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The Power of Critical Play w/ Dr. Mary Flanagan
Episode 194
We all grew up playing games — I fondly remember playing Go Fish with my grandma and her next door neighbor, as a 90s kid who grew up with an NES, it…
17 hours ago
Restoring Humanity to "Special Education": Global Perspectives on Inclusion w/ Dr. Sarah K Benson
Episode 193
Hey there, Nick here at Human Restoration Project. We took the longest break in our podcast’s history last month, and I hope you were able to take a …
2 weeks ago
Teaching in the Wreckage of the Real: A Narration
This summer, HRP is reading Pedagogies of Collapse: A Hopeful Education for the End of the World As We Know It, by Ginie Servant-Miklos, and we’re in…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
We Are Worldbuilders: A Narration
Progressive education is a world-building project rooted in the radical hope that schools can become something fit for human beings.
This summer, HRP …
2 months ago
The Future of Public Education is a Community School feat. Kelly McMahon, Jitu Brown, Angelia Ebner, and Dave Greenberg
Episode 192
This conversation started 2 years ago, when I ran into Kelly McMahon at a summer conference. Kelly’s a kindergarten teacher at Hoover Community Schoo…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Promise (and Persistent Myths) of Montessori Education w/ Andrew Faulstich, Dr. Ayize Sabater, and Kelly Jonelis
Episode 191
Montessori schools are some of the few that wear their pedagogy on their signage: Cottontail Creek Montessori School. Montessori Children’s House. Ac…
3 months ago
Spring Break 2026: HRP Summer Book Club & Montessori Mythbusting
This summer, HRP is reading Pedagogies of Collapse: A Hopeful Education for the End of the World As We Know It, by Ginie Servant-Miklos, and we’re in…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Reanimating the Art of Teaching w/ Gary Stager
Episode 190
There’s a quote from the great conservationist John Muir that goes, "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything els…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
What Prison Can Teach Us About School w/ Jennifer Berkshire
Episode 189
Tomorrow, I’ll be trading Iowa for a couple days in Los Angeles, where the HRP team will be presenting for the third year at LearningInspirEd’s Stude…
4 months, 1 week ago
Making School Meaningful w/ Lauren Porosoff
Episode 188
Whether it was during her nearly two decades as a middle school humanities teacher or as diversity coordinator or grade-level team leader, my guest t…
4 months, 3 weeks ago