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Human Restoration Project

Human Restoration Project

Since 2018, the Human Restoration Project Podcast has reimaged education through critical, progressive, human-centered learning!Across nearly 200 episodes, and counting, we"ve explored every topic in education: ungrading and alternative assessment, interdisciplinary play-based and project-based learning, SEL, education reforms and systemic school change in society with students, teachers, leaders, researchers, and advocates around the world.Join us on our mission to restore humanity to education,

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69: Social Justice, Gender Identity, and Liberatory...

Human Restoration Project ·

2020/05/09

Today I am joined by Dr. sj Miller, an associate professor of teacher education at Sante Fe Community College. sj is an expert on social justice and challenges the gender and gender identity binary (e.g. trans*+, gender dynamic/fluid youth.) sj is an award-winning and well-published author, including writing for The International Journal of Transgenderism, International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, and the Teachers College Record. You can view sj's speech on gender identities and young people via

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Bonus: Summit: Teacher Powered Schools w/ Amy Junge,...

Human Restoration Project ·

2020/04/30

Interested in using this opportunity for professional development credit? See our template for administrators. Consider running this event past your administrative team prior to completing.In this interactive professional development session, we will talk about how teachers can create their own public, private, and charter schools through the Teacher Powered Schools organizational structure. We are joined by three amazing guests:Amy Junge, Director of the Teacher Powered Schools initiative,

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68: Grassroots, Teacher Powered Schools w/ Liz Seubert

Human Restoration Project ·

2020/04/25

Today I am joined by Liz Seubert, a teacher at the teacher run and operated school, Wildlands in Fall Creek, Wisconsin. Wildlands is a small, tuition free 7-12 public charter school, which is affiliated with the Teacher Powered Schools movement. Liz, along with her coworkers, operate the entire school without an administrative body.In this podcast, we will delve into the operation of Wildlands, how it was founded, and what teachers can do to become involved in Teacher Powered Schools. If you're

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29:53

67: Learning From Unschooling During Isolation w/...

Human Restoration Project ·

2020/04/11

Our podcast today features Tiersa McQueen, an avid homeschooler who raises her four children in an unschooling philosophy. Tiersa and her husband both work opposing shifts to allow this to occur. Tiersa frequently posts on her Twitter and Instagram handles as MotherBae, critiquing traditional education, offering support as an unschooler, and demonstrating how we can adopt unschooling among our children. I invited Tiersa to talk about this pedagogy and offer advice for educators who are now

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Bonus: Summit: Play and Outdoor Learning w/ Abe Moore

Human Restoration Project ·

2020/03/29

Interested in using this opportunity for professional development credit? See our template for administrators. Consider running this event past your administrative team prior to completing.This discussion will talk about how we can bring about play-based learning in and out of classroom. This conversation will center on experiential learning and student voice, with some credence to how this can integrate to the COVID-19 crisis.Abe Moore is a primary teacher in Adelaide, Australia, and has worked on

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66: Humane Education w/ Zoe Weil

Human Restoration Project ·

2020/03/28

Today I'm joined by Nick Covington and Zoe Weil, where we're exploring the work of the Institute of Humane Education, which is led by Zoe. Zoe has been teaching "humane education" for over thirty years, and is an established author, speaker, and workshop leader on the topic.The Institute of Humane Education is an accredited program offering robust graduate and doctoral coursework in "humane education", which centers on promoting social good and minimizing harm to people, animals, and the

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Bonus: Summit: Teaching and COVID-19

Human Restoration Project ·

2020/03/19

Interested in using this opportunity for professional development credit? See our template for administrators. Consider running this event past your administrative team prior to completing.In this interactive discussion, we will discuss what teaching is like during the COVID-19 crisis.Participants will be posed with these questions, but the conversation will take us on a journey of its own:Commiserate: What’s going on? How has the response to the COVID-19 crisis impacted you and your

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65: Virtual Learning and COVID-19 w/ Jesse Stommel PhD

Human Restoration Project ·

2020/03/13

Today we're covering COVID-19 and how it impacts the education system. Depending on when you're listening to this podcast, you're likely facing your school's physical environment shut down, or soon to be doing so. In Ohio, all schools are now expected to have at least three weeks out starting on Tuesday - and schools are frantically trying to prepare how they'll tackle this shift.Most districts across the United States are continuing the expectation of academic coursework across this disruption -

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1:06:35

64: Disrupting the "Same Old, Same Old" with Peter...

Human Restoration Project ·

2020/03/07

Today we are joined by two fantastic educators. First, I will be speaking with Peter Verdin, who is a "movement engineer" at Future Public School in Garden City, Idaho, which is a tuition free, progressively minded lottery-based school. Essentially, Peter is redoing the way we look at physical education with elementary students, and designing curriculum as these students grow older and the school expands.Then, we have Bruce Mansfield, is an instructional coach in the Bellingham School District in

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50:29

Bonus: Summit: Experiential Learning and the SDGs w/...

