Latest Gradeless learning Podcast Episodes
63: Building a No Test Future w/ Dr. Yong Zhao
Human Restoration Project - February 22, 2020 08:58 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Yong Zhao, the Foundation Distinguished Professor in the School of Education. Dr. Zhao and I talk about building a movement that ends standardized testing in the United States and how to build classrooms that invoke a student's innate desire to learn. Perhap...
S3: E21: Building a No Test Future w/ Dr. Yong Zhao
Human Restoration Project - February 22, 2020 08:58 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Yong Zhao, the Foundation Distinguished Professor in the School of Education. Dr. Zhao and I talk about building a movement that ends standardized testing in the United States and how to build classrooms that invoke a student's innate desire to learn. Perhap...
62: Creating Worlds, Game Design & Education w/ Seth Coster
Human Restoration Project - February 08, 2020 09:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this podcast, we are joined by Seth Coster, the CEO and game programmer at Butterscotch Shenanigans, who have seen incredibly success on their video and mobile games. Best known for titles Crashlands and Levelhead, Butterscotch Shenanigans was founded by three brothers with no explicit academ...
S3: E20: Creating Worlds, Game Design & Education w/ Seth Coster
Human Restoration Project - February 08, 2020 09:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this podcast, we are joined by Seth Coster, the CEO and game programmer at Butterscotch Shenanigans, who have seen incredibly success on their video and mobile games. Best known for titles Crashlands and Levelhead, Butterscotch Shenanigans was founded by three brothers with no explicit academ...
S3: E19: How to Teach Us, Authentic PBL w/ Brooke Tobia and Students
Human Restoration Project - January 25, 2020 10:03 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this podcast, we are joined by Brooke Tobia and her two students, Olivia and Avery. Together, they've co-developed and written the book How to Teach Us: A Guide for Teachers Written by Students. Working in a PBL environment, roughly 60 6th grade students between Brooke and her co-teacher rese...
61: How to Teach Us, Authentic PBL w/ Brooke Tobia and Students
Human Restoration Project - January 25, 2020 10:03 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this podcast, we are joined by Brooke Tobia and her two students, Olivia and Avery. Together, they've co-developed and written the book How to Teach Us: A Guide for Teachers Written by Students. Working in a PBL environment, roughly 60 6th grade students between Brooke and her co-teacher rese...
Bonus: Summit: Changing the Status Quo Through Effective Research w/ Dr. Susan Engel
Human Restoration Project - January 18, 2020 21:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsInterested in using this opportunity for professional development credit? See our template for administrators. Consider running this event past your administrative team prior to completing. Dr. Susan Engel is a professor of developmental psychology at Williams College, with a focus on curiosity...
Bonus: Summit #7: Changing the Status Quo Through Effective Research w/ Dr. Susan Engel
Human Restoration Project - January 18, 2020 21:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsInterested in using this opportunity for professional development credit? See our template for administrators. Consider running this event past your administrative team prior to completing. Dr. Susan Engel is a professor of developmental psychology at Williams College, with a focus on curiosity...
60: Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals to the Classroom with Dr. Jennifer Williams, Julia Fliss, and Nick Covington
Human Restoration Project - December 22, 2019 14:50 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThis episode is all about the Sustainable Development Goals, with some specific questions surrounding their implementation. If you're not familiar, the Sustainable Development Goals were adopted in 2015 and consist of 17 major problems the world aims to solve by 2030. Countries are working in pa...
S3: E18: Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals to the Classroom with Dr. Jennifer Williams, Julia Fliss, and Nick Covington
Human Restoration Project - December 22, 2019 14:50 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThis episode is all about the Sustainable Development Goals, with some specific questions surrounding their implementation. If you're not familiar, the Sustainable Development Goals were adopted in 2015 and consist of 17 major problems the world aims to solve by 2030. Countries are working in pa...
S3: E17: What's Up With School Lunch? w/ Jennifer E. Gaddis
Human Restoration Project - November 29, 2019 17:55 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsI’ve always been perplexed by school lunch. It’s sort of taken as a part of school: a fairly bland looking, processed, mess that students deal with during the school day. Michael Moore in Where to Invade Next how ridiculous it was that the United States spends, on average, much more than other c...
59: What's Up With School Lunch? w/ Jennifer E. Gaddis
Human Restoration Project - November 29, 2019 17:55 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsI’ve always been perplexed by school lunch. It’s sort of taken as a part of school: a fairly bland looking, processed, mess that students deal with during the school day. Michael Moore in Where to Invade Next how ridiculous it was that the United States spends, on average, much more than other c...
Bonus: Summit #5: Connecting with Students for Greater Well-Being w/ Monte Syrie
Human Restoration Project - November 23, 2019 18:58 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsJoin Monte Syrie - a proponent of student relationships who operates a daily educational reflective blog at LetsChangeEducation.com. Monte serves as an adjunct professor of education at Eastern Washington University, and as a high school English teacher and department chair at Cheney High School...
Bonus: Summit: Connecting with Students for Greater Well-Being w/ Monte Syrie
Human Restoration Project - November 23, 2019 18:58 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsJoin Monte Syrie - a proponent of student relationships who operates a daily educational reflective blog at LetsChangeEducation.com. Monte serves as an adjunct professor of education at Eastern Washington University, and as a high school English teacher and department chair at Cheney High School...
HRP Update, November 2019
Human Restoration Project - November 16, 2019 21:48 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this episode, Nick and I detail the progress of our November funding drive, provide an overview to our upcoming plans, and detail all the cool things HRP is doing! (Here’s some pictures of our upcoming Primer!) Tune in to learn more about: Professional development opportunities. Our inter...
