The Praxis Deck
Every teacher has favourite strategies. The strongest simply have more to choose from.
No lesson ever unfolds exactly as planned - different pupils, different misconceptions, different moments call for different responses. Professional confidence isn't one reliable way to teach well. It's a wide enough repertoire to choose the right approach when the lesson changes direction.
What's really going on
Why does the same teacher soar with one class and stall with the next?
It is rarely talent, and rarely effort. Every teacher builds a repertoire from their own training, subject and experience - a familiar handful of moves that quietly becomes the default. That default works beautifully for the pupils, and the moments, it happens to fit.
But no two lessons are the same. When the room turns and the usual move doesn't land, a narrow repertoire has nowhere else to go. The skill is real. The range to redirect it is what runs out.
The pattern underneath
It was never about one teacher.
Every teacher's repertoire is shaped by their own training, subject and story - so each of us defaults to a familiar handful of moves. That default works beautifully for the learners it happens to suit, and quietly leaves the others just outside it.
A school doesn't need everyone teaching the same way. It needs every teacher able to choose the move that fits the intended impact - not only the one their habit reaches for first. The gap is rarely effort or care. It is range.
Which is why it exists
That's exactly why we made the Praxis Deck.
Not a bank of 150 strategies to file away. A wider vocabulary for professional decision-making - practical moves for every one of the six principles, each with the rationale behind it, so a teacher can name what worked and deliberately reach for a different approach when this lesson, and these learners, need one.
Not "here's how I was taught, so you should be too." A richer set of choices, and a shared language for talking about them - the everyday how to the Learning Deck's why.
What becomes visible
After a while with Praxis, a teacher sees more in every moment. Where there was one obvious approach, there are now five - each suited to a different intended impact. The lesson didn't change. The range of possibility did.
From default to deliberate
A move for the impact you intend.
Learner profiles show who you are teaching for; strategy cards give you the moves, with the reasoning that makes each one a professional choice rather than a habit.
Learner profiles - who the move is for
Strategy cards - the move, and the reason for it
Lesson starters, routines, questioning, checking-for-understanding and feedback - each carrying the rationale that makes it teachable and coachable, not just repeatable.
Why it becomes school improvement
Range in one teacher. Shared, a culture of adaptive teaching.
Culture is not what a school says it values. It is what a school repeatedly practises - and culture remembers what we practise. A wider repertoire is a private gift to one teacher; named and shared, it becomes the way a whole staff teaches.
When a staff can name their moves, they can trade them, coach them and choose them together - until adaptive teaching is simply how the school works. More on this idea: building a thinking culture →
In the everyday work
How does it fit how we already teach?
It doesn't ask teachers to start again. It gives their existing craft a language, and a few more moves to reach for.
Planning
Lesson design
Choose the move that fits the intended impact, not the default.
In the moment
Live teaching
A ready repertoire to reach for when the room needs a different tack.
Together
Coaching & mentoring
Name what worked, so it can be taught and passed on.
Departments
Shared practice
Consistency across a team without flattening everyone into one style.
Early career
ITT & ECT
Build range fast, with the reasoning that makes it stick.
In the box
What you actually get
A complete, physical set - built for planning, the classroom and the coaching conversation.
Strategy cards
Practical moves, each with the rationale behind it.
Practice categories
Organising the core elements of effective teaching.
Leadership profile
Different modes of leadership practice.
Responsive tools
Checking-for-understanding and feedback moves.
The Nine Map
Every move placed against the principle it serves.
See it in practice
The Praxis Deck, in a few minutes
Give the whole staff the same range
A repertoire is worth more when it's shared.
One set widens one teacher's range. A set in every teacher's hands lets a staff name moves, trade them and coach them in a common language. Volume pricing is available for 5+ sets - tell us your school and we'll handle the quote, shipping and any invoicing you need.
Give teachers a wider repertoire, and the words to choose from it.
Turn instinctive craft into deliberate choice - a professional language for teaching that a whole staff can share, coach and grow.
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