by Jerry G. | Oct 30, 2020 | back to school, Classroom, Classroom Instruction, Colin Seale, Critical Thinking, Education, Equity, Social Justice, Teach for America
thinkLaw’s CEO, Colin Seale, earned the $20,000 prize in the Education category of the Echoing Green Social Innovation Challenge which will help further our mission of leading a critical thinking revolution.
by Colin Seale | Oct 30, 2020 | back to school, Classroom, Classroom Instruction, Colin Seale, Critical Thinking, Education, Equity, Social Justice, Teach for America
School systems concerned with preventing or addressing political speech have at least two challenging questions to consider: (1) what is “speech” in the context of a classroom teacher’s First Amendment rights and (2) what makes speech “political” enough to justify a disciplinary response?
by Colin Seale | Aug 27, 2020 | back to school, Colin Seale, Covid-19, Critical Thinking, Equity, Social Justice
Last year, I was the keynote speaker for a statewide ELA conference and I was so hyped after rocking my morning session with the attendees. I hung out by my thinkLaw booth afterwards, chatting it up with English teachers, school leaders, and district curriculum heads...
by Colin Seale | Aug 5, 2020 | back to school, Colin Seale, Critical Thinking, Equity, Social Justice
School systems across the country have responded to the national reckoning around issues of racial justice by rapidly developing strategies and plans for education equity. These efforts are certainly better than no effort at all, but they miss a crucial point: an...
by Layne Wixom | Apr 14, 2020 | 21st century skills, back to school, Classroom Instruction, Covid-19, Critical Thinking Instruction, Curriculum, Distance Learning
Message from Colin Seale, thinkLaw’s Founder and CEO I struggle thinking about all the ways students without access, support, and fulfillment of their basic needs lack meaningful opportunities to learn during these unprecedented times. I struggle even more when I...
by Colin Seale | Sep 18, 2019 | back to school, News, thinkLaw newsletter, thinkLaw's impact
Heading back to school was always an exciting time for me as a student, and even more exciting as a teacher. But neither compares to the last 45 days of training teachers in 25 cities as part of our back-to-school “Thinking Like a Lawyer” professional development...
