Start Practicing for the Real Emergency

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Your school has monthly fire drills.

Because fires are dangerous …

…and rare.

But you know what’s far more common?

Students graduating unprepared for the world they're walking into.

We practice for the unlikely emergency.

We ignore the inevitable one.

Every month, we line up in single file. We grab radios, check clocks, and make sure the exit routes are clear.

We drill. We debrief.

All for something that hasn’t happened in years (maybe decades).

But when’s the last time your team ran an irrelevance drill?

A hard reset on curriculum, culture, or career readiness?

Because while the building may never catch fire, the future is already burning down our assumptions.

If you’re not actively rethinking your lessons, your structures, your systems —You’re not preparing kids for the future.

You’re preparing them for the past.

Irrelevance is not theoretical.

It’s operational.

It’s emotional.

It’s why so many students are bored. Checked out.

It’s why staff are quietly disengaging too.

The real emergency isn’t a building going up in flames.

It’s a generation of kids going through school like it doesn’t matter.

The system drills for emergencies it might face.

Ruckus Makers prepare for the ones we already are.

How to Run an Irrelevance Drill