Card Game
The Educator's Deck
52 Questions for Teachers Who Carry More Than Curriculum
Each question names what teachers carry that no training prepared them for.
For teachers, administrators, and counselors.
The Name It First Experience
Naming what you felt today is how you teach better tomorrow — this deck is where you name it. The Educator's Deck delivers 52 questions for teachers, administrators, and counselors who carry more than curriculum into the classroom — the grief, the crisis, the student who is not okay, the system that is not working — and have never had a structured place to name the weight of it. It is for the educator who has been told to separate what they feel from what they teach, and has learned that is not actually how it works. You work through it at your own pace and leave with the things you have been carrying named — which is where teaching better tomorrow begins.
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Sample questions
- What did your students need today that no training prepared you for?
- What part of teaching makes you stay — the thing you would not give up even on the hardest days?
- What do you wish someone had told you before your first year in the classroom?
Research basis
Grounded in Beijaard et al. (2004) research on teacher professional identity formation / Sachs (2005) on activist teacher identity and the tension between institutional demands and personal educational values / Freedman and Appleman (2009) on identity sustainability in teaching careers and the naming of personal purpose as a retention factor.
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