by Colin Seale | Mar 26, 2021 | Classroom, Classroom Instruction, Colin Seale, Covid-19, Critical Thinking, Education, Equity, Student Engagement, Teachers
Unlocking Excellence In Overlooked And Underestimated Children By Fully Funding Gifted Education In Arizona Imagine a child watching her first gymnastics routine and immediately doing perfect backflips across her living room. A teenager hearing a song and,...
by Colin Seale | Mar 18, 2021 | Classroom, Classroom Instruction, Colin Seale, Covid-19, Critical Thinking, Education, Equity, Student Engagement, Teachers
How Not to Lose it Over “Learning Loss”: Four Tips for Taking an Equity-Focused Approach to Student Achievement I just published a piece in Education Post challenging school and district leaders to shift their thinking around learning loss from a deficit-based...
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 | Jul 30, 2020 | Colin Seale, Covid-19, Education, Forbes, Social Justice
The COVID-19 pandemic forced every state to seek a waiver from annual standardized testing requirements. But before this, there is a long history of education advocates pushing for a complete rethinking of the outsized role of standardized exams as at least a...
by Layne Wixom | Jun 4, 2020 | Education, Forbes, Newsletter, Social Justice
Message from Colin Seale, thinkLaw’s Founder and CEO Black lives matter. I founded thinkLaw 5 years ago in the wake of unrest over police officers killing unarmed Black people and the protestor’s cry of “Stop. Killing. Us.” consistently playing in the...