Designing EduProtocols: 8 Lesson Frames to Guide Your Design Journey

Its no secret that EduProtocols frameworks yield multiple benefits for teachers: They provide structure while allowing for creativity, create authentic feedback loops for students, and make lesson planning more sustainable. Whether youre looking to refresh your practice, engage students more deeply, or find new energy in your teaching, Designing EduProtocols empowers you to create your own EduProtocols.

In this book, Mark Wallace, Marlena Hebern, and Jon Corippo explore how to create, iterate, and implement protocols that work for your specific teaching context. When teachers embrace their role as EduProtocol designers, they begin to see teaching challenges as design opportunities, and they develop the ability to recognize when something can be improved, simplified, or made more engaging. Discover practical frameworks for creating your own EduProtocols, starting with essential design principles and exploring how feedback loops power student engagement. Learn to transform traditional lesson structures into repeatable protocols that save time while deepening student learning. Whether youre brand-new to EduProtocols or ready to design your own, each chapter builds the specific skills youll need to revolutionize your teaching practice without burning out.

Designing EduProtocols reframes teaching through the lens of intentional design, showing educators how clean, purposeful frameworks can unlock student voice, reduce burnout, and reignite the joy of learning.-Dominic Helmstetter, high school teacher, Perrysburg High School

Designing EduProtocols is a refreshing, thoughtful guide that strips away clutter and overdesign, offering educators clear, practical frameworks that energize teaching, honor student learning, and make sustainable, engaging instruction feel both possible and inspiring.-Ariana Hernandez, science teacher and coauthor of EduProtocols Field Guide: Science Edition

In Designing EduProtocols, Mark addresses two of the biggest challenges in education today, time and student engagement, by helping educators see their classrooms through the lens of a designer and reconnect educators to the joy of teaching.

-Zack Kruger, elementary principal, Lakeview Elementary, Owatonna, MN