Robert Seth Price – Critical Thinking Tools
Critical Thinking Tools
Critical thinking tools are across all content areas, for all grade levels and a foundation for life long thinking.
- Collaborative Processes
Students, Teachers, Leaders - Visual Tools
As a Language for Organizing Our Thinking - Frame of Reference
Our Cultural Frame of Reference is Our Identity - Inquiry Models
Powerful Questions for Priming and Shared Inquiry for Depth and Understanding - Thinking Environments
Belief and Belonging, People, Materials, Objects
Osseo Area Schools, Minnesota
Q U I C K L I N K S
- Robert Seth Price CV
- Whole elementary school collaboration 2020-2023 including leadership reflections, video and student voice: Osseo Area Schools, MN
- High school amplifying student voice: Newark Public Schools, NJ 2019-2021
- RCSD Clifford Amplifying Student Voice April 2023
- RCSD Clifford Amplifying Student Voice May 2022
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Critical Thinking Guide
Critical Thinking Tools are the core, and grounding, of what supports and develops authentic student engagement. Student engagement is what keeps us as educators motivated in classrooms and our learning communities. This should be an environment for all students, in all schools, and in all places. Equity consciousness is grounded in belief and belonging for and of all students. Culturally validating pedagogy.
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“In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.”
—Audre Lorde
Whole School Collaboration 2020-2023
Fair Oaks Elementary School
Osseo Area Schools, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota
“Our partnership with Robert Price and the National Urban Alliance over the past three years has been pivotal in developing sustainability with the High Operational Practices that are embedded throughout our curriculum and daily routines. Fair Oaks staff have been on an NUA journey that began with a monthly cohort to both examine and increase our capacity to ensure equitable learning experiences for all students.
As a result of this work, our teachers recognize that NUA is not about isolated strategies for teaching particular concepts, but rather, we have had a philosophical shift in how we activate student voice and create equitable instruction that is purposeful across the curriculum.
Through this work our staff has made monumental gains in focusing on student outcomes, including our students’ use of schema to make connections and think critically about curriculum.”
—the paragraphs above and the complete reflection are from the Fair Oaks Leadership Team.
Innovating —> Building —> Sustaining
Robert is always interested in new collaborations that bring our gifts together to innovate, build and sustain change for equity consciousness with critical thinking tools. Robert’s system approach is about bringing the whole community into the ‘choreography’: from the board members to faculty to support staff to students to parents to bus drivers. The whole community. Contact Robert to schedule a visioning session.
Robert Seth Price CV
Amplifying Student Voice
Redwood City School District, California
Technology Expertise
Computer
Microsoft Word and Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premier and Acrobat, Adobe InDesign and Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Google Workspace, Filmic Pro, Keynote, WordPress, HTML, Ecamm Live, ESRI, and Zoom
Video
Video cameras, mirrorless cameras, and microphones
Animation
Vintage animation with zoetropes, pfanakistascopes, flipbooks and thaumatropes
Early Childhood / Elementary Expertise
Phonics, writing, reading, mathematics, sciences, community
“We claim what we feel we deserve.”
—David Whyte
Frame of Reference and Schema
Text to Self; Text to Text; Text to World.
with Frame of Reference and Visual Tools.
“Even the most political poem is an act of faith.”
—Martin Espada
International
Collaborations
the years for his ability to engage whole student bodies and school districts. Critical thinking and whole school collaboration is the key to application and implementation. He firmly believes that students are more 
successful when all administrators, teachers, staff (including paraprofessionals, custodians, cafeteria employees, bus drivers, etc.), and local community members engage in a student’s matriculation and success. Contact Robert to discuss a collaboration.Download Robert Seth Price’s CV
“Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves, and be free.”
—Cesar Chavez
Facilitate professional development for whole districts (on-site at schools and through Zoom)- Focus on equity consciousness, critical thinking, visual tools, collaborative models, and literacy across all content areas with PreK, K-5, middle school and high school students
- Developed and implement Amplifying Student Voice model
- Implemented wrap around hybrid model now used with the whole organization
- Serve as Senior Advisor to the president and management team
- Serve as technology lead (website design and implementation; videography and editing for documentation; and social media to promote NUA)
- Created online modules and strategies for educators
Read the complete leadership reflections on our collaboration at Fair Oaks including video
Redwood City School District, California
A collaboration with Dr. Yvette Jackson developing an interactive website as a companion to The Pedagogy of Confidence. - Create online modules and videos used by educators
- Developed and created the website
Advise the CEO on online content- Developed and created the website including extensive video library
- Edit videos
- www.successfulteachers.com
The CLEAR Model™ – Dr. Rev Hillstrom, Consultant
Collaborate with exploring ideas as a thinking partner with the founder- Created website
- Created website content including video and systems modules
- www.theCLEARmodel.com
- www.IMPACTi3.com
Thinking Schools Ethiopia, Consultant
Founder of grass roots student centered project with over 100 schools
Collaborated with Ethiopian colleagues in East Africa- Facilitated trainings in Tigray, Addis Ababa and other regions
- www.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com
- The Thinking Schools Ethiopia Guide (English)
- Guide in Amharic/English • Tigrinya
Tigray, Ethiopia
Thinking Design Healthcare Ethiopia, Consultant
- St. Paul’s Millennium Medical College and Hospital
- Mekelle University Health Sciences and Hospital
- Mental Health Practitioners
- Field Guide
- A
dvisor and thought partner with founder and creator of Thinking Maps™ - Conducted an extensive literature review on visual tools
- Co-authored guide Growing Thinking Schools Inside Out with Dr. David Hyerle for Thinking Schools International including use in Malaysia, UK, South Africa.
