resources
Free, open-source lesson plans, handbooks, and classroom frameworks. All work is released under a Creative Commons license.
Primer: Progressive Education
A guide to a human-centered education. An extensive overview of progressive education from Human Restoration Project.
handbooks
AI Handbook (Updated 2024)
Our AI Handbook investigates the transformative nature of ChatGPT and image generation software in the classroom, while cautioning the real ethical and societal concerns of using these tools.
"Learning Loss" Handbook
The "Learning Loss" handbook outlines the narrative of "catch up" education being propagated by testing companies and policy makers.
Path to Purpose Handbook
Our Path to Purpose Handbook describes the why, what, and how of “purpose-finding” in the classroom
Ungrading Handbook
The Ungrading Handbook supplies the research, questioning, and ideas necessary to begin the implementation of gradeless learning in your classroom.
Virtual Learning Handbook
The Virtual Learning Handbook provides suggestions to promote pro student-centered classrooms in the midst of virtual, hybrid, and “pandemic” teaching.
teacher resources
Scholarch: A Game-Based Reflection Toolkit for Educators
Scholarch is a solo journaling RPG about constructing a school in a fantasy world.
Empathy Interview Package
What if we started by listening? Our empathy interview package outlines both facilitator- and student-led empathy interview processes, with resources for understanding, hosting, and analyzing young people's conversations.
Conference to Restore Humanity!
Access a curated list of resources from our conferences, including keynotes and Q&A sessions with Dr. Henry Giroux, Dr. Denisha Jones, and Dr. Antonia Darder.
Finding Our North Star
Create your own constellation that guides you toward your North Star. Consisting of core values, people, places, hobbies, strengths, assets, and more, your personal constellation tells the story of who you are and why you're doing this work.
Assessment Mapping
This 4-step assessment map helps educators draw parallels in a new form of assessment through the lens of ecology and research on self-directed learning & a universal design for learning.
Evidence Journal
This resource provides a way to validate self-assessment and incorporate gradeless learning into even the most traditional classroom.
Zine: Restore Humanity (2022)
Our latest Zine offers a selection of writings from the last two years at Human Restoration Project.
interdisciplinary subject curriculum
A project funded by Holistic Think Tank that Human Restoration Project was an early-phase partner on. We're providing all of these resources free. Some may be slightly dated but can be easily adapted for classrooms, particularly grades 6-12. Explore 41 interdisciplinary, values-driven lessons with teacher and student guides, plus the pedagogical and impact guidebooks.
explore the curriculumcourses
A New Perspective Using Game Design
Rethink what's possible in classroom design through the lens of video games.
Rebellion by Design: Anti-Racism and UDL
Blend together and understand the framework of universal design for learning (UDL) and anti-racism.
A Green Education to Change the World
A multi-lesson course on creating a social impact through STEM.
Building Anti-Carceral Practices
This multi-lesson course helps teachers familiarize themselves with the carceral network: the connection between school, prison, and society, offering strategies and systemic changes to name these systems and reimagine for change.
Childism in Education
This course introduces educators to the new theory of childism, or, akin to feminism and anti-racism, empowering children by critiquing and transforming adultist norms and structures.
DIY at the Edges: Disrupting Behaviorism in the Classroom
This track is hosted by Stimpunks. Stimpunks combine "stimming" with "punks" to advocate for neurodiversity and push back against systems that restrict our humanity and harm our unique identities.
Disrupting Discriminatory Linguistics
These lessons aim to help educators understand the concept of linguistic discrimination and fight back against this dehumanizing practice in schools.