{
  "cardColor": "#f8fbfd",
  "cardBorderColor": "#d8e3ea",
  "gradeBand": "K-5",
  "course": "Decision Science",
  "subject": "Human Development & Leadership",
  "promise": "Decision Science helps learners pause, look at evidence, and make kind, fair, and thoughtful choices.",
  "prereq": "No separate preparation is needed. Prior practice with Communication and Storytelling for Influence helps learners listen, explain reasons, and share thinking. Designers scaffold the course for each grade band.",
  "focus": "Learners build a repeatable decision process using evidence, values, safety, fairness, stakeholder care, and reflection.",
  "why": "Learners make choices all day. Some choices are simple, and some need more thinking. Decision Science gives learners a calm way to slow down, ask better questions, use evidence, consider people affected, and grow confidence in their own judgment.",
  "differentiator": "At Orion, Decision Science is taught as a human capability that grows through practice, feedback, and reflection. Learners connect evidence with ethics: What do we know? What are we still unsure about? Who may benefit or be harmed? What would make this safer, fairer, or wiser?",
  "connectionsOther": "Communication and Storytelling help learners listen, explain, and share reasons. Math helps compare number, time, cost, and likelihood. Science and Data Science build observation, testing, and source checks. Path to Self-Efficacy helps learners pause, reflect, and improve.",
  "connectionsAdds": "Decision Science gives learners a clear choice process: frame the decision, sort knowns and unknowns, choose criteria, compare trade-offs, consider stakeholders, check safety and fairness, decide, monitor, and learn from the outcome.",
  "learnerICan": [
    { "text": "I can pause before I choose.", "detail": "I can slow down and make a thoughtful choice." },
    { "text": "I can sort what I know.", "detail": "" },
    { "text": "I can compare options.", "detail": "" },
    { "text": "I can think about people.", "detail": "" },
    { "text": "I can use evidence.", "detail": "I can use observations, examples, or data to support my thinking." },
    { "text": "I can explain and improve.", "detail": "I can share my reasons in a clear, respectful way." }
  ],
  "gain": "Confidence slowing down; stronger evidence habits; safety and fairness checks; criteria-based comparison; uncertainty language; trade-off thinking; group decision routines; reflection that improves the next choice.",
  "create": "Picture Decision Cards, safe/fair sorts, known/unknown/question organizers, fact/guess sorts, must/want sorts, criteria cards, prediction logs, source checks, decision matrices, short decision briefs, and after-action reflections.",
  "journey": [
    ["Notice & Frame", "Learners notice a choice, name the purpose, and ask what matters.", "Your learner may talk about the decision instead of rushing to an answer."],
    ["Compare & Choose", "Learners sort facts, guesses, needs, wants, criteria, and options.", "Your learner may explain why one choice fits the purpose better than another."],
    ["Act & Observe", "Learners try or recommend a choice and watch what happens.", "Your learner may notice evidence, feedback, surprises, or people affected."],
    ["Reflect & Improve", "Learners ask what worked, what changed, and what they would try next.", "Your learner may see that growth comes from learning, not from being perfect."]
  ],
  "across": [
    ["K-2", "Concrete, oral, visual, playful, and designer-supported. Learners use everyday choices to practice safe/kind checks, two-option comparisons, prediction, and simple what-happened reflection."],
    ["Grades 3-5", "More independent and evidence-based. Learners use known/unknown/question organizers, fact/guess and must/want sorts, criteria, trade-offs, simple source checks, stakeholder notes, group protocols, and short decision briefs."]
  ],
  "assessment": "Assessment in Decision Science is a growth lens. Designers look at how learners frame a choice, use evidence, consider people affected, explain reasons, receive feedback, and reflect on the next step.",
  "assessmentRows": [
    ["Starting point", "What can my learner already do?", "A picture decision card, safe/fair sort, known/unknown organizer, simple prediction, or oral reason."],
    ["During the course", "What feedback helps next?", "Fact/guess sorts, criteria cards, prediction logs, source checks, group protocol records, and revised recommendations."],
    ["End of course", "How does my learner show growth?", "A Decision Science portfolio, short decision brief, after-action reflection, confidence update, or decision artifact."]
  ],
  "coverage": [
    ["K", "Name a choice, check safe and kind, choose between simple options, and give one reason.", "Ready to choose with support and talk or draw about everyday choices.", "Picture Decision Card; safe/kind sort; oral reason; designer observation."],
    ["1", "Compare two options using what matters, make a prediction, and explain what happened.", "Builds on K: naming a choice and giving one reason.", "Two-option card; fairness check; prediction card; reflection drawing or sentence."],
    ["2", "Sort facts from guesses and musts from wants; use one criterion and improve after feedback.", "Builds on Grade 1: comparing options and using a simple fairness check.", "Fact/Guess sort; Must/Want sort; one-criterion comparison; feedback-to-change note."],
    ["3", "Frame a decision with purpose, knowns, unknowns, options, criteria, and people affected.", "Builds on K-2: sorting information and explaining reasons.", "Decision log; Known/Unknown/Question organizer; two-criteria table; stakeholder note."],
    ["4", "Compare multiple options, name trade-offs, estimate confidence, and use a source or data check.", "Builds on Grade 3: using criteria and simple evidence before recommending a choice.", "Decision matrix; confidence check; source card; risk/trade-off note; group protocol record."],
    ["5", "Create a short decision brief with evidence, uncertainty, stakeholder impact, recommendation, monitoring plan, and reflection.", "Builds on Grade 4: comparing options with evidence, trade-offs, and stakeholder care.", "Decision brief; stakeholder map; source check; risk grid; prediction update; after-action review."]
  ],
  "portraitText": [
    ["Resilient Problem Solver", "Learners practice thinking through uncertainty, using evidence, improving after feedback, and trying a stronger next step."],
    ["Caring Citizen + Respectful Relationship Builder", "Learners consider who is affected, what is fair, whose voice is missing, and how choices can support belonging."],
    ["Inspiring Communicator + Bold Visionary Leader", "Learners explain reasons clearly, recommend responsible action, and make choices that can create positive impact."],
    ["Balanced Human", "Learners learn to pause, manage strong feelings, and make choices with calm attention and care."]
  ],
  "portraitScores": [92, 90, 88, 78, 82, 84, 86],
  "portraitLabels": [
    "Resilient Problem Solver",
    "Caring Citizen",
    "Respectful Relationship Builder",
    "Inspiring Communicator",
    "Bold Visionary Leader",
    "Balanced Human",
    "Self-Directed Learner"
  ],
  "related": "Communication, Storytelling for Influence, Path to Self-Efficacy + Feedback, Brain Mind Science, Math, Science, Data Science, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Passion Project.",
  "home": "Families can ask: What choice were you making? What mattered most? What did you know, and what were you still unsure about? What evidence helped? Who was affected? What would make it safer or fairer? What would you try next time?",
  "growth": "In middle grades, Decision Science becomes more evidence-based and public. Learners use stronger data, probability language, source checks, group protocols, decision matrices, scenarios, and stakeholder thinking to defend recommendations. In upper grades, learners apply decision science to leadership, entrepreneurship, finance, technology and AI risk, policy, and capstone work.",
  "portraitNote": "Scores are editable in the data panel. Use them as a curriculum-design visualization, not as a learner grade.",
  "footerNote": "Source basis: Orion parent-facing course overview sample structure, Orion course list logic, assessment language, and Portrait of the Learner alignment. Built for internal curriculum drafting and parent-facing review."
}