- Created video documentation in the field with Thinking Maps™
Example: Roosevelt NYC School District Video
Example: Roosevelt NYC School District Print
More Examples - www.thinkingfoundation.org
- www.thinkingschoolsinternational.com
Indianapolis Public Schools – George Buck School 
94, Teacher
- Created and implemented a critical thinking class
- Facilitated whole school participation in weekly sessions
Learning One to One
- Led curriculum writing for ELA high school modules for virtual schools
- Facilitated trainings for educators
- Ninth Grade Example 1
- Ninth Grade Example 2
- Tenth Grade Example
BSR Foundation, Consultant
Curated thinking skills into training modules for textile workers in East Africa- Led creation of Health and Respect modules including hiring Ethiopian illustrator
- Guided the translation from English into Tigrinya and Ahmaric
- Download Her Respect Module
- Download Her Health Module
- Part of the HERProject®
Morino Institute and Foundation, Consultant
Led trainings on critical thinking and technology for 14 non-profit agencies- Created video modules with a journalist and stenographer
St. Francis College Brooklyn, Adjunct Professor
- Designed and taught class for elementary teachers on ELA in the classroom
California Institute of the Arts College (CalArts), Consultant
Consulted with the Art and Graphic Design Departments on pedagogy and transferring their important content to the students through facilitation, visual mapping, and communication.- demonstration lessons with students including content and formal critiques.
Connecticut Voices for Children, Director
Statewide support of non-profits state working collaboratively- Led sessions on technology, literacy, GIS mapping and other foci on children
- Served as an advisor to supporting foundation board meetings
New Haven Public Schools – Public 
Arts High School, Teacher
- Created and taught Arts and Activism class
- Students amplified their voices through art installations, radio, cable tv, street theater, and other events
New Haven Public Schools – Lincoln Bassett Elementary School, Teacher
- Taught in self-contained elementary classrooms as a credentialed teacher
- Highlights included students raising 5K with pennies collected in the community and donating to non-profits; interviewing with community people
Banning Unified School District – Hoffer 
Elementary School, Teacher
- Taught in self-contained elementary classrooms as a credentialed teacher
- Highlights include five years of installations by students at Photography Museum
Robert Seth Price and Joya Baker’s students
Banning, California
University of California Riverside Photo Museum, Consultant
- Facilitated teacher trainings on vintage animation and video in the classroom – elementary and secondary
Ansel Adams Photo Museum, Consultant
- Facilitated teacher trainings — Low Tech, High Tech — on vintage animation and video for students
California State University Fullerton, Adjunct Professor
- Teacher and designer of the Clear Credential Technology Class
Brea Olinda School District – Laurel Elementary School, Teacher
- Taught in self-contained elementary classrooms as a credentialed teacher
- Highlights include a school garden
Lynwood Public Schools – Wilson Elementary School, Teacher
- Taught in self-contained elementary classrooms as a credentialed teacher
- Highlights include extensive cultural mural project
Hot Fudge Productions, Co-CEO
- Co-founder/owner of record label including production of flexible picture records
Globe Associates, Manager, Marshall Islands in Oceania
- Manager and sales of retail audio, music and cameras on Marshall Islands
Examples of Collaborations
Models and Methods
Video, Documentation, Film, Text
“No matter what accomplishments you make,
somebody helped you.”
—Althea Gibson
“Access your resources”
I often share to students,
and educators.
The examples below include a media component with a brief caption, and weblink in multiple categories:
- Amplifying Student Voice
- Professional Development with Whole Schools
Certificated and Classified - Writing, Phonics, Vocabulary, Reading
- All Content Areas
- Video for Learning
- Documentation with Schools
- Film Director, Video, Editor and Producer
- Website Development for Education
- View Robert’s Media Portfolio
Amplifying Student Voice
Amplifying Student voice is a focus of their own cultural frame of reference with critical thinking tools with students acting on their potential to produce the high intellectual performances that can motivate self-directed learning, self-actualization, and self-transcendence.
Student Voice Social Justice high school explorations with school wide installations.
Newark Public Schools, New Jersey
Second Grade, Amplifying Student Voice.
Osseo Area Schools, Minnesota
Amplifying Student Voice – middle school students create videos to tell the lived stories
Redwood City, California
Professional Development with Educators and Education Leaders
—more on the collaboration.
—more about the collaboration.
“Our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging,” “Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see. . . . I wonder whether by ignoring our differences as women or men of color we do a disservice both to the law and society.”
—Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Professional Development with Students and Educators Observing
Director, Videographer, Editor, Producer
Robert Seth Price: Director, Videography, Producer; Charles Jones film editing
Los Angeles, California
Robert Seth Price is co-producer for the Thinking Foundation funded documentary film
Students Create Mini
Documentary Films
Roosevelt School, Long Beach, California
“We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived. ”
―
Banning, California
Banning, California
Aksum, Hawassa, Hosanna, Yirgalem, Mekelle, Shire