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reweave is a small library of slow, wordless films from real people around the world, built over ten years, one person at a time. There is no narrator telling you what to feel. You watch a real person doing what they actually do, in a place that actually exists, and you bring your own attention.

Behind each film is a short story written in the first person, from that person, in their own words. So you can watch, then read, then think for yourself.

The whole idea is one sentence: curiosity, before judgment. Most of what a child sees in a day teaches them what to think. We wanted to teach the opposite, how to be curious about a real person, because curiosity, practiced enough, becomes a way of seeing the world.

Who it is for. Educators who want real human stories in their lessons. Homeschooling families. Learning pods and co-ops. Librarians. School and district leaders. Researchers. Donors who want to back something quiet and real. And curious people who just want a slower, more attentive way to meet the world. If you are wondering whether it fits your classroom, your grade level, your homeschool, or your group, the honest answer is almost always yes, because the films carry no language barrier and the stories work at many ages.

reweave is a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit. There are no ads. We do not sell your data, ever.

Every wordless film on reweave is free to watch. No account, no credit card, nothing to sign up for. Go to Find a story and start watching.

You only need an account when you want to go deeper than the film: to read the full first-person story behind a person, to save what you notice, or to weave a lesson.

How a single story works. One real person, three ways to go deeper. Watch their wordless film, which is free. Read their full story in their own words, which Spark unlocks. Weave a lesson around them, which Pro unlocks. The same person guides you through every layer.

Is there a free trial. You do not need one. Free is free for as long as you like, with no card. If you want to try the deeper tools before committing to Pro, Spark includes a taste: 10 Pro searches and 3 lesson weaves to start.

To begin, choose Begin at the top of the site and make a free account with your email. You can watch everything before you ever pay, and decide later if you want to read the stories or build lessons.

Why wordless. Words pre-decide what to feel. The moment a narrator says this is the story of a brave person who, the child stops looking at the person and starts trusting the narrator. So we removed the narrator. We removed the music cues that tell you when to feel something. We removed the captions that summarize. What is left is a real person, doing what they actually do, in a place that actually exists. The viewer has to bring their own attention, their own questions, their own understanding.

Real people, not characters. Empathy practiced with a real person from another part of the world carries over into real life. Practiced with a cartoon, it does not. Everyone in our library is a real person, never an actor.

Wordless means universal. With no narration and no captions, there is no language barrier. Every viewer enters at the same time, in the same way, whether or not they share a language.

How we make them. There is no formula, just time. Each film took us roughly a year, sometimes longer. We meet a person through a friend, a school, a partner, or chance. We sit with them, share meals, and listen. We film only what feels true. Then we write a story to go with the film, not about the person but from them, first person, in their own words, drawn from their interview.

The world does not need more content. It needs more attention.

What is in the library. Dozens of real human stories from more than a dozen countries, and the library keeps growing. Each one is a real person in a wordless film, with a first-person story and reflection questions educators use with children in real classrooms. Every film is free to watch.

Can I suggest a story or a topic. Yes, and we love these. Write to [email protected] and tell us about the person, the place, or the theme you wish existed in the library. We cannot promise every suggestion becomes a film, because each one takes us about a year, but your ideas shape where we go next.

If something in a story feels off. Accuracy matters deeply to us, because these are real people. If you ever read something that does not seem right, or a generated lesson that misrepresents someone, please tell us at [email protected]. Your eye sharpens this work and we will look into it.

Can I show these to children of any age. The films work across a wide age range because they carry no language and ask only for attention. You know your group best. If you are unsure whether a particular story fits an age or setting, ask us and we will help you choose.

New stories arrive steadily, not on a schedule. Each film takes us roughly a year, sometimes longer, because we meet the person first, sit with them, share meals, and film only what feels true. So we do not promise a film a month; we promise that what arrives is real.

The library today holds dozens of real human stories from more than a dozen countries, and it keeps growing. The goal is hundreds of stories, in the rhythm of a real, attentive practice.

Where we go next is shaped by what educators, families, and learners ask for. If you wish a certain place, or a certain kind of life, or a certain theme were in the library, write to [email protected] and tell us. We read every word, and your suggestions guide the next year of work.

