Companion to The Child Should Never Experience the Organizational Chart

The Child Should Never Experience the Organizational Chart argues that schools should specialize the adults and integrate the child’s experience. The book prints its tools and its research kit in full. This companion carries the same tools as blank copies you can open on a screen, copy into a shared document, and fill in during a meeting, plus one page the book does not print: how to keep a child’s identity out of what you record.

Nothing here replaces the book or adds a claim to it. Each tool names the chapter section that explains it, and assumes you have read that section. The seven tools are working prototypes, not validated instruments. Recreate them in your own record system and change the fields where they do not fit your work.

Choose Where to Start#

• You want to use the tools in a school or district. Start with the field tools. Run the diagnostic first if you have not chosen a seam to improve.
• You want to gather evidence on how coordination works where you are. Start with the research kit: the field evidence protocol, five instruments, and the privacy rules for recording a case.
• You want to see how strong each claim is. Read the claim and evidence ledger, which sorts the book’s claims into what research supports, what is a working synthesis, and what the book should not claim without new evidence.

What Is Not Here#

The book’s four worked cases are illustrative composites, and no page here describes an identifiable child, family, or school event. Pages that ask you to record a real student’s week or a family’s account are blank forms. Fill them in under your own school’s privacy rules and keep the filled copies out of any public place.