Workbook
The First-Year Teacher's Field Guide
Surviving and Staying: What They Don't Teach You in Credential Programs
The credential prepared you for teaching. The first year is teaching you who you are as a teacher.
For the first-year teacher in any grade or subject working through the gap between what credential programs prepared them for and what the classroom requires — especially those questioning whether they can sustain this work.
The Name It First Experience
The credential prepared you for teaching. The first year is teaching you who you are as a teacher. Across five chapters, you name the educator you came to be, map the beliefs already running your classroom, confront what year one has cost, and draft the professional commitments you carry into year two. The output is not a lesson plan. It is Your First-Year Teacher Charter — signed, dated, yours.
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Sample questions
- What has the first year actually been like — not the version you tell others, but the real one?
- What do you know now that you wish you had known before you started?
- What does surviving this year and still wanting to come back look like?
Research basis
Beauchamp & Thomas on teacher identity formation as contested and relational / Ingersoll & Smith on structural drivers of first-year teacher attrition / Maslach on workload and values mismatches in the first 90 days / Stamm on compassion satisfaction vs. fatigue in new educators / Freedman & Combs on narrative professional identity in early teaching.
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The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.
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