Podcast Episodes

Crash Course Social Studies Education w/ Raoul Meyer

Episode 184

If you’ve taught or attended a high school course in the last decade, you’ve probably watched a Crash Course video. Their dozens of playlists on topics from Biology and Environmental Science to Econo…

Published on 6 hours ago

Cultivating Creativity and Connection in the Classroom w/ Tom Rendon & Zachary Stier

Episode 183

How do you define creativity?

Would you be able to spot creativity in the wild?

What about creativity in the classroom?

This endless human quest to define the seemingly undefinable, and somehow make it …

Published on 2 weeks ago

Are we Reader or are we Player? w/ Karis Jones, Virginia Killian Lund, Brady Nash, and Trevor Aleo

Episode 182

Most of us probably experienced a homogenous version of literacy in our English classes: read a book, answer a few questions along the way, and compose an essay at the end about how we viewed a key t…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Making School Finance As Public As Possible w/ David I. Backer

Episode 181

We’re recording this episode the week the Iowa DOGE Task Force released their final 136 page report – you heard that right, that’s the state-level version of the Department of Government Efficiency c…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

The Buzz About the Human Hive w/ Kate McAllister

Episode 180

When I sat down with James Mannion to talk about the educational polycrisis back in July, his long-time colleague, friend, and collaborator Kate McAllister was right there by his side. After the reco…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Lessons in Powerful Learning from the Fringes w/ Dr. Sarah Fine

Episode 179

Today’s episode is Dr. Sarah Fine’s keynote, the Quest for Authenticity: Lessons in Powerful Learning from the Fringes, from our Conference to Restore Humanity back in July of this year.

As Dr. Fine a…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Will Work for Food: Labor Across the Food Chain w/ Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern & Teresa M. Mares

Episode 178

The reach and impact of our food systems – that is, the complex, interconnected, and globalized web of institutions, resources, and processes that bring food from the farm, to the table, and into the…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

From the Classroom to the Capitol: A Conversation w/ New Mexico Lt. Gov. Howie Morales

Episode 177

Please note that Human Restoration Project is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization and that this interview is not an endorsement of Morales as a candidate for office.

Before Howie Morales became Lieutenan…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Taming the Turbulence in Educational Leadership w/ Jennifer D. Klein

Episode 176

In the opening pages of my guest’s book, she recounts a colleague's bumpy plane ride that provided the insight for the title of the book, Taming the Turbulence in Educational Leadership: “We are faci…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

BS Universities: The Future of Automated Education w/ Rob Sparrow & Gene Flenady

Episode 175

“Any assessment of the potential of AI to contribute to education must begin with an accurate understanding of the nature of the outputs of AI,” my guests today write, “The most important reason to r…

Published on 4 months ago