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Thanks Marcus!
must-listen!
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"
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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...
"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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"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
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
Listen to the podcast by the @humanrestorationproject.org with their interview of @dianeravitch.bsky.social on her life, her stories and #publiceducation. Highly recommended. #podcast pca.st/episode/862a...
This my story and I'm sticking to it:
www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cha...
Diane Ravitch was once a leading champion of charters, vouchers, and testing until the evidence came in and she changed her mind about all of it.
Changing My Mind About Schools (and Everything Else) w/ @dianeravitch.bsky.social: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cha... #K12 #edchat
Getting to talk with @dianeravitch.bsky.social about her life is one of the highlights of mine. What a pleasure to share it with listeners as well!
Changing My Mind About Schools (and Everything Else) w/ Diane Ravitch: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cha... @humanrestorationproject.org
Much of what we value in our children’s education, and is essential to our mutual health and well-being, resists a precise dollar amount or direct connection to future earning potential. We are musical, poetic, artistic, historical, and often joyously inefficient tinkerers just as much as we are participants, willingly or not, in the economic and political systems of our times. And which practices in school communicate to kids and adults that our spiky, messy, complicated humanity is a group project worth taking on? In an age where generative AI can do just about anything quickly and efficiently, if we want students to do more than prompt AI-generated essays to be fed into the robo-grader back and forth forever, we must start by openly asking: What is worth thinking, writing, learning, and discussing? What are we going to build with this time we have together?
My latest @humanrestorationproject.org is me wrestling with all of *this* in relation to education:
"What is worth thinking, writing, learning, and discussing? What are we going to build with this time we have together?"
www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/we-a... #edchat #K12
As Octavia Butler recognized, world-building is not just a project of science-fiction. Through intention or its absence, built by us or built for us, the very real and shared world we inhabit is built bit by bit each day. So is our work in education a world-building project. Through the structures and systems we create and the pedagogies and practices we cultivate, we can either foreclose possibility, concede to inevitability, or become builders of a better imagined future. This was also John Dewey’s charge from the ascendent fascism of his time—the very period that informed Butler’s fictional dystopia—to our own today.
"Through intention or its absence, built by us or built for us, the very real and shared world we inhabit is built bit by bit each day. So is our work in education a world-building project."
So what is it about the world that is worth building?
www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/we-a...
A few weeks ago @mistermeyer.bsky.social , producer of our upcoming film THE TEACHERS PROJECT (wt), spoke with Nick Covington on the @humanrestorationproject.org podcast.
www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cra...
It’s a great listen that touches on Raoul’s past work with @thecrashcourse.bsky.social as well as our new film and many of the issues facing teachers today as schools become increasingly politicized spaces.
www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cra...
What is democracy, what is the role of public schools in a pluralistic democratic nation, and why are both worth keeping?
@aft.org president, @rweingarten.bsky.social, joins our podcast to help answer these fundamental questions and more:
www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/why... #edchat
A preview of my upcoming conversation with @rweingarten.bsky.social for the @humanrestorationproject.org podcast. Full episode out 1/10!
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What is democracy, what is the role of public schools in a pluralistic democratic nation, and why are both worth keeping?
@aft.org president, @rweingarten.bsky.social, joins our podcast to help answer these fundamental questions and more:
www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/why... #edchat
Our final episode of 2025 is a conversation with @mistermeyer.bsky.social about the old days of Crash Course History and the current state of social studies teaching in America. 👇
www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cra... #K12 #NCSS #sschat #edchat
Our final episode of 2025 is a conversation with @mistermeyer.bsky.social about the old days of Crash Course History and the current state of social studies teaching in America. 👇
www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cra... #K12 #NCSS #sschat #edchat
This was a must-listen then and still is
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Henry Giroux's 2022 conference keynote, Critical Pedagogy in a Time of Fascist Tyranny, remains as important today as when it was published.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WM1... #K12 #edchat
