The first pilot of the method is being formed in Tbilisi, in Georgian, with 8–10 educators by personal invitation. An international cohort in English will follow once the first cases are documented.
What this is
The Founding Lab exists to test, refine, and strengthen The Human Intelligence Method in real classrooms — with real assignments, real students, and real constraints. We will build the method by using it.
I am beginning small and on purpose. The first pilot is a Georgian-language circle in Tbilisi with 8–10 educators, gathered by personal invitation rather than an open call. They will each carry one redesigned assignment through to a documented case. Those cases will shape what the international cohort looks like — its size, its rhythm, what it can promise, what it cannot.
The shape of the work
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STAGE ONE
Choose one assignment from your current teaching. Audit it against the five principles. Where in this task is the student's thinking actually visible?
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STAGE TWO
Rebuild the assignment using the five-stage shape — Before AI, With AI, After AI, Final Work, Oral Defense. Adapt it to your subject and age group.
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STAGE THREE
Run the redesigned assignment with your real students. Watch what happens. Take notes on what the room does that it has not done before.
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STAGE FOUR
Write a short, honest case. What worked. What failed. What you would change. Share it with the circle. The method is shaped, in part, by what you bring.
What you leave with
One redesigned assignment, in your own subject
Not a generic template. A specific task you can keep using next term, the year after, and the year after that.
One documented case from a real classroom
A short written record of what happened when you ran it — what changed in the room, what students did, what failed, what surprised you.
A small private circle of educators doing the same work
A small circle of educators reading each other's cases. The conversations and connections often outlast the Lab itself.
A draft of the method shaped, in part, by what you bring
The Human Intelligence Method is a developing framework. Founding Lab cases will inform the next iteration of the principles, the protocols, and the published material.
Founding Practitioner status
A permanent designation as part of the first cohort. Founding Practitioners are first to be invited to future certification, training, and partner programs.
Who this is for
This is for you if
This is probably not for you yet if
Two cohorts
Your subject is welcome
The method is built around the shape of the work, not a specific subject. If you teach something where students are asked to think, you can redesign that work here. A few examples of what previous educators have brought to similar conversations:
A note on
student privacy
No student names. No identifying details. No original student writing without explicit consent. Cases focus on what you, the educator, designed and observed. Anything involving student work is anonymized and aggregated. Student privacy is treated as a hard rule, not a guideline.
Honest about Cohort One
This is the first public cohort of the method.
It is intentionally small.
The goal is not perfection. The goal is serious practice.
A few questions, before you sign up
Because that is where the method was born. I want to test it first with educators I can sit across the table from in Tbilisi — in their language, with their schools, with their real students. The international cohort will follow, and it will be stronger for what we learn first.
After the Georgian pilot completes and at least a few cases are documented. I want to publish honest case studies first — what worked, what failed, what surprised us — and then open the international circle. Join the interest list and you will hear directly from me when the dates are set.
The Georgian pilot is being gathered by personal invitation, not by open call. For the international cohort, the interest list below is the first step. When it opens, I will write to the list before announcing it anywhere else.
No student names. No identifying details. No original student writing without explicit consent. Cases focus on what the educator designed and observed. Student privacy is treated as a hard rule, not a guideline.
No. The Lab is for educators who teach — not for AI specialists. You will use AI in the redesigned assignment, but the work is about the design of learning, not about the technology. If you have ever asked a chatbot a question, you know enough to start.
Interest list · International cohort
The international (English) cohort will open after the Georgian pilot completes and its first cases are published. Leave your name and I will write to you directly — before any public announcement — when the dates and format are set.
I will write to you directly when the international cohort opens — before any public announcement.
In the meantime, if you have not yet read the manifesto, that is the best place to start.
— Sofiko