If you subscribe, you do not need to do anything to see new stories; they appear in the library as we add them. Your existing weaves and saves do not change when new stories arrive.

We do not push an agenda. reweave reaches across every aisle. The films are real people doing what they actually do: cooking, farming, weaving, fishing, teaching, raising children, making a life. We show what is true about a real life and let you bring your own attention.

No religious instruction. No political framing. No curriculum hidden inside the practice. We do not tell a child what to think about a person; we invite them to be curious about who that person is.

What we do teach is one idea: curiosity, before judgment. A child decides who counts as us long before they can read. Meeting a lot of real people, early and often, keeps a small world from staying small. That is the whole posture, and it works the same for a homeschool family on a farm in Idaho as for a public school class in Brooklyn.

You will not see ads, you will not see scripted messages, and you will not see an outside organization paying for what gets shown. The library is built by a small team that has been doing this for ten years.

If something ever feels off to you, in any direction, tell us at [email protected]. We listen.

reweave is free to start, and you only pay if it earns it. Prices are in US dollars.

Free. No credit card. Watch every wordless film. As you read, you can notice what you notice, highlight any line that stays with you, and capture what stayed with you after a film. Every save is yours.

Spark, 8 dollars a month or 58 dollars a year. Everything in Free, plus the full first-person story text and the person's own words, reflection prompts on the page, and every complete lesson plan. Spark also includes unlimited quick searches and a taste of the Pro tools to try: 10 Pro searches and 3 lesson weaves to start.

Pro, 20 dollars a month or 144 dollars a year. Everything in Spark, plus full lesson weaving with Claude (up to 15 lessons a month), full Pro search across every story (up to 50 a month), a lesson library that keeps your weaves organized your way, the team tapestry for sharing with colleagues, and your private encrypted journal where every noticing you save comes back to you, organized and searchable.

The plain difference. Free is for watching. Spark adds the reading side: full stories, prompts, and complete lesson plans. Pro adds the making side: weaving your own lessons, searching the whole library by idea, sharing with a team, and the organized journal.

You can change plans or cancel any time from your account. See the billing answer for refunds and what happens to your work.

Switch or cancel any time, right from your account. When you cancel, your access continues through the period you already paid for, so you keep what you paid for.

Refunds. If you change your mind within 7 days on a monthly plan, or within 30 days on a yearly plan, email us at [email protected] and we will refund you. We will probably ask why, not to talk you out of it, but because we are a learning organization and your honest answer makes reweave better for the next educator.

Switching monthly to yearly, or yearly to monthly. Do it from your account at any time.

What happens to your woven lessons if you downgrade. They are saved and never deleted. The lesson library that holds them is a Pro feature, so that door is locked while you are not on Pro, but everything you built is still there. Re-upgrade any time and your work comes back exactly as you left it.

Do you need a card to try reweave. No. Free is free. We only ask for a card if you choose Spark or Pro.

Is my payment secure. Yes. Stripe handles your card. We receive only a subscription identifier, never your full card number.

Receipts and invoices. Stripe emails a receipt for each payment. If you need an invoice or a copy of a receipt, email [email protected]. For schools needing a formal invoice or purchase order, see the teams answer.

Outside the United States. Yes, you can subscribe. Prices show in US dollars and your bank converts to your local currency at checkout. Stripe supports 135 countries. If a card is declined, it is almost always your bank, not us, so try another card or contact your bank, then write us if it still will not go through.

You can give one educator, or fifty, a year of reweave Pro. It is a one-time purchase with no recurring charge, and the recipient will know it came from you.

How it works. Buy the gift from the gift page. The recipient gets a way to claim it and redeem their year of Pro on their own account. If they do not have an account yet, they make a free one and the gift applies to it.

Is it tax-deductible. No. Gifting access to a person is a personal gift, not a charitable donation, so it is not tax-deductible. If you want a tax-deductible gift to the nonprofit instead, see the donating answer.

If a gift was not received. If you bought a gift and the recipient says it never arrived, email [email protected] with the email you used to buy it and we will track it down and resend.

reweave is a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit (EIN 46-1877873), intentionally ad-free and small. Donations help us run the site, power the search and weave tools, and make new stories for children around the world.

