CS classes that build real products.
Architecting Agency is a school subscription platform that deploys concurrent scheduling and rotational specialization, turning your CS and Web Dev classes into a single cross-disciplinary product team.
The gap
CS taught in silos produces graduates who can't ship together.
Single-discipline isolation
When CS and Web Dev never share a project, students practise skills but never experience the collaboration that defines real product work.
Agency stays theoretical
Research consistently shows student motivation peaks when learners have genuine ownership. Traditional scheduling rarely creates the conditions for it.
No measurement infrastructure
Teachers can feel engagement but have no longitudinal data to prove it to admin or back proposals to their Learning Council.
How it works
Concurrent scheduling + rotational specialization.
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Subscribe your school
One annual licence covers your entire Grade 9–12 CS and Web Dev programme. Setup takes a single afternoon.
02
Deploy the unit
Your teachers download the Ecosystem Engineers framework and configure their cohort. Students are on-boarded in the first class.
03
Run the model
Teams of four (two CS, two WD) build real connected products. Hardware track and software track, one team, one pitch.
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Measure what matters
The platform surfaces agency, engagement, and depth scores automatically. You leave the semester with publishable longitudinal data.
Computer Studies
Physical Build Track
Microcontroller I/O, sensor integration, fabricated enclosure (3D print, laser cut, or shop-built). Students own the hardware.
Web Development
Digital Interface Track
Data dashboard, API integrations, and a mobile prototype. Students own the software that speaks to the device.
Platform features
Everything your department needs, nothing it doesn't.
Curriculum framework
A complete cross-curricular unit, theme buckets, assessment rubrics, and a Design Cycle scaffold. Drop it into any CS or Web Dev course.
Student dashboards
Project tracker, passion project log, research journal, and real-time survey instruments. Students see their own agency data.
Mentor marketplace
Vetted industry professionals from hardware, software, and design. Teams request, mentors approve. Advisory relationships built into the platform.
Research analytics
Longitudinal SDT surveys (T1–T5) are built into every semester. Track agency, engagement, and depth of learning across your whole cohort.
Who it's for
Built for independent and public schools with a CS programme.
Whether you run one Grade 10 cohort or a district-wide ICT programme, the platform adapts to your scheduling constraints and gives every student a research-backed path to genuine agency.
Book a 20-minute callIndependent schools
Differentiate your CS programme with a research-backed, showcase-ready capstone. Compelling for admission and parent events alike.
Public school departments
The model fits any two-course ICT block. Full curriculum download on day one: unit plan, rubrics, and design cycle scaffold.
Research-active teachers
The longitudinal SDT survey protocol is built in. Collect publishable data as a natural by-product of teaching, not a separate project.
Pricing
One licence per school.
Simple, transparent pricing with no per-seat charges. All plans include the full curriculum framework and survey protocol.
Starter
One pilot cohort. Perfect for a single department trying the model.
- 1 cohort (up to 40 students)
- Curriculum framework + rubrics
- Student project dashboards
- T1–T5 survey protocol
- Email support
School
Unlimited cohorts. Includes the mentor marketplace and admin view.
- Unlimited cohorts + students
- Everything in Starter
- Mentor marketplace
- Admin / Learning Council dashboard
- Priority support
District
District-wide rollout with a shared analytics layer and onboarding.
- All School features
- Multi-school analytics
- Dedicated onboarding & training
- Custom SLA
- Joint research participation
All prices in Canadian dollars. Pilot-year pricing locked for early-access schools. Questions? Email us.
Research-backed
This isn't a curriculum hunch. It's a longitudinal study.
Architecting Agency began as a British Columbia Research Chair project at an independent BC school (2026–2029). The platform embeds the same SDT-grounded, IRB-approved survey protocol that powers the study, so every school that subscribes contributes to a growing evidence base.
Five survey administrations per semester, 29 Likert items across five constructs: agency, engagement, depth, mentorship quality, and collaborative dialogue. Longitudinal data, built into the semester.
5
SDT constructs
Agency, engagement, depth, mentorship, collaboration
29
Likert items
Validated across S1 (control) and S2 (concurrent model)
T1–T5
Survey cadence
Start, mid-unit, pre-pitch, showcase, reflection
3yr
Study horizon
Research Chair 2026–2029 · publishable findings
The founders
Built by the teachers who run it.
Web Development educator
Digital Interface Track
Designed the concurrent scheduling model and leads platform development. Research co-investigator on the Architecting Agency study.
Computer Studies educator
Physical Build Track
Leads the hardware and physical build track. Research co-investigator and ISABC conference presenter.
Early access · 2026–27 school year
Ready to give your students real work to do?
We're accepting a small cohort of early-access schools for the 2026–27 year. Pilot pricing, direct access to the research team, and a seat at the table as the platform evolves.