We've just submitted our video for Project for Awesome 2026, an annual event that raises awareness of nonprofits doing good work across the world and then donates to these orgs based on community votes. Can you please help? We'd love your vote! Here's our entry: www.youtube.com/watch?v=83wz... #OER
As we wrap up Season Two of the Educating to Be Human podcast, I’m joined by Kassi Talbot, principal of #Pescadero Elementary, to talk about the power of #rural #education and community-centered learning. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
History isn’t just in books - it’s in the names and spaces we inhabit every day. Listen here to "The Power of Place" an interview with Ruth Mostern from the World Historical Gazetteer, to learn where historians and geospatial data become one! #EducatingToBeHuman podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
If you are following the Global Sumud Flotilla, this looks to be a good source of news, as they attempt to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
In today’s episode of Educating to Be Human, I speak with Fr Jon Pedigo, a longtime social justice advocate and (inter)faith leader, about what it takes to build resilient communities in a time of division podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
Latest episode of #EducatingtoBeHuman features ex-diplomat Paul Kruchoski on impact of #PublicDiplomacy designed to learn across borders, listen across all peoples and cultures, and build relationships that strive to make living together in peace a possibility
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Rewind! Here's the premiere episode that launched Educating to Be Human: Monsters. Featuring classics professor Erin O’Connell taking about how we define monsters, where they appear in our lives & what they reveal about what it means to be human in today's world
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New episode of Educating to Be Human: AI in the Classroom: Power, Bias and Opportunity, w/ Maha Bali, explores how AI is impacting classrooms—and why digital literacy must go beyond technical skills to include questions of equity, power, and human connection. educatingtobehuman.org/ai-in-the-cl...
New episode of Educating to Be Human podcast, "Why Community Colleges Matter More than Ever" w/Dr. Keith Curry
president at Compton College, about what it takes to lead through uncertainty w/clarity, consistency, and purpose podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
#CommunityColleges #HigherEd
New episode of @edutobehuman.bsky.social w/ @chrisfreeland.com from @archive.org - As #libraries face book bans, funding cuts, cyberattacks & digital licensing for materials they can never own, who’s left to protect what we know, what we share and what we remember? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
Title is Educating to Be Human with Joanna Strober, with a woman in a black long-sleeve t-shirt, with hands on her hips, that says "menopause is hot"
Join me on Educating to Be Human with MIDI CEO Joanna Strober, on why #menopause care & research is overlooked, the impact on women’s careers & well-being & how to #educate to better support this transition—not just in medicine, but in society educatingtobehuman.org/taking-the-m... #WomensHealth
What if we could shift our #education systems to focus on learning that is hands-on, healing, and rooted in justice?
Latest episode of Educating to Be Human, w/Stephen Ritz at Green Bronx Machine, educatingtobehuman.org/food-justice...
#foodjustice #urbanfarming #schoolgarden
This is what leadership in a democracy looks like. Me, a proud Californian tonight. Thank you, @governor.ca.gov www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXQQ...
Excited to share the most recent episode of Educating to Be Human, in conversation with Atman Smith of the Holistic Life Foundation, as we explore the impact of #mindfulness, #yoga, and #healing in our #schools and beyond: “When Meditation Replaces Detention” educatingtobehuman.org/when-meditat...
New season of Educating to Be Human w/Wendy Millet of Gallop Ventures, abt what happens when we slow down, listen, & allow nature—and horses—to be our teachers.
“When a young woman learns to set a boundary with a thousand-pound animal, she doesn’t forget it"
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Season 2 of my podcast, Educating to Be Human, is on its way! Meanwhile, here is a special bonus episode that looks back at Season 1. These voices from classrooms, communities, and prisons reminded me just how powerful education can be when we center humanity. educatingtobehuman.org/reflecting-o...
This might not make the front page, but it strikes at the core of our society, in terms access to knowledge.
