One curriculum that runs as a school, ships as a book, and builds sovereign humans.
Every prior framework in the vault now resolves into a single shape. Six Domains are the map: what you learn. Four Ascents are the ladder: how far you climb. Their intersection is the Life Puzzle: twenty-four Tiles, each one an 8-week project cycle ending in a handmade badge and a physical puzzle piece. Seven Threads (the pillars: physical, mental, economic, social, spiritual, cultural, operational) run through every Tile so we build whole humans, not skill collectors. And every Tile is practiced at three Circles: for yourself, for your household, for your community.
Complete a row: Domain Mastery. Complete a column: a Rite of Passage. Initiate, Practitioner, Sovereign, and finally Life Puzzle Master, unlocked with the 25th piece: the Survival House capstone.
Hover a Tile to see its capstone project. Click to collect it, the way a student would.
| Domain | 1 · Foundations | 2 · Competence | 3 · Independence | 4 · Sovereignty |
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Electives (boating, welding, jiu-jitsu, beekeeping, ham radio, scuba...) earn domain badges without occupying grid slots. The curriculum IS the life you want to live.
A badge is not finished until the skill has crossed all three circles: learned for yourself, applied for your family, given away once to your community. Grow food, then feed your household, then seed a neighbor's first bed. Set up a server, then bring your family's photos home, then run a digital-hygiene evening on your street.
Competence that never leaves your own hands is a hobby. Competence that reaches the third circle is citizenship.
The badge rubric. Demonstrate the skill live. Record yourself doing it and explaining it (in English: elevated tier). Serve the household and community circles.
Made by a peer during embedded art time, exchanged in a handoff ceremony. Nobody prints a badge. Ever.
Every Tile ends with a feast, not an exhibition. Students cook, present, premiere their videos. Joyful, informal, and in the English edition, entirely in English.
Weeks 7-8 of every cycle: students research, propose, and democratically choose the next project. Self-directed learners are made here.
5-10 minutes, every session, forever: knots, fire drills, first-aid refreshers, mental math, a password habit, one minute of stillness.
Every badge requires video. The portfolio becomes a living resume, and the watermark-share-enroll loop is the marketing engine. Zero ad spend.
In-person 8-week Tile cycles. Brazil first as "English Outside the Classroom": sessions are conversations, Learner and Practitioner tiers, Accent Pride as lesson zero, franchise engine behind it.
Self-paced Moodle library, 50+ lessons mapped onto the Tiles. The Earth and Cloud rows are nearly complete today.
Homeschool-friendly guidebooks: one Tile per season, parent as guide, Family Puzzle Night at the kitchen table.
The front door to the whole ecosystem. Reads alone, feeds every other door.
Trade nonfiction, 60-70k words, 30 chapters plus a field manual. The reader draws an empty 6x4 grid on page one and fills it as they go. 60-70% of the middle parts draft directly from lessons already written.