Human Restoration Project

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Non-profit: restoring humanity to education. Promoting progressive ed.

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Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· Jun 19

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

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· Jun 6

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.

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· May 31

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

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· May 31

"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

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· May 2

"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

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· Apr 18

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...

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· Mar 26

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

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· Mar 26

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

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· Mar 21

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

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· Mar 7

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

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· Mar 2

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.

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· Feb 22

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

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· Feb 7

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

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· Jan 24

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

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· Jan 23

"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.

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· Jan 10

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

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· Dec 20

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

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· Dec 18

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.

screenshot of individual supporter names.

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· Dec 18

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

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· Dec 17

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

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· Dec 6

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

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· Nov 22

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

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· Nov 13

“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

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· Nov 8

"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...

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· Oct 25

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

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· Sep 30

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

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· Sep 17

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

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· Aug 30

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

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· Aug 17

"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-...

Human Restoration Project@humanrestorationproject· Aug 16

"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