Mobile 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

“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

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.

Critical Thinking Guide

• Collaborative Processes
  Collaborative Learning, Peer to Peer Coaching and Community Building Exercises.
• Visual Tools and Mapping
  Visual Maps for brainstorming, cause/effect, compare/contrast, categories, sequencing, relationships/analogies, perspectives for expanding thinking with frames of reference.
• Frame of Reference
  Cultural Frame of Reference, Schema, Depth and Complexity.
• Questioning for Inquiry Models
  Powerful Questions, Guiding Questions and Socratic Seminar / Shared Inquiry.
• Creating a Thinking Environment
  Belief, People, Objects and Materials.

You can download the Mobile Critical Thinking Tools guide, and additionally I would recommend the current collaborations with The Pedagogy of Confidence Leadership Action Guide as a resource. This collaboration with Yvette Jackson includes many of the models, methods and strategies within along with practical implementation modules, how to for many strategies, structures for implementation and research.
Download the Critical Thinking Guide

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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.

Frame of Reference and Schema

Examples of Collaborations

Models and Methods
Video, Documentation, Film, Text

“No matter what accomplishments you make,
somebody helped you.”
—Althea Gibson

The examples below include a media component with a brief caption, and weblink in multiple categories:

• Amplifying Student Voice
• Professional Development
• Use of Video for Learning
• Qualitative Documentation with Schools
• Film Director, Video, Editor and Producer
• Website Development for Education
• Professional Development with Health Care

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.  

Professional Development with Educators and Education Leaders

Director, Video, Editor, Producer

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of Robert Seth Price’s
models and methods.

“We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived. ”
― Tracy Chapman