A few weeks ago (writing in June 2020) I was completing the first broad outline of a two-year course construction in, for me, a new school. The outline required lots of "fleshing out", I knew, but I was reasonably satisfied with my initial sketchings. Coincidentally, and coetaneous with the completion of my outline, I received an email from a first-time IB teacher who was, she suggested, struggling to understand the...