NAME IT FIRST

Interactive

The Petition

You want to change something at school. Who decides? Can you?

You think something should be different. That's the beginning. What comes next is the actual work.

This is for:

For the young person ages 10 to 16 who has identified something at school that should change — a policy, a practice, a resource gap — and who is learning the mechanics of institutional change for the first time. Also for educators who want civic education that starts with something students care about.

You'll produce:your Your Petition Agreement

The Name It First Experience

There is something at school you want to change. In The Petition, you navigate what it takes to advocate for change within an institution — who decides, how to make your case, what gets in the way, and what happens when you succeed and when you do not. The output is not a civics lesson. It is your Petition Agreement.

You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.

Sample questions

  1. What is the thing at school you want to change — and who actually has the power to change it?
  2. Who benefits from the current policy or practice — and who bears the cost of it not changing?
  3. What strategy would you use to make the case — and what would you do when the first approach doesn't work?

Research basis

Westheimer and Kahne civic education research / CASEL responsible decision-making competencies / Youniss civic engagement developmental frameworks.

Choose your format.

Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.

Print Paperbackpersonalize

A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.

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The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.

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Audiobook

We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.

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The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.

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Digital Fill + membership+membership

Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.

$4.99

Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership

Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.

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Choose your pace.

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.

Essential path

Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.

Full depth

Every question. Every scenario, every angle.

Paper doesn’t change its mind.

Thoughts change. Documents don’t. The answers you write are there when you return — unchanged by memory or mood.

You won’t just feel clearer — you’ll have written proof of what you decided.

Writing is the mechanism by which internal clarity becomes external evidence. Evidence you can return to, share, and hold someone — including yourself — accountable to.

Every question is answerable by everyone.

Every question in every title is answerable by the person for whom the assumed experience is true and by the person for whom it is not. No reader is excluded by how a question is built.

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