Common Room — a calm classroom toolkit for focus and connection
Help your students feel safe, connected, and ready to learn.
New class? Build connection
Low-threshold activities that build safety and relationships.
Wake up the group
Quick interventions for tired or passive classrooms.
Build confidence to speak
Voice, presence, and the courage to take space.
Need focus & calm
Settle the room and bring attention back.
Spark discussion
Get students talking, listening, and exchanging ideas.
Build empathy
Notice each other — practice perspective and care.
Group challenge
Whole-group missions that demand teamwork.
Split into groupsPro
Randomize groups from your class list — and save the ones that work.
Using drama in education
Short, readable notes on why these methods work in the classroom.
Browse the full libraryPro
Every exercise — searchable and filterable.
Common Room
Why not just ask ChatGPT?
Common Room is not another AI app. It's a tool built with educators for educators.
Classroom-tested
Every exercise has been run by real educators — not generated on the fly.
Three taps, three ideas
No prompts between lessons. You get tailored suggestions in seconds.
No student data, ever
Privacy-safe. Nothing about your students is stored or sent anywhere.
Designed with teachers
Designed with teachers, for teachers — tested in real classrooms.
From the blog
Why Common Room exists
The lecture I didn't believe — on AI, the human skills that remain, and what classrooms are actually for.