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On 1 June, the Board elects the founder as founding Executive Director, who postpones pay until full funding per budget is realized.

The next morning, fundraising begins, and every Board member gives. Then the inbox catches fire. Within days, more than 65 people are writing, some from refugee settlements, some from conflict zones, some composing their English sentences seemingly with a dictionary open beside them, all asking for one of 12 seats in the first cohort of 3 September. One applicant asks simply whether anyone will help them find a sponsor; another quickly pays their refundable deposit to guarantee they're in when class first starts. The application page on the website answers in 25 languages. Meanwhile, in the final week of the month, a "fun raiser" called Play June Out invites people to give a minute plus any amount at all, even $0, so long as they play; a meaningful few do, from three continents, one of them playing every tier at once; and Dialogue reaches 1% of its Year 1 budget in its first month of asking. All month the Executive Director is at coffee tables, on video calls, in others' offices, on a laptop writing to foundations, and at the closing ceremony for a dual-language, bi-cultural, sister-city, two-nation, multi-school summer camp where children sing, dance, and do a puppet show in one of the languages they've been learning for three weeks; it's been invigorating June meetings with the people who serve English learners here in Fort Worth and the people who teach English majors 3,000 miles south of it. The founding instructor position is not yet even posted, yet nominations, volunteers, and inquiries keep arriving; that expert, fairly and fully compensated, will be interviewed and hired the moment funding allows.

By 30 June, local organizations are asking how their own staff can enroll, one university abroad has asked Dialogue to draft a partnership agreement to serve branch campuses in five regions of their nation, and the first cohort for the inaugural session in September has more applicants than seats by a factor of five.

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Dialogue: The English Language School of the People is the first and only nonprofit giving free, intensive, live, paid-expert human instruction anywhere. 

Its mission as the only nonprofit giving free, intensive, live paid-expert human instruction everywhere is that it also be forever of, by, and for learners of the world's lingua franca.

Yes, the First cohort of 12 learners meet together September 3, 2026.  The second, the third, the forth, the fifth, the sixth, the seventh, the eighth, the ninth, and the tenth will meet together for a month in respective subsequent sessions in turn.

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Learners

Learners in Dialogue: The English Language School of the People

1.       forgo tuition;

2.      forget fees;

3.      forestall profiteering from their school;

4.      form school governance of, by, and for learners;

5.      follow fairly- and fully-compensated experts whom they hire to direct their school and instruct them as learners;

6.      find their paid instructor and tuition-free classmates in their hours-intensive real-time, month-long tele-classroom from anywhere;

7.      find their flipped learning and individual auto-learning only effective as guided by that paid instructor they hired;

8.      find inadequate for language learning both some daily streak alone on an app and merely three hours a week in a course;

9.      fly across borders whenever able to, without a foreign student visa;

10.   freely flaunt their individual human language abilities, neither as a foreigner nor a non-native speaker, but as a life-long learner, without being proctored in a testing center or surveilled by remote electronics.

Donors

Donors for the learners of Dialogue: The English Language School of the People generously fund only

1.       the salaries of the learners’ instructor and their school's director

2.      and their school’s endowment.

Nothing more.

Absolutely everything else is already funded and free forever.

Educators

Learners of Dialogue: The English Language School of the People hire only two, the sole cost of their school borne by generous donors:

1.       the instructor (a lifelong language learner, with a graduate degree in TESOL and leadership in intensive teleclassroom English programs)

2.      the executive director (a lifelong language learner, with a graduate degree in TESOL, leadership in intensive teleclassroom English programs, and leadership in donor partnering and program management)

Their fair and full compensation is competitive with the best educators in the cities where they reside. 

Programs

1. Live Human Intensive English Language Program

Hours-intensive, real-time, twelve learners with one expert instructor in dialogue together, improving all human language activities of their world's lingua franca, teleclassrooming in Google Meet.

No tuition, no fees, no profiteering, no authoritarianism, no volunteerism, no perfunctoriness, no building, no visa.  

2. TOEML™ — Test of English as My Language.

The free English proficiency assessment conducted over Google Meet on any single internet-connected device with camera and microphone. Accurate, reliable, transparent, phrase-level CEFR color-coded transcripts. Three-layer arbitration in which the language learner has final authority over their own transcript interpretations.

No testing center, no multiple-device remote proctoring, no test fee.

Nonprofit

Dialogue: The English Language School of the People is a nonprofit corporation, headquartered in Texas, United States (File #806330245), with learners worldwide anywhere, established December 3, 2025, as an IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) public charity, EIN 41-2923319. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Board

Dialogue: The English Language School of the People is guided into its establishment by a Board of Directors who meet quarterly each year. Intentionally, the first members are all lifelong language learners and all reside in the headquarter city, Fort Worth, Texas, United States; coincidentally, all are alumni of Texas Christian University, and each has earned a graduate degree, which they respectively use professionally. They are Lizdelia Piñón, President; Carlo Capua, Vice President; Tracy Rundstrom, Treasurer; and Kurk Gayle, Secretary.