#WeTeach
Together
"The professional family you were never given."
Teaching shouldn't feel
this isolated.
You know things that no PD workshop has ever captured — the intervention that kept a kid enrolled, the rewrite at 11 PM that finally made it click, the parent call that could have gone sideways but didn't. That knowledge is disappearing into silence. It doesn't have to.
"The moment I sat in a room with educators who actually got it — not just nodded — something shifted."
An advisory circle,
not another meeting.
Every cohort is 8 to 12 educators, matched by grade band and role. You meet twice a month, facilitated by a veteran educator who has held every room you've been in. Sessions run 75 minutes. What's said stays in the room.
- 👥8–12 members per cohort — small enough to be real, diverse enough to challenge your assumptions.
- 📅Twice monthly, 75 minutes. Scheduled around your calendar, not the district's.
- 🔒Chatham House rules: insights travel, names and schools don't.
- ✋Facilitated by educators with 15+ years in the roles you hold right now.
Department heads.
First-years. Principals.
If you're carrying thirty preps, drowning in curriculum mandates, or haven't had an honest peer conversation since you left the classroom — Convene was built specifically for the weight you're carrying right now.
- 📚Department heads carrying thirty preps and the unofficial HR role nobody hired them for.
- 🌱First-year teachers six weeks from quitting who just need someone to say 'that's actually really hard.'
- 🏫Building principals who miss the honest conversations that happened when they were still in a classroom.
- 🎯Instructional coaches who coach everyone and are coached by no one.
Real talk needs
real protection.
Every session operates under Chatham House rules. No recordings. No transcripts. No screenshots. What you share here stays here — which is the only way any of it can be honest.
"For the first time in fourteen years, I said what I actually thought about my administration. Nobody judged me. Three people said they had felt the same thing."
- 🚫Zero recordings, ever. Not even for facilitators.
- 📝No notes leave the room with names attached.
- 🤝Cohort membership agreement signed before first session.
- 💬Facilitators bound by the same confidentiality as members.
Educators who've
been in the room.
Every facilitator has thirty or more years of classroom and school leadership between them. They don't lecture — they hold space.
Dr. Margaret Osei
Former High School Principal · 22 years
Chicago Public Schools
Spent two decades building the kind of faculty culture most schools only talk about. Now she facilitates the conversations that actually change how educators show up.
James Kowalski
Department Head, Science · 18 years
Philadelphia School District
Survived three curriculum overhauls and mentored forty-plus first-year teachers. His advisory sessions are famous for the silence that follows the most honest questions.
Priya Nair
Instructional Coach · 14 years
Los Angeles Unified
Started as a first-grade teacher, became the coach other coaches call. She creates space where first-year teachers stop performing competence and start building it.
Pull up a chair.
Someone's already saved it for you.
The faculty lounge where everyone actually eats lunch together — the one where you leave feeling less alone and more capable. That's what we're building. One cohort at a time.
No cost to reserve · Cohort confirmation within 48 hrs