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
Give us your name, your email, and your school. Any school: public, private, parochial, charter, or a co-op. Two minutes, you'll land on the teacher dashboard, ready to create your first league. Your school address is what assigns your district's Representative and Senators to both teams.
Draft day: the class picks first
One snake draft, two teams, your team against the class's. The class gets the first overall pick, then it alternates back and forth each round. You run the board on one screen everyone can see, narrating your own picks: why a workhorse over a freshman, why a bipartisan cosponsor matters. A roomful of legislator names learned without anyone calling it studying.
The class drafts as one team
When it's their pick, the class decides together, they debate it, argue for a legislator, take a vote, and you lock in their choice. Both teams start with the same three already locked: your district's Representative and your state's two Senators. Representation taught before you say the word, and a home delegation you all root for together.
Weekly cycle: a lineup committee, and roles for everyone
A rotating lineup committee sets the class team's roster each week: a chair who runs the meeting and defends the call, a vice chair whose assigned job is to argue against it before the vote, and members who each bring one legislator's numbers. Everyone else rotates through Whip, Analyst, Lobbyist, Press Secretary, and Constituent, each producing a small, gradable artifact. Nobody just watches.
Every week, head to head
Your team plays the class team every single week of the season, and the final week settles it. No bracket, no byes, no elimination: one running rivalry from draft day to the last vote.
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 boards rank by legislative activity, and points carry no party term, so ordering is neutral by construction rather than by adjustment. 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, downloadable below without signing up. 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.
Lineup Committee
Sets the class team's lineup. A chair defends the call, a vice chair is assigned to argue against it, members bring the numbers. Rotates weekly.
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. Draft day is one shared snake draft: the class picks first overall, then you, and the order reverses each round. 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: one shared draft day, two scoring weeks, and a final week that settles it. 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 6–12
- ✓ 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
Read the curriculum before you commit
Nine lesson anchors with essential questions, standards, sequences, and a gradable artifact each week. Runs as a 4-week sprint, a 9-week quarter, or an 18-week semester, with a grades 7-8 adaptation on every week. No sign-up required to read it.
Fall 2026 pilot edition · 21 pages · free to use and share · the web version is for districts that block PDFs
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
Educator accounts are checked against the national school directories, public and private alike, and reviewed. No payment surface on student URLs, no third-party scripts on the class-code route.
Reviewing this for a district? Read the full technology, privacy and safety document →
Pricing
Early Access: Fall 2026
Teacher Mode launches publicly for the 2026–27 school year. The pilot cohort runs this fall with full access at no charge. Complete the end-of-pilot feedback session and you keep Founding Educator Access: one classroom league a year, at the Single Classroom level, free for as long as you are teaching, and it follows you if you change schools.
Pilot: Fall 2026
Free
+ Lifetime founding access
- ✓ Full Teacher Mode access for the semester
- ✓ 9-week reference curriculum included
- ✓ Direct line to the founder
- ✓ Structured end-of-pilot feedback session
- ✓ Founding Educator Access afterwards: one classroom league a year, free for as long as you teach
Single Classroom: General Release
$29/year
$99Founding price through the 2026-27 school year (until July 31, 2027)
- ✓ One classroom league per teacher
- ✓ 9-week reference curriculum included
- ✓ Use our curriculum or bring your own
- ✓ Email support
School & District pricing for multiple classrooms available post-launch. Reach out for a quote.
Get Started
Bring It Into Your Classroom
Apply to the Fall 2026 pilot cohort, which is free and includes full access, or reach out with questions first.
Strictly non-partisan · No student data collected · Built for the way you teach