Classroom Conversations - Lesson Design

Cicero once said that "for the one point in which we have our very greatest advantage over the brute creation is that we hold converse one with another, and can reproduce our thought in word".

Since teachers are often in classrooms teaching, separated from each other by the walls of the classroom, our staff rooms are places where we can talk about pedagogy, student care, ethics and the habits of our own subjects and stages. That we hold conversations together is central to the health of our staff; we can disagree, learn from one another, and be surprised by one another as we try to articulate to one another what it is we are doing in the classroom.

This virtual staffroom brings together likely and unlikely conversation partners in pursuit of this question.