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Draft class lesson plans with Claude from your own archive of past plans and a short planning brief, then review your curriculum
Micha Hershman, owner of Forge Krav Maga, a self-defense school in San Francisco, on his school's blog
He started on ChatGPT and moved this work to Claude. He exported over 1,500 lesson plans, every class he has planned since he started teaching, into the system's working context. He also wrote a short brief on how he plans: one theme per class, technique blocks that ladder by level instead of splitting the room, over-planned menus with explicit cut lines so a 55-minute class fits in 55 minutes, and rules for borrowing from the archive. The loop: generate a plan, teach it, note what broke, update the brief. For the curriculum, he digitized every level document and loaded them into one project with the school's BJJ and Kali materials and peer curricula. Then he asked structural questions, such as where level three depends on a skill not built until level five.
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The problem
Forge runs a ten-level Krav Maga self-defense curriculum, and he runs the school next to a full-time day job leading marketing at a software company. He plans every class himself and was revising the curriculum, which had holes: the legacy version didn't teach effective side control escapes until the advanced levels.
What happened
He says one of his coaches "gave Claude a two-sentence prompt, by voice, on my phone, and got back a detailed lesson plan that was probably 95% right. It blew him away." He says that after a handful of cycles, the drafts stopped making mistakes he had already corrected. He says the coaching team made the curriculum decisions, and that "Everything it produces is an input to my judgment." No time savings are given. Owner-told.
Quoted in the source: Micha Hershman, owner, Forge Krav Maga. Source: Forge Krav Maga blog: How I Run a Martial Arts School With AI (Micha Hershman) (2026-09-08) · Added 2026-10-20.
How to set it up yourself
- What Forge Krav Maga does: Micha Hershman started on ChatGPT and moved this work to Claude. He loaded over 1,500 past lesson plans plus a short brief on how he plans into a Claude project. He generates a plan, teaches it, notes what broke and updates the brief. He also loaded every curriculum level document to look for skills taught out of order or the same thing taught twice under two names.
- Gather your past lesson plans into a few documents. Write a one-page brief covering class length, one theme per class, how you handle mixed levels, where you mark cut lines, and which old material is retired on purpose.
- Create a Claude project and add the brief and plans to it. Use the prompt below to ask for one class plan at a time.
- Teach the plan, write down what broke, and add that correction to the brief before the next plan. Have your coaches review any curriculum changes; the tool only flags issues, and the decisions stay with your team.
Copy-paste prompt
Using my planning brief and my archive of past lesson plans for {SCHOOL NAME}, draft a {CLASS LENGTH}-minute lesson plan for {LEVEL OR CLASS} on the theme {THEME}. Follow the brief exactly: one theme, technique blocks that ladder by level, and an over-planned menu with clear cut lines. Use only techniques and drills that appear in my archive or brief. Never invent a drill, and don't reuse anything the brief marks as retired. If something you need is missing, write [ASK]. At the end, list which archived plans you borrowed from.One short email a day: 3 new AI use cases from real small businesses, each with its source and setup steps, plus a Tool of the Day. Free, no spam, unsubscribe anytime.
Tools used
Claude
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