FACULTY MISSIONS
Two free Missions for staff meetings: a team-building icebreaker for back to school, and phishing training built to be remembered.
One to kick off the year, one to bring your staff back together mid-year. Each fits inside a staff meeting.
Faculty Mission 1
Team building and the icebreaker
Your staff becomes a crew racing to evacuate a planet before a volcano erupts.
Faculty Mission 2
Data privacy and anti-phishing
Your staff guards a command center while the firewalls are down, sorting real messages from fakes.
Faculty Mission 1 · The Communication Mission
It’s built to be a class’s first Mission, so it works the same way on a staff: crews mixed across grades and departments, one volcano, 30 minutes to get everyone out.
Nobody here has evacuated a planet. Everyone has an opinion on the route anyway.
You already know who’ll grab the controls.
This is the part where the room gets loud.
Expect at least one crew to ask for a rematch.
Briefing
A volcano is about to erupt on a nearby planet. Your crew reads the data, picks a route, repairs the ship, beams the colonists aboard, and gets out before the eruption cuts off escape.
Nobody here has evacuated a planet. Everyone has an opinion on the route anyway.
Decision point
It teaches a group how to work as a crew before the content gets hard: who talks, who listens, how a team makes a call. Every Mission after it starts from there.
You already know who’ll grab the controls.
The escape
This is the part where the room gets loud.
“Having to navigate the ship together and then work together to make repairs had them up, moving around, and speaking to other students that they would never choose to interact with otherwise.”
The scores
When it ends, the scores come up on the big screen: how the crew did, skill by skill.
Built in, ready to run:
Expect at least one crew to ask for a rematch.
Run it at your next staff meeting
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Faculty Mission 2 · Firewall Down
The faculty Mission districts and principals bring us in to run most. Your staff is the last line of defense while the firewalls are down, sorting real messages from fakes and defending every call.
Nobody has ever leaned in to module seven.
Somewhere, a fake principal is still waiting on those gift cards.
Expect one very convincing email to split the room.
Briefing
Your staff crews a planetary defense command center. The firewalls are dropping, and the crew learns who’s standing between the hackers and the system: them.
Nobody has ever leaned in to module seven.
Crash course
How phishing works, why it works, and S.T.O.P.: Sender, Too much, Odd, Pause. Then teams pick apart the fakes that actually land in a teacher’s inbox: a direct-deposit change, an “IT password reset,” a gift-card ask from “the principal.”
Somewhere, a fake principal is still waiting on those gift cards.
Firewall down
The alerts pour in. Each team sorts every one as SAFE or THREAT and writes down why.
Then, team by team, on the big screen, everyone defends their calls while you score them against the built-in rubric.
Expect one very convincing email to split the room.
The finale
Catch enough and the defenses hold against a robot invasion. Miss too many and the system falls. Either ending makes the point.
The line your staff will keep:
“Did you S.T.O.P.?”
The research
A 2025 study followed employees at a large healthcare organization: people who had just finished their annual training did no better on simulated phishing than people more than a year past it. Firewall Down has every person practice the call instead.
Ho et al., “Understanding the Efficacy of Phishing Training in Practice,” IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2025. Firewall Down is built on the same industry practices security teams train with.
Run it at your next staff meeting
Need a hand setting it up? We’re happy to hop on a quick call.TALK TO US →
It’s a popular way to model the teaching behind active learning, because a Mission makes those moments happen on its own. Create a free account anytime and run any of 100+.
Finally, a fair test of whether your staff is smarter than a fifth grader.
That’s why both Missions are free. Teachers work one problem with colleagues outside their PLC, using the same human skills a Mission asks of students: collaboration, critical thinking, initiative, and resilience.
Heaven forbid you solve a problem with someone outside your grade-level PLC.
“Half our staff walked in a little hesitant, and within minutes they were laughing, joking, and working together like a crew on a real mission. It was the best start to the year we’ve had.”
“If you’ve never tried a Mission.io faculty mission, do it. Your team will laugh, work together, and walk away knowing exactly why this works so well with students.”
“I couldn’t believe how much fun we had and how quickly everyone got into it. It takes less than an hour and is the perfect way to break up a long day of PD.”
Book a time with us and we’ll walk your technology team through Firewall Down, or any Mission, so they can run it in every building. Free, no license needed.
“The platform is intuitive and easy to implement, and the support team is always ready to assist.”
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Under an hour. Most run 30 to 40 minutes, plus setup and a few minutes to talk it through afterward.
Nothing. Faculty Missions are free, and so is any help you need setting one up.
The 2025 study in the Firewall Down section above found that people fresh from their annual training did no better on simulated phishing. Firewall Down has every person practice the call, as part of a team.
No. Only the person running it. Everyone else joins the same way students do, with the code on the screen.
A device with a browser for every person, a computer connected to a projector or TV, and speakers loud enough for the story.
There’s no real limit. Missions are built for big groups, and they get better the more people you have. Six or more is plenty to start. Teams are assigned at random, or you can set them ahead of time.
It does. The story is built for students, which is exactly why a room full of adults leans in. Expect laughing, arguing, and at least one person who takes it very seriously.
Yes. Running one with your science team? Pick the Mission for the unit you teach next, and your team plays it before their students do. EXPLORE THE LIBRARY →
Yes. Create a free teacher account and run the Communication Mission, or any Mission in the library, with your class. Ran Firewall Down? Cyber Defense Force is the student version.
Free for teachers, 5 minutes of prep, and nobody’s answering email during this one.
