Enroll · the schoolyard is the textbook

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 approach · CS 2.0

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.

K–12
Full span
10
Virtues
5
Capitals
Units by grade band

Six units. One arc.

K–2

Notice

Sensory walks, weather journals, “what is alive?” — the first practice of attention.

Curiosity · Mindfulness
3–5

The Living Web

Map the schoolyard as an ecosystem. Who eats whom, who shelters whom, who depends on whom.

Reciprocity · Respect
6–8

Story of Place

Interview elders, read the land, write the untold story of your town. A full project unit.

Stewardship · Community
6–8

The Ten Virtues

A social-emotional spine — held in living tension, not as rules but as daily practices.

Humility · Gratitude
9–12

The Five Capitals

Systems thinking: measure what matters across natural, human, social, built, and financial.

Adaptability · Simplicity
9–12

The Seventh Generation

Ethics, governance, and design for those whose faces are yet beneath the ground.

Stewardship · Mindfulness
For families

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.

1
Find a circle

Tell us where you are; we'll match you to the nearest Zoen circle.

2
Meet weekly, outside

Seasonal practices of belonging, grounded in your own place.

3
Grow the covenant

Each child carries the story to one other — and the circle grows.

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For educators

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.

Lesson plans

Day-by-day, standards-aligned, editable.

Slide decks

Ready to project, one per session.

Field journals

Printable pages from Chronicle III: Root.

Coherence rubric

Assess growth across the Ten Virtues.

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Global enrollment

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.

Start a circle