The Promise (and Persistent Myths) of Montessori Education w/ Andrew Faulstich, Dr. Ayize Sabater... YouTube video by Human Restoration Project

The Promise (and Persistent Myths) of Montessori Education feat. Andrew Faulstich, Dr. Ayize Sabater, and Kelly Jonelis:

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Our latest episode is an exploration of The Promise (and Persistent Myths) of Montessori Education feat. Andrew Faulstich, Dr. Ayize Sabater, and Kelly Jonelis:

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Why Every School Should be a Sustainable Community School YouTube video by Chicago Teachers Union

Really excited to be talking with Kelly McMahon (teacher & ISEA VP), Jitu Brown (organizer & Chicago Public Schools Board Member), & 2 experts from @neatoday.bsky.social for an upcoming @humanrestorationproject.org podcast exploring the promise of community schools:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC33...

"How are we supposed to rebuild education from the ground up if we're too exhausted, drained, overworked and run down to fully function? The revolution cannot be led by an army of zombies. We owe the future our self-preservation." - Ginie Servant-Miklos, Pedagogies of Collapse

"Collapse should not be equated with the apocalypse. If the role of education is to prepare the young for he future, and this is our future, where is the education system in all this?" Details Join us this summer for our book club, where we'll read and meet to discuss the ideas and implications of Pedagogies of Collapse and be joined by the author, Ginie Servant-Miklos, for an extended Q&A session on July 31. The book is available in paperback or as a free open access e-book. Anyone is welcome to attend! Dates: Welcome Session: June 26 @ 11am ET Ch. 1-3: July 10 @ 11am ET Ch. 4-6: July 24 @ 11am ET July 31 @ 11am ET w/ Ginie Servant-Miklos Learn more and register @ https://www.humanrestorationproject.org/book-club

Announcing our 2026 Summer Book Club!

We'll read and meet to discuss the ideas and implications of Pedagogies of Collapse and be joined by the author, Ginie Servant-Miklos, for a Q&A on July 31.

Learn more and register @ www.humanrestorationproject.org/book-club #edchat

Cover of Pedagogies of Collapse by Ginie Servant Miklos

Pedagogies of Collapse is available in paperback or here as a free open access e-book:

www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

"Collapse should not be equated with the apocalypse. If the role of education is to prepare the young for he future, and this is our future, where is the education system in all this?" Details Join us this summer for our book club, where we'll read and meet to discuss the ideas and implications of Pedagogies of Collapse and be joined by the author, Ginie Servant-Miklos, for an extended Q&A session on July 31. The book is available in paperback or as a free open access e-book. Anyone is welcome to attend! Dates: Welcome Session: June 26 @ 11am ET Ch. 1-3: July 10 @ 11am ET Ch. 4-6: July 24 @ 11am ET July 31 @ 11am ET w/ Ginie Servant-Miklos Learn more and register @ https://www.humanrestorationproject.org/book-club

Announcing our 2026 Summer Book Club!

We'll read and meet to discuss the ideas and implications of Pedagogies of Collapse and be joined by the author, Ginie Servant-Miklos, for a Q&A on July 31.

Learn more and register @ www.humanrestorationproject.org/book-club #edchat

I could not have articulated this concept any better. This was such a great conversation! #EduSky

“I think what a lot of schools are facing today is a rise of pedagogical authoritarianism. This remarkable certainty that we know how every child learns.”

Quite a conversation, especially for this moment.

(In other words: listen to this!)

"The work that I do today is focused on creating a world in which kids wake up in the middle of the night with a burning desire to get back to school, to continue working on something that matters to them..." - @garystager.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud6s... #k12 #edchat

Like the conservationist John Muir, the sense you get talking to @garystager.bsky.social about education is that when you try to pick out anything by itself, you find it hitched to everything else in the universe:

www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/rea... #K12 #edchat

Like the conservationist John Muir, the sense you get talking to @garystager.bsky.social about education is that when you try to pick out anything by itself, you find it hitched to everything else in the universe:

www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/rea... #K12 #edchat

An Ohio high school student leads a workshop session with signs that read: Our recommendations: less homework, more community, more choice

Students lead a session on student code storming results

Students from STREEM: Striving to Transform, Respect, Empower, Educate, Mobilize speak to audience of educators

Students shared the results of their focus groups with hundreds of students in their schools:

"Our recommendations:

Too much workload
Deeper connections
More autonomy and choice"

Word cloud of student responses to the question, what do you feel the biggest addressable issues facing your community's citizens are? Biggest words include health, pressure, mental, parents, lack, difference, teens, college, taken

Word cloud of student responses to the question, what does advocacy look like to you in direct relation to the current state of the world? Largest responses include open, change, respecting, stand, equals, black, listen, educating, conversation

Close up of slides of student responses and quotes: Tragedy is closer than you think. Just because you're different doesn't even matter less. If we don't feel comfortable to ask a question, are they really doing their jobs?

Student quotes: If I'm not the best, I'm worthless. It's everyone's first time living. Don't teach. I have a textbook, use context for more valuable learning. There's always something bigger going on outside the classroom.

Their messages to adults:

"Just because you're different doesn't mean you matter less."

"There's always something bigger going on outside the classroom."

"It's everyone's first time living."

Are we listening?

