For Educators · Early Access · Fall 2026
Teach Congress like it's happening. Because it is.
A live U.S. Congress dashboard for your civics classroom. Your students watch real legislators, follow real votes, and learn how Congress actually works — in a competitive frame they already understand. No student data, ever — by architecture, not by policy. Built for the way you teach.
✓ Free pilot access ✓ Non-partisan ✓ No student data collected
How It Works
Your Team vs. The Class. All Season.
Teacher Mode runs as a head-to-head competition between your team and a team owned by your class. The lineup decisions you make out loud each week — and the ones the class debates and votes on — are the lesson. The scoreboard is just the engine.
Sign up with your school email
Sign up with your school email and confirm. Two minutes — you'll land on the teacher dashboard, ready to create your first league.
Lesson 1 — You draft, live
Draft your team in front of the class. Narrate why a freshman vs. a committee chair, why a bipartisan cosponsor matters, why party leadership is on or off your roster. One class period, a roomful of legislator names learned without anyone calling it studying.
Lesson 2 — The class drafts theirs
Your district's Representative and your state's two Senators are automatically on the class's team — representation taught before you say the word. The class debates and drafts the remaining roster spots together while you facilitate.
Weekly cycle — GM of the Week + roles for everyone
One student is GM each week, setting the class team's lineup with the class. The other students rotate through Whip, Analyst, Lobbyist, Press Secretary, and Constituent roles — each producing a small, gradable artifact every week. Nobody just watches.
3-week playoff bracket
The final three weeks reset stakes. Regardless of regular-season record, the championship comes down to the home stretch — so the last lesson of your unit has real momentum, not a foregone conclusion.
Why It Works
Built for the Classroom
No Student Data. Ever.
Students access through a read-only class code. The architecture itself has no place to record per-student activity. COPPA, FERPA, and state student-privacy laws are sidestepped by design, not by policy.
Real Congress, Live
Actual roll-call votes, real bills, real cosponsorships, real committee markup. Updated continuously throughout each week — not a simulation.
Strictly Non-Partisan
Bipartisan cooperation is explicitly rewarded by the scoring engine. Draft tools default to balanced ordering. The product takes no position on policy outcomes.
9-Week Curriculum Included
Use our reference unit with weekly lesson plans, role rotations, and gradable assignments. Or bring your own and use the live dashboard as your teaching anchor.
Teacher in Control
You draft your team. You set your lineup each week. You make the trades. The teaching happens in the decisions you narrate out loud, not in any automation.
Real Stakes, Real Engagement
Your team vs. the class's team, all season. A primal classroom dynamic — kids self-organize to try to beat the teacher.
What Students Do
Six Rotating Roles. Every Week.
Every student has a job every week, and the job changes. By the end of a nine-week unit, each student has worn multiple hats — each producing a written or verbal artifact you can grade or assess.
GM of the Week
Sets the class team's lineup with class input. Defends the call. One per week, rotating.
Whip
Predicts the week's vote outcomes with written reasoning. Tally at week's end.
Committee Analyst
Tracks one committee's activity for the week. Writes a one-paragraph brief for the class.
Lobbyist
Proposes a trade or waiver move with persuasive reasoning. Negotiation on the page.
Press Secretary
Writes the class's three-sentence weekly recap. News literacy in miniature.
Constituent
Writes a formatted letter to an assigned legislator. A gradable artifact every week.
Classroom Examples
How Teachers Use It
Scenario
Run an 18-week semester league alongside your legislative unit. Lesson 1 is your live draft, Lesson 2 is the class draft. The remaining weeks anchor each lesson on what your roster did that week and why — committee assignments, vote patterns, cosponsorship signals.
Outcome
Students can name their legislators, track bills, and explain the committee process by Week 4 — without being told to study.
Scenario
Use Teacher Mode as a 4-week sprint during your Congress unit. Compress the season into a tight cycle: teacher draft, class draft, two scoring weeks, championship. Students compare their legislators' behavior to historical congressional patterns.
Outcome
A high-engagement supplement to a longer history unit, with concrete written artifacts every week.
Scenario
Assign Teacher Mode as a 9-week lab module aligned with the legislative process unit. Use scoring data as a quantitative dataset for student research papers on legislative productivity, bipartisanship, or committee influence.
Outcome
Students arrive to class having already read the congressional record.
Standards Alignment
Curriculum Connections
Fantasy Government addresses core standards across multiple frameworks. Use it as a semester-long engagement tool or a focused unit supplement.
AP (Advanced Placement) Government & Politics
- ✓ The Legislative Branch
- ✓ Congressional Behavior
- ✓ Bicameralism
- ✓ Lawmaking Process
- ✓ Representation & Constituency
State ELA (English Language Arts) Standards — Grades 9–12
- ✓ Analyzing informational text (legislative records)
- ✓ Evidence-based argumentation
- ✓ Current events literacy
C3 (College, Career & Civic Life) Framework for Social Studies
- ✓ D2.Civ.5: Explain how government institutions respond to public needs
- ✓ D2.Civ.7: Apply civic virtues and democratic principles
NCSS (National Council for the Social Studies) Standards
- ✓ Power, Authority & Governance
- ✓ Civic Ideals & Practices
- ✓ Individual Development & Identity
Built for School
No Student Data. Ever.
Your students access the league through a read-only class code — no email, no sign-up, no profile, no tracking. COPPA, FERPA, and state student-privacy laws are sidestepped by design, not by policy.
COPPA-safe by design
We collect zero data from students. No identifier, no analytics fingerprint, no engagement metrics.
FERPA-safe by design
No student educational records are created or stored. The student-facing surface is a read-only public dashboard.
District-IT friendly
School-email signup, no payment surface on student URLs, no third-party scripts on the class-code route.
Pricing
Early Access — Fall 2026
Teacher Mode launches publicly for the 2026–27 school year. Our pilot cohort runs this fall and includes full access at no charge plus an honorarium for structured feedback.
Pilot — Fall 2026
Free
+ $100 honorarium
- ✓ Full Teacher Mode access for the semester
- ✓ 9-week reference curriculum included
- ✓ Direct line to the founder
- ✓ Structured end-of-pilot feedback session
Single Classroom — General Release
$99/year
Public launch August 2026
- ✓ One classroom league per teacher
- ✓ 9-week reference curriculum included
- ✓ Use our curriculum or bring your own
- ✓ Email support
Multi-classroom and district pricing available post-launch. Reach out for a quote.
Get Started
Bring It Into Your Classroom
Join the waitlist to be notified when Teacher Mode is open to educators, or apply directly to the Fall 2026 pilot cohort.
Strictly non-partisan · No student data collected · Built for the way you teach