What is Mismatch?

Mismatch is a platform that makes it easy to schedule a virtual dialogue between classrooms who are the political, racial, geographical, and socio-economic opposite of each other.

Join Mismatch. It's free!

Use code: EARLYADOPTERS to join the network and start connecting your classroom today.

Take these steps to join the movement and build civic-ready classrooms.

1

Sign Up and Create a Profile

Teachers and administrators sign up and build a classroom profile that includes location, grade level, and topics of civic interest.

2

Connect with Like-Minded Educators

Get matched with classrooms and educators across the country who share your civic learning goals—but bring different perspectives and contexts to the conversation.

3

Build Your Network

Join a growing national network of educators interested in teaching for a healthier democracy through student dialogue, collaboration, and shared lesson design

4

Coordination Made Simple

Easily coordinate a time for you and your partner classrooms to meet using our built-in scheduling tools—no time zone math required.

5

Real World Experience and Collaboration

Mismatch makes it easy for teachers to build partnerships that support both student growth and professional collaboration.

6

Facilitate Powerful Conversations

Follow our step-by-step facilitation guides to host structured video conversations in small groups (2–6 students) that foster understanding across divides.

Our Team

Mismatch is brought to you by the AllSides Education Fund and Living Room Conversations.

AllSides Education Fund strengthens our democratic society by increasing access to balanced news, media bias ratings, diverse perspectives, and real conversation.

Since 2010, Living Room Conversations works to heal society by connecting people across divides - politics, age, gender, race, nationality, and more – through guided conversations proven to build understanding and transform communities.