Preserving mentor-level teaching and counseling experience and making it accessible through modern tools.
Schools rely on knowledge that rarely appears in manuals, pacing guides, or policy documents. It lives in judgment calls, classroom instincts, and years of lived experience.
When experienced educators retire, move on, or change roles, that wisdom is often lost.
Educator Wisdom exists to preserve that experience and make it searchable for new teachers, counselors, and school leaders.
This site currently provides access to two curated mentor-level knowledge bases hosted in Google’s NotebookLM.
Each collection is built from real reflections, documents, and professional experience — not generic AI content.
This allows educators to explore real experience conversationally, for example:
Much of what makes educators effective is never written down. It lives in judgment calls, instincts, and lived experience.
Educator Wisdom exists to help preserve that kind of knowledge — not as a résumé, but as a resource for those who come next.
If you’re at a point in your career where you’ve accumulated insights you’d hate to see disappear, you may want to explore contributing your wisdom alongside Tom Sextro and Cynthia Coufal.
This begins simply with a conversation.
Email: tsextro@gmail.com
Educator Wisdom is connected to a broader effort focused on preserving human experience and institutional knowledge.