Understand yourself. Teach with more room.
The student who irritates you most can show you something about your own reactions. Notice your patterns, choose a different response, and teach useful skills without ever labeling a student.
Self-serve downloads. Your own pace. Students never take a type assessment.
Built on author Sarah Dutton Waxman’s adult-first thesis: understand yourself first so you can understand your students. Meet Sarah and explore her book.
The print book behind this work.
The book that started this work — The Student Enneagram by Sarah Dutton Waxman. Same adult-first approach, 180 pages, in print.
Notice the reaction before you repeat it.
Your need for fairness, connection, achievement, quiet, or certainty can shape how a classroom moment lands. The guide helps you see the lens you bring to grading, discipline, and conflict.
Each adult-pattern chapter includes practical adjustments and a stress signature to watch for. You reflect on yourself; you do not categorize the students around you.
Read a real teacher-pattern excerptA skill, never a category.
We never assess, number, or label students. We do not ask teachers to infer a student’s personality type.
Read the policy and its reasons.Nine skills every student can practice.
Every lesson is type-agnostic. It never names an adult pattern or type to a student. The titles below are the skills themselves.
- Mistakes Are Data
- Needs and Boundaries
- Worth Beyond Wins
- Feelings Have Names
- Curiosity Is a Superpower
- Anxiety and Safety
- Boredom and Joy
- Strong and Kind
- Speaking Up
Each lesson includes an objective, materials, a 20-minute plan, elementary and secondary adaptations, and a short fallback. Read two full lesson previews.
A guide you can use on your own.
Start with your own pattern. Try one of the classroom adjustments. Teach a skill in ordinary language, with no assessment or labels for students.
This is educational self-reflection, not a clinical assessment or a scientifically validated personality measure. Hook et al. (2021), Journal of Clinical Psychology, found “mixed evidence of reliability and validity.”
Teacher Starter Kit
Classroom Application Guide, adult reflection instrument, and ethics policy. Printable PDFs plus accessible HTML in a ZIP bundle.
For one teacher’s classroom. See school licensing.
One teacher. Then your school.
Choose materials for the people you need to reach. Each offer stands alone; the higher prices do not include every earlier kit. Read the school-use details.
- 1. One teacher
Teacher Starter Kit
Start with your own classroom.
$49 one timeClassroom Application Guide, nine skill lessons with elementary and secondary adaptations, adult instrument, and ethics policy.
One teacher’s classroom.
Bringing families into the conversation? Choose the Parent Night Kit.
Use and purchase terms - 2. A school-run parent night
Parent Night Kit
Give your own staff a plan for family engagement.
$199 one timeParent-night session plan, Parent At-Home Guide, all 54 conversation cards, adult instrument, and ethics policy.
One purchasing school; your staff lead the gathering.
Preparing a staff session with a facilitator? Choose the Facilitator Kit.
Use and purchase terms - 3. A third-party facilitator
Facilitator Kit
Equip the person you arrange to lead your school’s staff session.
$299 one timePrintable and HTML session deck, facilitator script, classroom guide, adult instrument, and ethics policy.
One purchasing school; led by your staff or a facilitator you arrange. No certification or resale rights.
Need ongoing classroom use across your staff? Choose the site license.
Use and purchase terms - 4. Every classroom at one site
School Site License
Extend classroom use across your school.
$499 / yearSchool-wide use of the classroom guide, nine skill lessons, adult instrument, and ethics policy during the paid year.
One school site. Renews annually until canceled; see the billing terms before purchasing.
This license extends classroom use. Parent-night materials and the facilitator deck are separate purchases.
Use and purchase terms
Before you bring it into your classroom.
Do students take an Enneagram test?
No. Adults reflect on their own patterns. Students practice ordinary skills such as naming needs and learning from mistakes.
Do I need to attend training?
No. These are standalone downloads. We do not deliver sessions, webinars, or coaching. School staff can use the facilitator materials on their own.
Is this a clinical or validated instrument?
No. The research record is mixed. Use the framework as a mirror for yourself, not as a diagnosis or a basis for decisions about students.
Also parenting at home? The $29 Parent Guide + Cards starts with your own reactions.