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 • 3 min read
Progressive 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. Burton Hable 20 May 2022 • 12 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 • 7 min read
Progressive Education Enacting Change by Listening Pressing forward and armed with this knowledge, we need to bring about a grassroots movement toward change. Chris McNutt 3 May 2022 • 3 min read
Progressive Education Beyond Testing: Human Centered Approaches to Assessment Who are the decision makers in our classrooms and where do they come from? Lisa Wennerth 6 Mar 2022 • 5 min read
Progressive Education A Day in the Life at Three Schools When we work together, what classrooms will we create? Chris McNutt 4 Feb 2022 • 16 min read
Progressive Education 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. Lisa Wennerth 24 Nov 2021 • 5 min read
Progressive Education Building Community and Trust In A Gradeless Classroom Investment in relationships supports student voice and agency while fostering trust. Theresa Walter 20 Oct 2021 • 5 min read
Progressive Education Home Free Too much school at home, too much work from home, and not enough school in school. Let’s reestablish some boundaries. Peter Sipe 17 Oct 2021 • 3 min read
Progressive Education Going Gradeless This Year? Just Thinking About It? Start Here. Try these 3 strategies to get gradeless assessment practices going in your classes. Theresa Walter 5 Aug 2021 • 6 min read
Progressive Education The Surprise Growth in an Ungrading Practice: My Own I found more growth in my own practice than I ever anticipated in my first full year of abandoning traditional grading systems. Theresa Walter 5 Aug 2021 • 5 min read
Progressive Education A Primer for the Progressive Educator To be a progressive educator is to never really leave behind that restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other. Sean Michael Morris 3 Aug 2021 • 13 min read
Progressive Education Binary Solutions to Systemic Problems This year has highlighted that there is a continual issue with equity in education; and that there’s a serious problem with the way schooling in general is tackling the issues we face today. Chris McNutt 28 May 2021 • 12 min read
Progressive Education 100 Days of Conversations: Amplifying Communities to Reimagine Education In our pilot, we explored a reimagination of this project as a result of the pandemic, while simultaneously recognizing that the American education system was already in need of change. Chris McNutt 14 May 2021 • 4 min read
Progressive Education Gradeless: An English Teacher’s Journey Towards Agency Through Feedback I knew I wanted to do my best to represent student growth in the most accurate way I possibly could. While I know my methods are far from perfect, I have seen remarkable growth and a complete shift in focus in my students. Theresa Walter 19 Mar 2021 • 5 min read
Progressive Education Learning from Games: Making Decisions for Others Even the most well-intentioned changes can have horrific outcomes. Chris McNutt 12 Mar 2021 • 5 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 • 7 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 • 11 min read