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Planning tools, reporting tools, and wellbeing support — built specifically for Australian classrooms. Every document is aligned to your state or territory's curriculum and regulatory requirements.
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Pick a tool, fill in a few details, and see what you get. The Lesson Builder and Report Writer give you your first generation free — no account needed. The other six tools are exclusive to Inner Sanctum members.
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Three pillars, woven into everything
Not buzzwords on a wall. These principles shape every tool, every resource, and every conversation in Your Staff Room.
Innovative, Evidence-Based Practice
We stay at the frontier of learning science so you don't have to search alone. Every lesson generated draws from current research on what genuinely works in classrooms.
Trauma-Informed and Neurodiversity-Affirming
Understanding who is in the room changes everything. Lessons, strategies and resources adapt to the real humans in front of you, including their nervous systems.
Wellbeing at the Centre
Student wellbeing is not a programme added on top. It is woven into every phase of learning. And educators who are supported teach better, so your wellbeing matters here too.
Built for the real work of teaching
Two powerful, integrated tools: one for building lessons, one for staying current with research. They talk to each other.
Design lessons around who is actually in the room
Tell the builder about your students: year levels, profiles, needs, and what is happening in the room today. The builder designs a lesson that genuinely fits them.
- Adapts to neurodiversity profiles present in your class
- Low Floor, Wide Walls, High Ceiling built into every phase
- Do Now, Masterclass, Flow, Exit Ticket structure
- Transdisciplinary, research-backed, trauma-informed
- Australian state and territory syllabus integration
- Export as slides or full lesson programme
Stay at the frontier without losing your weekends
Current findings from learning science, trauma-informed research, neurodiversity, and educator wellbeing: curated, readable, and ready to feed directly into your lessons.
- Regular digests by topic and year level
- Neurodiversity profiles with practical classroom strategies
- Direct integration into the Lesson Builder
- Filtering by research area and focus
- Written for practitioners, not researchers
Create personalised social stories for any student
Built on Carol Gray's framework, integrating Occupational Therapy and Speech Pathology best practice. A warm, practical tool any teacher can use.
- Personalised to the student and situation
- Occupational Therapy and Speech Pathology implementation notes included
- Illustration prompts for teachers and families
- Free basic stories, premium unlocks advanced options
Plan an entire term with outcomes, wellbeing, and differentiation built in
Map pre-assessment through to post-assessment across any number of weeks. Spaced retrieval, Low Floor/Wide Walls/High Ceiling, and your class profile baked into every week.
- Week-by-week expandable plan with differentiation bands
- 12 non-worksheet assessment methods to choose from
- Spaced retrieval built into every Do Now
- Occupational Therapy and Speech Pathology adaptations for every week
- Outcome tracker across the full term
- All Australian state and territory syllabi supported
Understand any child through an Occupational Therapy, Speech Pathology, and Educational Psychology lens
Describe what you are observing, add formal or suspected diagnoses, and receive evidence-based strategies from three expert lenses — without waiting months for a referral.
- Educational Psychology lens: executive function, regulation, cognition
- Occupational Therapy lens: sensory, motor, environment
- Speech Pathology lens: language, communication, social pragmatics
- Strengths-first, trauma-informed throughout
- Parent conversation starters included
- Referral indicators and when to seek formal assessment
Understand what a behaviour is communicating, then build a plan
Not punitive. Not a referral to leadership. A trauma-informed, strengths-based support plan grounded in PBS, Ross Greene's Collaborative Problem Solving, and polyvagal theory.
- ABC analysis: antecedents, behaviour, consequences
- Trauma and regulation lens (Porges, Perry, Bomber)
- Executive function and lagging skills lens (Ross Greene)
- Co-regulation plan for in-the-moment support
- Talking-with-the-student script (CPS Plan B language)
- One-page support plan ready to share with the team
Honest, warm, specific report comments that sound like you
Paste in your observations. Get three comment options that are strengths-first, specific, and forward-looking. No "could try harder." No deficit language. No AI-sound.
- Three comment options per student: warm, balanced, specific
- K to 12, all KLAs
- Neurodiversity context adjusts the language
- Word count matched to your school's requirements
- Tone selector: warm, formal, balanced, celebratory
- Explains every key language choice it made
Build the message before you write it
Three modes: raise a concern with care, share a celebration, or prepare for a conference. Partnership language throughout, grounded in Bomber and Porter's relational communication research.
- Concern mode: trauma-informed, non-blaming, strengths-first
- Celebration mode: builds the relational bank account
- Conference prep: agenda, questions, opening and closing lines
- Explains each language choice and why it matters
- Tone check: four criteria before you send
- Adapts to relationship context and cultural sensitivity
How are you, really?
A space just for you. Not for your class, your school, or your data. A compassion fatigue check-in grounded in Figley, Stamm, Kristin Neff, and Australian teacher wellbeing research.
- Regulation check-in: where are you right now?
- Compassion fatigue education: what it is and what helps
- Personalised strategies based on what you actually need
- Not bubble-bath advice. Real, honest, specific support.
- Figley, Stamm ProQOL, Neff self-compassion research
- Private, never stored, never shared
What the evidence is saying right now
Summaries of current findings, written for teachers. Dive deeper in the Research Hub.
Retrieval practice outperforms re-reading by a significant margin
Exit tickets and low-stakes recall are among the highest-impact strategies available to any teacher, in any subject.
Read more in Research Hub →ADHD and working memory: why instructions need to be chunked
Students with ADHD often have working memory differences that mean multi-step instructions are genuinely harder to hold, not a choice.
Read more in Research Hub →Predictability reduces the cognitive load of threat perception
Consistent routines, clear expectations, and warm transitions are not just good practice. For many students, they are neurologically necessary.
Read more in Research Hub →Micro-recovery moments during the day reduce compassion fatigue
Brief intentional pauses have measurable effects on emotional regulation and sustained empathy across a teaching day.
Read more in Research Hub →How are you walking in today?
You cannot pour from an empty cup. Take 30 seconds for yourself before the day begins.
You are not doing this alone
A growing community of educators sharing what is actually working in real Australian classrooms.
Used the Lesson Builder to design a transdisciplinary unit linking Science and English. The Do Now routine has completely changed the energy of my mornings. Students come in and just know what to do.
I told the builder I had three students with school anxiety and two with ADHD. The lesson it designed had shorter instructions, movement built into flow time, and a really gentle exit ticket. It felt like it was written for my actual class.
The Research Hub digest on play-based learning just confirmed everything I have been fighting for in my school. Having the research in plain language has been genuinely useful for conversations with leadership.
A growing community of Australian educators
We are building something from the ground up. Every educator who joins in these early days is helping shape what this community becomes.
Ready to build your next lesson?
Tell us who is in the room, what you are aiming for, and what you are working with. We will do the rest.
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Everything you build.
Saved. Forever.
Without Inner Sanctum, every lesson you build, every term plan you generate, every report comment — it is gone when you close the tab. Members keep everything: searchable, editable, and waiting for you next term. Plus, members get unlimited generations across all 8 tools.
Join for $12/month →Everything you need to teach well
Try the Lesson Builder and Report Writer with your first generation free. Unlock all 8 tools with Inner Sanctum.
- ✓ Lesson Builder — 1 free generation per day
- ✓ Report Writer — 1 free generation per day
- ✓ Research Hub — browse curated research summaries
- ✓ Educator Wellbeing — daily check-in, always free
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