BACK TO WORK-
ING ORDER
PUBLISH A CURE FOR A DISEASE, FO-
CUSED ON GETTING THE BODY’S SYSTEMS
BACK TO WORK AND ENABLING THE
BODY TO HEAL ITSELF (PUBLISHED IN A
RELEVANT JOURNAL AND/OR FORUM)
ADULT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Anatomy: Systems and Diagnostics
ENGINEERING HEALTH!
What if you never got sick? How would that affect your daily life? What if you
could live to be 400-600 years as the ancients did? What if what we are eating
and using to solve our health problems today is not actually making us healthy?
Would you want to know about it? Would you want your children to know about
it? Would their ability to make more useful and more sustainable health choices
make them more effective parents to your grandchildren? Which is a more Bib-
lical view of health: that an All-Wise Designer has “fearfully and wonderfully”
made our bodies to keep us healthy, or that the role of science is to protect us
from a series of tragic, and disconnected health accidents? What if you knew
enough to keep your doctor honest? Sounds impossible? How sure are you?
We don’t think that it is impossible. This is not a “health-wealth” gospel, but the
Creator has designed our systems, and understanding that is where health
starts!
“Biology classroom” or “healing center”? WITH A PRESCRIPTIVE APP AND A PUBLISHED CURE, STUDENTS WILL
ALREADY BE LEADING THE WAY TO A HEALTHIER TOMORROW!
IS HEALTH MORE THAN THE LACK OF DISEASE?
Parenting and Dr. House were the inspirations for this course.
Some of you may have seen the TV show House. In this show, Dr. House is a cantanker-
ous medical genius who solves a new medical mystery every week in unconventional
ways against seemingly impossible odds. I can identify with Dr. House, since I am also
cantankerous, but I digress.
Being a parent, and having to navigate the medical system, has given me a new
appreciation for medical understanding. I got some stuff in high school, in college, and
in the Army, but nowhere close to what I needed to be a parent.
I will give you a multiple choice question by way of example. When your child spikes a
104 fever, it can be: a.) an infection; b.) a virus; or c.) teething. If you guessed
teething, you guessed right. You did not, however, guess as we did when we whisked him
off to the Urgent Care clinic in Clarksville, TN. This told us that we needed a better un-
derstanding of what we had always been trained was the case.
My wife has told me several times that she wants to take this course. The
knowledge gained from it will make us much more effective at navigating the medical
system. Since most of our students will, at some point in their lives, be responsible for
another human being’s health, developing an app that finds health treatments
based on science rather than agenda will be useful.
I have always wondered why the ancient patriarchs lived as long as they did. Maybe they
just didn’t have modern medicine!
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Diagnostics’ curriculum
COURSE VERSE: PSALM 139:13-16
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THE ITERATIVE, RELEVANT-
ACCOMPLISHMENT-BASED, INQUIRY-
DRIVEN (I-RABID) LEARNING SYSTEM US-
ES THE NEW INFORMATION ENVIRON-
MENT AND THE POWER OF ITERATIVE
IMPROVEMENT TO CREATE A NEW MOD-
EL OF EDUCATION, WHERE THE RE-
QUIREMENTS OF ADVANCED, ADULT AC-
COMPLISHMENT DRIVE STUDENT IN-
QUIRY INTO LEARNING “THE BASICS”
“JUST IN TIME” INSTEAD OF “JUST IN
CASE”!
THE I-RABID LEARNING SYSTEM:
I-RABID Learning System
ITERATIVE, RELEVANT-ACCOMPLISHMENT-BASED, INQUIRY-DRIVEN LEARNING
Iterative: Our learning system plans for mistakes, inadequacies, and struggles.
We believe that in the absence of struggle, there is no growth, so we build it into
the process. Most of our accomplishments will have “draft” requirements that
will be revised in different ways over time to turn them into “final” products.
Limits Bounding Analysis (discussed elsewhere) assists in guiding this process.
Relevant-Accomplishment-Based: Right now, America’s best students, in our
best schools, on their best days, are consumers of information. “Achievement” is
their focus (grades, test scores, etc.) We, at Frontier Christian Academy, have a
slightly different goal: accomplishment. We know that these students are men-
tally capable of producing “adult value,” so we intend to unleash them to do it.
Inquiry-Driven: Our students’ focus on their advanced accomplishments will
bring them to basics that they do not yet know. This will inform their questions,
driving them to more relevant, timely, and useful answers.
