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 34 posts

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    What Does it Mean to Lead a Liberatory, Feedback-Driven Classroom?
            “Unprecedented” is a word that somehow manages to overstate and diminish every era, and its overuse in the last five years - let alone the last five months - should
        
Nick Covington

    14 Jul 2022
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            Organizational
        
    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
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    Bonus: Conference to Restore Humanity Overview
            0:00:00.0 Nick Covington: At the beginning of the pandemic, schools reacted to the needs of communities in much the same way as other institutions by building a
        
Chris McNutt, Nick Covington

    28 Jun 2022
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    104: Advancing and Empowering the Lives of LGBTQIA+ Students w/ Keenan Crow
            Podcast available here. 0:00:00.0 Keenan Crow: Any talk of competition between these institutions and public institutions isn't a competition at all, because we're not talking about institutions
        
Nick Covington

    21 Jun 2022
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    47 min read
    
            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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            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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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            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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    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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            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

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