WhyDive
Parent epistemic framework and architectural home at whydive.org.
Ecosystem
One parent framework, several distinct expressions.
The ecosystem page exists to prevent confusion among WhyDive, WhyDive Education, the DLS, the Chart-Ed Institute, and Chart-Ed.
Entity map
WhyDive is the parent framework. WhyDive Education and the DLS pathway are parallel applications. Chart-Ed Institute stewards the DLS globally. Chart-Ed applies the DLS in American K-12 classrooms.
Legal ownership, framework authority, and application paths
Living Spiral Studio LLC
Current legal parent and public contact identity
operates
WhyDive
Parent framework for evidence, reasoning, judgment, decision, and action
Application path
WhyDive Education
District-facing adaptive assessment
WhyDive Reading
WhyDive Charts
Standards path
Data Literacy Standards
Global standards expression of WhyDive
Chart-Ed Institute and Chart-Ed
WhyDive Education
K-12 district-facing adaptive assessment application at whydive.education.
WhyDive Reading
Textual reasoning application at whydive.education/reading.
WhyDive Charts
Chart and quantitative reasoning application at whydive.education/charts.
Data Literacy Standards
Global standards application of WhyDive at chart-ed.cc/en/standards/the-dls-standard.
Chart-Ed Institute
Global steward of the DLS at chart-ed.cc.
Chart-Ed
American K-12 teacher-facing implementation of the DLS at chart-ed.com.
Living Spiral Studio LLC
Current legal parent and public contact identity for WhyDive.
Distinctions to preserve
- Chart-Ed is not WhyDive Education.
- The DLS is not K-12 only.
- The Chart-Ed Institute is not chart-ed.com.
- WhyDive Education is not subordinate to the DLS.
- WhyDive.org is not a product site.
- WhyDive is not yet a separate legal company.
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