New Teacher Survival Kit — 50 Tips Templates

Everything a First-Year Teacher Needs to Survive and Thrive

The first year is the hardest. The New Teacher Survival Kit gives you eight practical, fillable .docx templates focused on the skills that matter most when you’re just starting out — self-care, boundaries, self-advocacy, and burnout prevention.

These aren’t generic advice lists. Each template is a working document you can customize and revisit weekly to stay grounded, set limits, and protect your practice.

What’s Inside

• Remembering Your Why — Reflective prompts to reconnect with your purpose when the job gets overwhelming
• Not-To-Do List — A practical boundary-setting tool that identifies what to stop doing so you can focus on what matters
• Self-Advocacy Decision Tree — Step-by-step framework for speaking up about needs, concerns, and accommodation requests
• Boundary Setting Worksheet — Structured prompts for defining and communicating professional boundaries with colleagues, parents, and administration
• Maximizing Your Planning Time — Time-audit template and priority matrix to protect your most valuable resource
• Self-Care Practices — A weekly self-care tracker with evidence-backed strategies tailored to the teaching profession
• Managing Your Principal — Communication guide for navigating principal-teacher relationships proactively
• The Burnout Cycle Self-Check — Self-assessment tool for recognizing early signs of burnout and taking action before it escalates

Every template is a fillable .docx file — open, customize, and use immediately. No fancy software required.

Who It’s For

✓ New teachers navigating their first year and needing practical survival tools
✓ Mentor teachers supporting new colleagues with structured, week-by-week resources
✓ Induction coordinators equipping cohorts with research-based self-advocacy and wellness frameworks

Pulled from Crush It from the Start: 50 Tips for New Teachers by Dr. Matt Rhoads, Dr. Samantha Fecich, Dr. Casey Jakubowski, and Dr. Kevin Leichtman.

Why This Pack

Eight survival templates for $19 — because you deserve tools that work as hard as you do.