The 10-Minute Defense: Complete Product Bundle

The 10-Minute Defense

If you can talk to a student for ten minutes about their own work, you can tell whether it's actually theirs — no detection software required. The 10-Minute Defense is a complete oral assessment and writing-conference system for grades 6–12, in any subject, built for the reality that AI can now write a passable essay, lab report, or math explanation in seconds — but it still can't hold up its end of an unscripted conversation.

The system runs on a simple four-phase conference protocol — a warm read, ownership questions, deeper follow-up, and one concrete next step — backed by an 85-question bank organized by Ownership, Verification, and Thinking, plus subject-specific banks for ELA, history, science labs, and math error-analysis. It flexes from a 5-minute quick check to a 15-minute deep dive, and everything you need is included: a complete teacher guide, a Green Flags/Red Flags listening guide trained on real conversational tells, non-accusatory conversation scripts, a documentation form, station-rotation logistics for running conferences without losing the rest of the class, four fully annotated model conference transcripts, a Google Form digital companion, and a spreadsheet to log and track every conference all year.

This isn't a one-time unit — it's a system you drop onto any assignment, all year long, whether you're specifically worried about AI misuse or you already run a workshop-model classroom and want your existing conferences to go deeper. Once students know the rhythm, a ten-minute conversation becomes the fastest, fairest, and hardest-to-fake way to know the thinking on the page is really theirs. Get every question, script, and form you need to start running real conferences tomorrow.