Student led workshop session with students attending around a large wooden conference table

Student led keynote sharing insights from World Cafe style student listening & sharing event

Photo from the back of a workshop showing students and educators sharing tables

Photo of students and participants listening to a keynote

Students opened the conference, led breakout sessions, and in several sessions I attended, the majority of participants were students. Their experiences, voices, and perspectives suffused every event.

Photo collage of images from student power summit in LA, featuring photos of Chris and Nick and students leading and attending workshop sessions

This Student Power Summit in LA was the best education conference @humanrestorationproject.org has ever attended. Full stop.

The secret sauce was two simple ingredients: student voice rooted in the healing mission of Homeboy Industries. Students attended from Chicago and all over Ohio and SoCal!

Thanks Marcus!

must-listen!

In prison, I finally learned to embrace social and emotional learning I can’t help but wonder what my life might have been like if I’d had access to these tools in grade school.

And this important piece written by one of her students at MCI-Shirley, the medium security prison where @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social teaches:

"In prison, I embraced the SEL skills I should have learned in grade school"

www.chalkbeat.org/2025/05/12/i... #edchat #k12

#202 College Inside, College Outside We meet eight former prison inmates who are now attending college on campus at Boston College. These students in the BC Prison Education Program reflect on the transition from incarceration to college

Our conversation is a good companion to this 2025 episode of @haveyouheard.bsky.social where @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social interviews eight former prison inmates attending college on campus at Boston College:

soundcloud.com/haveyouheard... #k12 #edchat

In our newest episode, @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social shares her experience teaching in the prison education program and the lessons we can learn about school and society.

What Prison Can Teach Us About School w/ Jennifer Berkshire: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxrR... #edchat #k12

So true. Toxic wellness talk and no willingness to actually change stuctures, especially since COVID.

When a teacher follows a mandated curriculum, the platform "teaches for" the teacher. Critical theorist Michael Apple documented this process decades ago, arguing that teachers lose the time and skill to plan their own curricula and instead become isolated executors of someone else's plans and evaluative mechanisms. Likewise, theorist Henry Giroux says it reduces teachers "to the status of specialized technicians within the school bureaucracy, whose function then becomes one of managing and implementing curricular programs rather than developing or critically appropriating curricula to fit specific pedagogical concerns.” The student, in turn, is "measured" on their ability to reproduce predetermined output. Even in competency-based frameworks, "measuring" creativity or critical thinking becomes self-consuming: the skill is not applied but performed for the purpose of assessment. This can become further entrenched. Without proactive use, AI accelerates interpassivity into what Jenny Anderson and Rebecca Winthrop in The Disengaged Teen (2025) have dubbed "passenger mode." The role of the student shifts from active participant in making sense of the world to passive consumer of whatever the curriculum (or now, algorithm) outputs. The question "is this true?" gets replaced by "does this sound right?" and eventually the question stops being asked at all.

NEW - Teaching in the Wreckage of the Real:

"The only antidote to a world of manufactured confusion is a shift toward making students builders of meaning, not consumers of it."

www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/teac...

The Grammar of Inclusive Instructional Design By viewing diversity, equity, and inclusion as qualities of effective pedagogy, educators can make real changes to students’ learning experiences.

"Too much of the work we were doing under the banner of DEI did not actually make our school more diverse, equitable, or inclusive. Instead, these programs compensated for a lack of diversity, equity, and inclusion in our schools." - @laurenporosoff.bsky.social

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The Trouble with Compensatory Programs Schools don’t need more supplemental or one-off programs; they need instruction that brings their values to life every day.

"You can point to an empathy poster, but you can’t point to the empathy that emerges from how a discussion is structured in science class." - @laurenporosoff.bsky.social

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When schools rely on what @laurenporosoff.bsky.social calls "compensatory programs" to patch systemic issues, they often create problem of their own.

Our latest episode, Making School Meaningful w/ Lauren Porosoff:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQFg... #K12 #edchat

BC Prison Education Program Shatters Stigmas and Builds Better Futures “When you are in a difficult position but find someone who doesn’t judge you and tries to teach you, and even tries to learn from you, it is an amazing thing that can change your life, that can put yo...

As a reprieve from The Horrors, I get to talk with @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social this morning for a @humanrestorationproject.org podcast episode about her experiences teaching education policy in the Boston College Prison Education Program:

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The researchers say their findings suggest that alleviating academic pressure for teenagers could have benefits to mental health, and should be considered by schools and educational policymakers. Potential solutions might involve reducing tests and assessments or supporting the development of social and emotional skills. They say they hope to develop a whole-school intervention, aiming to change the school environment, culture and values, in a way that could reduce academic pressure and improve mental health and wellbeing. Professor Lewis said: “Current approaches to help pupils with mental health tend to be focused on helping individual pupils cope; we hope to address academic pressure at the whole-school level by addressing the school culture.”

This is the entire reason @humanrestorationproject.org exists btw 👀

NEW: Yong Zhao helps us understand how our obsession with meritocracy contributes to the great problems of our time, and how shifting the purpose of education toward human interdependence offers a way out. 👇

www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/fro... #K12 #edchat

NEW: Yong Zhao helps us understand how our obsession with meritocracy contributes to the great problems of our time, and how shifting the purpose of education toward human interdependence offers a way out. 👇

www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/fro... #K12 #edchat