From scattered courses to coherent formation.
B-Morr Consulting helps interpreter education programs see what they're building, why it matters, and how to make it work better for the people learning within it.
Most programs accumulated. They weren't designed.
A course gets added here, an assessment there, a requirement that made sense in 2009 and nobody's revisited since. Each piece is defensible on its own. Put together, they don't always add up to a clear path for the people moving through them.
Interpreter education needs more than good intentions and a full course schedule. It needs a design — one that knows where students start, where they're headed, and what has to happen in between.
Formation moves. So should the program around it.
Students don't arrive ready, and they don't leave finished. They move — from watching and analyzing, to working with support, to standing on their own, to entering the field ready to keep growing. A program designed around that movement teaches differently than one built around seat time and a final exam.
Observe & analyze
Students learn to take apart a message before they're asked to rebuild one.
Practice with guidance
Real work, real feedback, and enough support to take honest risks.
Interpret independently
Decisions become their own, made under conditions that look like the work.
Enter the field ready
Not finished — ready. Equipped to keep forming long after graduation.
Ways we can work together.
Curriculum & program design
Map what your program actually teaches against what you mean for it to teach, then rebuild the path so the courses add up to something.
Assessment alignment
Make sure what you measure matches what you're trying to develop — and that progress means more than a passing grade.
Faculty development & retreats
Get your team working from the same map. Facilitated sessions that turn a roomful of opinions into shared direction.
Speaking & workshops
Talks and working sessions for conferences, programs, and faculty groups — on formation, program design, and what comes after the credential.
Brian R. MorrisonM.Ed., CI, CT
Brian has spent more than two decades in ASL–English interpreter education — teaching, coordinating a college interpreter education program, and building experiences that move students from their first contact with the work toward professional practice.
He's a past president of both the Conference of Interpreter Trainers (CIT) and the Commission on Collegiate Interpreter Education (CCIE), which means he's spent a lot of time thinking about what makes interpreter education programs work — and what quietly keeps them from working.
B-Morr Consulting is his independent practice. The work is grounded in the Deaf community, built on real classroom experience, and aimed at programs that want to be intentional about how they form interpreters.
Tell me about your program.
Wherever you are — rethinking a curriculum, prepping for an accreditation review, or just trying to name what feels off — I'd like to hear about it. Send a note and we'll figure out whether I can help.
Email Brian