Approach · How is it made · Accessible version
Eight moves, one resource
All content is presented in reading order, with no diagram or scripting. Each move asks one question, states what happens, and names what it prevents. Moves four to seven are the five-phase rhythm — why, see, try, share, reflect — applied to a single resource; moves one to three and eight are what make it hold for the people it is for. The interactive version presents the same eight moves as a selectable sequence.
Move 1 of 8 · Before the rhythm
Name the person and the moment
Who is this for, and when will they need it?
What happens
Who this is for, what they already know, and the situation in which they will need it — a nurse on shift, a caseworker with a file open, a student in the week before a deadline. Written down in one line before anything else.
What it fixes
Content built for an average learner who does not exist.
Move 2 of 8 · Before the rhythm
Write the outcome, then choose the evidence
What will they be able to do, and what would show it?
What happens
The outcome is written as something observable, and the evidence that would show it is chosen before any content exists. The activity is then built to produce that evidence, not the other way round.
What it fixes
Outcomes that cannot be assessed — "understand," "be aware of" — and activities that drift from what is finally marked.
Move 3 of 8 · Before the rhythm
Choose the smallest form that works
What is the least that would do the job?
What happens
Modality follows the task and the setting — what device, what time, what noise — not preference or precedent. What is left out is decided here and recorded.
What it fixes
Courses where a checklist would do; video where a page would do.
Move 4 of 8 · In the rhythm: Why and See
Anchor it in the person's own case
Why does this matter to them, and what does it look like done well?
What happens
The resource opens with the person's situation and the decision in front of them. Then the model — a worked example before the principle, because a principle without a case has nowhere to attach.
What it fixes
Content that is accurate and never used.
Move 5 of 8 · In the rhythm: Try
Build the practice with its feedback
Where do they get to try it, and get it wrong?
What happens
A task the person can attempt, get wrong, and see the consequence of, with feedback that says what to change rather than whether they were right. Retrieval and spacing are in the schedule, not left to habit.
What it fixes
Passive exposure that feels like learning and does not consolidate.
Move 6 of 8 · In the rhythm: Share
Design the social layer
What do they work out together, and how?
What happens
Where two or more people will meet the resource together, the exchange is structured — what to compare, what to explain to each other — so that expertise circulates rather than sitting with the confident.
What it fixes
Discussion as filler; peer learning left to chance.
Move 7 of 8 · In the rhythm: Reflect
Close with transfer
Where does this apply next, in their own work?
What happens
A prompt that asks the person to name where, in their own work, this applies next — because that naming is what moves knowledge from the resource to the room.
What it fixes
Learning that ends when the module does.
Move 8 of 8 · Throughout
Draft accessible, write plainly, test with the population
Can the people it is for actually use it?
What happens
Access is a property of the first draft, at the reading level of the people named in move one, with a pass with real learners before release. What they cannot use is redesigned, not explained.
What it fixes
Accommodation as a downstream fix; resources that fail and look like a learner who did not try.
The grounding for each move is in the reference list on the Approach page.