"Inclusion" has become a word everyone nods along to but almost no one defines the same way. What does genuine inclusion require of us and of schools, and what would it mean to restore the humanity of a special education system that was built to put kids into buckets?

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! 🚀🍄

In Spring 2022, I recorded a podcast episode with @covingtonedu.bsky.social of @humanrestorationproject.org about my dissertation research and how making and constructionism can inform music education www.burtonhable.com/blog/hrp-pod...

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.

Our latest episode is an audio narration of "Teaching in the Wreckage of the Real," a piece from our upcoming Progressive Education Primer, by @mcnuttedu.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebkG...

May is a busy month for teachers and schools! So this month of podcast episodes have been audio narrations from our upcoming revised Progressive Education Primer, starting with "We Are Worldbuilders" from @covingtonedu.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuUY...

"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

New podcast! The Future of Public Education is a Community School feat. Kelly McMahon, Jitu Brown, Angelia Ebner, and Dave Greenberg How can the expansion of community schools save public education from privatization? www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvjN...

"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

New podcast! The Future of Public Education is a Community School feat. Kelly McMahon, Jitu Brown, Angelia Ebner, and Dave Greenberg How can the expansion of community schools save public education from privatization? www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvjN...

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...

Really excited to be talking with Kelly McMahon (teacher & ISEA VP), Jitu Brown (organizer & Chicago Public Schools Board Member), & 2 experts from @neatoday.bsky.social for an upcoming @humanrestorationproject.org podcast exploring the promise of community schools: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC33...

"How are we supposed to rebuild education from the ground up if we're too exhausted, drained, overworked and run down to fully function? The revolution cannot be led by an army of zombies. We owe the future our self-preservation." - Ginie Servant-Miklos, Pedagogies of Collapse

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

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

I could not have articulated this concept any better. This was such a great conversation! #EduSky

“I think what a lot of schools are facing today is a rise of pedagogical authoritarianism. This remarkable certainty that we know how every child learns.” Quite a conversation, especially for this moment. (In other words: listen to this!)

"The work that I do today is focused on creating a world in which kids wake up in the middle of the night with a burning desire to get back to school, to continue working on something that matters to them..." - @garystager.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud6s... #k12 #edchat

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

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

Students shared the results of their focus groups with hundreds of students in their schools: "Our recommendations: Too much workload Deeper connections More autonomy and choice"

Their messages to adults: "Just because you're different doesn't mean you matter less." "There's always something bigger going on outside the classroom." "It's everyone's first time living." Are we listening?

Students opened the conference, led breakout sessions, and in several sessions I attended, the majority of participants were students. Their experiences, voices, and perspectives suffused every event.

This Student Power Summit in LA was the best education conference @humanrestorationproject.org has ever attended. Full stop. The secret sauce was two simple ingredients: student voice rooted in the healing mission of Homeboy Industries. Students attended from Chicago and all over Ohio and SoCal!

must-listen!

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

So true. Toxic wellness talk and no willingness to actually change stuctures, especially since COVID.

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 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

As a reprieve from The Horrors, I get to talk with @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social this morning for a @humanrestorationproject.org podcast episode about her experiences teaching education policy in the Boston College Prison Education Program: bcheights.com/217734/featu...

This is the entire reason @humanrestorationproject.org exists btw 👀

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

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

Listen to the podcast by the @humanrestorationproject.org with their interview of @dianeravitch.bsky.social on her life, her stories and #publiceducation. Highly recommended. #podcast pca.st/episode/862a...

This my story and I'm sticking to it: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cha...

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

Getting to talk with @dianeravitch.bsky.social about her life is one of the highlights of mine. What a pleasure to share it with listeners as well! Changing My Mind About Schools (and Everything Else) w/ Diane Ravitch: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cha... @humanrestorationproject.org

My latest @humanrestorationproject.org is me wrestling with all of *this* in relation to education: "What is worth thinking, writing, learning, and discussing? What are we going to build with this time we have together?" www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/we-a... #edchat #K12

"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...

A few weeks ago @mistermeyer.bsky.social , producer of our upcoming film THE TEACHERS PROJECT (wt), spoke with Nick Covington on the @humanrestorationproject.org podcast. www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cra...

It’s a great listen that touches on Raoul’s past work with @thecrashcourse.bsky.social as well as our new film and many of the issues facing teachers today as schools become increasingly politicized spaces. www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cra...

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

A preview of my upcoming conversation with @rweingarten.bsky.social for the @humanrestorationproject.org podcast. Full episode out 1/10! Search & subscribe to 'Human Restoration Project' on any podcast app or listen directly at humanrestorationproject.org/podcast

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

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

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

This was a must-listen then and still is

‍2025 was certainly one of the years of all time. 🥴 As a send-off, we thought we’d curate our most popular articles, podcasts, videos, and resources of the past year alongside other education-related recommendations, as well as a preview of what's coming up in 2026. #K12 #edchat

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

Recording the final @humanrestorationproject.org podcast of 2025 today w/ @mistermeyer.bsky.social! We'll discuss the origins of Crash Course, #NCSS and the state of social studies education, and his upcoming documentary film, The Teachers Project, about teachers navigating the culture war.