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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: From Pixar to the Classroom: Teaching Storytelling w/ Story Xperiential

In this episode, we’ll explore how Story Xperiential, led by Pixar veterans, is being implemented in schools, hear about the impact it’s having on students, and discuss how storytelling can be a powerful tool for learning and self-expression.

March 26, 2025
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New Writing: Art as a Liberatory Practice in School

"In my work as a school counseling graduate student intern working with elementary-aged students, I have been finding art to be an incredibly important tool in helping to promote students’ empathy, self- expression, self-confidence, and healing."

March 19, 2025
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Full conference line-up announced!

Conference to Restore Humanity! 2025 is shaping up to be our best conference yet! Visit our conference site to see our keynote, workshop hosts, and panelists.

March 18, 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.