What We Do
The Precarity Project is a professional development and research initiative dedicated to understanding and supporting the lived experience of P-12 educators in today's rapidly shifting educational landscape.
Our work centers on how globalization, trauma-related pressures, and systemic demands shape the daily realities of teachers and school leaders--often in ways that leave educators navigating vulnerability on their own.
The Precarity Project includes two interconnected strands:
Research Study: We invite P-12 educators and administrators to participate in a study examining how precarity shows up in their daily work. Participants write brief reflective narratives about challenging moments in their practice. These reflections help illuminate the conditions shaping educator well-being, retention, and professional identity.
Trauma-Informed Professional Development: During our sessions, we invite P-12 educators to work together to reflect on, illuminate, and write about the conditions shaping their well-being, retention, and professional identity as educators. We aim for participants to begin to process their teacher trauma together in a supportive environment. We will also provide tools for navigating secondary trauma within the educational setting, as well as offer pathways for the development of professional connections and ongoing support. Our sessions create capacity within schools for:
Strengthening educator well-being
Building trauma-responsive learning environments
Deepening understanding of the whole child and the whole teacher
Creating space for reflection and professional trust
Connecting educator experience to larger educational systems
