Teachers Professional Community

A staffroom for teachers only: a resource forum, subject rooms, classroom practice channels and a vent channel.

8 categories
35 channels
10 roles
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Channels

LOBBY

lobby
New arrivals land here. Open a ticket in #verify-yourself to get into the staffroom.
community-guidelines
Teachers and trainees only. No student names anywhere. What is said in the vent stays in the vent.
verify-yourself
Open a ticket and show a moderator that you teach. Verified Teacher or Trainee Teacher follows.
community-announcements
Webinars, new channels and community news. Moderators only.

STAFFROOM

staffroom-chat
The open room for verified teachers and trainees.
wins-of-the-week
The lesson that landed, the student who got it, the parent who said thank you.
the-vent30s slowmode
Say it here, not in the staff group chat. No names of students, parents, colleagues or schools.
ask-colleagues
A question for any teacher: policy, planning, a situation you have not met before.

RESOURCE SHARING

resource-library
One thread per resource: what it is, the phase, the subject, the file or link. Tag it.
resource-requests
Looking for something specific? Say the topic, the phase and when you need it.
edtech-tools
Apps, platforms and what they are actually like with thirty children.

SUBJECT ROOMS

maths-teachers
Maths across every phase: misconceptions, sequencing, what to do about fractions.
science-teachers
Practicals, safety, required practicals and the demos that always work.
english-and-literacy
Reading, writing, texts that hold a class and how to mark essays in finite time.
humanities-teachers
History, geography, religious studies and citizenship.
languages-teachers
Modern languages: speaking assessments, vocabulary retention, motivation.
arts-and-music
Art, drama, music and design: materials, performances and moderation.

CLASSROOM PRACTICE

classroom-management
Routines, transitions, seating plans and the first week of term.
behaviour-strategies
What works with a difficult class and what only looks like it works.
assessment-and-marking
Feedback that gets read, marking that does not eat the weekend, moderation.
inclusion-and-send
Special educational needs and disabilities: adaptations, plans, working with the SENCO.
parent-communication
Emails, parents' evenings and the difficult phone call.

CAREER

job-openings
Vacancies you know of, with the school, the phase and the closing date.
career-progression
Applications, interviews, moving into leadership or out of it.
cpd-and-training
Courses, qualifications and whether they were worth the evenings.

EVENTS

events-calendar
Webinars and meetups with dates and speakers. Moderators only.
webinar-signups
Reply to the event post to reserve a place or volunteer to speak.
Webinar Stage
Staffroom Voice
Subject Meetup
AFK

MOD ROOM

mod-chat
Reports, decisions, and who is on the fence about being verified.
verification-queue
Open verification tickets and what proof was accepted.
community-logsHidden from @everyone
Vetox posts joins, role changes and moderation here.
Mod Call

Roles

Community LeadAdministrator
ModeratorModerator
Verified Teacher
Trainee Teacher
Guest
Primary
Secondary
Special Education
Muted

Overview

A community of teachers with no students in it, built like the staffroom most schools do not have time for. Membership is gated: a new arrival is a Guest who sees the LOBBY and the public EVENTS category, and opens a ticket in #verify-yourself to become a Verified Teacher or a Trainee Teacher. Verified members get the STAFFROOM: #staffroom-chat, #wins-of-the-week, #ask-colleagues and #the-vent, which has a slowmode and a no-names rule so a bad day can be said out loud without becoming a record. RESOURCE SHARING is a forum, #resource-library, tagged by type and phase so a worksheet posted in September is findable in March, with #resource-requests and #edtech-tools beside it. Six SUBJECT ROOMS from #maths-teachers to #arts-and-music hold the subject-specific talk, and CLASSROOM PRACTICE covers what every subject shares: #classroom-management, #behaviour-strategies, #assessment-and-marking, #inclusion-and-send and #parent-communication. CAREER has #job-openings, #career-progression and #cpd-and-training. EVENTS carries a Webinar Stage for talks, a Staffroom Voice and a Subject Meetup room, and #webinar-signups. Moderators have a hidden room with #verification-queue and #community-logs.

When to use it

Your teacher group chat has three hundred people, a worksheet someone shared last term is unfindable, a colleague's frustrated message about a parent is now a screenshot, and nobody knows who is actually a teacher. This layout verifies members before they see anything, puts resources in a tagged forum, gives venting a slowmoded channel with a no-names rule, and separates subject talk from the practice questions every teacher shares.

What makes it different

Guests see only the LOBBY and EVENTS until a moderator verifies them as a teacher.
#resource-library is a forum tagged by type and phase, so a resource is findable a term later.
#the-vent has a slowmode and a no-names rule, so a bad day gets said without becoming a screenshot.
Subject rooms and classroom-practice channels are separate, so behaviour advice is not buried in maths talk.
The Webinar Stage lets a member give a talk to the whole community without an open-microphone free-for-all.

Recommended Vetox setup

Tickets
Put a ticket panel in #verify-yourself so a Guest proves they teach in private and a moderator assigns Verified Teacher from the ticket.
Auto Roles
Give Guest on join so a new arrival sees the LOBBY and EVENTS only until verification.
Auto-Mod
Turn on Auto-Mod for #the-vent to catch names and school names, which are the two things the channel's rule forbids.
Self-Roles
Post a Self-Roles panel in #lobby for Primary, Secondary and Special Education so a question can ping the teachers it applies to.
Starboard
Point Starboard at #resource-library posts so the most-used resources rise to a board new members see first.

Questions

How does verification work?

A new member has the Guest role and sees #lobby, #community-guidelines, #verify-yourself and the public events. They open a ticket in #verify-yourself, show something a moderator accepts as proof they teach, and get Verified Teacher or Trainee Teacher. The moderators track it in #verification-queue.

What are the rules of #the-vent?

No names of students, parents, colleagues or schools; a slowmode so nobody posts in a rush; and nothing said there leaves the server. Auto-Mod helps with the names, moderators handle the rest.

Can someone who is not a teacher join?

As a Guest they can attend webinars on the stage and read the lobby. Everything else is for verified teachers and trainees, and the point of the community is that it stays that way.

Common mistakes

Skipping verification, which is how a parent or a student ends up reading the vent channel.
Letting the vent channel run without a slowmode or a no-names rule, so it becomes evidence rather than relief.
Posting resources in the subject chats instead of the forum, where they scroll away within a week.

Consider instead

School Department The teachers are one department who also need classrooms for their students.

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