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The School Transition Workbook

New School, New Self — What Stays and What Changes

Your new school doesn't know you yet. This workbook helps you know yourself — so you can introduce yourself.

This is for:

Children (ages 7–12) changing schools due to a move, grade transition, or family change; parents who want to support their child through the emotional and identity work of a school change; school counselors working with transitioning students.

You'll produce:your Your Transition Guide

The Name It First Experience

New school. New locker. New kids who don't know your name yet. This workbook helps you figure out what stays the same about you — your interests, your strengths, your favorite things — so you can take yourself to your new school and let it know who you are. My School Self is yours when you finish.

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 one thing from your old school you want to bring with you — something about yourself?
  2. What is something you're good at that you hope your new teacher will find out?
  3. What kind of friend do you want to be at your new school?
  4. What are you a little nervous about — and what might help?

Research basis

Grounded in Bronfenbrenner ecological systems theory on school as identity context / Cushman (2003) on school transitions and adolescent identity / attachment theory applied to social continuity during change.

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

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

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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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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.

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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.

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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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