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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 28/09/2026

Our first gathering is Tuesday, October 13, 5:00–6:00 PM ET, online. Come share what you’re working on and what you’ve been learning! Learn more & RSVP: www.humanrestorationproject.org/gatherings

HRP Gatherings
Our first gathering is Tuesday, October 13, 5:00–6:00 PM ET, online. Come share what you’re working on and what you’ve been learning.
RSVP @ humanrestorationproject.org/gatherings

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 23/09/2026

If you know you know... Several new designs and redesigns up on our @raygunsite.com webstore: www.rayguncustom.com/collections/...

Image of a red shirt with a light red text that reads conscientizacao with the humanrestorationproject.org URL

Image of a cream colored with black slanted text that reads 'compliance is not learning' with the humanrestorationproject.org URL

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 19/09/2026

Our newest episode features the Appalachian Futurism Project out of Elizabethton High School. AFP’s mission is to leverage educational, cultural, & economic resources to develop an ecosystem across the region where young people are part of imagining & codesigning the Appalachia of the future.

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 19/06/2026

Last month we shared the opening essay, today we're stoked to share the @cnastase.bsky.social original cover for our upcoming primer, We Are Worldbuilders: A New Vision for Progressive Education! 🚀🍄

Cover collage for We Are Worldbuilders featuring images of greenery and growth, mushrooms, space themes, and children

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 06/06/2026

Major update: We gave Human Restoration Project a whole new look. We updated the logo, refreshed the entire brand, and rebuilt humanrestorationproject.org from scratch. The new design leans into a solarpunk feeling: warm, hopeful, a little green around the edges.

Solar system infographic showing various systems HRP works to change.

Research database showing a variety of 2,462 items.

New home page with various cartoon illustrated characters looking up at the text HUMAN RESTORATION PROJECT with various images of classrooms on hover behind it.

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 31/05/2026

Teaching in the Wreckage of the Real: "We must stop waiting for the system and start building anyway. Not within the master's house but in the ruins of it, in the cracks where something rhizomatic can take root." www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/teac...

photo of mushrooms growing on a tree from unsplash

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 31/05/2026

"And so we must ask about our work with young people, even in the face of disastrous loss and an uncertain future: What is it about the world that is worth building, and are we dedicated to the work of building that better world alongside them?" www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/we-a...

Photo of a campfire scene at night with a starry sky

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 02/05/2026

"The thing that made the fight for Dyett [High School] to me, a model for all other communities to follow is it was a plan crafted out of love and community wisdom in partnership with academic expertise rooted in love." - Jitu Brown on Chicago's Sustainable Community Schools

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 18/04/2026

Our latest episode is an exploration of The Promise (and Persistent Myths) of Montessori Education feat. Andrew Faulstich, Dr. Ayize Sabater, and Kelly Jonelis: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/the...

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 26/03/2026

Pedagogies of Collapse is available in paperback or here as a free open access e-book: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

Cover of Pedagogies of Collapse by Ginie Servant Miklos

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 26/03/2026

Announcing our 2026 Summer Book Club! We'll read and meet to discuss the ideas and implications of Pedagogies of Collapse and be joined by the author, Ginie Servant-Miklos, for a Q&A on July 31. Learn more and register @ www.humanrestorationproject.org/book-club #edchat

"Collapse should not be equated with the apocalypse. If the role of education is to prepare the young for he future, and this is our future, where is the education system in all this?"

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Join us this summer for our book club, where we'll read and meet to discuss the ideas and implications of Pedagogies of Collapse and be joined by the author, Ginie Servant-Miklos, for an extended Q&A session on July 31.

The book is available in paperback or as a free open access e-book. Anyone is welcome to attend!

Dates:

Welcome Session: June 26 @ 11am ET
Ch. 1-3: July 10 @ 11am ET
Ch. 4-6: July 24 @ 11am ET
July 31 @ 11am ET w/ Ginie Servant-Miklos

Learn more and register @ https://www.humanrestorationproject.org/book-club

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 21/03/2026

Like the conservationist John Muir, the sense you get talking to @garystager.bsky.social about education is that when you try to pick out anything by itself, you find it hitched to everything else in the universe: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/rea... #K12 #edchat

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 07/03/2026

In our newest episode, @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social shares her experience teaching in the prison education program and the lessons we can learn about school and society. What Prison Can Teach Us About School w/ Jennifer Berkshire: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxrR... #edchat #k12

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 02/03/2026

NEW - Teaching in the Wreckage of the Real: "The only antidote to a world of manufactured confusion is a shift toward making students builders of meaning, not consumers of it." www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/teac...

