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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 10/08/2026

What was it like using Polaris Education at your school? Hear from students about what it was like to be asked real questions and to see things change using our new listening/learning tool: youtu.be/JYPB7aHktRw

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Find Your North Star | Polaris Education

Polaris Education transforms student, educator, and community conversations into instant, actionable insights. It's data that drives real change instead of sitting in spreadsheets. Learn more and…

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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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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Love that @humanrestorationproject.org got included in the sketch notes agenda today. 😁

Sketch notes agenda on poster paper saying intros and opening, significant disproportionality, success gaps, and Human Restoration Project.

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Synthia (心志愛) Illustration @synthiajester.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Uploading some process videos I've been hoarding on my tablet. #wip #illustation #イラスト #oc

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

It's interesting to talk with school leaders & districts about the sort of terminal condition of school data today. Ironically, they have more data than they've ever had before but lack the processes & resources to make sense of it in ways that are timely, actionable, AND meaningful...

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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

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 · 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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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Nonscientific poll: would folks be interested in the opening chapter to #Nostos in standalone accordion format, w/bonus behind the scenes, process stuff included before the book is finished (it’d be printed there as well in standard book format)? Hoping to finally make this happen! #Unflattening 2

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

cool to see #PortfolioDay! I make comics about ideas with an emphasis on exploring the form itself. I also teach comics & much of what I explore in form/constraints comes from what I learn from working with students. Most known for #Unflattening (my dissertation in comics) & in the midst of #Nostos!

A 2-page black and white comics spread, with imagery continuing beyond the side boundaries of the pages as it’s part of a longer sequence. The center is a tapestry that stretches through the page displaying Odysseus’s ship with the lighthouse of pharos, Penelope weaving a pharos, and the bag of Aeolus. The image of penelope emerges from the tapestry, near it there's a meta-tapestry with warp and weft of threads that make the page, all woven by hands from the reader’s perspective. They hands unwind at the wrists to merge with a labyrinth that fills bottom of page metapmorphosizing from greek key patterns that make the boundary of the tapestry. At top the moon in three phases and a double headed axe spins through the page - in one instance mirroring the full moon with crescents on either side. The axe transforms into a monarch butterfly across the page. Also there’s an owl who moves backwards across the page until it comes to rest on Penelope’s loom. It’s a complicated page... (oh, and I have twice as many characters as Twitter here - but that’s probably enough)

A, to say the least, rather difficult page to describe & given that I’ve made identifying elements a contest, apologies in advance for not spoiling it here. It’s a 2 page spread split horizontally in two - the upper half is a black background in the stars, lower half of page is white and in the body. Top half features a number of initially circular panels over the cosmos with images drawn of planets, comets, and such, as it moves rightward across the spread panels are now hexagonal and show more distant locales in the universe. Lower half has a forearm unraveling and tissue and threads that make it unspooling and displayed in at first small circular panels. Heading to right half of the spread these panels become larger and hexagonal and show molecules and finally atoms. Overlaying this is a hexagonal pathway of panels showing the life journey of a carbon atom this winds up on the upper half far right. Center has 4 images top telescope old & modern, same with microscopes in lower half.

six spreads from a comic book all somehow based on circular compositions along with the thumbnail diagrammed sketches that led to their creation

a comics page in 9 panels but all a single scene. the buddha sits in a banyan tree, with various animals around him. Each essentially in its own panel while his face is in the center panel. The text is about how comics are read sequentially yet the visual nature of it makes it a single simultaneous experience and thus rhizomatic connections across the page (like the banyan tree itself) are possible and make comics something far less than linear. It's also about the fragmented nature of comics - and the buddha makes a joke where the text reads "each element is thus" and he says "one with everything" (this is from the joke - the buddha orders at a hotdog stand "make me one with everything")

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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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Mrs. D. @thepolkadotteacher.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

"The goal for this project was for students to learn about the purpose of an IEP, understand their own goals and accommodations, and create a personalized portfolio to showcase their strengths, needs, and learning preferences." Love the idea of a personalized portfolio driven by the IEP.🤔💡

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 27/06/2025

"The project exposed educational weaknesses that had been kept from the students themselves as a lot of IEPs are deficit based, focusing on where students are lacking educationally instead of showing them as whole humans." My IEP, My Future www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/my-i... #EduSky

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‍My IEP, My Future | Human Restoration Project | Catherine Patton

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Rumibell hooks @rumibell-hooks.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

This episode is a #✨GiftOfLove✨. @heymrsbond.com & @covingtonedu.bsky.social y’all should connect with @aieloc.bsky.social. They do work around identity based learning & their upcoming conference is on humanizing pedagogy. #WeAreHumanBeingsNotHumanDoings #EduSky podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

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Reclaiming Teaching & Learning in an Age of AI w/ Chanea Bond

Podcast Episode · Human Restoration Project · 06/21/2025 · 1h 7m

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 22/06/2025

HRP & Open Way Learning just wrapped an incredible week in Muskegon with Orchard View & Reeths-Puffer Schools! Educators co-designed cross-curricular PBL projects & integrated portfolio-based assessment. Learn more at www.thirdcoastlearning.org/about #restorehumanity

Zaynab leading the group talking about PBL.

