Re-Connect Students and Teachers with Real Conversations.
Conversation Bundles with Built-In Training for your Faculty
A Universally-Designed System of Support for ELL and Diverse Learning Programs
Social Emotional Learning Done the Right Way
New Curriculum Added Every Week
- 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 students to critically think and develop a voice in conversations…
- You want to promote equity and culturally responsive teaching…
When amazing conversations are happening in classrooms, 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.”
Poet and Author – Criss Jami, Salomé
What We Do
Our universally-designed 3-Step protocol gives every student a voice in the classroom.
How We Do It
- We Teach a 3-Step Conversation Protocol
- We Provide Turn-Key Curriculum
- We Offer Advanced Training
The Teach Different curriculum can be used in any educational setting: face-to-face, blended or online.
Teach Different’s protocol is a framework for having classroom conversations that uses claims, counterclaims and essential questions.
The Teach Different 3-Step Protocol fosters critical thinking and gives every student a voice in the classroom.
70+ Conversation Bundles from the world’s greatest thinkers
4 Bundles added every month
40-week social emotional learning curriculum
Training-Embedded activities with videos and guides
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“You are responsible for your own success.” – 9th grade student
“Every dream begins with a dreamer.” – Harriet Tubman
“We have to make up our own dreams.” – 2nd grade student
“Somethings are impossible.” – 2nd grade student
“The person with dreams is more powerful than the one with the facts.” – Albert Einstein
“Dreamers look for new ideas and learning opportunities. Scientists think they know everything.” – 8th grade student
“I don’t want my doctor to be a dreamer. I want her to have the facts.” – 8th grade student
“Your silence will not protect you.” – Audre Lorde
“Nothing is going to get better or get done until we take action.” – 6th grade student
“Sometimes it’s good to be silent and let others talk.” – 6th grade student
“Happiness depends on ourselves.” – Aristotle
“I think he means that you can turn your unhappiness around by having something to strive for.” – 10th grade student
“I think you need other people to be happy.” – 10th grade student
Chris Walsh – Roscoe, Illinois – Middle School Teacher
“The art of dialogue and conversation needs saving!”
James Plaza – Grayslake, Illinois – High School Sociology Teacher
“I got a call from a parent complementing the types of questions that we are having their kids think about and the discussions that they are creating at home.”
