LearningOS

Families come to school with expectations built over decades. Grades. Homework. Test scores. Report cards. Structured meetings twice a year. They know how school is supposed to work because they went through it themselves. When you're running a programme that works differently, self-directed learning, project-based work, competency over compliance, you're not just teaching differently. You're asking families to trust a model they've never seen. Without deliberate communication, that gap becomes

Student-led conferences done right. A complete protocol covering student prep, family guide, and post-conference debrief, so learners can present their own growth, not wait for you to present it for them. Traditional parent-teacher conferences remove the learner from their own assessment. They sit outside while adults discuss them, or they sit quietly while a teacher explains their progress to their family. The student-led conference changes that entirely. But only if it's properly prepared. Imp

Advisory time is either overly structured, an admin task disguised as a conversation, or it has no structure at all and becomes a friendly chat that goes nowhere. Educators who care about their advisory relationships know that neither is enough. They need something in between: a protocol that is lightweight enough to follow the learner, but sturdy enough to make the time genuinely productive. This toolkit is that protocol. WHAT IT IS The Mentor Session Toolkit is a complete set of templates and

Everything you need to run a learning exhibition: from student planning to audience feedback to post-event debrief. A learning exhibition is one of the most high-impact assessment practices available to educators in progressive settings. Learners stand with their work and talk about what they built, what they figured out, and what was hard, to families, community members, and peers who bring their own curiosity to the conversation. But most educators who want to run exhibitions don't have the fu

Five rubrics. Five competencies. Written in language learners can actually use. Most rubrics assess a product: the quality of a finished essay, the accuracy of a solution. This set does something different. It assesses the learner. How they approach difficulty. How they collaborate. How they direct their own work. How they reflect and act on what they notice. That distinction matters in progressive learning environments, where the goal is not a grade. It is a developing human being. FIVE COMPETE

Most planning tools start with content and work forward. This one starts with who learners are becoming and works backwards. The Learning Design Map is a semester-level planning framework for educators who want their planning to match their pedagogy. It integrates backwards design, the FER Cycle (Focus, Experience, Reflection), and the Five Learner Attributes into a single coherent system: from the full-semester overview down to the weekly rhythm of each unit. If you work in a guided, project-ba

Most feedback in schools is evaluative: right or wrong, on track or behind, meets standard or doesn't. Educators who want to give feedback that actually builds capacity, rather than just reporting on performance, often don't have the language. They know the impulse ("you should have...") isn't what they're aiming for. But what to say instead isn't always clear. These cards give you the vocabulary. WHAT IT IS The Feedback Framework Cards are a set of 30 print-and-use prompts organised across thre

Rules get compliance. Agreements get commitment. Most classrooms start the year with norms the educator has already decided. Students are asked to agree to a list they didn't help write, about a community they're only beginning to know. The result is compliance. At best. The Community Agreement Builder is a structured facilitation process that guides any group through creating the norms they'll actually keep, because they built them. WHAT'S INCLUDED Facilitator protocol (2 pages): full, step-by-