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Field notes and proof

A longform PQK essay on field notes and proof, written for students, families, and schools who need the craft explained at working length.

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Time and place on every claim

This page is for a student calling a feeling evidence. Proof is a note another student could follow to the same doorway. Narrow field friction into an inquiry question.

What a later student could follow

Keep four-column friction log, researchable question, dated evidence, revised model. A certificate is not proof. Memory is not a log.

What is not proof here

If a visiting teacher cannot reconstruct the claim from the note, it is still a story.

How to write

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