Who are you as a teacher?
Every great classroom runs on the identity of the person who designed it — not their personality, their identity. Today you map what you actually believe about how people learn, draft your Source Code Document, and walk out with the artifact your whole year will be built on.
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Most teachers have never been given time to answer the question at the center of their practice: who are you, really, and what do you believe about how people learn? Not the version in your evaluation rubric. The real one. The one that explains why you arrange your room the way you do, why certain lessons light you up and others feel hollow, why some students see you and some never quite do.
This is the day you write that down.
What we do
You'll complete a Circle Map that puts your teaching identity at the center and maps everything that shapes it outward — your influences, your beliefs, your experiences as a learner, the teachers who made you and the ones who didn't. From that map, you'll draft your Source Code Document, the living record of who you are as an educator. You'll also set up your NotebookLM for the first time, the AI that will grow alongside your system all year.
By the end of Day One
A completed Circle Map. The opening section of your Source Code Document. A NotebookLM set up and ready to receive your work. And a crew of four people who already know something true about you.
If a stranger walked into your classroom while you were absent, what would tell them who you are as a teacher?