Building Student Communication Skills for Listening and Belonging

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Building Student Communication Skills for Listening and Belonging

Your registration includes copies of two books in the Conversation Comeback series by Liza Garonzik: A Teacher’s Guide and A Schoolwide Guide to Discussion in a Distracted, Divided World. A shipping address will be requested during the registration process.

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• Firsthand experience using structured discussion routines and reflection cycles
• A clearer understanding of how discussion skills can be explicitly taught rather than assumed
• Practical insight into how shared language and structure support more consistent classroom dialogue
• Ideas for adapting discussion practices to strengthen student voice, listening, and belonging in their own school contexts

About the Presenter:

Liza Garonzik is the Founder of R.E.A.L.® Discussion and the author of Conversation Comeback: A Teacher’s Guide to Class Discussion in a Distracted, Divided World and Conversation Comeback: A Schoolwide Guide for Discussion in a Distracted, Divided World. She built R.E.A.L.® to solve for challenges she faced in her roles as a teacher, student life administrator, advancement officer, alumni volunteer, and Trustee in independent schools.

Since launching in 2021, Liza has partnered with over 100 K-12 schools on discussion skill-building. Her work has been featured nationally and internationally through the Wall Street Journal, National Association of Independent Schools, The Association of Boarding Schools, International Schools Services, Transcend Education Models Exchange, Enrollment Management Association, and more.

Liza is a graduate of Harvard College (A.B.) and University of Pennsylvania (MS.Ed) with additional Fellowships at the Klingenstein Center, Transcend Network, and New Sector Alliance. She lives in Atlanta with her family – and many animals!

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