Nothing.

You are already asking what the curriculum is. There is not one, in the sense you mean.

Kids come in, take their shoes off, sit on the bench or the floor, and stay for twenty minutes. They can close their eyes. They can look out the window. They can think about whatever they were already thinking about. They cannot talk, use a phone, read, draw, or do homework. Nothing is produced. Nothing is graded. Nobody asks what they thought about.

It is the hardest program to describe to a funder and the easiest to sell to a kid, which tells you something about adults.

Three rules

1. Shoes off.
2. No talking, including whispering.
3. You can leave whenever you want, quietly.

That is the whole program. There are no worksheets. There is no reflection journal. The teacher's job is to keep the room quiet and to not fill the silence with a lesson.

Why it exists

Because the acronym had an N and because a nine-year-old once said, after twenty minutes of doing nothing, 'my brain is quieter now,' and we have not been able to improve on that description since.

Kids sign up voluntarily. It fills first every term. Parents are more skeptical than kids, which is the reverse of every other program we run.

What it is not

• Not meditation, and no one uses that word with kids.
• Not a punishment room or a cool-down space, though kids can use it when they need to.
• Not religious, spiritual, or therapeutic.
• Not a break from learning. It is the learning.