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Re: thinking education is an opportunity to listen to organic conversations between colleagues and partners from The Critical Thinking Consortium as they grapple with important pedagogical issues. Each episode will pull back the curtain on their critical, creative, and collaborative thinking and provide an opportunity for listeners to learn and reflect on their own practices.

You may also wish to browse through our selection of episodes from other organizations that have featured TC² facilitators and other team members as guests, discussing a wide variety of topics related to critical thinking.

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Recognizing bias

This video explains how to distinguish biased perspectives from those that are unbiased or impartial. (2:38 minutes)
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Building a Thinking Community in the Math Classroom

Laura Gini-Newman shares a few strategies for building a thinking community in the math classroom. (1:00 minute)
Subjects: Mathematics, Professional Learning
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Explain the image

This video focuses on using visual clues to develop informative explanations of images. (1:55 minutes)
Subjects: English/Language Arts, Social Studies, Professional Learning
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Usha James on creating inclusive classrooms

Usha James, Executive Director of the Critical Thinking Consortium (TC²), shares her thoughts on five key points for creating inclusive classrooms. How can we create the conditions for inclusive classrooms? What is an inclusive mindset? When and how can we better know our students? …
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Experiencing the power of positive comments

In this video, a teacher and her students from Cedar Middle School reflect on the feelings and lessons learned from a Hidden Heroes’ activity that teaches about the effects of making positive and negative comments about others. (3:44 minutes)
Subjects: Social Studies, Professional Learning
Grades: 7, 8, 9
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Nurturing a Thinking Classroom: Strategy #2

Usha James shares the second of five strategies to help nurture a thinking classroom. (1:00 minute)
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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