New in the resource library: The Verification Clause.
Twelve fields, four phases, about fifteen minutes. You end holding one finished verification clause for one real assignment, written in your words. Nothing is generated for you.
The four parts it walks you through:
Seed. The assignment you are protecting, and the sentence you would hate to read.
Sprout. Which classes of claim actually have to be checkable in this assignment. Not all sources. The two or three that carry the risk.
Grow. The check as an action against a primary source, what the record looks like, and where it lives.
Harvest. The honest gap. How a student reports a claim they could not verify instead of hiding it, and what that is worth.
It names the step rather than the software, which is why it survives a tool rename.
https://www.harvestkernel.com/the-verification-clause/
New free working session: The Blank Page Breaker.
It is Thursday. The paper is due Sunday. You have a document with your name at the top and nothing under it.
Fourteen fields across Seed, Sprout, Grow and Harvest. Nothing is written for you, on purpose.
Seed. Paste the assignment word for word, then say in one sentence what it is asking you to DO. Not what it is about.
Sprout. Commit to one claim you believe, before you look anything up.
Grow. Ask AI for the four questions a hostile reader would ask, then answer them yourself. Ask for the strongest case against you, then write a better one.
Harvest. Three moves that defend the claim, and a first paragraph you wrote. Press Build and it hands the whole outline back, ready to paste.
About twenty minutes. You finish holding an outline and a first paragraph in your own words, not a checklist about how to write one.
https://www.harvestkernel.com/the-blank-page-breaker/
New working session in the library: The Signature Line.
Take one assignment you already give and add a verification step to it. A claim the student signs, evidence that backs the claim, and a rubric line that grades it. Fourteen fields, about twenty minutes, done by hand on your own material. Nothing is generated for you.
Seed is the assignment as it stands, including the honest answer to where a student currently has to establish that anything is true. Sprout is the claim they sign, written so it stays checkable and stays neutral about which tools they used. Grow is the evidence, and you write one worked example yourself so you find out what it costs before a student does. Harvest is the points and the rubric line in your own words, ready to paste.
You finish holding a verification step you can put into an assignment today.
https://www.harvestkernel.com/the-signature-line/
New working session: Feedback That Gets Used. The Three Line Rewrite.
Bring five real comments you wrote this week. Not improved versions, the real ones. You will label each as a verdict or an instruction, rewrite each into three lines, and finish holding a pattern you can run on the rest of the stack.
Four phases, Seed, Sprout, Grow, Harvest. About twenty minutes. Nothing is generated for you. Every line is yours, which is the point, because that document is the beginning of your Teaching DNA.
Open it here: https://www.harvestkernel.com/three-line-rewrite/
Phase four is the one people skip and it is the one that pays.
New free working session: The Curriculum Byline Audit
This is not a checklist and it is not a summary. You bring one AI unit, module or professional development session that is already circulating on your campus, and you work four questions until you are holding a finished document.
One. Who wrote it, and what do they sell. Funder, author and publisher are three separate lines and they are often three different organizations.
Two. What product must a student open to finish it.
Three. Strip the tool names out of the learning outcome and read what is left.
Four. Rewrite the outcome in your program's own language.
About twenty minutes. Nothing you type is transmitted or stored. At the end you copy out a completed audit you can put in front of a curriculum committee.
Open it here: https://www.harvestkernel.com/curriculum-byline-audit/
If you run it this week, come back and tell us which question was the uncomfortable one. For me it is always three.
New free working session: The Closed Book Ten
https://www.harvestkernel.com/the-closed-book-ten/
Twenty five minutes. You finish holding a ranked, written map of exactly what you do not know before your next exam.
How it runs, in four phases:
Seed. Name the course, the exam, the date, and what it covers.
Sprout. Write ten questions you think will be on it, from memory, looking at nothing.
Grow. Answer all ten cold, then open the book and mark each one Got it, Half, or Nothing.
Harvest. Rank everything you missed by points at stake and commit to the top three tonight.
Nothing is generated for you. No account, nothing saved, nothing transmitted. It is the manual method and it takes real effort, which is the part that works. Copy your map out before you close the tab.
Built for the first exam season, but it works before any test.
Which concept can you not say out loud right now?
The Checkable Step is live.
Twenty minutes, one assignment, done by hand. Nothing generated, nothing saved, nothing sent anywhere.
Seed. Name the assignment you are least confident about.
Sprout. Mark the steps you currently take on trust. There are eight on the page.
Grow. Write the three additions: the artifact somebody else can check, the dated record, the line saying what the student is not claiming.
Harvest. Write what you will say when you hand it out, and what happens when the record is missing.
You finish holding the rewritten assignment. Copy it out before you close the tab.
https://www.harvestkernel.com/the-checkable-step/
Open your next assignment. What is the one thing in it you are taking on trust?
New in the resource library: The Soft Word Sweep.
A free working session for the rubric attached to your first real assignment. Four phases, Seed to Harvest, done entirely by hand.
Seed. Name the course and the assignment.
Sprout. Mark the words in your criteria that do no work and all of the arguing. Strong. Effective. Thorough. Clear. Appropriate. Sophisticated. Adequate. Insightful.
Grow. Rewrite three of them into something a student could put a finger on. Only three. Three is finishable tonight.
Harvest. Write the sentence you will say out loud in class when you hand it out.
You finish holding three criterion lines you can defend and one sentence students will actually remember. Nothing is saved, nothing is sent anywhere, and there is no signup.
https://www.harvestkernel.com/the-soft-word-sweep/
Open the rubric for your first assignment. What is the softest word in it?
New free working session: The Address Test.
Ten minutes, done by hand, nothing saved, no signup. You open one syllabus, take the AI sentence you already have, and rewrite it once so it names a behavior instead of a website.
Four steps mapped to SeedStacking:
Seed. Name the sentence you have, and what it points at.
Sprout. Test it against four places AI now actually lives. Covered or not covered.
Grow. Rewrite it so it would still be true if every product renamed itself tomorrow.
Harvest. Write the fifteen second version you will say out loud in week one.
There is a copy button at the bottom and what it hands you is your own finished work, ready to paste into the syllabus.
https://www.harvestkernel.com/the-address-test/
Which one assignment on your schedule this term assumes the AI is somewhere else?
New free resource: The Outage Clause
A one assignment dependency audit. You bring one assignment you are teaching this term. You list up to six steps a student takes, and for each one you name the tool that step assumes is working. Then you mark which of those are the point of the learning and which are only a convenience.
You finish holding one sentence, in your own voice, that tells a student exactly what to submit and what happens to the deadline when the tool is not there.
About fifteen minutes. Nothing is saved, nothing is sent, no account. Copy your work out before you close the tab.
Seed, Sprout, Grow, Harvest.
Run it: https://www.harvestkernel.com/the-outage-clause/
Which one assignment on your schedule this term stops working if the tool is down?
