The Comprehensible

Classroom

Welcome to The Comprehensible Classroom

If you are here for EPI, MARSEARS, and Conti-style language teaching, you are in the right place. This is professional development and consultancy built on one principle: language learning sticks when students hear it, see it, process it, and use it many times over in low-stress, meaningful tasks.

Sarah Milthorpe, Founder,
The Comprehensible Classroom

Language Learning That Sticks

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  • PD that wastes a teacher's afternoon is its own special insult, and I have sat through enough of it to know.

    So I would only put my name to this if I was sure it was going to land. These workshops are built around EPI and MARSEARS, but more importantly, they are built around what actually works in real classrooms with real kids who would rather be anywhere else. One-off sessions or a six-part suite.

    Either way, you leave with learning that improves your teaching outcomes, and activities you can run on Monday.

  • Ever sat through a great PD session, felt fired up to actually use it, and then realised you had no one to ask when it all went sideways on Tuesday? That is what consultancy is for.

    When one workshop is not enough, when a department or a whole school is genuinely trying to shift how languages is taught, you need someone who sticks around. We start with a conversation, look at what is really going on, and build a plan from there. Some schools want a single phase. Some want the whole transition.

    Either way, you are not doing it alone.

  • The activity bank, in your hands. Activity guides, planning tools, ready-made classroom materials. Built by someone still teaching, still tweaking, still finding out what works. Download today, use tomorrow.

    More resources are landing here over the coming months as I work my way through the pile.

What we offer

Why The Comprehensible Classroom?

  • Accredited EPI Instructor

  • Presenter at VATI 2026, LTV 2025 and LTV 2023

  • Twenty years of teaching and leadership in Victorian secondary schools

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