At the Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures Charter School (FACTS) in Philadelphia, new teachers coming to teach at the school are unlikely to have had any courses in folklife education in their preservice training, so a new staff orientation includes the mission of the school, defines folk arts and cultural treasures, and provides a brief orientation to folklife education. One day working with terms, concepts, and methods gives the new teachers a taste and the flavor of the school and why folklife education is such a critically important and powerful approach to teaching and learning in a multicultural society. Teachers also appreciate gaining language to explain to others about the new school. This article captures some of the language used for teacher professional development at FACTS to communicate why the skills of ethnography and folklife education matter for student learning.