The most important week of the year. Every habit, every transition, every conversation about how-we-do-things gets seeded here. The studio is watching what we permit and what we reinforce. Go slow. Model everything. The standard is the standard from Monday morning forward.
School starts on a Tuesday, so Week 1 runs four days. Wednesday is still Town Hall and Friday is still 360 + ICEE + Share Chair - those anchors don't move. Click into any day for the full minute-by-minute plan.
It was originally the Tuesday of Week 1. With a four-day week it became the odd one out, and it's too important to squeeze - it now opens Week 2 with a full day to itself. The partner interview activity that used to ride along with it lives in Friday's 2:10–2:40 makeup slot this week, so the thread from Day 1's Ordinary World constellations doesn't get dropped.
Names, schedule walkthrough, Hero's Journey opener, Studio Tour, first Personal Working Guide
// day 02 · wednesdayTown Hall #1 - guide-led, narrated demo. Studio Contract brainstorm begins.
// day 03 · thursdayWhat it means to be a leader/role model. School-Wide Town Hall #1.
// day 04 · fridayCo-create the vision posters. First 360 Review + first ICEE survey + first Share Chair. Makeup slot: partner interviews.
Four days, four launches - one per day. Equity vs. Equality is not in Week 1; it opens Week 2 instead, because the four-day week had no room to do it properly.
The most important launch of the year. Names, the schedule walked block by block, the Hero's Journey named once, and the standards we'll live by spoken into existence out loud. The Studio Tour asks the same question at every station: what does excellent look like here?
Where: Day 1 · Tuesday · Morning Launch + Quest
Town Hall #1, run by the guide and narrated out loud as it happens - this is a demonstration, not a meeting. Every move gets explained so that the studio can take it over in Week 2. The Studio Contract brainstorm opens here.
Where: Day 2 · Wednesday · 11:20 Town Hall
What it actually means to be someone others follow - and the difference between a boundary and a rule. Sets up Week 3, when D2 goes out into the school as role models for Spark. School-Wide Town Hall #1 runs the same day.
Where: Day 3 · Thursday · Morning Launch
Co-created and hung on the wall in the studio's own handwriting - what should someone walking in see, hear, and feel? Written from imagination at this stage, which is the point: it gets rewritten from evidence in Week 4. First 360, first ICEE, first Share Chair.
Where: Day 4 · Friday · Morning Launch + Quest
Giving too much freedom too fast. The thesis is "freedom is the goal, structure stays only where the tribe hasn't shown it can hold the freedom." That's NOT "full freedom Day 1." The structure of the schedule IS the structure. Hold it.
Skipping the explicit "why." Every standard needs to be named, modeled, and discussed. Don't assume learners know why we wash hands before snack, why we don't wrestle, why the cutoff is real. Say it. Show it. Repeat it.
Letting one launch run long and skipping another. The Town Hall demo, the Boundaries launch, the Standard of Excellence launch - these have to happen. If you run out of time on Day 2, push the rest of the work, not the launch.