Register to access our comprehensive self-study course featuring an on-demand webinar recording, interactive session guide, and presentation materials—all designed to provide flexible, meaningful professional learning at your convenience.

Simply want to learn? No additional requirements needed! Access all course materials and engage with the content at your own pace.

Need professional development credit? This course qualifies for 1 hour of professional development credit. To earn your certificate, you'll need to:

• Watch the complete edited recording (we've streamlined the content by removing pause times, so you'll need to view the full video)

• Complete the post-webinar feedback survey

• Pass a brief 5-question assessment

State-Specific Requirements: If you're in a state where we have agreements to provide recognized professional development credits, please check the feedback survey for any additional requirements to ensure your credits are properly recognized.

Meaningful classroom discussion doesn't happen by accident—it happens by design. When students lack the academic language to enter a conversation, they disengage, defer, or disappear. Talk stems give every student a structured, supported entry point into academic discourse, building the conversational skills that research consistently connects to deeper learning, language development, and equitable participation. This session blends the proven practices of Zwiers and Crawford's Academic Conversations with Resnick's Accountable Talk® framework to help participants understand why structured talk matters and how to design talk stem activities that work across content areas and grade levels. Participants will explore a range of talk stem structures, experience them as learners, and leave with classroom-ready activities they can implement immediately.