Nick Covington

Nick taught social studies for 10 years in Iowa and has worked as a labor organizer. He is currently the Creative Director at the Human Restoration Project.

Iowa, USA http://www.humanrestorationproject.org 30 posts

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            Organizational
        
    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
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    3 min read
    
            Organizational
        
    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
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    7 min read
    
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    109: On Constructionism, Makerspaces, & Music Ed w/ Burton Hable
            Podcast available here. 0:00:13.2 Burton Hable: Man, wouldn't it be cool if your first year experience in band instead of being the one night that you get
        
Nick Covington

    15 May 2022
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    32 min read
    
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    110: "College Ready" AP w/ Akil Bello
            Podcast available here. 0:00:01.1 Akil Bello: So, if we assume AP is better than other things, then it's a more rigorous course, it helps in admissions, right?
        
Nick Covington

    15 May 2022
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    28 min read
    
            Social Justice and Activism
        
    "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?
        
Nick Covington

    15 May 2022
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    12 min read
    
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    102: Fight Back Against Debt w/ Debt Collective
            Podcast available here. Thomas Gokey: You know, we have everything to fight for and everything to win. It is realistic that we can win broad based step cancellation, but it's
        
Nick Covington

    26 Feb 2022
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    26 min read
    
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    103: Poetry, Schooling, and Flourishing Creativity w/ Joshua Seigal
            Podcast available here. Joshua Seigal: Outside the classroom the other day, a little boy came up to me and tugging at the hem of my garment, asked how do I
        
Nick Covington

    26 Feb 2022
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    18 min read
    
            Book Review
        
    Review: Flow - The Psychology of Optimal Experience
            Csikszentmihalyi’s blind spot is a critical one: that poverty is a cause of inattention and a lack of cognitive resources, not an effect.
        
Nick Covington

    31 Mar 2021
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    5 min read
    
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    84: In Defense of Public Education w/ Dr. Jennifer Berkshire & Dr. Jack Schneider
            Today we are joined by Dr. Jennifer Berkshire and Dr. Jack Schneider. Dr. Berkshire is a journalist and educator who focuses on podcasting and labor organizing at Boston College and Umass Amherst respectively, and Dr. Schneider is an education historian focused on reform and school accountability.
        
Chris McNutt, Nick Covington

    27 Dec 2020
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    30 min read
    
            Book Review
        
    Review: A Wolf At the Schoolhouse Door & the Unmaking of Public Education
            What are the tenets guiding the unmaking of public education, what are the aims of the unmakers, and what is there for the rest of us to be worried about?
        
Nick Covington

    4 Dec 2020
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    10 min read
    
            Critical Analysis
        
    One Teacher Can't Save the World
            What is it about the world that is worth preparing students for, and are we dedicated to the work of building that better world alongside them?
        
Nick Covington, Chris McNutt

    28 Oct 2020
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    5 min read
    
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    80: Pandemic Pods, School Choice, and Combating Inequity w/ Dr. Jon Hale
            How can we simultaneously acknowledge that schools need to change while being critical advocates for the need for public institutions and employee unions? How have market oriented takes on so-called school choice actually subverted the original intent of independent and charter schools?
        
Chris McNutt, Nick Covington

    16 Oct 2020
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    37 min read
    
            Critical Analysis
        
    A Teacher's Case for Critical Race Theory
            What is this “toxic propaganda” the White House and Senate are taking action over, and what are the consequences of having CRT banned from our schools and public institutions?
        
Nick Covington

    14 Oct 2020
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    12 min read
    
            Progressive Education
        
    Liberatory Learning: Dismantling the Hidden Curriculum
            This is a recap of our asynchronous professional development session, where we worked as a cohort to develop actions and solutions for equitable practices in our classrooms.
        
Chris McNutt, Nick Covington

    11 Aug 2020
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    7 min read
    
            Social Justice and Activism
        
    Endorsing Student Voice Through Virtual/Hybrid Activism: Overview (Inspire Citizens, Out of the Blocks, SEL)
            This is an overview of our August 1st Summit with Inspire Citizens (Donna Guerin, Steve Sostak, Kavita Tanna), Out of the Blocks (Aaron Henkin, Wendel Patrick), and Evan Whitehead!
        
Chris McNutt, Nick Covington

    1 Aug 2020
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    4 min read
    
            Progressive Education
        
    Creating a Virtual, Liberatory Feedback-Driven Classroom
            This past week, Human Restoration Project has had the honor of presenting this workshop on ungrading and liberatory pedagogy at Digital Pedagogy Lab 2020. Here's an overview of the activities we covered, what we learned, and resources to share!
        
Chris McNutt, Nick Covington

    31 Jul 2020
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    11 min read
    
            Progressive Education
        
    Universal Design for Fishing
            No analogy is perfect, but I think we can use fishing as an example of an experience where the philosophy of universal design, combined with the support of experienced and conscientious adults, can help us develop a classroom learning experience that achieves the goal of UDL.
        
Nick Covington

    15 Jul 2020
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    11 min read
    
            Book Review
        
    Review: Radical Hope
            What we absolutely can and should do, however, is define our work as educators biased toward life-affirming, student-centered, inclusive praxis and create a space where we can do the work of reversing the decomposition... a Radical Hope.
        
Nick Covington

    8 Jun 2020
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    8 min read

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