Method & how it works

How personal pacing actually works.

The full Ainstein learning loop: placement, AI-guided attempts, named gaps, spaced practice, mentor review, peer teaching, and connected thinking.

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Old questions. New tools. Same Socrates.

The method

Not a chatbot. A learning loop.

Personal pacing only works when the school knows what is solid, what is fragile, and what needs another pass. The AI does the remembering; humans do the noticing.

  1. Learn & attempt

    Your child works with a Socratic AI tutor that asks before it answers. It gives hints, never solutions, an answer machine is exactly what we refuse to be.

  2. The gap shows itself

    Mistakes aren’t marked wrong and forgotten. Common misconceptions have names, “sign flip,” “plants eat soil”, and the system tracks exactly which one your child is holding.

  3. Practice, spaced over days

    Reviews return after 1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60 days. A skill only counts as durable when your child can retrieve it after a real delay, cramming physically cannot pass this gate.

  4. A human checks in

    A mentor, a real person who knows your child, meets them weekly, sees exactly where they struggled, and decides what happens next. The AI proposes; the human decides.

  5. Prove it by teaching it

    The highest level of mastery is only reachable one way: explain it to another student, defend it out loud, or apply it somewhere new. You either understand it or you don’t.

The honest answer about screens

“Will my child just sit in front of a screen all day?” No, by design.

Focused practice per subject, per day
20 min, max
Solo online work per day
hard cap, 2 h
Mentor check-in, one-on-one
1 × 20 min
Socratic rounds, small cohort, movement break in the middle
2 × (20 + 20) min
Peer teaching, five students, rotating teacher seat
2–4 × 20 min
Hands-on life skills, cooking, budgeting, building, movement
offline
Parent story
every week

The mix follows the age band, like everything else here. Younger children get shorter Socratic rounds and extra peer teaching in their place: showing and explaining come before debating.

Connected thinking

“Why do leaves change color?”

That one question is biology, chemistry, physics and art at once. Real life never asks which subject it belongs to, so we refuse to teach as if it did.

Socratic rounds

Twice a week, small seminars chase questions that don’t fit in one drawer. Nobody says “that’s not this class.” The mentor asks: What do you notice? What doesn’t make sense? What would happen if…?

Practice that mixes on purpose

Daily tasks deliberately alternate subjects, math next to Spanish next to biology. The switching feels harder, and that’s the point: recall gets stronger, and connections form where subjects meet.

Projects without borders

Portfolio and capstone work pulls from several subjects at once: research it, calculate it, build it, write about it, defend it out loud. Because that’s how real work actually works.

Founding families

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