When a teacher follows a mandated curriculum, the platform "teaches for" the teacher. Critical theorist Michael Apple documented this process decades ago, arguing that teachers lose the time and skill to plan their own curricula and instead become isolated executors of someone else's plans and evaluative mechanisms. Likewise, theorist Henry Giroux says it reduces teachers "to the status of specialized technicians within the school bureaucracy, whose function then becomes one of managing and implementing curricular programs rather than developing or critically appropriating curricula to fit specific pedagogical concerns.” The student, in turn, is "measured" on their ability to reproduce predetermined output. Even in competency-based frameworks, "measuring" creativity or critical thinking becomes self-consuming: the skill is not applied but performed for the purpose of assessment.

This can become further entrenched. Without proactive use, AI accelerates interpassivity into what Jenny Anderson and Rebecca Winthrop in The Disengaged Teen (2025) have dubbed "passenger mode." The role of the student shifts from active participant in making sense of the world to passive consumer of whatever the curriculum (or now, algorithm) outputs. The question "is this true?" gets replaced by "does this sound right?" and eventually the question stops being asked at all.

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 22/02/2026

When schools rely on what @laurenporosoff.bsky.social calls "compensatory programs" to patch systemic issues, they often create problem of their own. Our latest episode, Making School Meaningful w/ Lauren Porosoff: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQFg... #K12 #edchat

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 07/02/2026

NEW: Yong Zhao helps us understand how our obsession with meritocracy contributes to the great problems of our time, and how shifting the purpose of education toward human interdependence offers a way out. 👇 www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/fro... #K12 #edchat

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 24/01/2026

Diane Ravitch was once a leading champion of charters, vouchers, and testing until the evidence came in and she changed her mind about all of it. Changing My Mind About Schools (and Everything Else) w/ @dianeravitch.bsky.social: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cha... #K12 #edchat

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 23/01/2026

"Through intention or its absence, built by us or built for us, the very real and shared world we inhabit is built bit by bit each day. So is our work in education a world-building project." So what is it about the world that is worth building? www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/we-a...

As Octavia Butler recognized, world-building is not just a project of science-fiction. Through intention or its absence, built by us or built for us, the very real and shared world we inhabit is built bit by bit each day. So is our work in education a world-building project. Through the structures and systems we create and the pedagogies and practices we cultivate, we can either foreclose possibility, concede to inevitability, or become builders of a better imagined future. This was also John Dewey’s charge from the ascendent fascism of his time—the very period that informed Butler’s fictional dystopia—to our own today.

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 10/01/2026

What is democracy, what is the role of public schools in a pluralistic democratic nation, and why are both worth keeping? @aft.org president, @rweingarten.bsky.social, joins our podcast to help answer these fundamental questions and more: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/why... #edchat

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 20/12/2025

Our final episode of 2025 is a conversation with @mistermeyer.bsky.social about the old days of Crash Course History and the current state of social studies teaching in America. 👇 www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cra... #K12 #NCSS #sschat #edchat

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 18/12/2025

Of course, none of this would be possible today without our partners and supporters. We especially want to thank our friends, colleagues, and supporters who have contributed and believed in this mission, and believed in us, from the very beginning. Thank you! 🫶

Screenshot of partner names and logos includes Open Way Learning, What School Could Be, Cortico, RAYGUN, US Dept of Ed, Zinn Ed Project, Global Math Summit, Stimpunks, Grow Beyond Grades, Iowa CCI, etc.

