About
Built by someone who lived it.
Greenroom comes from inside the work it's trying to support. I spent years in community college teaching and administration watching capable, devoted colleagues sent into the hardest conversations of the job with almost no preparation for them — and watching the usual remedy, the afternoon workshop, fade by Friday. I also know the adjunct's reality: teaching at several colleges, supported by none, grading at the kitchen table at eleven at night.
The reframe
Greenroom is my attempt at something better. It isn't about managing dread or bracing for conflict. It's about practicing the kind of teacher you already mean to be, so that care survives contact with a hard moment. Kindness under pressure is a skill, and skills can be practiced.
The mission is equity
The mission is equity, plainly. Greenroom being free reflects that. The students in these scenarios are real community college students in everything but name, and the stakes — whether someone stays, finishes, and moves forward — are real too.
Honesty as a habit
I've tried to make honesty a habit here: to say what the research shows and what it doesn't, and to build the evidence in the open. I carry a doctorate and a current directorship, and I'd rather under-claim than oversell.
Why it isn't for sale
There was going to be a paid version. I explored it, built it, and never launched it. Once the point became finding out whether this actually helps faculty, charging the people I would be studying stopped making sense, so I took the whole thing out. Greenroom is free, it sells nothing, and I make nothing from it. There is an optional study running alongside it, which you can read in full and join or ignore.
The name Greenroom is the one small indulgence — a nod to the quiet space just offstage where you gather yourself before the work begins.