Empowering Voices in Education and Business

I’ve worked extensively with Sarah. Our relationship over nearly twenty years has encompassed various roles as author/editor, co-trainer and conference presenter, examiner and mentor.  Sarah is a consummate professional, inspirational and innovative.

Sarah M. Howell ha seguito come redattrice Way Points, Light Edition. E' stata sempre attenta nella elaborazione delle bozze e piena di suggerimenti proficui ed interessanti. Ha una grande esperienza sia di redazione di testi scolastici, sia della scuola italiana in generale.

Sarah took on a huge task when she arrived: re-organising a complex educational publishing concern [...] She did a brilliant job, lent her very considerable authorial and managerial experience to the task. Many thanks, Sarah - it was a pleasure working with and for you.

I'm totally conscious of the evident and valuable improvements they have made, self-esteem and enthusiasm are actually fostered; even the most introverted pupils gave it a try and successfully performed.

This course has been a great opportunity to learn how to promote the development of oracy skills from a very early age. Observing and discussing such a wide variety of good oracy everyday practices truly helped me to realize their effectiveness and feasibility even with young learners.

The Embedding Oracy course was a real eye-opener and source of inspiration. First and foremost, I want to thank Sarah and Lisa for one of the most dynamic, stimulating and inspiring courses I have ever taken. A great mix of presentation and interaction. [..] THANK YOU!!

This course has made me aware of the importance of empowering speech in my teaching activity. It helped me to reflect on the fact that there are so many interconnected aspects to be considered, carefully planned and taught for building the oracy competence. [...]

Sarah è una professionista seria e preparata, creativa e attenta al mercato, ma con ben solida la mission del settore education.

This course has given me the right sort of tools to encourage, facilitate and stimulate an effective discussion in class. I have learnt what learning to talk and learning through talk mean.
[...] Oracy in a way helps us to become explorers together.

For me, this course has been helpful in reconsidering oral language skills that I sometimes tend to set apart, because of lack of time and because of my concern for the syllabus.

I decided to participate in this course on Embedding Oracy in the classroom because I have been struggling with teaching speaking skills [...] During this course in Recanati, Sarah and Lisa have provided me with a ton of practical tasks that I can easily integrate into my "scuola media" classes....

As a coordinator of EFL professional development events in the upper secondary school where I have been teaching for years, Sarah and Lisa’s past and ongoing courses have been fundamental to shaping the educational practices of all the teachers attending. Their oracy courses for teachers and students have proved innovative, stimulating and incredibly effective. Sarah and LIsa are the best you can hope for as educators and trainers at any level: I am in awe of their expertise, competence, professionalism, scholarship, creative vision and generosity as academics.