Latest Gradeless learning Podcast Episodes
MINDFOOD III: Best & Worst Edu-trends of 2022, Plus Hopes for 2023
Human Restoration Project - January 14, 2023 12:45 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsReimagining education is no small feat, but there is hope on the horizon. MINDFOOD, easily digestible content for education. In this series, we'll do the random fun stuff: top 10 lists, current events, things we're thinking about. This is a casual format with limited editing and not as many inte...
125: The Transformative Power of Play w/ The Center for Playful Inquiry
Human Restoration Project - December 31, 2022 10:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsToday we’re joined by Susan Harris MacKay and Matt Karlson, the people behind the Center for Playful Inquiry. Susan is a former teacher and pedagogical director at Opal School and Portland Children’s Museum. Her recent book, Story Workshop: New Possibilities for Young Writers showcases the relat...
124: The City That Kicked Cops Out of Schools and Tried Restorative Practices Instead w/ Andy Kopsa
Human Restoration Project - December 17, 2022 16:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsI’m speaking today with freelance journalist Andy Kopsa whose work has appeared seemingly everywhere: The New York Times, the Atlantic, the Guardian, Cosmo, and her most recent piece from the December issue of In These Times that we’ll be discussing today - and that you heard an excerpt of in th...
123: Humanizing Professional Development w/ Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond
Human Restoration Project - December 03, 2022 14:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsToday we are joined by Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond. Joining us on election day, there’s frankly a lot of anxiety around the current state of our world…not just who will win the election but if those results will be accepted, a general cynicism about our future, and especially in the classroom, tea...
HRP Status Update: 2022
Human Restoration Project - November 29, 2022 14:04 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this episode, co-founders of Human Restoration Project Nick Covington & Chris McNutt detail the impact of the organization in 2022, our plans for 2023, and how we're envisioning the future of our work in reimagining education. Detailed within includes... How HRP grew this year and the impact...
122: On Self-Directed Education & "What Works" w/ Dr. Naomi Fisher
Human Restoration Project - November 19, 2022 19:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThis conversation comes at an interesting time in the broader context of the future of education. In the wake of progress 8 results in the UK and NAEP scores in the United States, there appears to be a narrowing of educational possibilities toward a very particular model of schooling, or at leas...
121: Showcase: One Stone | Lab51 (Student-Driven Schooling)
Human Restoration Project - November 05, 2022 09:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThis is our third “spotlight series” episode where we’re reaching out to schools who are doing intriguing progressive practices that could inspire and influence others to do the same. Each has a twist on how their school is operated, and we’re bringing in students and teachers to talk about it. ...
120: A Pedagogy of Love w/ Dr. Antonia Darder
Human Restoration Project - October 22, 2022 12:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsOn today’s podcast we are joined by Dr. Antonia Darder. Antonia is an internationally recognized activist-scholar and Professor Emerita at Loyola Marymount University, where for more than a decade she held the Levey Presidential Endowed Chair of Ethics and Moral Leadership. Spanning over 4 decad...
MINDFOOD II: Top 5 Cursed Problems in School
Human Restoration Project - October 08, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWelcome to our latest podcast series: MINDFOOD, easily digestible content for education. Enjoy our content? Leave us a review on your favorite podcast player...it makes a huge difference! (Also...one day both of our mic settings will be correct and this will sound just right!) Top 5 Cursed Pro...
MINDFOOD I: Top 10 Books Every Progressive Educator Should read
Human Restoration Project - September 11, 2022 17:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWelcome to our latest podcast series: MINDFOOD, easily digestible content for education. In this series, we'll do the random fun stuff: top 10 lists, current events, things we're thinking about. This is a casual format with limited editing and not as many intense conversations that occur in our ...
119: The Gender Equation in Schools w/ Jason Ablin
Human Restoration Project - September 10, 2022 14:35 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsGender is one of the most contentious topics in the United States today, conversations about gender in education have even been the targets of so-called “divisive concepts” laws in states like Iowa, New Hampshire, and Alabama. The Alabama “divisive concepts” law, for example, would ban any discu...
Bonus: Elevating the Conversation on NAEP Scores w/ John Warner
Human Restoration Project - September 03, 2022 14:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThe results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, were released yesterday, September 1st, prompting a New York Times headline that read “The Pandemic Erased Two Decades of Progress in Math and Reading”, the 74 headline added “Two Decades of Growth WIPED OUT by Two years of...
118: PragerU & the Alt-Right Pipeline w/ Rob Dickinson & Tom Cowin
Human Restoration Project - August 27, 2022 09:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsOn today’s podcast we’re talking about PragerU, the infamous and growing conservative nonprofit that’s probably best known for its YouTube channel with recent uploads like “Why I Sued My Daughter’s Woke School”, “What Kinds of Shows is PBS Making Now?”, and “Teachers are Training Marxist Revolut...
117: Unflattening & Thinking With Comics w/ Nick Sousanis
Human Restoration Project - August 13, 2022 14:51 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsI was introduced to Nick Sousanis’ work through a Twitter connection, shout out to @AndrewJ, as I wanted to spend more time over the summer with what are broadly called graphic novels. Probably like many listeners, I had read comic books as they appeared in pop culture over the years, The Dark T...
116: Henry Giroux - Critical Pedagogy in a Time of Fascist Tyranny
Human Restoration Project - July 30, 2022 08:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKeynote Transcript: https://writing.humanrestorationproject.org/transcript/dr-henry-giroux-critical-pedagogy-in-a-time-of-fascist-tyranny/ Q&A Transcript: https://writing.humanrestorationproject.org/transcript/conference-to-restore-humanity-2022-keynote-q-a-dr-henry-giroux/ In this extensive e...
