- You want to give teachers a way to make content more engaging…
- You want to embed social emotional learning in your educational practices…
- You want parents to feel empowered to further their child’s education….
- You want students to critically think and develop a voice in conversations…
- You want to promote equity and culturally responsive teaching…
When teachers and parents are having amazing conversations with young people, a foundation of social emotional support is created that fuels student engagement, language acquisition and academic learning.
Great Conversations Are Critical
“Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.” Criss Jami, Salomé
What We Do
Our universally designed 3-Step method helps teachers and parents facilitate amazing conversations with young people.
How We Do It
- We facilitate online trainings to teach our 3-Step Method
- We manage a professional learning community
- We host online courses
The Teach Different conversation method can be used in any educational setting: face-to-face, blended or online.
The Teach Different conversation method can be used by parents to have meaningful conversations with young people. The involvement of parents in specific, impactful educational practices strengthens the “school-parent compact.”
Teach Different videos, assignments and curriculum resources help schools build capacity for parent and family involvement by providing “materials and training to help parents work with their children.”
Research shows that student engagement is a powerful predictor of student achievement. Teach Different’s method provides parents and teachers a go-to practice that can be used to make any type of educational content more engaging.
The Teach Different Method can easily be introduced as a professional development activity for parents and teachers through live or virtual settings.
Teach Different conversations support the learning of academic content at home and at school and engage teachers and parents in the same educational mission.
Teach Different 3-Step Method Zoom Training
$500/hour
Perfect for leadership teams and curriculum departments, this training teaches a 3-Step Method for conversations and explores its direct application to online, face-to-face, and blended environments. Participants will:
- Learn a 3-Step method for conversations
- Watch how to implement the method with students
- Plan conversations for explicit social emotional learning activities
- Plan conversations as “hooks” for academic curriculum
- Explore additional resources for mastery of the conversation method
Teach Different Society Subscriptions
$50/year Access to:
- On-demand Conversation trainings and student resources
- Grab-and-Go Lessons for home or school
- Weekly Tutorials modeling the 3-Step Process
- Discounted in-depth training