“Just in time” or “Just in case”? MUST WE LEARN ALL BASICS BEFORE BEGINNING ADVANCED PRO-
JECTS, OR CAN ADVANCED PROJECTS DRIVE INQUIRY INTO BASICS?
A NEW INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT, A NEW WAY OF LEARNING!
If I told you to build a garage onto your house, how would you do it?
You would Google how to do it, look up Youtube instructional videos, check out Wikipe-
dia to see if there are any other useful references that you are currently ignor-
ing, ask a question on Quora or About.com, etc. All this to say, when we have questions,
we seek answers. Traditional education models would say you should enroll in
a major university’s architecture and structural engineering program, while simultane-
ously applying for an apprenticeship with all of the various construction tradesmen.
That’s because it assumes that, in order to accomplish the advanced, you must have
mastered ALL of the basics. Which of the two approaches described above is a better fit
for today? Which is more likely to fit your children’s future?
“But isn’t it better to trust the experts to pass the right information along to us?” you
might be asking. To clarify, let me ask you a question. Whose advice would you trust
more to build your garage: the accountant who had been doing handyman work on the
side for decades and learned what he knows from Youtube, or the disgruntled
(but certified) carpenter who had only gotten his license because his parents kicked him
out of the basement at the tender age of 26? Obviously, in our hearts, we truly
believe that experience and passion trumps instruction and certification.
I-RABID treats relevance as a requirement, seeks struggle, lets aspiration drive inquiry,
which, in turn, drives learning, uses iteration to make time an ally instead of a limita-
tion, and adapts to the information environment as it is. Welcome to the Frontier!
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RABID and related topics
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NOVEL WRITING AND PUBLISHING: HOW
CAN I MAKE THE CONFLICT MORE DES-
PERATE?
MILITARY ART AND SCIENCE: HOW CAN I
MAKE MY BOARD GAME MORE PORTA-
BLE?
ECONOPOLICY: HOW CAN I MAKE MY
USER INTERFACE MORE INTUITIVE?
GEOGRAPHY, CULTURE, AND INFLUENCE:
HOW CAN I BETTER TARGET MY INTER-
NATIONAL MARKETING PLAN TO REACH
JUST MY TARGET AUDIENCE?
ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN: HOW CAN I
MAKE MY ORGANIZATION MORE EFFI-
CIENT?
ETC.
SOME SAMPLE LBA QUESTIONS:
Limits Bounding Analysis (LBA)
THE ENGINE OF ITERATION TO PUSH “BEYOND THE NEXT HORIZON”!
If even the most optimistic of us are honest, there are boundaries beyond which
we cannot go. We cannot live underwater without air. We cannot fly without
assistance, etc.
Too often, though, we accept boundaries that are either completely false (e.g.
the world drops off in the Atlantic Ocean) or maybe used to be true, but are not
true anymore (e.g. the relative efficiency of telecommuting versus meeting
attendance.)
Our students will perform multiple Limits Bounding Analysis (LBA) on their ac-
complishments in order to determine where real boundaries to improvement
are, as well as to project what becomes possible when a boundary is moved (or
removed). They will already know the “next move” before the conditions are set.
“Boundary” or “mirage”? FOR MOST ACCOMPLISHMENTS, STUDENTS WILL PERFORM 2
ROUNDS OF LBA FOR IMPROVEMENT, AND A 3RD TO LOOK AHEAD!
LBA AND “INVENTION AND DESIGN”: POISED FOR THE POSSIBLE!
A student develops his Invention and Design prototype. He/she then tests it, opti-
mizes it as well as possible. He/she will then have to write a report outlining how
they could have made the prototype faster, stronger, lighter, more portable,
greater capacity, more efficient, etc. They will then have to explain why they did
not do these things to their prototype before considering it optimized. For the
first two rounds of iteration, they will have to make the feasible changes to their
prototype. Eventually, they will hit a real boundary (e.g. “I need a material with
more tensile strength in order to make the next round of improvements.”) They
will then have to report what will become possible should that boundary change.
This process will truly position our graduates to lead the emerging world because,
in 10 years, when they pick up their newspaper (or whatever they are reading by
that point to keep informed) and read that a new high-tensile-strength material
has just been developed, they will know what they can next do with their proto-
type. They do not have to think about it. They will be poised to exploit the shift in
boundaries. Their competitors will have to go into a development phase. They will
not.
This is how they will lead the emerging world: by leading beyond the horizon!
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and related topics
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