A small campus, drawn for Dr Nicolene after her cardboard volvelle — the mosaic turning in this courtyard is its echo, and the wheel itself, turnable in the round, stands next door. Five rooms stand around you, and each holds one working instrument: a record, a relationship, a loop, a constraint, and a press that turns one truth toward different readers. Click any door, or the plan in the corner, and walk in.
Sample scholars only — invented so every room can be used freely; no real learner data exists anywhere in this place, and nothing leaves your device. The worldview is Kitsong's own: immediate feedback, and the standing right to repeat a task until it is mastered. No room here asks who is failing — only who is close, and what unlocks the next attempt. Built by Claude, at Pete's request.
The great book on the desk. Most schools keep deficit records — who is below the line today. This ledger keeps direction: where each scholar stands on the climb, and what unlocks the next attempt. The bar itself sits on the table above, in the open — a rule the staffroom cannot see is a rule it cannot argue with.
| Scholar | Attendance | Latest attempt | Climb since first | Standing | What unlocks it |
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Give Kagiso one more point — one more attempt — and watch the ledger change its mind. Then move the mastery bar and watch it change back. The Press, across the courtyard, is reading this page as you write in it.
A register holds rows; this room holds relationships — which support reaches which scholar through which subject, who feeds what. Permaculture design begins by mapping flows rather than inventorying parts, and so does this wall.
Click any node to trace what it touches; drag to rearrange. Two steps out from an educator is every scholar they reach — the question a spreadsheet makes you answer by hand.
The shuttered room, lit by one lamp. Every scholar at Kitsong works on a tablet that answers immediately — this is the same loop at a longer wavelength: watch, notice, act, verify, wait, repeat. Its discipline is restraint. A loop that speaks on every pass teaches you to stop listening, so this one earns its interruptions.
It queues the next practice set for whoever is within five points of the bar, drafts a note home where attendance is the barrier — and sends nothing without a person. Walk to the Register, change a mark, come back and hear what changed.
The bench with the year laid out on it. Permaculture's oldest instruction: work with the constraint, not around it. A term holds only so many staff-development hours; ambition does not change that — sequencing does. When a term is over capacity the bench says by how much, because a plan that only says "no" makes you guess the fix.
Drag a focus between terms — or tap one, then tap where it belongs. Try to fit everything into Term 1. The constraint holds, which is the point: the skill being modelled is sequencing, and sequencing is design.
The printing room. It sets type from the same ledger you wrote in at the Register — raise a mark there and every page here rewrites itself, because each is a window onto the record, not a copy of it. The facts hold still; the wheel turns to face a different reader. What changes is register, emphasis and omission — editorial judgement, which is the part worth arguing about.
Every version is true. None is neutral — the choice of what to lead with is already an argument, and no system should pretend otherwise.