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Discussion is at the heart of any great school community and communication skills are central to mission statements and portraits of a graduate. Yet, few schools have an intentional strategy for teaching, practicing, and assessing discussion skills across grades and divisions!

At REAL Discussion, we partner with schools to design and implement customized discussion skills strategies. We're experts in discussion pedagogy, gen-z and alpha learners, and change management -- and we know that the best academic leaders balance big-picture purpose with programmatic realities.

Join this session to imagine a whole-school discussion skills strategy, thinking both philosophically (why does this work matter? what language do we use to describe it?) and tactically (what do we already do? how do we know? what obstacles to alignment exist?). Leave with a roadmap for your school's journey towards intentional discussion skills instruction!

In this presentation, Alexis will share how she has been using LOOM to provide feedback to help improve student writing. She will discuss other uses for LOOM in the classroom, student responses to this method, and ways she plans to push this strategy in the future. participants will leave the presentation with a clear understanding of how Loom works and with ideas for how it might be used in other subject areas.