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How the work gets made
Behind the scenes of the mornings and the materials: the sources, the AI agents, and the teaching judgement that decides what a lesson becomes. One piece per thing we make. Not a thread; these accumulate.
How we plan a month
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Assessment first
Where she actually is, from her work — not from where a plan written months ago said she would be.
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Plan the curriculum
What this stretch of the year is for, decided before any of it is written.
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Find a carrier theme
One idea interesting enough to carry every subject, and never named to her.
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Build the lessons around it
The activities come last, once there is something for them to hang on.
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Close with a review
A final activity that asks what the month added up to.
What the agent cannot seeI build our curriculum with an AI agent. It writes a month of lessons in an afternoon, and it will cite a book we do not own — not because it is careless, but because it has never been in the room. Here is the gate I built between the plan and the child.READ →
The theme nobody tells herEvery month has one idea running underneath all four subjects, and the child is never told what it is. The only question asked out loud comes on Friday, and it is the same question every week.READ →
I slowed her downShe finished elementary school maths in about a year, unpushed, and was working two grades ahead at seven. Then I stopped her. Not because she struggled — because speed had started to outrun the thing I actually wanted her to have.READ →
Four rules that hold a ninety-minute morningTeaching two three-year-olds at home does not fail on content. It fails on structure. These four rules are what keep a morning from coming apart, and none of them are about what you teach.READ →