Human Restoration Project

Conference to Restore Humanity! is always an excellent week of learning. This year's conference shirt looks awesome, too!

The Conference to Restore Humanity is one of the best education conferences you will ever attend, in my humble opinion. Organized by Chris McNutt, Nick Covington and the rest of the crew at the Human Restoration Project, the next gathering will happen this summer, 2025. For more information, click on the link. https://lnkd.in/gP_WW2MH

Conference to Restore Humanity! - an online conference on progressive education! July 21-23. Join the event in our funding drive for tickets/this awesome t-shirt. https://lnkd.in/gpw5wXxt

Announcing Conference to Restore Humanity! 2025 When cynical powers attempt to divide & isolate, community & solidarity are acts of resistance. But there are no superheroes here, & no simple answers to be found, only the Quest for Connection. 🧭 In 2025, we’re responding to the need for community in uncertain times by turning #CTRH2025 into a model for humanizing critical discourse & dialogue: bringing together students & teachers, thinkers & visionaries to explore complex topics & illuminate a path forward together. To accomplish this, we are taking our flipped keynote model one step further by adding Fireside Chats to CTRH!: a moderated panel discussion followed by audience Q&A about the challenges facing education and how to overcome them. Instead of week-long learning tracks, as we’ve had in the past, we are including daily workshops with expert practitioners in the areas such as collaborative community building, Indigenous education, and rethinking assessment. 🤝 To make this year our most accessible ever, we are cutting the ticket price by 75%! Compared to previous years, where early bird tickets have been $150, tickets for #CTRH2025 will start at $50. (and will continue to offer scholarships, reduced tickets, & parity pricing!) We need your help to see this quest through. Your support now will make #CTRH2025 a reality. To gauge interest & support the cause, we're hosting this end-of-year funding drive. We've already raised 1/4 of our goal in the first 2 days alone! 🚀 https://lnkd.in/gpw5wXxt Thank you so much for joining us on our Quest for Connection in 2025 as we continue the journey to #restorehumanity to education, together!

🌟We are thrilled to announce that the 2025 Mental Health Summit in Banff is proudly sponsored by Human Restoration Project! 🌟 🌟 Your passion for bringing young people, educators, and community members into a human-centered education is well aligned with the goals of the summit. Together, we’re working to create meaningful conversations and actionable change in the field of mental health and wellbeing for humanity. Thank you for helping us bring this vision to life in one of the most beautiful and inspiring locations on earth—Banff. 🏔️ We can’t wait to welcome everyone to an event that promises to empower minds and restore hearts. 💙 Chris McNutt Nick Covington Cassie Nastase Gina Cherkowski #mentalhealthsummit #mentalhealth #wellbeing #education #summit #Banff #wellness #hearts #minds #SEL #MentalHealthSummit2025 #HumanRestorationProject #Banff #Gratitude

🌟We are thrilled to announce that the 2025 Mental Health Summit in Banff is proudly sponsored by Human Restoration Project! 🌟 🌟 Your passion for bringing young people, educators, and community members into a human-centered education is well aligned with the goals of the summit. Together, we’re working to create meaningful conversations and actionable change in the field of mental health and wellbeing for humanity. Thank you for helping us bring this vision to life in one of the most beautiful and inspiring locations on earth—Banff. 🏔️ We can’t wait to welcome everyone to an event that promises to empower minds and restore hearts. 💙 Chris McNutt Nick Covington Cassie Nastase Gina Cherkowski #mentalhealthsummit #mentalhealth #wellbeing #education #summit #Banff #wellness #hearts #minds #SEL #MentalHealthSummit2025 #HumanRestorationProject #Banff #Gratitude

A revelation that hit me during my conversation with Danish educator Pernille Schmidt Ripp is the tension and pressure of training American teachers to be superheroes that are needed to rescue kids from failing socioeconomic systems while ignoring those systemic failures. That demand to be superhuman is ultimately dehumanizing. Danish teachers don't have to be superhuman, they just get to be human. And if kids don't need to be rescued, well, they get to be humans, too. They can play, fail, relax, be spontaneous, take a vacation, and...things will be fine because nobody has to be a superhero. Nobody needs to be rescued from failing systems. So much of the tension in the American education system originates at the cross-purposes of treating schooling like a decades-long job-training project in service of an economy that fails most of its participants. And the stakes of schooling match our level of socioeconomic precarity with a high-stakes, no-excuses pedagogy built precisely for such a purpose: Bell-to-bell maximized instructional time, no play, no spontaneity, no relaxation. School is work and work is life. But who is this working *for*? It's not working for children. As I've posted about before, in a national survey of over 21,000 students, "tired", "stressed", and "bored" were the most common words students used to describe how they feel at school. In an in-depth follow-up with 472 students, "75% of all feelings students reported...were negative." And it's not working for adults working in K-12 or college education either. As Gallup reported in 2022 that "K-12 Workers Have Highest Burnout Rate in U.S.", and a recent RAND report documents how "Teachers work longer hours, earn lower salaries, and report higher levels of job-related stress than other working adults." So why do education systems and practices that alienate, isolate, burn-out, and dehumanize persist? Who does that benefit? And why can't we seem to do better? The American superhero teacher narrative is an admission that, in the wealthiest nation on earth, our *economic* system has failed. The bipartisan conventional wisdom about America’s “failing schools” and the "decline of the American student" are the result of a deliberate project to shift responsibility for economic precarity and inequality away from industry and policy, placing it squarely on the shoulders of educators and schools. So how can an education system designed to serve such an economic system succeed on its own merits? By what criteria can the humans within such a system succeed?

We've got an awesome lineup of guests to keep the conversation going over the holidays and into the new year, featuring Josh Cowen, Story Xperiential, Pernille Schmidt Ripp, Mike Tinoco, and Heidi Echternacht!🚀 Subscribe on any podcast app or listen @ https://lnkd.in/g2ACcMKN #K12 #education #edleadership

In our latest episode, Dr. Kapono Ciotti explores the experiences that led him to co-author The Landscape Model of Learning & how students can become protagonists of their own future. https://lnkd.in/gEA8qGPW