Study Commons
How every lesson is built
A lesson is only useful if a child finishes it and leaves knowing something new. Every Study Commons lesson goes through the same six steps.
Plan the next step, not a random topic
Lessons come in short paths. Prefixes lead to suffixes; mass and capacity lead to probability; a story about owning a mistake is followed by one about working with someone who disagrees. Before writing, we check what the last lessons in that subject covered so the next one builds on it.
Go to the source
Science and Canada readings are built from sources opened that day: government agencies, conservation authorities, museums and research journals. Every source is listed under the article with the date it was checked, and when two sources disagree, the reading shows the difference and teaches kids how to handle it.
Write questions that teach
Each wrong option is a mistake children really make: adding when they should subtract, picking the detail instead of the main idea, trusting a streak in a coin toss. Every explanation says why the right answer works and why the tempting one fails.
Check the answers by machine
Logic puzzles and coding problems are solved by a program before they go live, and every puzzle is checked to have exactly one answer. Math answers are worked step by step in the explanation, and each build checks the answer key, word counts and links.
Test it on a phone and a laptop
Every new page is opened in a real browser at phone and desktop widths before it is published. Diagrams are drawn for the lesson and labelled, not decorative stock images.
Publish every day, fix fast
New lessons go live every morning. When a fact needs correcting, we fix it on the same page, keep the address and note what changed.
We use AI to help draft lessons and build the site. What goes live is decided by the steps above.