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

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...

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

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

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

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

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!

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

"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.🤔💡

"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

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...

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

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...

"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

@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. 👀

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...

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/...

🕐 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

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. ;)

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

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...

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...

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

Nothing creepy about this at all

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-...

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

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?

“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"

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!

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!

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-...

This place-based HS project might interest you @dms6.bsky.social @mcnuttedu.bsky.social @covingtonedu.bsky.social @irasocol.bsky.social @pammoran1.bsky.social @marksonnemann.bsky.social @cnastase.bsky.social

"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.

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

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.

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...

1/2 Free marketeer John Chubb once said, “The problem with public schools is that they must take whoever walks in the door.” The key word here is "problem." Debbie Meier, by contrast, argued that the problem with *private* schools is that they *don't* have to do this. Thus, they "cannot serve […]

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!

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

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

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.

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...

"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

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

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.

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

Looking forward to this! @humrespro.bsky.social @covingtonedu.bsky.social

Announcing our first Conference to Restore Humanity! Quest for Connection🗺️ event: a virtual workshop w/ educator and author of Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations, Nawal Qarooni! You can learn more about CTRH!2025 and donate now to reserve your seat @ humanrestorationproject.org/conference

As an educator, it’s increasingly difficult to name a professional conviction or pedagogical commitment that justifies the use of generative AI. The daily use of AI must not overshadow tangible actions to redress our climate crisis lest we further erode our position as trusted stewards of learning.

This conference is not to be missed! Thanks for doing this @covingtonedu.bsky.social and @mcnuttedu.bsky.social!