Raise a generation
that notices.
A curriculum of belonging — sensory walks, mud kitchens, story-of-place projects, systems thinking. Grounded in the place a child already lives.
The schoolyard
is the textbook.
Every unit begins outside, in the place the students already live. They learn to notice the living web, name it, map it, and leave it in better condition than they found it.
The framework is the CS 2.0 curriculum — the Ten Virtues as a social-emotional spine and the Five Capitals as a systems-thinking lens. Standards-aligned, project-based, and joyful.
Six units. One arc.
Notice
Sensory walks, weather journals, “what is alive?” — the first practice of attention.
The Living Web
Map the schoolyard as an ecosystem. Who eats whom, who shelters whom, who depends on whom.
Story of Place
Interview elders, read the land, write the untold story of your town. A full project unit.
The Ten Virtues
A social-emotional spine — held in living tension, not as rules but as daily practices.
The Five Capitals
Systems thinking: measure what matters across natural, human, social, built, and financial.
The Seventh Generation
Ethics, governance, and design for those whose faces are yet beneath the ground.
Enroll a child in a
learning circle.
Zoen learning circles are small, place-based groups that meet weekly outdoors. A child joins the nearest circle — or you can start one where you live.
Tell us where you are; we'll match you to the nearest Zoen circle.
Seasonal practices of belonging, grounded in your own place.
Each child carries the story to one other — and the circle grows.
Everything you need,
nothing to buy.
The full CS 2.0 educator pack is free — lesson plans, slide decks, printable field journals, and the coherence rubric. Standards-aligned, K–12, project-based.
Day-by-day, standards-aligned, editable.
Ready to project, one per session.
Printable pages from Chronicle III: Root.
Assess growth across the Ten Virtues.
A circle in every place.
The goal is simple and enormous: a Zoen learning circle within reach of every child on Earth. Help us seed the next one where you live.