115: Equity, Systemic Change, and Performative Wokeness w/ Dr. Sheldon Eakins
Human Restoration Project - July 16, 2022 15:30 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsToday we’re joined by Dr. Sheldon Eakins. Dr. Eakins is an educator who has taught in elementary, middle, and high school settings, as well as an administrator. Currently, he is the Director of Special Education at a school in Idaho. In 2018, Dr. Eakins founded the Leading Equity Center, a profe...
114: Showcase: Sora Schools (Online PBL)
Human Restoration Project - July 02, 2022 14:52 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThis is our second “spotlight series” episode where we’re reaching out to schools who are doing intriguing progressive practices that could inspire and influence others to do the same. Each has a twist on how their school is operated, and we’re bringing in students and teachers to talk about it....
Bonus: Conference to Restore Humanity! Overview
Human Restoration Project - June 28, 2022 14:11 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this bonus episode of Human Restoration Project's podcast, we talk about all of the fantastic opportunities available at our upcoming Conference to Restore Humanity! 2022: System Reboot, which is entirely online from July 25th-July 28th, 2022. We detail: The goals and reasoning for establish...
113: Guiding Toward Healthy Rebellion w/ T. Elijah Hawkes
Human Restoration Project - June 17, 2022 14:43 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsToday’s guest is T. Elijah Hawkes. Elijah served as a public school principal for over a decade, including as the principal at Randolph Union in Vermont, and was the founding principal of the James Baldwin School in New York City. Currently, he is a director at the Upper Valley Educators Institu...
112: Keep Hope Alive w/ Deborah Meier
Human Restoration Project - May 28, 2022 08:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsToday’s guest is Deborah Meier, who really needs no introduction for advocates of progressive education. Meier is the founder of the modern small schools movement, that aims to reorganize larger schools into smaller, democratic ones. She was founder and director of Central Park East, a Dewey-ins...
111: Building the Modern Progressive Education Movement w/ David Buck
Human Restoration Project - May 14, 2022 15:40 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsOn today’s podcast we are joined by David Buck. David is an English professor at Howard Community College in Maryland who is actively involved in the ungrading movement, as well as focusing on open access resources, open pedagogy, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. To foster and grow the ...
110: "College Ready" AP w/ Akil Bello
Human Restoration Project - May 07, 2022 14:46 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this episode, Akil & I discuss the history & context of the CollegeBoard and how the AP program in particular fits into CollegeBoard’s vision for “college ready” admissions, how that very vision is undermined by the emphasis on a 3.5 hour exam in May, and what we could be doing instead to cra...
109: On Constructionism, Makerspaces, & Music Ed w/ Burton Hable
Human Restoration Project - April 30, 2022 16:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsI am joined today by Burton Hable. Burton Hable is a music educator, currently living in Central Virginia. He is a doctoral student in Boston University’s Music Education program, and his research interests lie in how people construct music knowledge in the context of a makerspace. He also serve...
108: The State of Libraries w/ Dustin Hensley
Human Restoration Project - April 15, 2022 15:39 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsToday we are joined by Dustin Hensley. Dustin is the library media specialist at Elizabethton High School in Tennessee. He is an advocate for creating spaces that cultivate a student’s love of learning. He was one of the co-founders of the Bartleby Program, which centers community improvement an...
107: Child Liberation Theology w/ R.L. Stollar
Human Restoration Project - March 27, 2022 23:46 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings*This podcast contains content regarding suicide and child abuse. In this podcast we are joined by R.L. Stollar, a Child Liberation Theologian and child and survivor advocate. Stollar is the author of the upcoming book, The Kingdom of Children, which reports on the issues and concerns of the ev...
106: Showcase: Assumption College (Self-Directed Choice Curriculum, Multi-Age Learning)
Human Restoration Project - March 12, 2022 18:38 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThis podcast is our first of what we’re calling the “spotlight” series. Every so often, we’ll reaching out to schools who are doing intriguing progressive practices that could inspire and influence others to do the same. Each has a twist on how their school is operated, and we’re bringing in stu...
105: A Look Inside "No Excuses" Charter Schools w/ Dr. Joanne Golann
Human Restoration Project - February 26, 2022 16:07 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsToday we are joined by Dr. Joanne Golann. Dr. Golann is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Education and an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University, and focuses on how culture shapes educational policy and practice. Her recently released book, Scripting the Moves: Cult...
104: Advancing and Empowering the Lives of LGBTQIA+ Students w/ Keenan Crow
Human Restoration Project - February 12, 2022 18:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsOur guest today is Keenan Crow. Keenan Crow is the Director of Policy and Advocacy for One Iowa, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance, empower, and improve the lives of LGBTQ Iowans through education, advocacy, and collaboration. Keenan has been active in Iowa politics since 2010...
103: Poetry, Schooling, and Flourishing Creativity w/ Joshua Seigal
Human Restoration Project - January 29, 2022 14:01 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsJoshua Seigal is a highly acclaimed, award-winning professional poet, performer and educator. Joshua uses poetry to develop literacy skills and inspire confidence and creativity in communication. He has worked in hundreds of schools, libraries, theatres and festivals around the world, had books...
102: Fight Back Against Debt w/ Debt Collective
Human Restoration Project - January 15, 2022 15:26 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsA conversation around student loan debt has been happening at the margins of American political life for nearly a generation. By 2012, total student loan debt in the United States surpassed one trillion dollars, with the only relief coming from a pause on interest and federal debt collection tha...
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