How schools adopt this

Start with any band, at no cost. No contract, no sign-up, and no contact with us is required to pilot. A pilot needs exactly three things, all of them yours:

• Your own counselor calendar — deciding who runs which pieces, and when. The staffing planner helps size this.
• The family letters — ready-to-send consent letters in English and Spanish, at family-letters.html.
• The data agreement, only if you turn on sync. By default, student reflections stay on each student's own device and nothing is collected anywhere. If your pilot turns on syncing, responses go to a Google Sheet your school creates and owns — there is no company server — and the signable agreement at dpa.html covers it.

When a pilot convinces you, the quote process below covers print editions, workshops and implementation support — the digital materials you piloted with stay open either way. When it does not convince you, nothing was bought and nothing needs canceling.

Print pricing is being set now, so purchasing runs through a written quote rather than a posted price sheet. One email starts it — and nothing on this page is needed to start teaching.

What to include

Your district and the buildings involved; which print editions you want and for which bands; approximate student counts; whether you want professional development workshops, implementation support, or both; and your timeline. The digital materials need no quote — they are open.

What you get back

A written quote suitable for attaching to a purchase order — itemized, with terms, in a form your procurement office can act on.

What the business office will ask, answered

Purchase orders are accepted. A W-9 is available on request. The vendor of record is Architecture of Grace (Illinois).

Email a quote request

Who you are buying from — honestly. Architecture of Grace is a small operation, founded and run by one practicing educator. Your procurement office should weigh that, so here is the continuity picture: the materials and your data are built to outlive any vendor. The site is a static web page with no server of ours behind it; student data, when synced at all, lives only in a Google Sheet your school owns; the books are printed and on your shelves. If Architecture of Grace disappeared tomorrow, everything you had adopted would keep working. The full story — including what the program is grounded in and what has not yet been tested — is at evidence.html.

Everything a review committee asks for, in one place:

• Data privacy agreement — a signable DPA covering what syncing does and does not collect.
• Privacy policy — the plain statement of how the site and tools handle information.
• Data governance — where data lives, who owns it, and how it is switched off.
• Counselor capacity planner — a staffing worksheet for sizing an implementation.
• Family letters — consent and introduction letters for families, in English and Spanish.

Can we really use the 6–8 band without talking to you?

Yes. That is what "open" means here: no license, no account, no registration. The quote process exists for the licensed bands, print, and district-wide adoption.

Where does student data go?

By default, nowhere — each reflection stays on the device that wrote it. With syncing turned on, rows go to a Google Sheet your school creates and owns. There is no company server.

Is it evidence of outcomes?

The honest claim is research-grounded and not yet outcome-tested. What it draws on, and what has not yet been studied, is laid out at evidence.html — no scores, no efficacy claims.

Is there a religious edition and a non-religious one?

Yes — every band is available as a Universal Edition alongside the Divine track. State that in your quote request and the quote reflects it.

How fast do quotes come back?

This is a one-educator operation, so the honest answer is: quickly, but from a person, not a system. Include your timeline in the request and it will be respected.