S3: E16: Student Government and a Democratic Education w/ Carla Marschall & StuVoice, Merrit Jones
Human Restoration Project - November 02, 2019 08:45 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWe often think of democratic education as student government - where students are sadly often pigeon-held into a glorified party planning committee with very little power. But what if things could be different? First, we could establish democratic norms in our classroom, where students are on eq...
58: Student Government and a Democratic Education w/ Carla Marschall & StuVoice, Merrit Jones
Human Restoration Project - November 02, 2019 08:45 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWe often think of democratic education as student government - where students are sadly often pigeon-held into a glorified party planning committee with very little power. But what if things could be different? First, we could establish democratic norms in our classroom, where students are on eq...
Bonus: Summit: Self-Assessment, Gradeless Learning, and Teacher Well-Being w/ Starr Sackstein
Human Restoration Project - October 27, 2019 15:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThis is an audio version of our Summit on October 27th,, 2019. Starr Sackstein, NBCT is author of many titles including Hacking Assessment, Peer Feedback in the Classroom: Empowering Students to Be the Experts, and From Teacher to Leader: Finding Your Way as a First-Time Leader without Losing Y...
Bonus: Summit #4 - Self-Assessment, Gradeless Learning, and Teacher Well-Being w/ Starr Sackstein
Human Restoration Project - October 27, 2019 15:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThis is an audio version of our Summit on October 27th,, 2019. Starr Sackstein, NBCT is author of many titles including Hacking Assessment, Peer Feedback in the Classroom: Empowering Students to Be the Experts, and From Teacher to Leader: Finding Your Way as a First-Time Leader without Losing Y...
S3: E15: EdSpace.Live w/ Michael J. Crawford
Human Restoration Project - October 12, 2019 10:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this episode, Chris sits down with Michael J Crawford, co-founder of EdSpace Live, a new social media platform aimed at helping teachers connect in a more meaningful way than Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook. EdSpace Live is currently in development, with an expected release in November. EdSp...
57: EdSpace.Live w/ Michael J. Crawford
Human Restoration Project - October 12, 2019 10:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this episode, Chris sits down with Michael J Crawford, co-founder of EdSpace Live, a new social media platform aimed at helping teachers connect in a more meaningful way than Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook. EdSpace Live is currently in development, with an expected release in November. EdSp...
56: Listen to Students (feat. Ayush Chopra, Cody Lees, & Meghan Kestner)
Human Restoration Project - September 28, 2019 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this podcast, we're focused on student voice: how to engage students, what it means to share power with students, and the possibilities that can occur when we truly let students speak. It's obvious that this true, just a quick glance at the news and Greta Thunberg demonstrates how powerful y...
S3: E14: Listen to Students (feat. Ayush Chopra, Cody Lees, & Meghan Kestner)
Human Restoration Project - September 28, 2019 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this podcast, we're focused on student voice: how to engage students, what it means to share power with students, and the possibilities that can occur when we truly let students speak. It's obvious that this true, just a quick glance at the news and Greta Thunberg demonstrates how powerful y...
Bonus: Summit #3 - Humanizing Mathematics w/ Sunil Singh
Human Restoration Project - September 22, 2019 15:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThis is an audio version of our Summit on September 22nd, 2019. Sunil Singh is author of Pi of Life and co-author of Math Recess: Playful Learning in an Age of Disruption, whose expert focus is on revolutionizing the math curriculum through philosophical conversation, decolonizing the content, ...
Bonus: Summit: Humanizing Mathematics w/ Sunil Singh
Human Restoration Project - September 22, 2019 15:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThis is an audio version of our Summit on September 22nd, 2019. Sunil Singh is author of Pi of Life and co-author of Math Recess: Playful Learning in an Age of Disruption, whose expert focus is on revolutionizing the math curriculum through philosophical conversation, decolonizing the content, ...
55: Experimental Higher Education w/ Goddard College (Bernard Bull and Kumari Patricia Younce)
Human Restoration Project - September 14, 2019 10:15 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this podcast, we're speaking with Goddard College, a private college in Plainfield, Vermont with additional campuses in Port Townsend and Seattle, Washington. Goddard is a heavily progressive school with a variety of unique programs - from inventing “low residency” (students attend campus for...
S3: E13: Experimental Higher Education w/ Goddard College (Bernard Bull and Kumari Patricia Younce)
Human Restoration Project - September 14, 2019 10:15 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this podcast, we're speaking with Goddard College, a private college in Plainfield, Vermont with additional campuses in Port Townsend and Seattle, Washington. Goddard is a heavily progressive school with a variety of unique programs - from inventing “low residency” (students attend campus for...
54: Making the Switch to Ungrading (feat. Abigail French, Dr. Susan Blum, and Dr. Laura Gibbs)
Human Restoration Project - August 31, 2019 13:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsToday, we're deep diving into ungrading. In episode 5, we looked at the gradeless movement and the pedagogy that surrounds it, and now we're looking at how it's incorporated, and the non-academic benefits of implementing it. To be clear, when I say "ungrading" - I'm referring to the movement awa...
S3: E12: Making the Switch to Ungrading (feat. Abigail French, Dr. Susan Blum, and Dr. Laura Gibbs)
Human Restoration Project - August 31, 2019 13:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsToday, we're deep diving into ungrading. In episode 5, we looked at the gradeless movement and the pedagogy that surrounds it, and now we're looking at how it's incorporated, and the non-academic benefits of implementing it. To be clear, when I say "ungrading" - I'm referring to the movement awa...
S3: E11: Teaching as a Nerdy Introvert w/ Jessamyn Neuhaus (Geeky Pedagogy)
Human Restoration Project - August 10, 2019 11:00 ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsDr. Jessamyn Neuhaus is author of Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers, which releases on September 1st, 2019. Jessamyn is a full-time professor at SUNY Plattsburgh, teaching U...
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