A PRACTICE-BASED FOUNDER EDUCATION
Twelve common studios. One evidence portfolio. A school you can inspect, improve and prepare to launch.
01 · Purpose
Listen to families, learners and educators before writing a prospectus. Record the needs you heard, whose voices are missing, and the decisions those accounts change. Turn each promise into an observable learner outcome.
01 · Purpose
Start with a consequential question and design the work students will undertake. Identify the choices learners control, the evidence they preserve, and when teachers intervene. Design a non-headset route to the same learning outcomes.
01 · Purpose
Map academic, safeguarding, financial and operational decisions. Separate ownership from independent oversight. Record external approvals and attach primary evidence; another school’s approval is not transferable.
02 · Learning
Choose courses from the versioned library. Define prerequisites, graduation requirements and evidence of mastery. Shared curriculum reduces duplication; school-specific credit, UC approval and teaching judgments remain with the responsible school.
02 · Learning
Frame a researchable question, examine existing work, define a method and preserve traceable evidence. Route suitable work to Advanced Authentic Research for human editorial review. Publication and ORCID updates require separate authorization and review.
02 · Learning
Estimate teaching and support capacity from the actual learner timetable. Protect time for educators to inspect student work and revise instruction. Document qualifications, supervision, workload and continuity of care.
03 · Institution
Walk through a learner’s day and identify safety, privacy and access failures. Assign escalation owners and response times. Keep sensitive student records outside founder portfolios. Test accessibility with representative devices and support needs.
03 · Institution
Explain eligibility, required information, decisions and appeals in language families understand. Collect only necessary data. Public charter pupil tuition and application fees are zero; founder programme billing is separate.
03 · Institution
Cost staffing, support, devices and facilities before forecasting revenue. Stress-test lower enrollment and payment delays. Separate financial authority, bank accounts and shared-service agreements.
04 · Launch
Trace enrollment, attendance, assessment, records and family support end to end. Each integration needs an owner, data contract and failure procedure. Existing VR School services stay with their established runtime until a tested migration is approved.
04 · Launch
Develop a clear visual identity and plain-language navigation. Review the generated school preview against the actual offer. Custom domains require verified hosting and DNS; a requested domain is not an activated domain.
04 · Launch
Rehearse a family applying, a teacher supporting a learner and an operator resolving an incident. Review the portfolio with responsible humans. Programme graduation and legal authorization to open a school are separate decisions.
20 additional evidence gates cover charter governance, public accountability, access, finance and school-specific authorization.
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