This session will provide participants with a variety of discussion protocols that can be used to promote active learning in both online and traditional classroom settings. Throughout this session, the audience will actively participate in a variety of collaborative protocols that can be used with students to guide them through rigorous content-driven discussions encouraging equitable student participation. A few of the protocols that will be introduced are text-based, which are used to aid students summarizing and synthesizing bodies of texts that your students are held accountable to read and comprehend.