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Foster productive classroom conversations.
Grow student voice.

Foster productive classroom conversations.
Grow student voice.

Foster productive classroom conversations.
Grow student voice.

Talk Trees are AI-powered celebrations of student discourse in your classroom.

Talk Trees are AI-powered celebrations of student discourse in your classroom.

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Talk Trees celebration screen example
Talk Trees celebration screen example
Talk Trees celebration screen example

What are Talk Trees?

Talk Trees help promote quality student talk

Talk Trees help promote quality student talk

Talk Trees are a free AI-powered tool that visualizes students' high-quality discourse in the form of a tree with flowers that celebrate different forms of student discourse (red flower = providing evidence, blue = making a claim, yellow = relating to another student).

Educators use Talk Trees in their classrooms to facilitate reflective discussions with their students about how they are talking and building knowledge together. Talk Trees shift the role of students from passive participants to active agents in shaping the nature of classroom discourse.

Why it matters

High-quality student talk is intentional

Why it matters

High-quality student talk is intentional

Why it matters

High-quality student talk is intentional

Research-backed

Research-backed

Talk Trees are grounded in the research-backed framework of Academically Productive Talk which promotes rigorous conversations, increased engagement, and student learning.

Talk Trees are grounded in the research-backed framework of Academically Productive Talk which promotes rigorous conversations, increased engagement, and student learning.

Co-designed

Talk Trees are co-designed with educators and students to promote their shared accountability for high-quality mathematics classroom conversations that result in learning gains.

Co-designed

Talk Trees are co-designed with educators and students to promote their shared accountability for high-quality mathematics classroom conversations that result in learning gains.

Student-centered

Talk Trees help students recognize their own role and agency in improving classroom discourse while aggregating data to prioritize student privacy.

Student-centered

Talk Trees help students recognize their own role and agency in improving classroom discourse while aggregating data to prioritize student privacy.

Visualize student talk in three easy steps

Visualize student talk in three easy steps

Record a classroom discussion

Record a classroom discussion

Use any device with a built-in microphone (phone, tablet, or laptop) to record a lesson from your class.

Use any device with a built-in microphone (phone, tablet, or laptop) to record a lesson from your class.

Upload it to Talk Trees

Upload it to Talk Trees

Upload your recording to the Talk Trees app to make a tree and see your student talk made visible.

Upload your recording to the Talk Trees app to make a tree and see your student talk made visible.

Have a conversation with your students

Have a conversation with your students

Use built-in conversational scaffolds to share Talk Trees it with your students and invite them to reflect on their class conversations.

Use built-in conversational scaffolds to share Talk Trees it with your students and invite them to reflect on their class conversations.

Testimonials

What Teachers Are Saying

Testimonials

What Teachers Are Saying

Testimonials

What Teachers Are Saying

"Students felt a lot more compelled to have discussions building on one another."

Teacher, 4th Grade Math, Reading, and Writing

"A student was like, I wonder what our Talk Trees are going to look like if we start talking more, start participating more…"

Teacher, 7th Grade Math

"Students liked that Talk Trees were connected to what they were saying or doing in the classroom."

Teacher, 7th Grade Math

"Students take a lot more ownership of their learning rather than it being on the teacher."

Teacher, 1st Grade All Subjects

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