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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  • Practical, activity-driven sessions built around EPI and MARSEARS. From one-off workshops to a full six-session suite, teachers leave with strategies they can use the very next day.

  • Sustained support for schools ready to make a deeper shift. From a single diagnostic conversation to a full multi-phase transition, we meet you where you are and stay as long as you need.

  • Practical digital downloads for language teachers. Activity guides, planning tools and more, designed for real classrooms and available instantly. Browse the store to find something you can use tomorrow.

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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