Home & School Pilot
A gentle system for building independence, orientation, and access across home and school.
What this pilot is
The State Literacy Home & School Pilot is a practical way to test how simple environmental structure, predictable routines, visual supports, purposeful movement, and fading adult assistance can help people carry more of their own daily routines.
The goal is not to create success that depends on an adult standing nearby.
The goal is to build enough architecture that more of the routine can eventually belong to the learner.
The core rhythm
Choose → Work → Put Everything Away → Move → Finish
This simple sequence creates a repeatable pattern the Body Learner can begin to recognize.
It helps answer:
What am I doing?
What comes next?
How do I know I’m finished?
Over time, the goal is for the structure to become increasingly familiar so that adult support can gradually fade.
Two ways to participate
Home Pilot
For parents and caregivers who want to try the system during everyday routines at home.
The pilot can be adapted for things like play, chores, learning activities, transitions, independent work, movement, and cleanup.
You do not need special training.
You will receive simple materials, clear guidance, and a way to share what you notice.
School Pilot
For teachers, special educators, classrooms, programs, and schools interested in exploring how the same structure works in learning environments.
The school pilot focuses on reducing unnecessary ambiguity, supporting orientation, increasing learner ownership, and examining how adult prompts can gradually fade when the environment carries more of the information.
What participants will explore
During the pilot, we will look at how learners respond when the environment provides clearer information through:
predictable sequence
visual supports
purposeful movement
structured beginnings and endings
consistent routines
reduced verbal load
opportunities for choice
gradual fading of adult support
The question is not simply:
Did the person complete the task?
The deeper question is:
How much of the task could the person increasingly carry for themselves?
The State Literacy lens
The pilot is grounded in the same simple architecture:
Two Learners
The Body Learner and the Cognitive Learner
Three Questions
Am I safe?
Do I belong?
What happens next?
Four States
Settled
Activated
Overwhelmed
Survival
As state changes, access changes.
The pilot helps us examine whether the design of the routine itself can make more access available.
Why pilot this now?
Many people are described as dependent, resistant, distracted, unmotivated, or unable to work independently.
Sometimes that interpretation may be accurate.
Sometimes the environment may still be carrying information the learner has not yet been given a chance to carry.
This pilot asks a different question:
Can we design for independence before we demand it?
What I’m asking from pilot participants
I am offering the pilot materials at no cost to a small group of home and school participants.
In return, I’m asking for real feedback.
I want to know:
What worked?
What was confusing?
What changed?
What did the learner begin doing with less help?
What still required support?
What should be redesigned?
This is a working pilot. Your feedback will help shape what the system becomes.
Interested?
If you are a parent, caregiver, teacher, school, or program and would like to participate, choose the path that fits you.
Not sure whether this fits your setting?