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 18/12/2025

Top New Podcast: Our conversation with @heymrsbond.com, Reclaiming Teaching & Learning in an Age of AI, was our most downloaded episode of the year *by far*! 👇 www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/rec... #K12 #edchat

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 17/12/2025

Upcoming episodes! 👇 12/20: Crash Course Social Studies Education w/ @mistermeyer.bsky.social 1/10: Why Fascists Fear Teachers w/ @rweingarten.bsky.social 1/24: Changing my Mind About Schools w/ @dianeravitch.bsky.social 2/7: Redefining the Purpose of Education w/ Yong Zhao #K12 #sschat

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 06/12/2025

NEW: How does creativity shows up in the world, in the human condition, and how we can cultivate creativity in the classroom? Search & subscribe to 'Human Restoration Project' on any podcast app or listen on our website: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cul... #K12 #edchat

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 22/11/2025

Today's guests argue that the narratives & themes of English class are everywhere for those equipped to see them. 👇 @karismjones.bsky.social @mraleosays.bsky.social @virginiak.bsky.social @nashb.bsky.social www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/are... #literacies #NCTE2025 #edchat

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 13/11/2025

“Let me cook with that drill!" Overheard as Orchard View 7th grade students began construction on what will become a nine-hole student-designed disc golf course they're building outside their middle school. 🛠️

Photo collage of middle school students in various stages of constructing disc golf tee pads

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 08/11/2025

"What would it mean to have truly public schools, down to the very means of resource creation and distribution that fuels them…what will it take to make school as public as possible?" @schooldaves.bsky.social asks in his new book. Our conversation: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/aki...

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 25/10/2025

Kate McAllister's life as an educator is define by "what if?": "What if learning could be different? What if we did education with not for others? What if we can become more self-determined in our learning? What if education can help regenerate the planet?" shorturl.at/90liA #edchat #UK

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 30/09/2025

ICYMI: "Will Work for Food" takes a holistic look at our food system and, in part, the role schools play in labor across the food chain. Check out our conversation with the authors: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/wil... #EduSky

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 17/09/2025

Huge congrats to @pammoran1.bsky.social & @irasocol.bsky.social for assembling a team of nearly two dozen educators and school leaders to document their path toward transformative school change in 'Real Learning, Real Accomplishment: Schools that Work for Kids.' We're honored to do our part. 😁

Cover of Real Learning Real Accomplishment: Schools that work for Kids

“As schools across the country confront a disengagement and mental health crisis, the need for a human-centered education has never been more immediate. Grounded in models of practical shifts with an eye toward intentional systems change, Real Learning, Real Accomplishment is a guide for courageous educators and school leaders who want to shift their practice to change the system by learning from those who already have.” - Nick Covington, Cassie Nastase, Chris McNutt, Directors, Human Restoration Project

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 30/08/2025

How can school leaders protect the mission of their schools as sites of pro-social change? Our latest episode is a conversation with Jennifer D. Klein about her newest book, Taming the Turbulence in Educational Leadership: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/tam... #EduSky

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 17/08/2025

"If [education is] just instrumental, if it's just about getting students in & out with the degree, well, then AI...[but] I don't think it's the right way to think about what university education or education in general is & should be about." Listen: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/bs-...

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 16/08/2025

"Okay Google, how do I remove the appendix?" An incredible moment from our latest episode when Prof. Rob Sparrow asks a hypothetical...and his phone answers. Search & subscribe to 'Human Restoration Project' or listen @ www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/bs-... #highered #EduSky

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 07/08/2025

We've been hard at work remodeling the HRP website! 🚀 If you want to check it out and find ways to Listen, Connect, and Reimagine with us, visit: www.humanrestorationproject.org #EduSky #Edchat

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 03/08/2025

"We have to acknowledge there can't be a therapist at all times in classrooms...We actually need educators to know how to reduce reactivity, and that’s going to help them feel better by the end of the day too." www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cul... #EduSky #EdChat #K12

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 02/08/2025

New Episode: Maria Munro-Schuster recounts her journey from classroom teaching to serving families as a licensed clinical professional counselor and the therapy-backed practices that create The Empathetic Classroom: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cul... #EduSky #K12 #EdChat

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 28/07/2025

What's the HRP podcast up to this month?👂 8/2: The Empathetic Classroom w/ Maria Munro-Schuster 8/16: ‘Bullshit Universities’ & the Future of Automated Education w/ Robert Sparrow & Gene Flenady 8/30: Taming the Turbulence w/ Jennifer D. Klein www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcast #EduSky

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 26/07/2025

Postcards from #CTRH2025, Pt. 2: What's an idea you want people to take away from #CTRH2025? "Small is all. Small communities grounded in reciprocal communication transform our world." Find out what we're up to next by following up here or at www.humanrestorationproject.org #EduSky🚀

"Release the idea of failure. Notice where you are. Get to know it. Begin. (and begin again.)"

