of the People

In the teleclassroom

Each four-week Dialogue session brings together one expert instructor and up to twelve adult learners from anywhere in the world. Our learners are refugees and asylum seekers, immigrants whose professional credentials do not transfer without English, mobile professionals who travel or relocate frequently, and bilingual families navigating English alongside their home languages. The instructor and the learners are the school. Everything else exists to support what happens between them on Google Meet.

Learnerocracy

Dialogue's guiding principle is that the people who learn at the school govern the school. In every session, learners hold formal authority to revise the Handbook, redesign the syllabus, and bring in at least 20% of the curriculum themselves — we learners are grounded in our own professional goals, our own questions, and our own lives. We do not ask "what do students need?" and then deliver it. We ask students, who are us, what we need and build together.

In governance, the same principle applies over time. Today, the Board of Directors is composed of credentialed professionals from outside this teleclassrooming learner community. (The current Board will be named here publicy, after their third quarterly meeting on June 1.) Soon enough, the Board will be composed entirely of Dialogue alumni — people who learned English at Dialogue and now lead it. The Executive Director, the expert instructors, every paid role: all eventually filled by alumni who hold the credentials and the lived experience to carry the school forward. The people the school serves will one day run the school. That is not a distant aspiration. It is the intention behind every structural decision Dialogue makes today.

The Founder, Kurk Gayle, is a learner of ten different human languages, one of his languages learned intensively in a paid-for teleclassroom. In the 1990s, with his team, he built the world's first fully online accredited U.S. university intensive English program through which learners improved their outcomes on TOEFL by more than 75%; in 2020, he founded the Free English Collaborative, a doubly-accredited no-tuition six-U.S. university intensive English program through which all learners made measured progress on the Duolingo English Test (a gift from Duolingo). In 2025, he founded Dialogue as a non-profit to ensure the non-tuition, non-fee high-quality live-human learning of the world's lingua franca for as many as can enroll in it.

Dialogue: The English Language School of the People is the first and only world-wide, American-headquartered, non-tuition, non-profit, non-degree English language school.

In other words, we're anywhere you are, absolutely tuition free, always profit free, and actually your human-present, time-immersive language school for English improvement that is free of degree course work — whether you're moving toward a college degree, right in the middle of yours, or have already completed one.

We own and operate the domain dialogueschool.org as our sole and primary web presence for our tuition-free English language school; no other entity owns or uses this domain in any way, shape, or form. Our domain is a shortened, user-friendly version of our legal names: our incorporated name, Dialogue Language School, and our assumed name, Dialogue: The English Language School of the People — both registered with the Texas Secretary of State.

US IRS Public Verification

Our tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status since December 3, 2025 is publicly verifiable through the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search at apps.irs.gov/app/eos/ by searching EIN 41-2923319. As of April 2026, the IRS confirms:

• Publication 78 status: Listed — contributions to Dialogue are tax-deductible under IRC § 170

• Deductibility code: PC (Public Charity)

• Form 990-N filing: On record for tax year 2025

• Status: Active

Donors, donor-advised funds, foundations, and corporate matching programs may rely on this listing to confirm eligibility.