Spring Time is Remix Time

Posted Date: 04/02/2022

Coming of age in the '90s era of hip hop music means that I am well-schooled in the power of the remix. Something about an artist taking the same song or the same beat and creating something new, but familiar, always stood out to me. Especially when you realize that making a new hit is exponentially more difficult than putting a nice twist on a hit you already created.       For educators, school leaders, parents, and even students, spring lets us know we are in the beyond exhausting, last chunk of the school year. This is a perfect time to switch into remix mode! Educators and parents can remix the “how are you doing/how was your day” song by asking our children to ask US how WE are doing. Flip the track on the way we typically do test prep by having students create their own multiple-choice questions based on likely errors. And knowing that so many hip hop classics are classics because of a large quantity of amazing featured artists on the track, do lots of remixes that maximize student voice.             Thanks for being a part of our journey for ensuring critical thinking is no longer a luxury good!         - Colin   Join the Critical Thinking Revolution! Renew or Expand Our Partnership!   Have you renewed or expanded our partnership?   Working with you has been an absolute pleasure - we value our partnership and can’t wait to continue our work together.  We look forward to supporting you year round to ensure that our kids have access to the best critical thinking instruction and equity at the classroom level. The BEE Project cohort participant spotlight   To tackle the challenge of accelerating learning for gifted Black and Hispanic students AND to develop existing Black and Hispanic educators, The BEE Project pays Black and Hispanic educators to earn their gifted endorsement credentials by teaching students in need of acceleration. Our current cohort has some amazing participants, check out a few of their backgrounds on the thinkLaw blog!  Continue Reading We are hiring! Are you, or someone you know, looking for a new opportunity?   Looking for a new career or know someone who is?  thinkLaw is looking for people with the passion for our mission of helping educators teach critical thinking to ALL students.  We have multiple, career-defining opportunities to join us at a critical moment of growth and truly have a significant impact.  Check out our current open positions.  Tangible Equity: A Guide for Leveraging Student Identity, Culture, and Power to Unlock Excellence In and Beyond the Classroom (Pre-Order Now)   Colin Seale's 2nd book, Tangible Equity, is available for pre-order. We're so excited to see the impact this will have after the great reception to his 1st best-seller, Thinking Like A Lawyer. Move beyond the "why" of equity and learn what it actually looks like in the classroom. This powerful book shows how you can overcome barriers and create sustainable pathways to realizing equity for your students. Continue Reading Bulk Book Purchases Available Here!   Thinking Like A Lawyer: A Framework For Teaching Critical Thinking To ALL Students Critical thinking is still a luxury good, and students with the greatest potential are too often challenged the least. Thinking Like a Lawyer introduces a powerful but practical framework to close the critical thinking gap and gives teachers the tools and knowledge to teach critical thinking to all students. Get your copy today (over 20,000 copies sold), buy as a gift for someone you care about, or put in a bulk order for your team!   Summer is coming! Make it one to remember     For teachers and students alike, the grind of summer learning is a missed opportunity to enrich, engage, and enlighten. thinkLaw is helping school systems plan to use this time to deepen their toolbox with powerful, but practical critical thinking tools, modify their EXISTING curriculum (instead of throwing it all out) to make it easy for educators to seamlessly incorporate culturally responsive critical thinking lessons across content, and equipping schools with our engaging critical thinking curriculum to help summer school teachers deliver engaging instruction.  Request a quote to partner with us this summer! Teach your child 'how' to think, not 'what' to think   Our annual program for families, Raising Critical Thinkers, helps parents raise their kids into thoughtful adults who are able to make informed decisions about the world around them and provides quick, easy-to-use resources and digital materials that every caregiver can fit into their busy schedules.                 Raising Critical Thinkers includes everything you need to introduce and nurture your child's critical thinking skills, delivered digitally to your inbox every 2 weeks. (Use code MAR20RCT for 20% off!) Join the Critical Thinking Revolution!