Dr Funke Omidire of the Department of Educational Psychology, University of Pretoria was a visiting scholar in the Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education of the Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania. Dr Omidire visited the Quality Talk team to finalise discussions on the adaptation of the Quality Talk framework for promoting discussion as tool for developing critical thinking skills in South African classrooms. The project is collaboration between the Centre for the Study of Resilience (CSR), Prof Liesel Ebersohn, Prof Karen Murphy and her team, Dr Funke Omidire, three Doctoral students (Ms Marisa Leask, Ms Sheila Sefhedi and Ms Sipikelelo Mugari) and the partner school in Mpumalanga.