One of the most rewarding extracurricular activities I've recently taken on was joining the board for the Children's Museum of Phoenix. I've always loved visiting with my children, so it feels amazing to contribute to making the museum accessible for ALL children. But there's something wrong with how we lead as a board, and it's probably also wrong at your school or organization...
I have always been a nerd about well-written vision statements. There is something inherently inspiring about mission-driven organizations painting an aspirational picture of a world in which they would no longer need to exist.
When I started thinkLaw 8 years ago, I used to lament that critical thinking was nowhere close to being a kitchen table issue in education. In conference after conference and article after article, topics like the school-to-prison pipeline, the achievement/opportunity gap, disengaged students, and chronic absenteeism dominated the conversation.
In the work thinkLaw leads to help educators leverage critical thinking as a seamlessly integrated part of their core instructional practices, it is so important that for teachers, it never feels like "one more thing."
“This is how you build curriculum around liberation, around possibility, around actually creating the equitable structures by modeling what it is to be the change.” – Colin Seale
In this powerful conversation, Colin Seale, Founder and CEO of thinkLaw, and Bobby Morgan, Founder of Liberation Lab, talk about the magic it so often takes for Black and Brown brilliance to translate to academic outcomes.
We are incredibly honored to be named the winner of the Institute for Education Innovation 2022 Supe’s Choice Award in the category of Critical Thinking …
From classroom resources to personal anecdotes to directly addressing the disparity that still exists between gifted black/brown students and their white counterparts; the thinkLaw team …
This quarter we’ve shared some valuable, actionable critical thinking strategies for teachers, parents, and school leaders to use to break through challenges and look at …
