Teaching

The books above hand judgement back to adults who already have a job. This is the same argument aimed one generation earlier — at children who will never know the version of the work that had to be done by hand.

Prompt to Judgement — twelve chapters and the cohort curriculum derived from them. The method is the whole argument: a child does the thing themselves first, small and by hand, and only then delegates it and checks what comes back. Delegation is taught as a skill that assumes the judgement, never as a substitute for acquiring it.

Built so far is the twelve-week Builders pilot for ages 13–15 — twelve weekly sessions in four modules, the fixtures the exercises actually run on, and the pilot’s own measuring instrument: a planted error, run identically in the first and last session by an assessor blind to which sitting they are marking. Whether the children catch it is the number the pilot exists to produce.

the child

Handout

Everything the session needs, minus the traps and the facilitator’s notes.

the facilitator

Facilitator guide

The same sessions, plus the notes and the deliberately planted errors to watch for.

one adult, one child

Family guide

For a parent at the kitchen table rather than a cohort. The place to start.

a reader alone

Self-paced handbook

For working through it solo, with the traps kept behind a spoiler.

One source, four documents. The sessions are three YAML files; each document is rendered from them by cohort-kit, so a chapter that moves cannot leave a curriculum quietly pointing at the old one — the build refuses it. Two further tracks, Explorers (10–12) and Founders (16–18), are deliberately not written: the pilot exists to decide whether the modules work, and writing all three first would answer the question it was built to ask. Manuscript CC BY-NC 4.0; the curriculum and tooling EUPL-1.2.