As I sent in my sub plans, I held my breath a little after writing:

This class is student-directed by design; they should know what they need to do.

What they needed to do was conduct a writing workshop on narrative drafts scheduled to be finalized by Friday. They’d conducted a workshop exactly once before, and then when at least half of them were still planning or early drafting stages. This was the first major writing project, and I wanted to be there to facilitate the workshop.