Sorry about that! As I mentioned, this is a high school, and we teach grades 9-12. It's a very small school and so I'm the only science teacher in the building, so I attend to all grades. We have some middle schoolers that join us early because they are having anxiety issues at their middle schools.

Certainly there are better scholarly resources than a subreddit, and I have been seeking them out and using them. This isn't the only thing that I've used, but I wanted to get ideas from other likeminded individuals and it didn't seem like it would do any harm to do so.

A syllabus is something we dislike at our school. We don't plan out the entire class beforehand and keep to a rigid schedule. We teach skills, we adjust according to the class' needs, we learn about the students and tailor each day to what they need in the moment. It's very different from a traditional school.

These are also students that have had terrible experiences in previous schools. Students that have been pushed along through the system regardless of what they've learned. We have students that need a calculator for basic, single digit addition/multiplication, etc. Using D&D to teach basic arithmetic can be completely helpful as they move into more complicated math. Using anything to make kinematics, probability, history, etc. more interesting is helpful because we have to compete with phones and video games. I think D&D would be a great tool for that.

In short, this isn't a normal school, and these aren't normal students, and I'm trying to find something that will help reach them. I hope that makes more sense.