80. Building OUT vs. Building UP: What Star Trek Can Teach Us About English Curriculum

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds gives you both satisfaction (complete episodes) AND character development (growth across the season). What if English learning works the same way?

We've been pressured to design curriculum where everything builds UP—each lesson scaffolding to the next in perfect linear sequence. But English skills aren't plot points that get resolved. They're character traits that keep developing through repeated encounters in varied contexts.