S03 EP05 - Tangible Equity in the Online Classroom with Colin Seale

Colin Seale was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, where struggles in his upbringing gave birth to his passion for educational equity. Tracked early into gifted and talented programs, Colin was afforded opportunities his neighborhood peers were not. Using lessons from his experience as a math teacher, later as an attorney, and now as a keynote speaker, contributor to Forbes, The 74, Edutopia and Education Post and author of Thinking Like a Lawyer: A Framework for Teaching Critical Thinking to All Students (Prufrock Press, 2020) and Tangible Equity: A Guide for Leveraging Student Identity, Culture, and Power to Unlock Excellence In and Beyond the Classroom (Routledge, 2022), Colin founded thinkLaw (www.thinklaw.us), a multi-award-winning organization to help educators leverage inquiry-based instructional strategies to close the critical thinking gap and ensure they teach and reach all students, regardless of race, zip code or what side of the poverty line they are born into. When he's not serving as the world's most fervent critical thinking advocate or tweeting from @ColinESeale, Colin proudly serves as the world's greatest entertainer to his two young children.

In today's episode, Colin teaches us to unlock brilliance in our students and move beyond compliance to build psychological safety in our online classes and engage all students with critical thinking.

Timestamps

2:27 What's the unique draw to Tangible Equity?

6:38 Asking, 'What is the significance?'

7:52 Bringing kid's backgrounds into their learning

10:11 Kids need to be not just problem solvers, but problem finders

12:40 Is the "Why" different for different students?

14:20 Unpacking the hidden curriculum

16:47 How you as a teacher can make a tangible difference

18:41 Our kids need direct engagement with each other to learn how to be better

23:02 How did Think Law come to be?

24:42 What Think Law does right now

29:03 Learning how to learn

32:50 Do our kids have the psychological safety to be brilliant?

36:26 The importance of teacher confidence

38:26 What would Colin give to every teacher in the U.S.?

Resources

@ThinklawUS

@ColinESeale