Ways to give. One-time, monthly, quarterly, or yearly, by card, Apple Pay, or PayPal, all from the donate page. Monthly and yearly gifts are our favorite because they help us plan, but a one-time gift is just as meaningful. These gifts are tax-deductible.

Other routes. You can give appreciated stock or securities and skip the capital gains while deducting fair market value, or recommend a grant from a donor advised fund. Trusted partners process these and send their own receipts.

Receipts. Card and Apple Pay and PayPal donations receive a receipt for your records. For stock, crypto, or DAF gifts, the processing partner sends the receipt.

Gifting Pro to an educator. Separate from a donation, you can gift a year of reweave Pro to one educator or many. That is a personal gift of access rather than a charitable donation, so it is not tax-deductible, but it is hugely impactful. See the gifting answer.

Questions about giving, including larger or recurring gifts, go to [email protected].

You sign in with the email you used to create your account. Most of reweave works without an account; you make one to read full stories, save, run Pro search, weave lessons, or subscribe.

Age. To create an account you confirm you are at least 13 years old, or that a parent or guardian is making the account for you. Keep your login secure and do not share it.

Cannot sign in. Start from the login page, where you can recover access using your email. If that does not work, email [email protected] from any address and tell us the email on the account, and we will help you get back in.

Changing your email, name, or preferences. Update your email, display name, notification preferences, and accessibility settings from your account.

A backup email. You can add a backup email so you have a second way to recover access if you lose the first. We send a short code to confirm it is really you.

Your encrypted journal and its recovery phrase. The private journal is a Pro feature, and its entries are encrypted with a key derived from your password, so not even reweave can read them. When you set it up you receive a six word recovery phrase. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe, because it is the only way back into your entries if you ever forget your password; we cannot unlock them for you. You can re-show the phrase from your notebook at any time. If you never saved a phrase and you get locked out, the entries cannot be recovered, but you can reset your notebook to start fresh and get a new phrase to write down.

Accessibility is part of how reweave is built, and we keep improving it.

No language barrier. Because the films are wordless, with no narration and no captions to read, they are open to viewers regardless of the language they speak or read.

Settings. You can set accessibility preferences from your account, and they travel with you across the site.

In the app. The reweave app supports larger text and works with the screen reader on your device, so you can move through the practice by listening and with bigger type.

If something is hard to use with your assistive technology, or you need an accommodation, please tell us at [email protected]. We take these reports seriously and they directly shape what we fix next.

reweave works for a single educator, a small learning pod, a whole school, or a district.

Small teams. On the pricing page, use the slider on the Pro card to set how many educators you need. Volume discounts begin at 5 educators and grow at each size band. The team tapestry lets the group share woven lessons and saved stories with each other, with attribution kept clean so everyone sees who made what.

Adding or removing members. A team admin manages who is on the team from the account. If you need help moving someone in or out, write to [email protected].

Larger groups, purchase orders, and invoices. For 500 or more educators, or if your school or district needs a purchase order or an invoice rather than a card, go to the teams page at /teams or email [email protected]. You can request a quote there, and finalize with your PO number. No sales calls unless you want one.

Homeschool and co-ops. A single Pro account works well for one homeschooling family. A small co-op of several families can use the team tapestry to share. If you are figuring out the most honest way to set it up for your group, ask us at [email protected] and we will help you find the right fit.

If cost is a barrier. Every film is free to watch, always. If a subscription is out of reach for your school, pod, or family, talk to us at [email protected]. We never want money to be the reason a classroom misses out.

Every wordless film on reweave is free to watch, always, with no account. So the first step for any school is no commitment at all: a few educators open the site, pick a person whose story fits a class they are teaching, and try a film together.

For a small group of educators ready to go deeper, the most honest start is a Pro team license at the size that fits today. Volume discounts begin at 5 educators on the pricing page, and you can grow from there. If you would like to start with even a handful of educators on Pro to test how it lands in your classrooms before you size up, that works too.

For a larger evaluation or formal pilot. If your school or district wants a sample lesson, a walkthrough, or paperwork before staff get accounts, write to [email protected] and tell us what you are exploring and how many educators we should size for. You can request a quote there and finalize with a purchase order. No sales calls unless you ask for one.

