Fall season · 6 courses · registration closes September 5
Almanac runs live, small-cohort courses on practical skills — SQL, grant writing, UX writing, financial modeling — taught by working practitioners, not full-time instructors. Every course meets on a fixed schedule, in person at Fremont Hall or live online, capped at 18 students.
Fall Catalog
Seats are real — once a course fills, it’s closed until next season, not waitlisted into a bigger room.
Query real messy retail data, not a clean textbook dataset — joins, window functions, and the exact SQL Priya writes at her day job every week.
Priya Osei
Senior Data Analyst at a regional grocery chain, teaches SQL for Analysts
$340
Error states, empty states, and confirmation copy — the unglamorous 90% of UX writing that actually ships.
Callum Reyes
UX Writer at a healthcare scheduling app, teaches UX Writing Fundamentals
$290
Write a real letter of inquiry and one full proposal over four Saturdays, reviewed line by line the way a program officer actually reads them.
Marguerite Sato
Development Director at a regional land trust, teaches Grant Writing for Nonprofits
$260
Built for people who can explain a system diagram but freeze presenting it — six short talks, filmed, reviewed by the cohort each week.
Devon Achebe
Staff Engineer who runs internal tech talks, teaches Public Speaking for Engineers
$310
Build one three-statement model from scratch across five sessions, the same structure Renata rebuilds every quarter for her own budget cycle.
Renata Kowalski
FP&A Manager at a mid-size manufacturer, teaches Financial Modeling in Spreadsheets
$320
Bring a piece you’re stuck on. Four sessions, one piece, edited to done.
Owen Marchetti
Freelance editor, former magazine editor, teaches Editing Your Own Nonfiction
$260
How It Works
Six run per season — check the seats-left counter, not a “starting soon” banner.
In person at Fremont Hall (third floor, old Grange building) or live online — same session, same instructor, your call each week.
A working SQL query set, a submitted grant proposal, a finished model — every course ends with something real, not a certificate.
Who’s Teaching
Priya Osei
Senior Data Analyst at a regional grocery chain. Teaches SQL for Analysts.
Callum Reyes
UX Writer at a healthcare scheduling app. Teaches UX Writing Fundamentals.
Marguerite Sato
Development Director at a regional land trust. Teaches Grant Writing for Nonprofits.
Devon Achebe
Staff Engineer who runs internal tech talks. Teaches Public Speaking for Engineers.
“Every SQL course I'd taken before used a clean sample database. Priya made us fix her actual chain's inventory data, typos and all. That's the SQL I use now.”
“Four Saturdays, one proposal, submitted the following week. It got funded. I don't think a self-paced course would have gotten me to actually send it.”
Registration
Eighteen seats per course, no exceptions — Almanac doesn’t add a second room when a course fills. Once a course closes, the next chance is next season.
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