Answer a few questions, paste in your syllabi, and get a first draft of the document you'll present to your teachers — built the way the book lays it out. You'll edit it before anyone sees it.
These come straight from the book's Strategy Session questions. Short answers are fine — honest ones are better.
Paste the full text of a syllabus (open the PDF, select all, copy). We'll pull out the course objective and the big assignments. Check what it found — you're in that class, it isn't.
One section at a time, in the order the book teaches it. This usually takes two to four minutes — the model runs on this computer, not in a data center.
Two kinds. My Education Strategy is yours — it has every course, how they connect, and your private notes. The proposals are one per course, addressed to that teacher, and mention nothing about your other classes. Read every line, cut what doesn't sound like you, then download the folder.
The book is blunt about this: a strategy nobody sees changes nothing. Step 3 of the Education Energy Map is Present it — to your counselor, your parents, and then your teachers. Here is exactly how.
Print one copy of each proposal for its teacher, and one copy of My Education Strategy for yourself. Bring the paper — handing a teacher a printed document says you took this seriously in a way a screen never will. Keep your own copy private; it has your notes on them.
Do this today, while you're motivated. Ask for 15 minutes. Don't explain the whole idea in the request — that's what the meeting is for. Copy this into an email:
From Hack Your Education, Part 5, "Ninja Negotiation Training":
Written for each teacher from your proposal and how flexible you said they are. Read it twice, then say it your own way.