Where this goes
Year one is two things. This is the rest of the arc.
A community that lasts is built the way anything lasts: one thing at a time, with nobody carrying more than they can hold. What follows is not a schedule anyone has to keep. It is the order these pieces tend to want to arrive in.
Year one · where every community starts
The pledge, and the people who hold it.
The pledge — the what
Eight promises, signed household by household, private until eight families in a grade have signed. Everything else in this project is downstream of it.
The leaders — the how
A Director, an Assistant Director, and a Homeroom Host or two per room. Four or five families, a few hours a month — and each of them free to lead in the way that fits them.
The framework
Six pillars, one rule — arriving in order.
Every practice traces back to a single sentence a child can recite. Two of the six are what year one builds; the other four are what the years after it can add.
Community
Year oneA Director, and a Homeroom Host in each room to be the point of contact — so every family hears about the pledge and nobody at the edges goes unnoticed. This is the leadership structure, and it is half of year one.
Shared language
Year oneThe pledge itself, plus a glossary that turns “drama” into specific, discussable behavior. The other half of year one — a standard a child, her parents, and the other family can all name.
Conflict navigation
Year twoThe parent-to-parent protocol, taught rather than merely published — and a first bench of trained facilitators for the conversations that get stuck. The protocol is written and free to use from day one; what year two adds is practice and people.
Formation
Year twoA parent series on social aggression, conflict, and childhood. Eight sessions is the full curriculum; most communities should start with two or three and see who comes.
Digital oversight
Year two or threeThe household norms are already in the pledge, promise six. What comes later is the community layer — a shared guide, a family tech agreement, a vetted shortlist of tools, and the collective nerve to hold a common line on phones.
Upstander kids
Year three and onMonthly meetings where children rehearse courage — skits, stories, and scripts until standing up is muscle memory. The most ambitious pillar, and the one that needs an established community of adults underneath it first.
None of it starts without the first page.
The whole argument, with the research behind it, is in The Case; the year-by-year detail is in the plan.