I Build Scaffolds: Teacher Instructional Practice Tee

Instructional scaffolding. You break a task into supported steps and then you take the supports away one at a time as they stop being needed. The whole craft is in the taking away, and the plan for it is written before the first lesson ever runs.

Everybody else pictures a hard hat and a job site. It reads as a trades shirt and the confidence is total. Wearing it to a family barbecue produces exactly one conversation, every time, and it is always the same one.

A single engraved ladder above, three words beneath in heavy type. The picture commits fully to the wrong answer, which is what makes the right one land when it finally arrives.

What it is

• Unisex softstyle tee, 4.5 oz/yd² (153 g/m²)
• 100% ring-spun cotton in the solid colors. Sport Grey is a 90% cotton, 10% polyester blend, and Dark Heather is 65% polyester, 35% cotton
• Double stitched neckline and sleeves, side seamed, tear away label
• Sizes S through 3XL
• Fourteen colors. Seven light ones printed in near black ink, seven dark ones printed in cream

Where it comes from

Custom printed in the USA. Every shirt is printed here, one at a time, on a soft cotton blank woven overseas.

Nothing is printed until you order it, so nothing sits in a warehouse and nothing gets thrown away.

Getting it to you

Free US shipping on orders $45 and up. Under that it is a flat $8.00. We make it after you order it, which takes 2 to 5 business days, and it then takes 3 to 4 business days to reach you from a US facility. Most orders arrive in 5 to 9 business days. You get a tracking number by email as soon as the label is created.

Care

Machine wash cold, inside out, gentle cycle. Tumble dry low or hang dry. Do not iron the print.

The Natural colorway

Natural has small dark speckles through the fabric. That is the undyed cotton showing, and it is expected rather than a fault.