Schools ask a lot of their staff and rarely design for how they experience the working day. This work starts with how staff sense the day, not only how they teach.
Knowing our own and each other's sensory profiles, so we can work better together.
The work is built on Winnie Dunn's Sensory Processing Framework, used as a universal lens rather than a diagnostic tool or a deficit model. It's for neurodivergent and neurotypical staff alike.
The question shifts from "how does this person adapt to our environment?" to "what does this environment need to be for the people who work here?"
One card from each stage of the system. The Compass draws on Dunn's quadrant model of sensory processing as a way to understand how you experience and respond to the sensory world, with no single quadrant held up as the goal.
The sensory profiling system is built in four stages. Each one becomes a card you make yourself, so the day ends with a personal set you can use, not a page of notes.
The environments you work in, and what each one asks of you.
How you navigate a room: your own sensory profile.
The strategies and changes that make a day cost less.
Bringing it together into how you'll move through the term.
A full day building your own sensory map and field kit. The afternoon splits into two tracks: what you take back for yourself, and what you take back for your school.
For deputies and middle leaders, the people with their hands on rosters, meetings and spaces. Leaders profile themselves first, then map their own school's environment and leave with a small number of named commitments.
Book a day →For schools ready to move past a single day. Scoped with each school, it tends to run audit, design, embed, then a check-in the following year so the change holds.
Start a conversation →Fifty minutes on the masking tax, systems over deficits, and one Field Kit strategy given fully. Built for conference programmes.
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Short online sessions where you make or change one thing rather than listen to information about it. This is still an idea, so the format will follow whoever wants to come.
What a session might build:
Read the terrain. Find your compass. Build your field kit. Meet the traveller.
A reflective card deck for educators, and the physical companion to the workshop, for reference long after the day.
Write with what's happening and what you've already tried. That's enough to start a conversation.