Course Publishing Calendar

Status: Pre-formation operational draft. Year-1 dates are aspirational and tied to a post-formation kickoff month (M0). The Education & Certification Committee will lock dates against M0 once the founding board is seated.

This is the demand side of the learning operation. It plans what gets published, when, and with what dependencies. The supply side — instructor recruitment and assignment — lives in ./instructor-pool-ops.md.

How to read the calendar

The calendar uses M0 (formation month) as the anchor. M+3 means three months after the founding board's first regular meeting; M+9 means nine months after, and so on. When the board adopts the calendar, the Coordinator replaces M0 with the actual month and the relative dates resolve into real dates.

Each course in the pipeline has:

• Code — short identifier (CG-FND-101, CE-ETHICS-201)
• Type — cert-bearing (issues Guild credential or CE hours via Moodle) or non-cert (replay or resource via WordPress)
• Format — cohort (synchronous, dated) or evergreen (always-open, self-paced)
• Length — clock hours of content
• CE value — hours awarded toward recertification, or n/a
• Owner — Course Author (subject-matter)
• IoR — Instructor-of-Record (assigned per cohort; TBD for evergreens until first cohort runs)
• Status — concept / authoring / review / staging / live / retired
• Publish target — M+N

Year-1 pipeline

The first 12 months from M0 deliberately keep the catalog narrow. Better five courses that get full attention than fifteen that are half-built.

Quarter 1 (M0 → M+3) — Foundations

The goal of Q1 is one cert-bearing foundation course live plus the operational scaffolding (Moodle install, SSO bridge, CE ledger) verified end-to-end.

Code	Title	Type	Format	Length	CE	Owner	Publish
CG-FND-101	Foundations of Guild Practice	cert-bearing	evergreen	6h	6h elective	Education chair	M+2
OPS-ORIENT	New Member Orientation	non-cert	evergreen	30 min	n/a	Administrator	M+1
RES-GLOSSARY	Guild Glossary (resource doc)	non-cert	n/a	n/a	n/a	Communications	M+1

OPS-ORIENT and the glossary are operational must-haves to support CG-FND-101 learners — they ship first.

Quarter 2 (M+3 → M+6) — Ethics & sensory

The goal of Q2 is proving cohort-based delivery with one structured cohort and a complementary evergreen.

Code	Title	Type	Format	Length	CE	Owner	Publish
CE-ETHICS-201	Applied Ethics for Practitioners	cert-bearing	cohort (6 weeks)	12h	12h ethics	Ethics Committee chair (course author)	M+5 cohort start
SENSORY-EVERGREEN	Sensory Evaluation Fundamentals	cert-bearing	evergreen	8h	8h elective	Sensory subcommittee	M+6
RP-CG-FND-Q2	First Foundations cohort replay	non-cert	n/a	varies	n/a	Communications	M+5 (rolling)

CE-ETHICS-201 is intentionally cohort-based. Ethics works better with peer discussion; we accept the smaller throughput in exchange for the depth.

Quarter 3 (M+6 → M+9) — Practice areas

Goal: first vertical-practice content (cultivation, retail/hospitality), and the first instance of an instructor running an evergreen course as IoR for a second cohort window.

Code	Title	Type	Format	Length	CE	Owner	Publish
CULT-101	Cultivation Practice Foundations	cert-bearing	evergreen	10h	10h elective	Cultivation subcommittee	M+8
RETHOSP-101	Retail & Hospitality Practice	cert-bearing	evergreen	10h	10h elective	Retail/hospitality subcommittee	M+9
CE-ETHICS-201-Q3	Ethics — second cohort	cert-bearing	cohort (6 weeks)	12h	12h ethics	(rotating IoR)	M+8 cohort start

Quarter 4 (M+9 → M+12) — Recertification readiness

Goal: the first wave of CG-FND-101 learners reaches recertification windows; the catalog is now broad enough to give them genuine elective choice. Q4 also runs the first standards-of-practice contribution course — distinct from credentialing because the Guild's standards docs are public and the Guild needs a path for members to contribute.

Code	Title	Type	Format	Length	CE	Owner	Publish
STD-CONTRIB-101	Contributing to Guild Standards	non-cert	evergreen	4h	n/a	Standards working-group leads	M+10
COMP-101	Compliance for Practitioners	cert-bearing	evergreen	8h	8h elective	Compliance subcommittee	M+11
CE-RECERT-PATHWAY	Recertification Pathway Walkthrough	non-cert	evergreen	1h	n/a	Education chair	M+10
CE-ETHICS-201-Q4	Ethics — third cohort	cert-bearing	cohort (6 weeks)	12h	12h ethics	(rotating IoR)	M+11 cohort start

Beyond Year 1

The published 12-month roadmap is firm at the level of "what publishes in this quarter." It is not firm beyond Q4. Year-2+ planning is a quarterly committee exercise that re-runs the prioritization rubric below.