If cost is the barrier. We mean this. If a subscription is out of reach for your school, pod, or family, write to [email protected] and tell us your situation. We never want money to be the reason a classroom misses out.

Documentation your team needs. A data processing agreement or other paperwork is something we are happy to talk through. See the school privacy answer for what we collect, how student data is handled, and how to reach us for formal documents.

Showing films in class. Every wordless film is free to watch with no account, so you can open Find a story and play one on a projector or smartboard the same way you would any web video. Because the films are wordless, the whole class enters at the same time, in the same way, with no language barrier.

If video is blocked on your school network. Some school networks filter video. Films are served through Cloudflare Stream, part of our hosting. If a film will not load on school wifi, ask your technology team to allow reweave.org and videodelivery.net through the filter. On your own device or home wifi it will play normally.

Grades and subjects. The films and stories work across a wide age range. Educators thread them into math, literacy, and reflection. The most lasting lessons often happen when a real person's story carries the content, whether that is fractions, writing, or a conversation about how someone lives.

Planning a lesson. On Pro you can weave a lesson around a real person from a single prompt, or browse the complete lesson plans that come with Spark. You decide the prompt and the direction; reweave finds the people whose stories carry the idea.

If you want help fitting reweave to your classroom, your grade, or a specific unit, write to [email protected] and we will think it through with you.

Where reweave works. A modern web browser is all you need. That covers Chromebooks, iPads, iPhones, Android phones and tablets, Macs, and Windows laptops. Films are served through Cloudflare Stream and play the same way any web video plays.

Projectors and smartboards. Open the film in your browser on the laptop or device connected to the projector, full-screen the video, and play. The whole class enters at the same time, with no language barrier.

If video is blocked on your school network. Some school networks filter video. Ask your technology team to allow reweave.org and videodelivery.net through the filter. On your own device or home wifi it will play normally.

Linking from your LMS. We do not have a Google Classroom, Canvas, or Schoology integration today. What does work well is the simplest thing: copy the URL of a story or watch page and paste it as a link inside your LMS. Anyone who clicks lands on the public film, which they can watch with no account. If they want to read the full story or weave their own lesson, they sign in on reweave.

The reweave app. Alongside the website, there is an iPhone, iPad, and Android app for a slower, more personal daily practice. The website is where educators weave lessons, run Pro search, and work with a team.

reweave is educator-led. We do not create student accounts, and a child does not need to log in to watch any wordless film. The films are free to watch with no account, on any device.

For a class. The educator runs the practice on their own account. They open a film and play it for the class on a projector or smartboard. They use Spark to access the full story and the complete lesson plan, or Pro to weave a lesson around a real person and search the library by idea. The children watch, notice, and talk; they do not sign in.

For a family. A parent or guardian runs the practice on their own account in the same way. The films are free for the family to watch together.

If a child wants their own account. To create an account on reweave you confirm you are at least 13 years old, or that a parent or guardian is making the account for you. We keep this floor because most of the deeper tools are designed for adult use.

What this means for child safety. Children never enter personal information on reweave. The AI features that draft lessons and run idea-based search are educator-facing tools, designed for adults, not aimed at children. The default classroom experience is a film, a story, and a conversation, with no live AI involved.

reweave fits home learning well, because it asks for attention rather than a curriculum you have to keep up with.

For one family. The free films are a gentle daily or weekly practice: watch a real person, wonder about them, talk about what you noticed. If you want the full stories, prompts, and complete lesson plans, Spark adds the reading side. If you want to weave your own lessons and keep a private journal of what your children notice, Pro adds the making side. A single Pro account works well for one homeschooling family.

For a co-op or pod. Several families learning together can use Pro and the team tapestry to share what they have woven and saved with each other. Use the slider on the Pro card to set the number of educators, and volume pricing begins at 5.

The honest way to set it up. If you are not sure whether your group should be one account or a small team, just ask us at [email protected]. We would rather help you set it up fairly than have you guess.

Is the content religious or political. No. reweave does not push an agenda. The films are real people doing what they actually do. See the answer on what reweave teaches if you want the longer version of that promise.

Weaving a lesson. On Pro, you type a prompt, like fractions through real recipes, or kindness in different cultures. reweave searches the full library, finds the real people whose stories carry that idea, and builds a lesson around them: an opening, questions, and a bridge insight for each person, in your voice. Lessons are woven by Claude, an AI by Anthropic, using real story content from the library. The stories themselves are written by people and are never altered.

