Students engage in structured-moving into organic- academic discourse with their peers to build understanding of content. Students begin their journey with Kagan Structures during instruction. Later, students self-facilitate their academic discourse independently with peers in proximity and across the classroom. Language frames to support discourse (affirming, disagreeing, etc) are explicitly taught by teachers and used by students. Academic vocabulary across the content areas are integrated into student academic discourse. Students are held accountable to report their conversations via random selection, paraphrasing, or videos.