Nick talking to educators about portfolios.

Natasha (OV Middle School) talking with co-workers about projects.

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 21/06/2025

I started listening to this in my AirPods & it took me aback that my voice just pops out of the void 😂😂😂😂😂 5 minutes in and I have thoughts! 1) @covingtonedu.bsky.social’s voice sounds like he does a podcast 😂 2) MORE TEACHERS TALKING ABOUT THINGS ON YOUR PODS podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

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Reclaiming Teaching & Learning in an Age of AI w/ Chanea Bond

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

"A free education is incompatible with fascism. That was Dewey's petition from his generation’s age of fascism to our own: that to make education incompatible with fascism is to make us more free." My remarks from #TeachTruth 2025: www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/refl... #EduSky

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Reflections on Teach Truth Day of Action 2025 | Human Restoration Project | Nick Covington

How can John Dewey’s ideal of a thriving democratic education revitalize a American commitment to freedom and democracy? Published by Human Restoration Project, a 501(c)3 organization restoring humani...

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

@pammoran1.bsky.social & @irasocol.bsky.social just happened to be working with schools in Muskegon at the same time as the @humanrestorationproject.org team! Great things happening here in Western Michigan. 👀

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 08/06/2025

Last year we spoke with @nqcliteracy.bsky.social about Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations: Elevating Home Experiences and Classroom Practices for Collective Care. Queue up this conversation and join her in July for a 2-hour workshop at #CTRH2025! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjIW...

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Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations w/ Nawal Qarooni

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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 30/05/2025

Our merch is printed by union labor in the United States from an ethical supply chain. We've got shirts, stickers, and posters. All profits go to our mission. www.rayguncustom.com/collections/...

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Stimpunks Foundation Store

We exist for the direct support and mutual aid of neurodivergent and disabled people. Stimpunks is created by and for neurodivergent and disabled people. We provide mutual aid, creator grants, learni...

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Grow Beyond Grades @growbeyondgrades.org · 23/05/2025

🕐 ONE WEEK LEFT! Students: How have grades—or the lack of them—shaped your learning or growth? All genres & formats welcome ✍️ Cash prizes 💸 Chance to be published 📚 growbeyondgrades.org/contest #gradeless #ungrading #growbeyondgrades @humanrestorationproject.org @gotlearning.bsky.social

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Contest — Grow Beyond Grades

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Chris McNutt @mcnuttedu.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Check it out! Just like all our conferences, we'll release nearly everything for free afterwards...joining live lets you participate in the community + support the cause! This event will feature a stellar line-up, leans into virtual as a way to connect, and has some light TTRPG elements. ;)

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 14/05/2025

In 2025, we’re responding to the need for community & solidarity in uncertain times by turning Conference to Restore Humanity into a model for humanizing critical discourse & dialogue. We hope you'll join us! Virtual | July 21-23 humanrestorationproject.org/conference youtu.be/ZF92Jl6e_bA #EduSky

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Conference to Restore Humanity! 2025: Quest for Connection - Trailer

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 09/05/2025

We're honored to have HRP's collaborative work with Michigan schools highlighted in the @whatschoolcouldbe.bsky.social inaugural newsletter, with a huge spotlight on the indispensable and incomparable @cnastase.bsky.social, our TCLC Coordinator! 🙌 mailchi.mp/whatschoolco...

SPOTLIGHT ON
This month, What School Could Be is thrilled to spotlight Cassie Nastase! Cassie began her career as a middle school counselor in West Michigan. Now, as the Third Coast Learning Collaborative Coordinator with the Human Restoration Project, Cassie partners with educators at Orchard View Middle School to co-design learning experiences that cultivate curiosity, creativity and meaningful connection to self and community. Cassie is passionate about integrating SEL standards and therapeutic approaches into everyday teaching practices to create nurturing learning environments that support the holistic development of students.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

If you want to know why the work of @humrespro.bsky.social is exploding, this is exactly why. Conscientious school leaders know the antidote to apathy, disengagement, absenteeism, AND so-called "artificial intelligence" is purposeful, meaningful, human experience: bsky.app/profile/mcnu...