Pro search. Find a person by idea, not by name. Patience in farming surfaces one person, imagination in scarcity surfaces another. Pro search spans every story in the library. Spark includes a taste of it to try; Pro includes up to 50 a month.

Saving and the journal. On any plan you can notice what you notice as you read, highlight lines that stay with you, and capture what stayed after a film. Those saves are yours. The private journal, where every noticing comes back to you organized and searchable, is part of Pro. It is encrypted with a key derived from your password, so it stays yours and not even reweave can read it, and a six word recovery phrase is your backup, so keep that phrase somewhere safe.

Using reweave for math. Yes. Many educators find the most lasting math lessons happen when a real person's story carries the numbers. There is a math examples page on the site if you want to see how.

If a generated lesson ever feels off, tell us at [email protected]. Your eye sharpens this work.

reweave is an educational 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and privacy is built into how we work. We collect the minimum we need to run the service. We never sell your data. We never sell student data, ever. We do not run ads. We do not track you across other sites.

What we collect. Your email, a hashed sign-in credential or magic-link token, and the display name you choose. Your preferences. Usage information like what you search, watch, and save, so we can serve your library back to you. The lessons you weave. Encrypted journal entries, which are encrypted on your device so we cannot read them. Basic technical information like IP address kept briefly for security, device type, and city-level location from your IP. If you email us, we keep that email so we can answer it.

What we never see. The contents of your encrypted journal. Your full card number, which Stripe handles.

Payment. Stripe handles your card. We receive only a subscription identifier.

Your rights. You can access, correct, export, or delete your personal information. To make a request, or to delete your account, email [email protected] and we will help.

For schools and districts. See the school privacy answer for FERPA, COPPA, data processing agreements, and how student information is handled. The full privacy policy, including lawful bases for EU and UK users, lives on the privacy page.

reweave is designed so that children never need an account. Every wordless film is free to watch with no sign-in, on any device, so the default classroom experience involves no student data at all. The educator runs the practice on their own account; the children watch, notice, and talk.

FERPA. Because reweave does not require student accounts, the typical classroom use does not put student records into our hands. Where a school does share information with us to set up educator accounts or invoices, we handle that information under the school's direction. We do not sell it and do not use it for advertising.

COPPA. Account creation requires confirming you are at least 13 years old, or that a parent or guardian is creating the account. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. The AI features that draft lessons and run idea-based search are educator-facing tools, designed for adults; they are not aimed at children.

Data processing agreements. If your district needs a DPA, a security review, or other formal documentation as part of procurement, write to [email protected] with what your team requires and we will work with you.

What we collect from any user. Your email, a hashed sign-in credential or magic-link token, the display name you choose, your preferences, the lessons you weave, your saves, encrypted journal entries which we cannot read, and basic technical information kept briefly for security. We do not run ads, do not track across other sites, and do not sell data.

For privacy requests of any kind, including access, export, correction, or deletion, write to [email protected].

We do not use advertising cookies and we do not track you across other sites. We use the bare minimum needed to keep you logged in, keep the site working, and count visits anonymously.

What we use. Sign-in tokens stored in your browser so you stay logged in across pages; these are removed when you log out. Cloudflare bot protection may set a short-lived item automatically to protect the site from abuse; it carries no cross-site tracking identifier. Anonymous visit counts so we can see roughly how many people use the site, without identifying you.

Third parties. Films are served through Cloudflare Stream, which does not set tracking cookies. When you pay, Stripe may set its own cookies during checkout. That is the whole list.

the cookie notice page has the full detail, including choices for EU and UK users.

Where AI helps. AI powers two things: Pro search, which finds the real people whose stories carry an idea you want to teach, and the weave, which drafts a lesson around them. Both are built on Claude, an AI by Anthropic.

What AI does not do. It does not write or change the stories. The stories are written by people, in their own words, drawn from real interviews, and are never altered by AI. AI helps you find and frame real human stories; it does not invent them.

Why use AI for a product about real people. Because the hard part for a busy educator is not caring, it is time. AI lets you go from an idea to a lesson built around real people in a moment, instead of an evening.

