Jacob Fay
- Director of Education, Constructive Dialogue Institute
Jacob Fay is the director of education at the Constructive Dialogue Institute. An educator at heart, Fay has years of experience teaching and thinking about democracy, education, and civic discourse. He has been a fellow at the University of California's National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement and a fellow at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, where he headed up the Intercollegiate Civil Disagreement Partnership. He has taught at Bowdoin College, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Harvard College. Fay holds an Ed.D and Ed.M from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has a master’s degree in American history from Brandeis University, and is a proud graduate of the Shady Hill Teacher Training Course. He is the co-editor, both with Meira Levinson, of Dilemmas of Educational Ethics: Cases and Commentaries and Democratic Discord in Schools: Cases and Commentaries in Educational Ethics.
Events
Constructive Dialogue Institute: Fostering Dialogue Skills in Students
Jacob Fay
Participants review the prepare-support-intervene (PSI) approach, which gives educators the tools to prepare students, support them during conversation, and intervene if de-escalation is required.