In the Wild
This is where the serious work meets the actual job. Wild Kits are built for the conditions educators really work in, not the idealized version, but the one with the broken projector, the sub who didn't show, and the email that started with "per my last message." They're funny because education is funny. They're useful because laughing without learning doesn't make Monday any easier.
What a Wild Kit Is
Each Wild Kit is built for one specific educator moment and includes:
one ebook
two printable resources
one educator problem solved
Not a course. Not a workbook. Just a targeted, honest, occasionally hilarious resource for the situation you're in. Grab one when you need it or start with the free one below.
Start here. It's free.
No catch. Just your email.
The end of the year turned your calendar into a hostage situation. Survive Mayhem is the kit for the final stretch, when everything is due, nothing is finished, and someone just added another meeting to the last week of school. It includes an ebook, a hallway debrief bingo card, and a teacher excuse generator.
Survive Mayhem
You did everything right. You studied, student-taught, and walked in with a color-coded binder. Nobody warned you about the rest of it.
This kit is the field guide they forgot to hand you at orientation. The things the veterans figured out the hard way, finally written down in one place. The unwritten rules. The paperwork that reproduces overnight. The parents nobody warned you about. The reasons you're still here anyway.
Includes the ebook plus two single-page resources: a month-by-month survival calendar for the first year and a list of things that are actually true about this job that nobody put in the handbook.
You got the login before you got the explanation. Nobody scheduled training. The champion is also figuring it out.
This kit is for every educator who has ever sat through a rollout email with three exclamation points and zero actual instructions, watched a live demo crash at the worst possible moment, and still figured out what was required and kept their class running anyway.
Includes the ebook plus two single-page resources: a decision tree for navigating exactly what you have to do versus what you can safely ignore, and an official ranking of every rollout experience you've already survived, as determined by a committee that will not be taking questions.
At this point you're just being practical. Pick any five from the paid In the Wild collection and get all five for $45. After adding to your cart, you'll receive a form to select your kits, and your downloads will arrive within 24 hours.
Six kits. Five spots. Nine dollars each. That's the whole pitch.
The tests are scheduled. The pencils are sharpened. Someone has already asked you three times what happens if a student needs to use the bathroom.
This kit is for every educator who has ever proctored a standardized test in complete silence for two and a half hours, watched a student fall asleep on the answer sheet, and still managed to keep the room calm, the schedule intact, and their own face completely neutral.
Includes the ebook plus two single-page resources: a combinable phrase generator for every testing-week scenario that requires a professional response when what you actually want to say is something else entirely, and a field notes page for documenting how this week actually went so next year's you has something real to work with.
The projector died. The sub didn't show. Someone said "everything happens for a reason" and meant it. You smiled through all of it because what else is there to do.
This kit is for every educator who has ever walked into a building that had already decided to be like this, navigated a full moon without losing anyone, and lowered the bar on purpose because it was the right professional call.
Includes the ebook plus two single-page resources: a field notes page for documenting the evidence of your actual day, and a two-column inventory of every malfunction, miscommunication, and well-meaning unhelpful comment that happened this week, so you can read them, recognize them, and feel deeply seen.
There are fourteen things on the agenda for the last two weeks of school. Three of them are someone else's emergency. Two of them arrived this morning.
This kit is for every administrator who has ever triage-planned a May that got away from them, written staff recognition notes at 10pm because the day never gave them a quiet moment, and still showed up the next morning with a plan and a working coffee maker.
Includes the ebook plus two single-page resources: a quiz for honestly assessing where your energy actually needs to go before the year closes, and a true job description for the last two weeks of the school year, which looks nothing like the one in your contract.
You've already figured out that one kit isn't enough. Pick any three from the paid In the Wild collection and get all three for $30. After adding to your cart, you'll fill out a form to select your kits, and your downloads will arrive within 24 hours.
Six kits to choose from. Three spots to fill. The math is easy and so is the decision.
THE KIT COLLECTION
Individual kits $12. Mix and match any three for $30. Mix and match any five for $45.
You've sent the reminders. You've sent the reminders about the reminders. Someone's dog-eared copy of a book you ordered in 2019 is living under a bed somewhere and will never be seen again.
This kit is for every school librarian who has ever managed end-of-year collection with the energy of a hostage negotiator, run a book fair while simultaneously tracking overdue notices, and kept the library functional through the last week of school when everyone needs twelve things at once.
Includes the ebook plus two single-page resources: a folder starter kit for building the systems that will actually survive the summer, and a recognition list for naming what you pulled off this year before anyone else thinks to mention it.
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