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Chris McNutt @mcnuttedu.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Incredible convo at the Ohio Jennings gathering! HRP trained students who led 130+ peer discussions on reimagining education. We identified 4300+ insights showing clear desire for self-directed learning, PBL, and restorative practices which directly leads into *action*. @humrespro.bsky.social

A group of educators gathered in Vincent, Ohio at Warren Local Schools.

Student data portal with top reading: "Students Leading the Way, Ohio: 2024-2025

This report synthesizes findings from empathy interviews conducted with over 700 students across eight Ohio school districts. Through peer/facilitator-led conversations, students shared candid insights about their educational experiences—what works, what doesn't, and how schools might better serve their needs. Their perspectives offer valuable guidance for creating more engaging, supportive, and meaningful learning environments."

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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Nothing creepy about this at all

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

But writing is not just a transaction, particularly in contexts where we're learning to write. Writing is an experience. The experience matters. Outsourcing the writing to an LLM is obviously pointless. Writing is not just syntax generation. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-...

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More Than Words

A veteran writing teacher makes a “moving” (Rick Wormeli) argument that writing is a form of thinking and feeling and shows why it can’t be...

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The HRP team had a blast working w/ teachers, visiting schools, and talking with students in Michigan this week. An extracurricular highlight was the stash of games @mcnuttedu.bsky.social brought! My ranking: Sleeping Gods Mind MGMT Arcs Dominion Watergate

Chris standing with the rulebook over the large table presence for Sleeping Gods

Nick's close victory location in Mind MGMT, a hidden movement game

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Interesting in-progress item analysis. We're currently sorting through 3797 conversation highlights, and we've tagged 1002 of them as "Direct Teacher Feedback", ie, "What's one thing you would want teachers to take away from this conversation?" 👀 #EduSky So how did we sort & code these by subtheme?

Direct Teacher Feedback - 1002 highlights

Need for Compassion & Understanding 33.1%
Everyone Learns Differently 24.5%
Desire for Projects & Hands-on 17.9%
Having Adjustable Deadlines 12.5%
The Need to Listen / Make Change 8.4%
iReady & Standardized Curricula 1.9%
Refrain from Collective Punishment 1.2%

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Abe Moore @arbay38.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

“Our children are telling us ‘we cannot live into this future.’ We're the only species on this planet where our little ones are taking their own lives. What is it that's causing all this anxiety and stress & depression? The number one reason that they talk about is climate change & unsafe futures"

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Abe Moore @arbay38.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

It’s school holiday time in SA, so this week we will welcome around 3000 children and Families in Kuitpo Forest for our annual Forest Fest. I’m in awe of our team who pull this off. As a small, not-for-profit, we have 5 FTE equivalent office staff, so we punch above our weight!

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

By contrast, @humrespro.bsky.social is offering our summer virtual conference for FIFTY BUCKS and we compensate ALL of our speakers, workshops, panelists, and student organizations. Just ONE admission to ASU+GSV would buy over 100 admissions to #CTRH2025!

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Education is a human enterprise. The government officials and edu-philanthropists who want to efficiency their way away from this truth are leading us to bad places. engagededucation.substack.com/p/education-...

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Education Requires Human Connection

Why is this even controversial?

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

"The world came into my classroom and said you can't do that anymore." A conversation for this moment, I'd argue, with @covingtonedu.bsky.social, about what it means to be an educator in this moment.

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Andratesha Fritzgerald @fritztesha.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I highly recommend this conference to educators who are looking to blend strategy with research and hope! If you honor humanity and value education check it out. www.humanrestorationproject.org/conference @covingtonedu.bsky.social

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Conference to Restore Humanity! 2025: Quest for Connection

The yearly virtual Conference to Restore Humanity! brings together radical educators to reimagine education systems across the world.

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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I've often thought the same (and wasn't sure if there was a better alternative), until I attended @humrespro.bsky.social's Conference to Restore Humanity. Flipped keynotes, Q/A time with presenters, tools like @figma.com for interactivity, etc. etc. Was all hosted on @discord.com. It can be done.

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 12/03/2025

HRP's Third Coast Learning Collaborative Coordinator, @cnastase.bsky.social, contributed an amazing article, "Exploring the Mutual Dependence between SEL & PBL with the Third Coast Learning Collaborative", to the March 2025 issue of Wellness Education Magazine! 🙌 wellnessedmag.com/WMarch25/vie...

