Unlocking Tier I Rigor through Critical Thinking
thinkLaw helps districts embed rigorous inquiry into Tier I instruction
thinkLaw exists to create a world where critical thinking is no longer a luxury good. We help educators teach critical thinking to all students, not just the highest achieving ones at the most exclusive schools.
Our award-winning curricular resources use real-life legal cases in upper grades and fairy tales and nursery rhymes in lower grades as a hook to unleash the critical thinking potential of all students.
thinkLaw's powerful professional development helps educators apply rigorous inquiry strategies that move instruction from asking “what” and “how” to “why” and “what if.” Our curriculum and professional learning unlock the rigor of existing core content without adding new programs, pacing conflicts, or competing priorities.
The thinkLaw Approach
thinkLaw Curriculum is Engaging, Easy, and Enhances Teacher Practice
for Students
- Real-world, culturally responsive content matters to students’ lives.
- It’s dramatic on purpose. Students love arguing. (Adults do too).
- Authentic SEL gives students practice listening to understand, speaking to be understood, & disagreeing without being disagreeable.
for Teachers
- Turnkey lessons include everything needed & take 5–10 minutes to prep.
- Flexible lessons can be used as hooks or extension activities for whole-class or small-group instruction.
- It fills gaps. Hard-to-plan-for spaces like advisory and summer school come pre-packaged.
Teacher Practice
- Teachers are learning too. Transferable skills become muscle memory.
- Builds strong learning relationships between students and teachers.
- Unlocks performance on the “big test”. Students have tools to navigate complex word problems and show what they know.
thinkLaw Professional Development is Powerful, but Practical
Designed for pre-K–12 educators across all content areas, supporting consistent expectations systemwide.
Interactive, hands-on, and practice-based—delivered effectively in both in-person and virtual formats.
Appropriate for full staff, grade-level teams, departments, and district cohorts.
Builds teacher capacity to maximize the impact of high-quality instructional materials districts already use.
Educators Learn to:
- Design rigorous questions quickly
- Facilitate academic discourse
- Sustain productive struggle
- Strengthen student reasoning
- Transfer inquiry strategies across subjects
Our professional learning is practical, immediately applicable, and reinforced throughout the year through consistent use of thinkLaw’s curricular hooks—ensuring strategies stick.
Students say that thinkLaw:
Teachers say that thinkLaw:
"thinkLaw allowed us to push students beyond just finding the 'right' answer, and forced them to dig deep into their reasoning to find creative ways to identify and solve problems.”
— District Leader
“The lessons are provocative enough to stimulate discourse and provide scaffolded supports so that students of all ability levels can engage with the content.”
— Principal
“thinkLaw provided me the flexibility to plug lessons into the standards and pacing in many different places allowing me to supplement and deepen the learning.”
— Teacher
“Questions are higher-level, deep and open-ended, making students consider different outcomes — perfect for student discourse and class discussions!”
— Instructional Coach
Partner With thinkLaw
If you are seeking a partner to strengthen Tier 1 rigor through critical thinking—at scale and with sustainability—we welcome the opportunity to connect.
Administrator Inquiry