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What it is, the axis and the year

One Unit a week, one piece per Unit, and a year that goes from the simplest thing to what does not exist yet.

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What it is

One Unit a week, one piece per Unit

Every Unit ends with something that exists and can be played back: thirty seconds of audio, an image, a text, a video clip. A team of three makes the piece, in the classroom and during school hours, with whatever is available.

The order never changes: first the prompt, handwritten on a card before anyone touches a device; then the piece; then the review against the Unit’s criteria; then the second attempt. What gets practised is not the tool. It is having something to say, and knowing how to say it.

It is the first Smoother program designed for teenagers. Smoother was built for adults; here the blocks are shorter, the piece is non-negotiable and the vocabulary is the usual one: those who learn are participants, and the adult who leads the Units is the Learning Facilitator.

Anticipate what we think will come out Act the attempt Reflect did it come out as expected? with the card written by hand second attempt the piece now exists: listen to it
The cycle of every Unit. First you anticipate in writing, then you act, then you listen to the piece against the criteria and against what you anticipated; the second attempt starts the cycle again. It aligns with the OECD’s Anticipation–Action–Reflection cycle, which the OECD itself calls a general heuristic.
Anticipate Act Reflect minutes Opening opener · board · card Attempt 1 it runs Listen 1 against C1–C3 Attempt 2 after a change Listen 2 vote · horizon · close 0 13 16 23 29 36 45 Anticipate: task, criteria and “what we think will come out” Anticipate Act Reflect Opening opener · board · card Anticipate · written prediction Attempt 1 it runs Listen 1 against C1–C3 Attempt 2 after a change Listen 2 vote · horizon · close 0′13′16′23′29′36′45′
One Unit, minute by minute. The timing map of Unit 01: after the opening, the Anticipate · Act · Reflect cycle runs twice within the same 45 minutes, because the piece lasts thirty seconds. In every Unit, Anticipate takes about 5 minutes, Act 20 to 25 and Reflect 8 to 10.
The axis

The two-column board

The board is redrawn every week, all year long. Every piece the group makes goes in one of the two columns, and the group itself puts it there.

The left-hand column does not need a program: everyone already knows how to use it. The whole year works on the right-hand one.

The year

Four horizons

What you make in the first Unit is the simplest thing you will make all year. The rest of the year is projected in four steps, the program’s own and not those of any school calendar:

  1. Novemberthose thirty seconds become a full piece, with the participants’ own voices.
  2. Februaryanyone who wants to has something playable, with rules the team wrote itself.
  3. Aprilyou build a tool that solves a real problem at school: not an exercise, something someone uses.
  4. Junewhat you made is shown to people from outside the classroom.
Unit 00 talk Unit 01 first piece … one Unitevery week November a piece withyour own voices February somethingplayable April a toolsomeone uses June show itoutside Transformative competencies · OECD Creating new valuefirst semester Reconciling tensions and dilemmasall year Taking responsibility Unit 00 talk Unit 01 first piece … one Unitevery week November a piece withyour own voices February somethingplayable April a toolsomeone uses June show itoutside Transformative competencies · OECD Creating new value · first semester Reconciling tensions · all year Taking responsibility · April and June
The year as a journey. Above, what exists at the end of each stretch; below, where each of the OECD’s three transformative competencies is worked on, which the program aligns with: creating new value in the first semester, taking responsibility when the piece leaves the room and someone uses it, and reconciling tensions and dilemmas all year long.

“What the machine does not have, and will not have, is the detail only you know. … That is why the work is not learning to use it. The work is having something to say.”

The program’s closing line

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