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Clear thinkers.
Strong communicators. Capable humans.
A free weekly online course where teenagers participate in thought-provoking discussions about the events and ideas shaping our world.
"I love Parlay Seminars because I am always learning new things when people spoke, and because I got out of my comfort zone."
"This course was amazing! I liked that we had both written and verbal RoundTables, it feels like we communicated more."
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"This class was amazing. I would definitely take another course to meet other people, get more feedback, and share my ideas."
Learn With Others
Engage in meaningful discussions, meet new people, and learn from their unique perspectives.
Build Valuable Skills
Learn to construct arguments, challenge others, build on ideas, and communicate clearly.
Explore Current Events
Learn about and discuss the events and ideas shaping our world, as they unfold.
Weekly collaborative learning.
Each week, students explore an important current event before participating in one asynchronous written discussion and one small-group live virtual seminar.​
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The whole experience is facilitated by a trained instructor, who provides weekly feedback to each student. All learning happens on Parlay, our award winning discussion-based learning platform.
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Check out some of our most recent discussion topics!
Preparing minds of the future.
In a world dominated by artificial intelligence and filter bubbles, Parlay Seminars help teenagers develop the human skills that are essential for personal success and fulfillment:
Building compelling arguments
Written and verbal communication
Giving and receiving peer feedback
Respectful disagreement
Expanding on the ideas of others
Negotiation and compromise
Seeking truth through dialogue
Integrating new perspectives
Proven methods, reimagined.
We've been using "Socratic Seminars" in education for 2,000 years. Why? Because they work. Parlay Seminars introduces modern technology to the timeless practice of student-driven discussion, making it more accessible, engaging, and data-driven than ever before.
Don't take our word for it...
We talk about Parlay often, and we credit its format and your direction to my kids' success with their dual enrolment college classes this year. A couple of their classes have included an online discussion component and neither child has been “afraid” or hesitant to participate.
Amy (Parent)
My son was intrigued by the worldview of other people in the course. He said to me, “your opinion isn’t the true arbiter of everything”. This is a really valuable idea and that is a thing that he got out of this class.
Parlay Seminars Parent
My teen enjoyed this class style much more than other online courses he has taken. It was exciting to talk about the subjects after each class and hear the ideas they discovered through their discussions. We enjoyed the content, lesson preparations, and learning activities. Thank you for this opportunity!
Sierra (Parent)
I want to say that Parlay Seminars is, by far, the best online course or seminar my son has taken in homeschooling. He said that he learned more from your class than he has from the other ones he took that were similar in nature. So thanks so much.
Jamie (Parent)
The live aspect was the best. It let my child feel as if she was in the classroom and she enjoyed that the most. She learnt a lot in the class from how to read and pay attention to what is in the book to expressing her own opinions in writing and collaborating with other students.
Victoria (Parent)
I thought the format and content was excellent. I was impressed with the quality of the async conversations. It also allayed many of my concerns about my teen’s progress (homeschooling is full of questions this way!)
Parlay Seminars Parent