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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Ungrading

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Ungrading

A veteran teacher reflects on moving towards a democratic classroom-- with surprising results

Joelle Lamboley Ostrich

23 Jul 2022 • 3 min read

Translanguaging as a humanizing pedagogy

Translanguaging as a humanizing pedagogy

Elif Shafak writes about the need to ‘tell different stories to humanize the other’; let’s tell different stories that humanize our multilingual learners as we ‘create radically human-centered classrooms’.

20 Jul 2022 • 12 min read

The Culture War in the Classroom Continues: Unpacking the Battle

The Culture War in the Classroom Continues: Unpacking the Battle

The moment where the majority of teachers no longer care, public education will be destroyed in the United States.

12 Jul 2022 • 11 min read

Lessons Preview: Human-Centered Interdisciplinary Subject

Lessons Preview: Human-Centered Interdisciplinary Subject

This update showcases our progress on our Human-Centered Interdisciplinary Subject, a project in creating an actionable cross-disciplinary, holistic course.

Chris McNutt, Nick Covington

29 Jun 2022 • 8 min read

Human Restoration Project Values Statements Update (2022)

Human Restoration Project Values Statements Update (2022)

In creating an organization for lasting change, it's vitally important we revisit the values in which we promote a human-centered education.

27 Jun 2022 • 2 min read

Conference to Restore Humanity: The Need

Conference to Restore Humanity: The Need

It's past time to demand a conference model that is accessible, sustainable, and representative of the communities we serve.

Nick Covington, Chris McNutt

21 May 2022 • 3 min read

On Constructionism, Makerspaces, and Music Education

On Constructionism, Makerspaces, and Music Education

Burton Hable imagines the role of makerspaces supported by constructionist pedagogy in music education as a way to expand and enrich the standard model for students.

20 May 2022 • 12 min read

What we're working on: Human-Centered Interdisciplinary Subject

What we're working on: Human-Centered Interdisciplinary Subject

Our goal is to answer the question: how can we prepare learners for a world that needs them to enact change?

Chris McNutt, Nick Covington

18 May 2022 • 7 min read

"Current Events Do Not Belong in History Class"

"Current Events Do Not Belong in History Class"

As laws targeting so-called “divisive topics” intimidate and threaten teachers for having formal conversations and curriculum on these topics, we have to ask ourselves, if we aren’t talking to kids about the impact of these deadly ideas, who is?

15 May 2022 • 12 min read

Enacting Change by Listening

Enacting Change by Listening

Pressing forward and armed with this knowledge, we need to bring about a grassroots movement toward change.

3 May 2022 • 3 min read

Toward a Better Democracy:
Lessons from the Black Freedom Movement

Toward a Better Democracy: Lessons from the Black Freedom Movement

...our current way of organizing our schools not only alienates students from authentic learning... but also reinforces our already existing desires for authoritarianism and other antidemocratic impulses.

17 Apr 2022 • 13 min read

The Promise of Childism for Imagining Transformation: Reimagining the Future of Activism

The Promise of Childism for Imagining Transformation: Reimagining the Future of Activism

To access this transformed world, we need to begin transforming ourselves.

David Charles Metler

2 Apr 2022 • 6 min read

Beyond Testing: Human Centered Approaches to Assessment

Beyond Testing: Human Centered Approaches to Assessment

6 Mar 2022 • 5 min read

A Day in the Life at Three Schools

A Day in the Life at Three Schools

4 Feb 2022 • 16 min read

Empty Pedagogy, Behaviorism, and the Rejection of Equity

Empty Pedagogy, Behaviorism, and the Rejection of Equity

3 Dec 2021 • 20 min read

Can Activism Improve Arts Education?

Can Activism Improve Arts Education?

27 Nov 2021 • 7 min read

Class Discussions and Classroom Climate

Class Discussions and Classroom Climate

It might seem counterintuitive to be thinking about classroom climate now. It is around this time that we begin to increase the amount of assessments we assign, as students are asked to grapple more deeply with course inquiries, essential questions, content skills, and unit concepts.

24 Nov 2021 • 5 min read

Building Community and Trust In A Gradeless Classroom

Building Community and Trust In A Gradeless Classroom

Investment in relationships supports student voice and agency while fostering trust.

20 Oct 2021 • 5 min read

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