Human Restoration Project ·

2020/03/01

Interested in using this opportunity for professional development credit? See our template for administrators. Consider running this event past your administrative team prior to completing.Dr. Jennifer Williams, is the co-founder and executive director of Take Action Global, co-founder of TeachSDGs, professor at Saint Leo University in the College of Education and Graduate Education, and author of Teach Boldly.In this interactive discussion, we will discuss connecting the UN Sustainable Development

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63: Building a No Test Future w/ Dr. Yong Zhao

Human Restoration Project ·

2020/02/22

In this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Yong Zhao, the Foundation Distinguished Professor in the School of Education. Dr. Zhao and I talk about building a movement that ends standardized testing in the United States and how to build classrooms that invoke a student's innate desire to learn. Perhaps the grueling, “rigorous” standardized testing system is actually harming students, not helping? Most teachers seem to understand this, and a recent analysis by Harvard University seems to confirm it.Dr

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62: Creating Worlds, Game Design & Education w/ Seth...

Human Restoration Project ·

2020/02/08

In this podcast, we are joined by Seth Coster, the CEO and game programmer at Butterscotch Shenanigans, who have seen incredibly success on their video and mobile games. Best known for titles Crashlands and Levelhead, Butterscotch Shenanigans was founded by three brothers with no explicit academic background in video game creation. Seth studied to become a Certified Financial Analyst, started a law graduate program, but soon realized he enjoyed the games he created in his free time much more

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61: How to Teach Us, Authentic PBL w/ Brooke Tobia...

Human Restoration Project ·

2020/01/25

In this podcast, we are joined by Brooke Tobia and her two students, Olivia and Avery. Together, they've co-developed and written the book How to Teach Us: A Guide for Teachers Written by Students. Working in a PBL environment, roughly 60 6th grade students between Brooke and her co-teacher researched, wrote, and published this work which is available via Amazon. Within, you'll find slews of information, gathered from interviews with students, that explains how different students learn and effective

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Bonus: Summit: Changing the Status Quo Through...

Human Restoration Project ·

2020/01/18

Interested in using this opportunity for professional development credit? See our template for administrators. Consider running this event past your administrative team prior to completing.Dr. Susan Engel is a professor of developmental psychology at Williams College, with a focus on curiosity, school reform, and educational research. Her many works include The Hungry Mind: The Origins of Curiosity in Childhood and The End of the Rainbow: How Educating for Happiness, Not Money, Would Transform Our

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60: Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals to...

Human Restoration Project ·

2019/12/22

This episode is all about the Sustainable Development Goals, with some specific questions surrounding their implementation. If you're not familiar, the Sustainable Development Goals were adopted in 2015 and consist of 17 major problems the world aims to solve by 2030. Countries are working in partnership to solve issues such as ending world hunger, establishing gender equality, taking climate action, and reducing inequality. Each of these goals has many organizations working with the indicators - or

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59: What's Up With School Lunch? w/ Jennifer E. Gaddis

Human Restoration Project ·

2019/11/29

I’ve always been perplexed by school lunch. It’s sort of taken as a part of school: a fairly bland looking, processed, mess that students deal with during the school day. Michael Moore in Where to Invade Next how ridiculous it was that the United States spends, on average, much more than other countries lunch programs, while not even serving fresh food.It’s not uncommon to view any school’s lunch menu and see the same questionable offerings: chicken nuggets, french toast sticks, chicken sandwiches,

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Bonus: Summit: Connecting with Students for Greater...

Human Restoration Project ·

2019/11/23

Join Monte Syrie - a proponent of student relationships who operates a daily educational reflective blog at LetsChangeEducation.com. Monte serves as an adjunct professor of education at Eastern Washington University, and as a high school English teacher and department chair at Cheney High School in Cheney, Washington.In this interactive discussion, we will discuss connecting and relating with students to improve well-being, both from a resource and systemic perspective.Participants will be posed

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58: Student Government and a Democratic Education w/...

Human Restoration Project ·

2019/11/02

We often think of democratic education as student government - where students are sadly often pigeon-held into a glorified party planning committee with very little power. But what if things could be different? First, we could establish democratic norms in our classroom, where students are on equal footing with us to discussion curriculum and classroom changes - where the topics we discuss in class and the assignments that are given are a contract between the two of us, and our job is educators is

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1:07:44

Bonus: Summit: Self-Assessment, Gradeless Learning,...

Human Restoration Project ·

2019/10/27

This is an audio version of our Summit on October 27th,, 2019.Starr Sackstein, NBCT is author of many titles including Hacking Assessment, Peer Feedback in the Classroom: Empowering Students to Be the Experts, and From Teacher to Leader: Finding Your Way as a First-Time Leader without Losing Your Mind, as well as an English nationally board certified teacher.In this interactive discussion, we will discuss how these principles not only are paramount for our students' success, but our own longevity

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56: Listen to Students (feat. Ayush Chopra, Cody...

Human Restoration Project ·

2019/09/28

In this podcast, we're focused on student voice: how to engage students, what it means to share power with students, and the possibilities that can occur when we truly let students speak.It's obvious that this true, just a quick glance at the news and Greta Thunberg demonstrates how powerful young people can be if given the opportunities to be successful. Our job as educators to not hamper that motivation to learn and change the world, and help open up new experiences for students to be interested

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