Very slightly! We’ve been interested in using household incentives/auctions for a long time (wrote web apps to use auctions to distribute chores twice before kids were born) and have wanted to incorporate that for a while, and we started using Numberblocks as a reading incentive before I’d ever heard of Alpha School. The post on ACX about Alpha School was the final push for me to start the token system, though.
Your token system (and general approach) sounds a lot like Alpha School—is it influenced by them at all?
Very slightly! We’ve been interested in using household incentives/auctions for a long time (wrote web apps to use auctions to distribute chores twice before kids were born) and have wanted to incorporate that for a while, and we started using Numberblocks as a reading incentive before I’d ever heard of Alpha School. The post on ACX about Alpha School was the final push for me to start the token system, though.