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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 6d
Diane Ravitch was once a leading champion of charters, vouchers, and testing until the evidence came in and she changed her mind about all of it.

Changing My Mind About Schools (and Everything Else) w/ @dianeravitch.bsky.social: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cha... #K12 #edchat
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This my story and I'm sticking to it:
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Changing My Mind About Schools (and Everything Else) w/ Diane Ravitch | Human Restoration Project | Podcast
Diane Ravitch was a champion of education reform until she changed her mind about all of it. This is her story. An education podcast from Human Restoration Project.
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January 25, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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Diane Ravitch was once a leading champion of charters, vouchers, and testing until the evidence came in and she changed her mind about all of it.

Changing My Mind About Schools (and Everything Else) w/ @dianeravitch.bsky.social: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cha... #K12 #edchat
January 24, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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Getting to talk with @dianeravitch.bsky.social about her life is one of the highlights of mine. What a pleasure to share it with listeners as well!

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January 24, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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My latest @humanrestorationproject.org is me wrestling with all of *this* in relation to education:

"What is worth thinking, writing, learning, and discussing? What are we going to build with this time we have together?"

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Much of what we value in our children’s education, and is essential to our mutual health and well-being, resists a precise dollar amount or direct connection to future earning potential. We are musical, poetic, artistic, historical, and often joyously inefficient tinkerers just as much as we are participants, willingly or not, in the economic and political systems of our times. And which practices in school communicate to kids and adults that our spiky, messy, complicated humanity is a group project worth taking on? In an age where generative AI can do just about anything quickly and efficiently, if we want students to do more than prompt AI-generated essays to be fed into the robo-grader back and forth forever, we must start by openly asking: What is worth thinking, writing, learning, and discussing? What are we going to build with this time we have together?
January 23, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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"Through intention or its absence, built by us or built for us, the very real and shared world we inhabit is built bit by bit each day. So is our work in education a world-building project."

So what is it about the world that is worth building?

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As Octavia Butler recognized, world-building is not just a project of science-fiction. Through intention or its absence, built by us or built for us, the very real and shared world we inhabit is built bit by bit each day. So is our work in education a world-building project. Through the structures and systems we create and the pedagogies and practices we cultivate, we can either foreclose possibility, concede to inevitability, or become builders of a better imagined future. This was also John Dewey’s charge from the ascendent fascism of his time—the very period that informed Butler’s fictional dystopia—to our own today.
January 23, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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A few weeks ago @mistermeyer.bsky.social , producer of our upcoming film THE TEACHERS PROJECT (wt), spoke with Nick Covington on the @humanrestorationproject.org podcast.

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January 14, 2026 at 4:51 AM
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It’s a great listen that touches on Raoul’s past work with @thecrashcourse.bsky.social as well as our new film and many of the issues facing teachers today as schools become increasingly politicized spaces.

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Crash Course Social Studies Education w/ Raoul Meyer | Human Restoration Project | Podcast
Social studies teacher and writer of Crash Course History, Raoul Meyer, joins us to talk about the state of social studies education. An education podcast from Human Restoration Project.
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January 14, 2026 at 4:51 AM
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What is democracy, what is the role of public schools in a pluralistic democratic nation, and why are both worth keeping?

@aft.org president, @rweingarten.bsky.social, joins our podcast to help answer these fundamental questions and more:

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January 10, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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A preview of my upcoming conversation with @rweingarten.bsky.social for the @humanrestorationproject.org podcast. Full episode out 1/10!

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January 9, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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What is democracy, what is the role of public schools in a pluralistic democratic nation, and why are both worth keeping?