"Small is all. Small communities grounded in reciprocal communication transform our world."

"Community is vital. We must lean into our relationships with the natural world and with each other as we think about what we do in schools."

"Not only is it important to develop relationships with students, we also need to always connect with other educators and build those relationships. :)"

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 25/07/2025

Postcards from Conference to Restore Humanity! 2025: What excites you about the future of education? "Youth will always be amazing. They just need the space and conditions to flourish." "What excites me is the same thing that scares me: that it's unpredictable!" #EduSky #CTRH2025

Youth will always be amazing. They just need the space and conditions to flourish.

What excites me is the same thing that scares me: that it's unpredictable!

More people seeking more human ways to learn together in the face of ever-increasing dehumanizing forces in schools (I hope)

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 24/07/2025

And a special thank you to this year's sponsors 🙌: Learning InspirED @stimpunks.org @teacherpowered.bsky.social @whatschoolcouldbe.bsky.social @irasocol.bsky.social & @pammoran1.bsky.social (Socol Moran Partners) KMS Intercultural Education Lab for New Teaching

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 24/07/2025

(cont.) AND Great Plains Action Society @heymrsbond.com Lucket Kiche Maria Munro-Schuster @willbo24.bsky.social

Facing Education in 2025 & Beyond panel with Chanea Bond, Maria Munro-Schuster, Lucket Kiche, & Will Richardson

Great Plains Actions Society student panel

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 24/07/2025

A huge thank you to everyone who made Conference to Restore Humanity! 2025: Quest for Connection our best attended and most engaging conference yet! It was an honor and our pleasure to build community and connection with you all over the past three days. ❤️🚀 #EduSky #CTRH2025

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 19/07/2025

In our latest episode, @rethinkingjames.bsky.social shares the journey that led him to human-centered education & the solutions it offers to our present polycrisis. Subscribe to 'Human Restoration Project' on any podcast app or listen @ www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/con... #EduSky

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 18/07/2025

On Monday we begin our Quest for Connection🧭, bringing together students and teachers, researchers and doers, thinkers and visionaries to explore complex topics in education and illuminate a path forward together. July 21-23 | virtual | $50 www.humanrestorationproject.org/conference #EdChat

Promotion for CTRH! 2025 (Quest for Connection) | July 21-23, Virtual |Images of all presenters: Nawal Qarooni, Angela Stockman, Emma McMain, Charles Logan, Sarah Fine, Chanea Bond, Shana V. White, Audrey Watters, Lucket Kiche, Great Plains Action Society, Vy Dao, Maria Munro-Shuster, Will Richardson.

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 08/07/2025

Instead of starting with a lecture, we're kicking things off with dialogue. #CTRH2025 participants get access to this flipped keynote ahead of time to listen & watch at their own pace before joining @sarahmfine.bsky.social in a live Q&A! www.humanrestorationproject.org/conference #EduSky

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 05/07/2025

Our latest episode is a conversation with @ryanboren.bsky.social, Chelsea, Norah, & @autisticrealms.bsky.social about the awesomeness that is @stimpunks.org and DIY, mutual aid, & human-centered learning for neurodivergent & disabled people! 🤘 www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/diy... #EduSky

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 29/06/2025

With a huge shoutout as always to our incredible staff artist, Farimah Khavari, an award-winning Canada-based artist and illustrator whose work radiates joy, curiosity, and discovery: www.instagram.com/farimah.khav...

Screenshot of Quest for Connection t-shirt design featuring a group of kids exploring a cave

Screenshot of Third Coast Learning Collaborative shirt design featuring a kid looking out of a lighthouse, shining light on the TCLC text

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 29/06/2025

If you haven't checked out our @raygunsite.com merch shop in a minute, in the past year we've added SIX new designs including #CTRH2025 Quest for Connection & Third Coast Learning Collaborative shirts highlighting our partnerships in Michigan: www.rayguncustom.com/collections/...

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 23/06/2025

ICYMI: Our most recent episode, Reclaiming Teaching & Learning in an Age of AI with @heymrsbond.com, is already on track to be our most-listened to of 2025! Search & subscribe to 'Human Restoration Project' on any podcast app or listen at: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/rec... #EduSky

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