Socratic Seminars International is dedicated to providing high quality, sustainable professional development in Socratic Seminar Leadership Skills.  Providing training, coaching, and consulting in Socratic Seminar Leadership skills that is on-going and in the context of the classroom yields the best results for improving teaching and learning for all students.

Socratic Seminars are a highly motivating form of intellectual and scholarly discourse conducted in K-12 classrooms with students of all ability levels. Socratic Seminars usually range from 30-50 minutes--longer if time allows--once a week. An effective Socratic Seminar creates dialogue as opposed to debate.

Dialogue Leadership provides high quality, sustainable professional development in dialogue facilitation.  Professional development that is on-going and embedded in the context of the organization is most effective.  Dialogue facilitation and leadership are the essential skills for the leaders of today's schools, for leaders of professional learning communities.Changing schools starts with changing the culture. Changing the culture happens when the quality of conversations between and among educators improves.  Transforming conversations away from the win-lose of debate to the win-win of genuine dialogue is an essential element of creating trust, respect, and shared understanding.