@aft.org president, @rweingarten.bsky.social, joins our podcast to help answer these fundamental questions and more:

www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/why... #edchat
January 10, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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Our final episode of 2025 is a conversation with @mistermeyer.bsky.social about the old days of Crash Course History and the current state of social studies teaching in America. 👇

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December 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Our final episode of 2025 is a conversation with @mistermeyer.bsky.social about the old days of Crash Course History and the current state of social studies teaching in America. 👇

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December 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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This was a must-listen then and still is
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Top New Podcast: Our conversation with @heymrsbond.com, Reclaiming Teaching & Learning in an Age of AI, was our most downloaded episode of the year *by far*! 👇

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December 19, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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‍2025 was certainly one of the years of all time. 🥴

As a send-off, we thought we’d curate our most popular articles, podcasts, videos, and resources of the past year alongside other education-related recommendations, as well as a preview of what's coming up in 2026. #K12 #edchat
HRP Wrapped 2025 | Human Restoration Project | Nick Covington Chris McNutt
A look back at our most popular articles, podcasts, videos, and resources from 2025 and a look ahead at what's to come in 2026! Published by Human Restoration Project, a 501(c)3 organization restoring...
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December 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Upcoming episodes! 👇

12/20: Crash Course Social Studies Education w/ @mistermeyer.bsky.social
1/10: Why Fascists Fear Teachers w/ @rweingarten.bsky.social
1/24: Changing my Mind About Schools w/ @dianeravitch.bsky.social
2/7: Redefining the Purpose of Education w/ Yong Zhao

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We've got an incredible lineup of conversations coming to the Human Restoration Project podcast to wrap up 2025 and kick off the new year! 12/20: Crash Course: Social Studies Education w/ Raoul Meyer 1/10: Why Fascists Fear Teachers w/ Randi Weingarten 1/24: Changing my Mind About Schools w/ Diane Ravitch 2/7: Redefining the Purpose of Education w/ Yong Zhao Search & subscribe to 'Human Restoration Project' on any podcast app or listen directly on our website: humanrestorationproject.org/podcast
December 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Recording the final @humanrestorationproject.org podcast of 2025 today w/ @mistermeyer.bsky.social!

We'll discuss the origins of Crash Course, #NCSS and the state of social studies education, and his upcoming documentary film, The Teachers Project, about teachers navigating the culture war.
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Human Restoration Project hosts a 150+ episode podcast informing the world about a progressive, human-centered education system, reimagining the potential and possibility of school.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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It looks like the first @humanrestorationproject.org podcast of 2026 will be out January 10th featuring @aft.org President and author of "Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy," @rweingarten.bsky.social. 👀

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Why Fascists Fear Teachers
AFT President Randi Weingarten’s new book, Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy, exposes the long-planned strategy to undermine education—and lifts up the powerful ...
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December 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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There are multiple ways to learn how to read, and I'm of the opinion that we need many different approaches, including but not limited to phonics and phonemic awareness.

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Unsettling The Science of Reading: Who is Being Sold A Story? | Human Restoration Project | Nick Covington
Literacy doesn’t come in a box, we’ll never find our kids at the bottom of a curriculum package, and there can be no broad support for systemic change that excludes input from and support for teachers...
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December 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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"It will come down to whether students come through their formal schooling as more clever vandals of the Earth and of each other or as loving, caring, compassionate, and competent healers, restorers, builders and midwives to a decent, durable, and beautiful future." - David Orr
"It will come down to whether students come through their formal schooling as more clever vandals of the Earth and of each other or as loving, caring, compassionate, and competent healers, restorers, builders and midwives to a decent, durable, and beautiful future." - David Orr
December 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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NEW: How does creativity shows up in the world, in the human condition, and how we can cultivate creativity in the classroom?

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December 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Happy to share that our RRQ article is out theorizing interactivity: "The Reader‐Player Interactivity Framework: How Do Readers Navigate Diverse Varieties of Narrative Texts?"

~Read here or listen to our companion podcast with @humanrestorationproject.org ~

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November 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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NEW: How does creativity shows up in the world, in the human condition, and how we can cultivate creativity in the classroom?

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December 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Top tier podcast episode title: “Are we readers or are we players?” 😂
November 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Like and subscribe to @humanrestorationproject.org — they do such great work!
November 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Today's guests argue that the narratives & themes of English class are everywhere for those equipped to see them. 👇

@karismjones.bsky.social
@mraleosays.bsky.social
@virginiak.bsky.social
@nashb.bsky.social

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November 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM