Students will launch the promotion speech project by surfacing meaningful school memories, analyzing how a model speech works for a formal audience, and identifying the first design choices they will carry into later drafting and rehearsal.

Students will gather audience-centered evidence from interviews and mentor text study, translate nine meaningful school moments into a visual timeline with captions, and use patterns from both sources to draft a focused How Might We design brief for their promotion speech.

Students will prototype multiple versions of their promotion speech, test them through structured read-alouds, use peer and listener evidence to revise for audience and delivery, and present a refined speech direction with a visible record of feedback-driven changes.

Students will present their final promotion speech work to an authentic audience through a shared showcase, use visuals and rehearsal evidence to communicate growth, and complete a final reflection on how feedback shaped their message and delivery.