Oracy, Student Voice, and Discussion Protocols

Oracy is the ability to articulate ideas, develop understanding and engage with others through spoken language, as well as TTSD's current district wide focus. These protocols, resources, and strategies can support our efforts to lift student voice across educational spaces.

ABC

Affirm. Broaden. Conflict.

Art of Community

Agreements. Intentions. Manifistations.

Head/Heart/Hand

How our thoughts, feelings, and actions divert and/or intersect.

1st Thought / 2nd Thought

Our thoughts can change and shift with new information and time to debrief.

Zones of Comfort

Acknowledge where people are at within the zones navigate through conversations.

Precision Partners

Structure for talk routines build safety, efficiency, and productivity.

When a curriculum says "turn and talk" we know we can adjust it to be even more impactful with intentional grouping and partnering routines, such as this one.

Functions Frames

Scaffolding sentence frames organized around language function.

PAX Vision

See. Hear. Do. Feel. Building more peace, productivity, health, and happiness across our schools with classroom agreements.

Notice & Wonder

Encourage problem-solving and creative thinking in an accessible way that builds safety.

ABCD(H)

Agree. Build. Connect. Disagree. (Heart.)

Same & Different

Build capacity for noticing patterns and categorical thinking.

SameButDifferentMath website

WODB

Build problem solving and flexible thinking with problems that have more than one answer.

WODB website

Four A
Aha. Aspiration. Appreciation. Apology.

Four A protocol as an Optimistic Closure

Number Talks

Build students' flexible and expansive thinking by looking for more than one strategy.

Note: While we tend to think of Number talks mostly in a math context, when we teach flexible and expansive thinking we are teaching SEL.