Samples

Real work product, with the method behind it.

Pages, slides and working documents from Blackridge Press programs. Each caption says what the sample shows and which learning-engineering method it demonstrates. Client work is shown only with written permission.

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Three pages from a CFI lesson plan: lesson card, development page and ACS crosswalk

Design documents

Lesson plans built from the standard.

From the CFI, CFII and MEI Lesson Plans: 114 lessons, each traced element by element to its FAA standard.

CFI lesson plan card for Task I.A: ACS task, references, objective, key elements, instructor and learner actions and completion standards — **Lesson plan card · CFI Lesson Plans**Task I.A on one page: the standard task, the objective with its measurable condition, key elements, instructor and learner actions, and completion standards. The objective and the standard are written before the lesson.
Backward design
Assessment mapped to standards

ACS crosswalk table for Task I.D listing each element code, the element and the section where it is covered — **ACS crosswalk · Task I.D**The end of a lesson: every knowledge, risk-management and skill element code in standard order, with the section of the lesson that teaches it. A gap in the right-hand column would be visible at once.
Traceability
Task analysis

Three pages from a CFI lesson plan: the lesson card, a development page with an FAA figure, and a full crosswalk — **Sample pages · CFI Lesson Plans**Card, development and crosswalk from one lesson. The development is organized by the standard's elements, so the task analysis is visible in the structure of the lesson itself.
Task analysis
Traceability

Three pages from a CFII lesson plan on holding procedures, ending in a PTS crosswalk — **Sample pages · CFII Lesson Plans**The same structure applied to a different standard (the instrument instructor PTS): a holding-procedures lesson with its diagram and its PTS crosswalk.
Traceability
Reusable template

An MEI lesson shown as an editable Word file on a laptop and as a PDF on a tablet — **One source, two editions**One manuscript source builds the print-ready PDF and an editable Word file, so a flight school can adapt a lesson without breaking its structure.
Standards documents
Maintainability

Video lessons

Slides from our narrated courses.

Still frames and slides from the Private Pilot Ground School, the free scholarship course and the PAVE Oral Prep course. Every slide carries a source line.

Ground school slide: requirements for Class A to D airspace in a short table, with the regulation cited as the source — **Chunked table · Private Pilot Ground School**Entry, equipment and VFR minimums for four airspace classes in one table, one class revealed at a time. The source line at the foot cites the regulation and the textbook section.
Cognitive load
Traceability

One idea per screenOne concept, the Class B Mode C veil, with a single diagram and two lines of text. The narration explains; the screen doesn't repeat it.

Cognitive load

Ground school scenario slide: a VFR flight planned at 4,500 feet with a METAR temperature and dew point — **Scenario set-up · Weather module**A planning situation built around real numbers from a weather report, so the calculation that follows has a reason to exist.
Scenario-based training

Ground school practice slide: estimate cloud bases from temperature and dew point, with the answer worked out step by step — **In-lesson practice with a worked answer**Learners pause the video and commit to an answer before it is revealed. The answer shows the working and explains why the two most likely wrong answers are wrong.
Retrieval practice
Worked example

Scholarship course animated explainer: a twelve-week timeline from today to an application deadline — **Animated explainer · Scholarship course**A fictional applicant plans backward from a deadline. Each step appears on the timeline as the narration reaches it. The slide is labelled as a fictional example.
Backward planning
Cognitive load

Scholarship course slide where earlier checklist steps are dimmed and the current step is highlighted — **Progressive reveal**Five checks, shown one at a time. Earlier points dim so attention stays on the current one.
Cognitive load

Scholarship course scenario slide: situation on the left, five numbered steps on the right, source line at the foot — **Scenario pattern · Scholarship course**Situation, then numbered steps. The same pattern is used for checkride scenarios, where each step also names its regulation.
Scenario-based training

PAVE Oral Prep course card: Private Pilot Oral Prep, 46 video lessons, 8 modules, quizzes, with a route map — **Course card · PAVE Oral Prep, Core**The Private Pilot track. The course's worked scenarios are built on a signature cross-country route, shown on the card.
Scenario-based training
Chunking

Working documents

The parts clients usually never see.

The audit log and the style guide are what keep a course accurate and consistent. In an engagement, you receive both.

Audit log · Scholarship course · finding S1-01

severity: Medium
type: Fact
where: Module 1, slide 21: on-screen text, narration and source line; guide Lesson 1.4
as written: Seminar pressure attributed to FTC enforcement cases
correct: Seminar pressure comes from the FTC consumer advice page; the enforcement release cited does not mention seminars
evidence: Both FTC pages checked; quoted text recorded in the log
status: Fixed: text, narration and source now cite both pages

Audit log entryOne of 49 findings logged before narration was recorded. Each finding names where it is, what was written, what is correct, the evidence, and the fix or the owner decision. Shown lightly condensed.

Audit pass
Traceability

Narration style guide · excerpt

Spoken, not written. Short sentences, usually 8–18 words. One idea per sentence.
Signpost. Open each slide with what this is and why it matters. Close important slides with what to say or do.
Not a list being read. Turn lists into spoken sequences: “There are four limits. First, …”
Don't read the screen word for word. The slide shows the short version; the narration explains it.
No interface talk in video narration: never “click”, “select” or “next button”.
Write for the voice engine. Regulations as a pilot says them (“ninety-one point one-oh-three”); acronyms handled by a pronunciation dictionary.
Professional. No filler, no hype, no exclamation marks, no promises of passing.

Narration style guideRules from the guide every narration script is written and reviewed against, quoted lightly condensed.

Narration style guide
Cognitive load

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