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 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 Jordan Luke | Jun 24, 2020 | Classroom, Critical Thinking, Critical Thinking Instruction, Curriculum, Math, Social Justice, Teachers
What if a lawyer’s critical thinking skills could be taught ALL children in ALL classes–even in math? With thinkLaw’s latest curriculum, students in middle school math classes can learn to look at problems and solutions from multiple angles and develop...
by Jordan Luke | Jun 16, 2020 | Colin Seale, Critical Thinking, Keynote Addresses, Social Justice
Please join thinkLaw Founder and CEO Colin Seale at the the Arizona Alliance of Black School Educators 2020 Teacher Leadership Summit, where he will be the keynote speaker. His keynote address, “Black Lives Matter. Black Brains Matter, Too: The Case for...
by layne@thinklaw.us | 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...
