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By educators. For Educators.
Beyond Institutions.

Find educators who understand where you are AND see where you could go.

Welcome to The Collective—where educators who crave both connection AND complexity are building something institutions never could. Finally, a space where you don't have to choose between community that understands you and growth that challenges you. Here, practitioners lead practitioners, conversations drive curriculum, and development happens through authentic relationship. This is what professional development looks like when we design it ourselves.

 Common Language

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Use the Working Genius assessment to provide a common language for your Flash Teams. It helps you recognize where you naturally add value—whether it's asking crucial questions (Wonder) or pushing things to completion (Tenacity). You'll also see why certain work drains you and learn to lean on others when you're operating outside your genius.

See Your Contribution Clearly

That team member who "overthinks everything" has Discernment genius; the one who "rushes to solutions" brings Invention. When we name these differences, frustration becomes appreciation and teams stop forcing everyone to work the same way.

Transform Frustration Into Understanding

As collective challenges move through different stages, you'll recognize when your genius is needed and when to step back for others. This shared language helps you contribute powerfully without burning out, making space for others' genius to emerge when the work calls for it.

Know When to Lead, When to Follow

Collective Sensemaking

YOUR NEW SUPERPOWER

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Live Experiments

Don't wait for the perfect plan. Take small steps, see what happens, share what you learn, adjust as you go.

02

Listening to be Unsettled

Let others' perspectives disrupt your certainty. Growth happens at the edge of comfort.

03

Acting into Knowing 

Take small steps and learn as you go, like firefighters navigating smoke.

04

Real Problems, Real Time

Bring your actual challenges from this week. Test ideas with people who get it because they're living it too. 

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Uncover Hidden Patterns

Discover the assumptions you didn't know you had. See connections between problems you thought were separate.

Depth Over Quick Fixes. Community Over Isolation.

Growth That Actually Grows You

Education's New Infrastructure

The Collective is where educators stop performing development and start experiencing it. While everywhere else offers more—more strategies, more initiatives, more compliance checkboxes—we offer depth. One conversation that shifts how you see a problem beats twenty workshops that just add to your toolkit.

We're building something different: a community where your voice shapes the conversation, not the other way around. Here, administrators and teachers learn alongside each other, not in separate silos. District leaders discover what's actually happening in classrooms. Teachers understand the complexity administrators navigate. Everyone grows because everyone contributes.

This is professional development designed by practitioners, for practitioners. No top-down mandates serving as support. Instead, you'll find educators at every level wrestling with real complexity together—because the person struggling with scheduling in the district office and the teacher managing classroom dynamics are both part of the same system, facing interconnected challenges.

For $47/month (founding members $27/month), join a community that treats your expertise as valuable, your challenges as legitimate, and your growth as essential. We don't just talk about educator voice—we're built on it. The first 100 founding members lock in this rate forever and help determine what we become.

The Collective Approach: Conversations That Transform

We don't just add skills—we transform how you make sense of the work itself.

Community-Driven Vertical Development 

Not everyone arrives ready to lead transformation. Many join to transform themselves first:

  • Make sense of complexity through monthly workshops focused on vertical growth

  • Bring your stuck points—those moments when old meaning-making fails

  • Learn from educators who've navigated similar challenges at different developmental stages

  • Practice new ways of seeing problems you thought were unsolvable

  • Access collective wisdom from everyone's journey

  • Build vertical capacity to handle complexity without burning out

 

Contributing as You Grow

As you develop, you naturally give back:

  • Co-Facilitate workshops sharing what you've learned

  • Share breakthrough moments that shifted everything for you

  • Support others facing challenges you've moved through

  • Create resources that help others see new possibilities

  • Model what sustainable leadership actually looks like

 

The Developmental Spiral 

Every breakthrough teaches the whole collective. When someone finds a new way through an old problem, we all learn. When someone discovers how to lead without depleting themselves, that wisdom becomes ours. Your growth contributes to everyone's growth.

What Founding Membership Means

Your $27/month supports The Guild's infrastructure as a nonprofit serving education. This isn't an investment or promise of future income—it's your commitment to building something that matters.

 

Founding members receive:

Immediate Benefits

  • Governance voice in shaping The Guild's direction and priorities

  • Attribution rights as co-creator on methods and tools you help develop

  • Professional development through peer learning and skill exchanges

  • Network access to education's most innovative practitioners

  • Permanent recognition as a Guild founding architect

 

Future Opportunities (As They Develop)

  • Priority consideration when contracts or grants enable paid roles

  • First access to fellowship positions as funding allows

  • Credits toward trainings and certifications The Guild develops

  • Early notification of partnership and collaboration opportunities

 

The Bottom Line

We're a nonprofit—we can't promise earnings or returns. But as The Guild grows and opportunities emerge, founding members who helped build this infrastructure will be first in line to benefit. You're not buying future income; you're positioning yourself at the center of education's reorganization.

 

This is post-institutional professional development: We're creating it together because no institution will create it for us.

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Founding Member Investment

Special Founding Rate: $27/month

  • Normally $47/month - Save 43% forever

  • Rate locked for life—never increases

  • Founder rate available for first 100 members

What You Get:

  • Weekly cohort workshops

  • Monthly 90-minute collective sensemaking sessions

  • 24/7 community platform access

  • Direct influence on community development

  • Beta test new methods first

  • Shape what The Collective becomes

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