🐙 Awkward Octopus Productions

The Open
Door Session

A free, no-strings coaching session for science teachers who want their classroom to feel alive again — not like another thing to survive.

Grab your free session Free. No pitch. No catch. No credit card.

Sound familiar?

If any of this is you, you're in the right place.

No judgment here. Just a hunch that you didn't get into teaching to feel this stretched.

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You want labs and hands-on stuff — but who has time to build it all from scratch?

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You've got ideas, but nobody to bounce them off who actually teaches science.

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You've sat through one more "data-driven" PD that had nothing to do with your room.

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You're tired of being handed a binder and told it counts as "support."

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You keep meaning to make class more hands-on… someday… when things slow down. (They won't.)

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You're not burnt out on teaching. You're burnt out on everything piled on top of it.

Wait — what even is coaching?

Not someone grading you. Someone in your corner.

Never been coached before? Perfect. That's literally who this is for.

✓No mandates, no scripts — we start with your classroom and your kids.
✓You don't get a binder. You get a person who answers when you're stuck.
✓This isn't PD you survive. It's help you can actually use Monday morning.
✓A space to think out loud, try messy ideas, and not be "observed."

"Making Science A Verb"®

That's the whole point. Science that feels alive in your room — kids doing, building, wondering — instead of compliance you both endure. Coaching is just having someone walk that with you.

Claim your free session

Finally — PD that's actually yours

You set the agenda. Wild concept, right?

This is built around what you want to get better at — not whatever initiative is trending this year.

→No district buzzword required. We work on the thing you actually care about.

→Tired of PD that ignores your subject, your kids, your reality? Same.

→Labs, phenomena, hands-on, NGSS-without-the-pain — whatever's on your list.

→Your goals drive it. Not admin's. Not the state's. Yours.

About the money thing

The free session is free. Coaching is an investment in you.

Let's just say the quiet part out loud, because honesty is kind of our whole deal.

For once, it's about you.Your district invests in initiatives. This is you investing in you.

You already do this.You spend your own money on your classroom all the time. This time, spend it on the teacher running it.

The best thing in your room?It's you. That's worth growing.

Try before you spend a dime.The Open Door Session is your test drive. See if it's worth it first.

Show up as messy as you feel.

One session. One real next step you can use this week. No prep, no pitch, no hard feelings if it's not your thing.

Book The Open Door Session

Worst case? You leave with a free idea and we both move on. 🐙

Awkward Octopus Productions — helping science teachers in Making Science A Verb®.