THINC Deeply
THINC Deeply features in-depth conversations with educators, policymakers, and community advocates about confronting radical ideologies in K-12 classrooms and advancing civics education, academic excellence, and viewpoint-neutral instruction in America’s schools.
Raul Campillo
In the latest episode of our video series THINC Deeply, THINC Founder and CEO Mitch Siegler is in conversation with Raul Campillo, a San Diego City Councilmember and former 5th-grade teacher. They discuss how schools can best nurture every student’s potential by emphasizing individual agency and shared responsibility.
Raul stresses the importance of giving people the benefit of the doubt, teaching history honestly without promoting a philosophy of hierarchy and division, and ensuring that classrooms remain places of learning rather than politicization. While acknowledging that injustice exists and progress remains unfinished, he argues that framing children as victims robs them of hope and agency.
At the heart of Mitch and Raul’s conversation is a clear principle: we must equip the next generation with the skills to succeed and the conviction that their future is in their hands.
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Brad Liber
In our latest edition of THINC Deeply, Mitch interviews Brad Liber, a veteran teacher from San Diego. Together, they discuss the impact of Liberated Ethnic Studies on students' well-being and worldview. Brad saw firsthand how teaching simplistic oppressor/oppressed narratives makes students less self-reliant, more resentful, and less accepting of other groups. Like THINC, he supports ethnic studies education that emphasizes mutual respect, a nuanced discussion of complex issues, individual agency, and equal opportunity.
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Adam Seagrave, Ph.D.
In the inaugural episode of our new video series THINC Deeply, Mitch speaks with Adam Seagrave, Ph.D., Associate Professor of in the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University, about civil discourse, mutual humanization, and why balanced, complexity-aware history instruction is so essential in K-12 classrooms.
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