Children and AI. The default experience does not require live AI, which keeps it appropriate for child-directed use. Where a feature does use live AI, it is for educators and adults, not aimed at children.

Your data and AI. We do not sell your data, and your encrypted journal is never readable by us or by any AI. If a generated lesson ever feels off, tell us at [email protected] so we can sharpen it.

reweave is operated by reweave Inc., a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit registered in the United States (EIN 46-1877873). We are small, by design, and ad-free, by design.

Why does a nonprofit charge. Every film is free to watch, always. We charge for the deeper tools, Spark and Pro, and we ask for donations, because making slow, real films and running the search and weave tools costs real money, and we refuse to pay for it with ads or by selling data. Subscriptions and gifts from people who can pay keep the films free for everyone, including classrooms that cannot.

Who made this. A small team that spent ten years making these films, one person at a time, sharing meals and learning names before filming only what felt true.

What your money does. It runs the site, powers the AI search and weave tools, and funds new stories for children around the world. The goal is a library of hundreds of real human stories, powering meaningful learning and wonder beyond words.

Our claim is one sentence: curiosity, before judgment. The deeper claim is that curiosity, practiced early, becomes a way of seeing, and that habit at scale is what we mean by impact.

How we hold ourselves to it. That is an attitudinal and behavioral claim, not something a single trial settles, and we say so plainly. So we ask a better question: what evidence, gathered honestly over time, would let a thoughtful reader believe or disbelieve the claim. Our research page is our published, in-progress answer, meant to be read, challenged, and improved.

Our stance on data. The educator comes first. The journal is theirs, the growth surfaces are theirs, the encrypted notebook is theirs to read and to delete. What we gather in aggregate, we gather with consent, and we return it to them as reflection. reweave is a practice space that happens to also produce evidence, not an extraction engine.

If you are a researcher or funder. We would be glad to talk. Read the research page first, then write to [email protected] with what you are exploring.

Alongside the website, reweave has an app for iPhone, iPad, and Android. It is a slower, more personal practice: each day you meet one person, watch them for a moment, read a short piece of who they are, and wonder what is true. Then you come back another day.

It is not a social network, a quiz, or a timed lesson. It does not score you. Everything you write stays on your device. Your reflections are yours.

What it costs. The app has a free experience and an optional Pro upgrade that deepens the daily practice. The wordless films are always free to watch. You need an internet connection to load new people and films, and anything you write stays on your device.

App and website. The app and the website are separate experiences. The app is the quiet daily practice; the website is where educators weave lessons, run Pro search, and work with a team.

If you have a question about the app, email [email protected] and tell us which device you are on.

A film will not play. First refresh the page. If it still will not play, try a different browser or device, since some networks and older browsers block video. On a school network, video is sometimes blocked by a filter; your technology team can allow reweave.org and videodelivery.net. If it still fails, email [email protected] with the person's name and the device and browser you are using.

You did not get an email from us. Check spam and any promotions folder first. A sign-in or confirmation email can take a few minutes. If nothing arrives, email [email protected] from the address you expected it at and we will look. One note: an email being accepted is not the same as being delivered, so if ours is not showing up, tell us and we can check what happened on our side.

A gift was not received. Email [email protected] with the email you used to buy it, and we will find it and resend.

A payment was declined. A decline is almost always your bank, not us. Try another card or contact your bank, then write us if it still will not go through.

Cannot sign in. See the account answer, or email [email protected] with the email on the account.

Something else is broken. Tell us at [email protected]. Be as messy or specific as you like. Include what you were doing, what you expected, and what happened instead. We read every word.

We are a tiny team, and most questions are answered right here on this page faster than we could reply by email. So the best first step is almost always to ask your question here. If the answer is not here, we are glad to hear from you.

Which address to use. For almost anything, [email protected]. For privacy requests, account deletion, or data questions, [email protected]. For schools, districts, purchase orders, and team setup, [email protected].

What to include. Tell us what you were trying to do, what you expected, and what happened. If it is about your account, tell us the email on the account. The more you share, the faster we can help.

How fast we reply. We read every word and reply when we can, usually within a few days. We are a small nonprofit, not a call center, so the help here is built to get you unstuck without the wait.