Human Restoration Project

About Human Restoration Project

Since 2018, the Human Restoration Project Podcast has reimagined education through critical, progressive, human-centered learning. Across nearly 200 episodes, and counting, we've explored every topic in education: ungrading and alternative assessment, interdisciplinary play-based and project-based learning, SEL, education reforms and systemic school change in society with students, teachers, leaders, researchers, and advocates around the world. Join us on our mission to restore humanity to education, together!

Publisher

Human Restoration Project

Category

education · science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Apr 2018

Latest episode

3 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

195 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   3 Oct 2026

   To Learn is to Be w/ Cassie Nastase

   Earlier this summer we released audio narrations of pieces from our upcoming progressive education primer, the opening essay, We Are Worldbuilders, and Teaching in the Wreckage of the Real, that you can find on this podcast feed. But these two upcoming episodes are special. The next episode after this one will be episode 200, and it'll be a listener guided look back through our archives going way back to the before-times of 2018. If you want to share an episode that was particularly special or important to you, send the name of the episode with a description of what it meant to you to nick@humanrestorationproject.org and I'll read your name and description on air and play highlights from that episode. Today, we're presenting original poems written  and read by Cassie Nastase, HRP's Third Coast Learning Collaborative Coordinator, for that primer, and for which Cassie also created the incredible cover art collage. This first one is titled, To Learn is to Be, and you can find a link to it in the show notes. You can find all of our writing, podcasts, and school-based work at Humanrestorationproject.org [http://humanrestorationproject.org/], and with that, I'll let Cassie have the last word. To Learn is to Be [https://www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/to-learn-is-to-be/]- poem by Cassie Nastase on HRP website 10 Piano Tracks (vol. 1) by Ethereal 88 | https://ethereal88.bandcamp.com Royalty Free Music by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

2. 

   19 Sept 2026

   Building the Appalachia of the Future w/ Appalachian Futurism Project

   "Appalachia has a history and culture worth preserving, and a future worth pursuing," reads The Big Idea on AFP's homepage. The Appalachian Futurism Project's mission is to leverage educational, cultural, and economic resources to develop an ecosystem across the region where young people are part of imagining and co-designing the Appalachia of the future. And joining me to talk about are two of the people doing this work, Dustin Hensley and Hannah Askew of the Appalachian Futurism Project, based out of Elizabethton High School in Elizabethton, Tennessee. Appalachianfuturismproject.org [https://www.appalachianfuturismproject.org/] AFP on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61593192997464] AFP on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/appalachianfuturismproject/]

3. 

   5 Sept 2026

   People-Based Learning w/ Dr. Jane Shore

   In case you're not familiar at all with the Katamari video game series. As the player, you navigate this ball that starts off small at first until everything in the environment sticks to you, and by the end of a level you have entire buildings, trees, cars, and all manner of flora and fauna stuck to you.  I have the sense that my guest today is a human katamari. Every experience and interaction sticks, and she's made it the mission of her life to make sense of it all. Dr. Jane Shore is an author, artist, former education researcher, co-founder of Revolution School, and founder of School of Thought. But before any of those titles, Jane is first and foremost a meaning-maker, and her most recent book, People Based Learning: The Future of Learning is Human, braids together decades of experience, conversations, models, and research to bear on a new way of organizing learning and schooling: "People-Based Learning is all about the interplay between connecting, reflecting, and affecting, a dynamic spiral or open-end loop that helps us engage meaningfully with new people, ideas, and experiences," she writes, "At its core, this approach encourages both exploration and introspection, ultimately leading to deeper understanding, deeper personal meaning, deeper memory, and collective growth." peoplebasedlearning.com [http://peoplebasedlearning.com/] People Based Learning [https://www.routledge.com/People-Based-Learning-The-Future-of-Learning-is-Human/Shore/p/book/9781041089858] by Jane Shore

Who has been a guest on Human Restoration Project

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• Ryan Boren
• Chelsea Adams
• Norah Hobbs
• Helen Edgar
• Chanea Bond

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