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Human Restoration Project

Announcing Conference to Restore Humanity! 2025: Quest for Connection (July 21-23, 2025). In 2025, we’re responding to the need for community and solidarity in uncertain times by turning Conference to Restore Humanity into a model for humanizing critical discourse and dialogue: bringing together students and teachers, researchers and doers, thinkers and visionaries to explore complex topics in education and illuminate a path forward together.

Register and support the conference!

Inform

Bringing young people, educators, and community members into a human-centered education.

Guide

Giving educators the tools to create progressive spaces that value all learners, building lasting purpose.

Grow

Creating a space to grow and sustain a flourishing reimagination of classrooms across the globe.
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Announcing Conference to Restore Humanity! 2024: Vision Into Reality.

Join us on July 22nd-25th for a one-of-its-kind, designed for virtual progressive education conference.

Latest Updates

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New podcast: Sustaining Love, Hope, and Community Through Nonviolence Pedagogy w/ Mike Tinoco

We spoke with Mike Tinoco, teacher & Kingian nonviolence trainer about how we can embed love in our curriculum and be inclusive of our students' lives, centering community, healing, and justice.

March 6, 2025
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New Writing! A Student's View: Perspectives on a Gradeless and Growth-Centered Classroom

An 8th grade ELA student and her teacher sit down for a dialogue about student experiences in a gradeless and growth-centered classroom.

March 6, 2025
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Keynote Announced for CTRH! 2025

Sarah M. Fine is an Assistant Professor at UC San Diego, focused on transforming PK-12 schools into humanizing, intellectually vibrant spaces. A former high school English teacher, she earned her doctorate from Harvard in 2017. She founded the San Diego Teacher Residency, a justice-oriented M.Ed. program. Fine has written for The New York Times and scholarly journals, and her co-authored book In Search of Deeper Learning won the 2021 Grawemeyer Award in Education. She also shares her work through podcasts and a TEDx talk.

March 4, 2025

We are working with young people, educators, and schools to design engaging communities by...

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creating purposeful, community spaces.

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advocating for social justice.

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eliminating dehumanizing practices.

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building spaces that value us as humans.

We must not turn our back at the future.

There are many serious threats to our world. We need an education system that humanizes school. Young people need to unlock their full potential, creating a just, equitable society.