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thinkLaw 2024-2025 Partnerships

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Books by Colin Seale

Get your copy of Colin Seale’s bestselling titles:

  • Thinking Like a Lawyer: A Framework for Teaching Critical Thinking to All Students
  • Tangible Equity: A Guide for Leveraging Student Identity, Culture, and Power to Unlock Excellence In and Beyond the Classroom

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Schedule: thinkLaw at TAGT Gifted + Equity:

Monday, June 10th

2:15 PM – 3:15 PM

Speakers: Tabitha Ejinkonye + Gaby Romero

Location: Barcelona 5

Finding the Funk: Culturally Responsive Critical Thinking Strategies for G/T Educators
When is a circle not just a circle? The standard curriculum will cover important concepts like radius and diameter, but we can go beyond the standards by asking students important questions about how that curriculum intersects with their lived experiences. What if that circle described the distance between your house and the nearest healthy food options? The nearest hospital? Any time we give gifted students the opportunity to not just analyze the world as it is, but to use their knowledge to grapple with how the world ought to be, we explicitly permit them to not just be problem solvers, but to embrace their identity as problem finders. This intensive workshop provides educators the opportunity to discover with their students what’s funky about even the most seemingly cut-and-dry learning goals.

Tuesday, June 11th

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM

Speakers: Colin Seale

Location: Barcelona 5

Don’t Worry, Be a Critical Thinker: The Equity Case for Prioritizing AI (Actual Intellect)

The historic case for valuing education as a society revolves around the notion that knowledge is power. And the prioritized knowledge for those accessing this power has historically been knowing the “what” and the “how to.” But with the proliferation of artificial intelligence creating a present threat that almost any job capable of being reduced to an algorithm is at risk for automation, K-12 teaching and learning must shift its path. In this session, Colin Seale, educator, attorney, author of Thinking Like a Lawyer: A Framework for Teaching Critical Thinking to All Students and Tangible Equity: A Guide for Leveraging Student Identity, Culture, and Power to Unlock Excellence In and Beyond the Classroom, and thinkLaw Founder and CEO, will make the case for prioritizing a different kind of AI: Actual Intellect, as a key priority for today’s learners, and provide powerful, but practical tools educators can use to make critical thinking accessible to all students.  

Tuesday, June 11th

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Speakers: Colin Seale

Location: Barcelona 5

The Heart Work: The Equity Case for Prioritizing Psychological Safety in Gifted Education and Beyond
Brilliance is distributed equally, but opportunity is not. For almost a decade, Colin Seale and the thinkLaw team have used this framing as an impetus for obsessing over opportunity-creation and helping educators create systems where critical thinking is no longer a luxury good. But the tools to unlock brilliance and unleash critical thinking are meaningless when our students (and sometimes our adults) lack the psychological safety to be brilliant. In this session, Colin Seale will make the equity case for prioritizing psychological safety as a pre-requisite to learning and share powerful, but practical strategies to integrate psychological safety into instructional practices in gifted education and beyond.

FREE Critical Thinking Game

“Informed Opinion” is a game that encourages kids to consider what information they need to know about a situation before they form an opinion about it. Players read real news headlines and take turns naming questions that would lead to a more informed understanding of the news story.

Click the button below for a FREE Informed Opinion game + instructions!

thinkLaw Founder & CEO on the
"Adventures in Being Gifted" Podcast!

In this powerful conversation, Colin Seale, Founder and CEO of thinkLaw, joins Jill Hartsock & Jessica Mullen, of the podcast Adventures in Being Gifted podcast, to discuss how educators can reject “these kids can’t” syndrome and the power of teaching kids how to access their innate critical thinking gifts.

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