Prioritization rubric

When the committee picks what to build next, the rubric is:

Factor	Weight	Question
Member demand signal	30%	What did this quarter's community survey + open requests ask for?
Recertification need	25%	Do members reaching recertification have enough elective choice?
Practice-area coverage	20%	Does the catalog cover the practice areas of the active member base?
Standards contribution	15%	Does this course feed the standards-of-practice pipeline or develop authors?
Operational capacity	10%	Do we have an author + IoR + cohort-run window?

Operational capacity is last by weight but first as a hard gate. A course without an author and an IoR doesn't enter the calendar; it sits in the concept column.

States and gates

A course moves through these states; each transition has a gate.

concept  ─┐
          ▼
       authoring ──[content review]──▶ review
                                          │
                                          ▼
                                       staging ──[end-to-end test]──▶ live
                                                                       │
                                                                       ▼
                                                                    retired

Gate	Owner	Criteria
Concept → Authoring	Education chair	Author named; IoR named or queued; capacity confirmed
Authoring → Review	Course Author	Outline + lessons + quiz drafted; learning objectives published
Review → Staging	Education & Certification Committee	Content review pass; CE category mapped; alignment with Ganjier-program content boundary confirmed
Staging → Live	Sysadmin + Operations Lead	End-to-end test pass: enrollment → completion → certificate → CE ledger row → Form O permission gate verified
Live → Retired	Education chair	Course content out of date; superseded by replacement; or member traffic below threshold for 2+ quarters

A course can be paused at any state — pause doesn't change the state, just adds a paused flag in the calendar tracker — and resumed without re-entering the previous gate.

Cohort cadence (for cohort-format courses)

Item	Default
Cohort length	6 weeks for ethics; varies for others (typically 4–8 weeks)
Cohort size	12–25 learners
Cohorts per year per course	2–3 (driven by IoR availability + demand)
Registration window	Opens 8 weeks before cohort start; closes 2 weeks before cohort start (no late entry; the next cohort is the path)
Drop window	First 2 weeks of the cohort, full credit toward a future cohort

The 8-week registration window keeps the marketing flow predictable and gives the IoR time to prepare.

Calendar tracker

The Coordinator maintains the live tracker as a single source of truth — a Google Sheet (pre-formation) or a custom view inside the BuddyBoss admin (post-instrumentation). Columns mirror the metadata fields above plus:

• last_review_date (every live course gets reviewed at least once a year)
• cohort_window_open / cohort_window_close for cohort-format
• evergreen_health_check_date for evergreens (quarterly: still relevant? still passing the test enroll?)
• retired_date and retirement_reason (when retired)

The tracker is the input to every quarterly committee planning meeting.

What this calendar does NOT include

• The Ganjier program's own course catalog. The Guild and the Ganjier program are distinct (ADR-0008). The Guild does not republish or paraphrase Ganjier-program content unless the brand license is amended through counsel.
• Conferences, summits, or in-person events. Those live in programs/events/. Recordings of event sessions enter this calendar as non-cert replays at the appropriate audience tier.
• Instructor selection. That's ./instructor-pool-ops.md.
• Pricing. Course pricing (or "free with membership tier" status) is a board decision; the calendar references whether a course is included with a tier but doesn't set the tier model.

Roles

Role	Responsibility
Education & Certification Committee chair	Owns the calendar; chairs the quarterly planning meeting
Education & Certification Committee	Approves quarterly slate; runs the prioritization rubric; gates state transitions
Instructor Pool Coordinator	Maintains the tracker; enforces the slate-assembly handoff to instructor pool ops
Course Author (per course)	Writes the curriculum; advances through states
Operations Lead	Final gate to live (end-to-end test, Form O coverage)
Sysadmin	Moodle course shell, SSO, CE ledger plumbing
Communications Committee	Announces new courses + cohort opens; produces replay artifacts

Cross-references

• Learning operations handbook
• Instructor pool operations
• Recertification (CE pathway)
• Candidate handbook
• Instructor & assessor standards
• Form O — Ecosystem Role Permissions Matrix
• ADR-0006 — LMS in member portal
• ADR-0008 — Guild–Ganjier brand relationship