Colin Seale || Tangible Equity in Education
The Psychology Podcast
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🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Today we welcome Colin Seale, the founder and CEO of thinkLaw. Colin was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where his struggles gave birth to his passion for educational equity. Using lessons from his experience as a math teacher, attorney, and keynote speaker, he helps educators teach critical thinking to all students, regardless of race or achievement through his award-winning organization thinkLaw. Colin is also the author of Thinking Like a Lawyer. His latest book is called Tangible Equity.
In this episode, I talk to Colin Seale about tangible equity in education. For Colin, real equity work should help reduce the predictive power of demographics on outcomes. In order to do that, we need to teach kids how to think for themselves, so they learn to question instead of comply with unfair systems. Colin shares concrete actions that educators can take to contribute towards tangible equity. We also touch on the topics of privilege, race, bias, and gifted education.
Website: thinklaw.us
Twitter: @ColinESeale
Topics
02:55 What is tangible equity?
05:28 Reforming the pathways to success
09:33 Why equity has become a challenge
16:42 The pressure of success and compliance
18:56 Critical race theory in schools
25:01 Understanding race and privilege
30:53 Colin as a keynote speaker
35:15 Leveraging privilege for equity
36:39 We all have power
41:50 Disrupting gifted education
49:24 Shatter the ceiling of education
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| 0:00.0 | And my point at the end of the day is we'd be in a better place if people acknowledge |
| 0:05.9 | the people of this way that we did have and double down on that when it came to making |
| 0:11.4 | things happen towards this tangible equity goal. |
| 0:14.9 | Hello and welcome to the Psychology Podcast. |
| 0:23.2 | Today we welcome Colin Seal on the show. |
| 0:26.0 | Colin is the founder and CEO of Thinklaw. |
| 0:28.8 | Colin was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York where he struggled to give birth to |
| 0:31.8 | his passion for educational equity. |
| 0:34.2 | Using lessons from his experience as a math teacher, attorney and keynote speaker, he |
| 0:38.0 | helps educators teach critical thinking to all students, regardless of race or achievement |
| 0:42.5 | through his award-winning organization Thinklaw. |
| 0:45.1 | Colin is also the author of Thinking Like a Lawyer, and his latest book, which is the |
| 0:48.6 | topic of our chat today, is called Tangible Equity. |
| 0:51.6 | In this episode I talked to Colin about tangible equity and education. |
| 0:55.2 | For Colin, real equity work should help reduce the predictive power of demographics on |
| 0:59.4 | outcomes. |
| 1:00.4 | In order to do that, he argues we need to teach kids how to think for themselves so that |
| 1:04.1 | they can learn a question instead of comply with unfair systems. |
| 1:07.8 | Colin shares concrete actions that educators can take to contribute towards tangible equity. |
| 1:12.4 | We also touch on the topics of privilege, race, bias and gifted education. |
| 1:17.3 | It's always a great time chatting with Colin, he's a really thoughtful and passionate |
| 1:21.0 | guy, and I think he's making some really important changes in the education system. |
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