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Joy and Wonder at the Detroit Airport
Image courtesy random letters via Creative Commons. I travel on average about a week each month for work, which means I spend a lot of time in airports. Travel has become more and more challenging and...
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Who’s the most dangerous AND the most powerful animal? We are! Lead students on an exploration of the positive and negative impacts our choices have on the planet. Recommended for grades 2 through 5....
View ArticleHumane Educator’s Toolbox: A Bullied Boy Builds Beauty From Pain in “To This...
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View ArticleThinking about Death Prompts us To Live our Lives with Greater Meaning
In this powerful and moving TED talk, Candy Chang shares her New Orleans community’s most fervent wishes. Candy converted an abandoned, graffiti-covered building into a chalkboard wall with these...
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On Our Must-Read List: The One and Only Ivan
We haven’t read it yet, so we can’t recommend it, but 2013 Newbery Medal winner The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (HarperCollins 2012) is definitely on our must-read list. This book is...
View ArticleThe One and Only Ivan
This book is narrated by Ivan, a gorilla who was captured as a baby in Africa and has lived much of his life in a mall, a living exhibit for humans to gape at through glass walls. Ivan pretty much...
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Solutionaries Spotlight: Redefining Beauty for People with Differences
Image Positive Exposure website screenshot. Western society has a pretty specific definition of beauty, which often wreaks havoc on the emotional and physical lives of women of all ages. We hear...
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Submit Your Artistic or Literary Work About Social Justice in Education
Image courtesy Elvert Barnes/Flickr. Art and literature are powerful tools for social change. If you’re a classroom humane educator who is passionate about using words and images to explore social...
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Humane Education Activity: Give Gender Bias the Flip
Book covers created by: Mellie Ryan; BGM; and Hilde Kuyper. There’s a theory held by a lot of advertisers, media producers and others, that boys don’t like what girls like and that girls sometimes like...
View ArticleAmanda Palmer: The Power of Trust and Asking for Help (video)
At its core humane education (and changemaking) is about communication and connection. It’s about building relationships. In a fabulous TED talk, artist and musician Amanda Palmer discusses the new...
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Embracing Our Heartbreak to Find Our Solutionary Paths
Image courtesy of Natalie Barletta/Flickr. Part of the purpose and joy of humane education is in helping others find their path as solutionaries. Often we ask people passionate about creating a better...
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Humane Education Through Art
Art is a powerful way to educate. Artists have been using their work for centuries to move, inspire, transform. Whether through photography, plastic waste, or performance, recently more artists have...
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Consejo de Todos Los Seres Vivos
¿Qué espera una montaña? ¿Y un lobo, una vaca o un rio? Los participantes deben de convertirse en una parte de la naturaleza y compartir sus vidas, preocupaciones, esperanzas y conocimiento del ser que...
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I Am a Humane Educator: Kit Jagoda
Kit next to a wall of photos of some of the sanctuary animals IHE M.Ed. student Kit Jagoda has been a public school art teacher for more than 28 years. She and her husband also co-founded River’s Wish...
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Humane Education Activity: Wonder Box
Image via Chlot’s Run/Flickr. Start nurturing reverence for nature and a sense of wonder from the first day of school. The Wonder Box is used to hold a collection of various natural found objects...
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Humane Education Lesson Plan: Growing Changemakers
Image via Ales Cerin/FreeImages. IHE M.Ed. student Rachel Filtz created this fun, visual, interactive activity, which can be used with teachers or students to help them reflect on their journey and...
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Red: A Crayon’s Story
It was clear to everyone that something was not right with Red. Red’s strawberries were blue. When Red tried to make orange with Yellow, it came out all wrong. Teachers tried to help; so did the art...
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El Animal Más Poderoso Del Mundo
¿Cuál es el animal más poderoso y el más peligroso del mundo? ¡Somos nosotros! Conduzca a los estudiantes en una exploración sobre los efectos positivos y negativos que nuestras decisiones tienen sobre...
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Solutionaries Spotlight: Redefining Beauty for People with Differences
Image Positive Exposure website screenshot. Western society has a pretty specific definition of beauty, which often wreaks havoc on the emotional and physical lives of women of all ages. We hear...
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Submit Your Artistic or Literary Work About Social Justice in Education
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