![After President Trump's inauguration last month, he has steadily signed a slate of executive orders to keep these education promises: combatting critical race theory, DEl, gender ideology extremism, and discrimination in admissions. President Trump has also been focused on eliminating wasteful bureaucracy and harmful programs in the federal government. To that end, today he signed [Executive Order XYZ, entitled "Eliminating the Department of Education,] which has given us a clear and final mission.
We are to identify which of the Department's functions, programs, and offices are not mandated by statute, and eliminate them. This reorganization will impact staff, budgets, reporting, and more —and in coming months, we will determine how it can be accomplished with minimal delay and disruption. The President further tasked us with creating a plan to reallocate and reassign functions of the Department of Education that would be more effectively managed by other agencies. This plan will offer Congress a road map toward fulfilling the expectations of the President and the American people.
The new vision—which I hope each of you will embrace going forward—can be expressed as four main convictions:
Parents are the primary decision makers in their children's education.
Students deserve to be protected from physical violence, racial discrimination, medical tyranny, and gender extremism ideology on campus.
Postsecondary education should be a path to a well-paying career aligned with workforce needs.
Taxpayer-funded education should refocus on meaningful learning: proficiency in math, reading, and core subjects, and patriotism in American history and civics.
As we move to reduce the Department's middleman role in education, these four convictions must guide us toward conscientious and pragmatic action. The elimination of bureaucracy should free us, not limit us, in our pursuit of these goals
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After President Trump's inauguration last month, he has steadily signed a slate of executive orders to keep these education promises: combatting critical race theory, DEl, gender ideology extremism, and discrimination in admissions. President Trump has also been focused on eliminating wasteful bureaucracy and harmful programs in the federal government. To that end, today he signed [Executive Order XYZ, entitled "Eliminating the Department of Education,] which has given us a clear and final mission. We are to identify which of the Department's functions, programs, and offices are not mandated by statute, and eliminate them. This reorganization will impact staff, budgets, reporting, and more —and in coming months, we will determine how it can be accomplished with minimal delay and disruption. The President further tasked us with creating a plan to reallocate and reassign functions of the Department of Education that would be more effectively managed by other agencies. This plan will offer Congress a road map toward fulfilling the expectations of the President and the American people. The new vision—which I hope each of you will embrace going forward—can be expressed as four main convictions: Parents are the primary decision makers in their children's education. Students deserve to be protected from physical violence, racial discrimination, medical tyranny, and gender extremism ideology on campus. Postsecondary education should be a path to a well-paying career aligned with workforce needs. Taxpayer-funded education should refocus on meaningful learning: proficiency in math, reading, and core subjects, and patriotism in American history and civics. As we move to reduce the Department's middleman role in education, these four convictions must guide us toward conscientious and pragmatic action. The elimination of bureaucracy should free us, not limit us, in our pursuit of these goals Removing red tape and bureaucratic barriers will empower parents to make th
SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education.
I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”.
Here is a portion:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico.
2. “Gulf of America"will be at top
3. Click on 3 little dots to right of “Gulf of America”
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click "Gulf Of America" text
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" & type i.e. "the correct name of this body of water is “Gulf of Mexico"
"DOGE staffers have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, the people said, including a financial aid dataset that contains the personal information for millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program." www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Celebrating the completion of Season 1 of ISKME's Educating to Be Human podcast. Full list of episodes here, and stay tuned for Season 2 in early Spring 2025! www.iskme.org/celebrating-...
Our season 1 finale of "Educating to Be Human" podcast is with Jody Lewen of Mt. Tamalpais College, on the challenges and impact of offering a 2-year liberals arts degree in prison: Beyond Recidivism, educatingtobehuman.org/beyond-recid... #PrisonEducation #HigherEducation
In today's episode of Educating to Be Human, I chat w/Julius Cave, regional director of the Leading Men Fellowship, on how this program is changing the landscape of education by recruiting and training young men of color to become Pre-K teachers educatingtobehuman.org/answering-th...