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

How do we create a culture where agency & autonomy thrive? What are we preparing kids FOR? How do you re-wire educators to let students take the lead? How do we define agency & voice going forward? These are important questions that require conversation, collaboration, & cross-pollination!

Example of poster brainstorming how do you rewire educators to allow students to take the lead

Poster example showing what are preparing kids for?

Poster brainstorming how do we create a culture where agency and autonomy thrive?

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

At last! Finished page: how a star forms, what fuels it, & how it forges new forms into being! A star is a momentary reversal - a wellspring of possibilities that makes life possible. This took me some time to figure out to say the least - but geeked to be done & move onward! #Nostos #Unflattening 2

Comics page on how a star forms, what’s going on inside, and how it’s generating new elements over its lifetime - and a reversal of entropy’s downward flow towards disorder. There’s a drawing of a star that’s about the width of the page in the center - realistic on its outside and diagrammatic on the interior. Running through it from top of page to bottom of page - is an hourglass like shape with various panels, sort of like greek meanders ornamenting it that detail various parts of the narrative here. The interior of the star shape is in four quadrants (a bit of the middle and the center are carved out by the hourglass, which i’ll get to next). upper left quadrant is a diagram of the force of gravity versue the resistance pressue of atoms being shoved together - represented by black arrows drawing inward and white drawing outward - which make a circular star shape complete with the tails of the black arrows as rays of the star. the background for this panel is a warped grid as space would be warped by this massive object. Upper right panel is a closeup on just a few of these white and black arrows - and within them - filled with more closely packed particles and then also tiny arrows pressing from outside. Lower left panel has the path light takes to leave a star - a brownian motion trail, bouncing around randomly in all sorts of directions before eventually leaving the star. The final panel within the star is a more realistic depiction of what the regions within the star might look like. On the hourglass, there are periodic stripes with panels inside them - in the other spaces, we see circles as simplified particles falling down this funnel and getting closer together as they near the center (as with hydrogen falling into a star). the first row of panels is a series of hourglasses - with sand running down. The next one is a quick retelling of the birth of the universe to the first filaments. Then the hourglasses again, now they are spinning, sand running uphill. T…

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 22/02/2025

Longtime early childhood educator, @hechternacht.bsky.social, joined us to talk about the importance of play, the role of inquiry, & the models that support it! Search & subscribe on any podcast app or listen directly on our website: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/inq... #EduSky #ECE

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Stansbury says her understanding is the Trump admin "has been running drills for the last couple of weeks, planning for this." She also said she expects that "the Department of Education is going to potentially be dissolved in the coming days." And yes, this is illegal.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 09/02/2025

Chicago! Join @eveewing.bsky.social and @jessehagopian.bsky.social for a conversation about education and antiracism moderated by Monica Rickert-Bolter, hosted by @ctulocal1.bsky.social Wednesday, March 19th at 6:00 pm CTU HQ, 1901 W Carroll RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 06/02/2025

"Your favorite teacher’s favorite English teacher," @heymrsbond.com, joins #CTRH2025 🧭 as we navigate & try to make sense of the State of Education in 2025 & Beyond. Virtual | July 21-23 | #EduSky www.humanrestorationproject.org/conference

Promotion for CTRH! 2025 (Quest for Connection) | July 21-23, Virtual | Chanea is an English educator, a teacher and an eternal student from North Texas. Her graduate work focuses on increasing access to dual credit and advanced academic opportunities for Black and Brown students. She is dedicated to mentoring new educators to make teaching sustainable and advocating for students’ rights through access diverse texts, affirming Black, brown, and LGBTQ+ student identities, and “being the teacher she needed.”

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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 25/01/2025

By most measures, Danes are among the happiest people in the world. What lessons can we learn from Danish society & its education system that may help heal our own? We get a Danish perspective on American education w/ @pernille.bsky.social: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/a-d... #EduSky

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Natalie Thompson @natalieathompson.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I can't wait for this conference. It's online, it's affordable, and it's full of interesting, progressive, and critical ideas about education. I honestly couldn't think of a better way to spend 3 days.

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Synthia (心志愛) Illustration @synthiajester.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I saw a screenshot of this quote and felt I needed it in my home office. ☔💐🏵️🌸🌼💐☔ #animalcrossing #どうぶつの森 #ruby

Art by Synthia Jester. Illustration of Ruby, the white rabbit with red eyes, from the game Animal Crossing, holding a pink umbrella. Text written says, "don't be such a little capitalist! Take a breathe and enjoy a walk "

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