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Chart a Course for a Better World & a Joyful, Examined Life
There's still time: sign up for an experience that will help you chart a course toward a more meaningful, examined life while becoming a changemaker for a just, compassionate, sustainable world. Through our month-long distance program, A Better World, A Meaningful Life (September 6-October 1), you'll examine your life and values and gain better insights & skills for doing more good for yourself, other people, animals, and the environment.
BONUS: Sign up together with 3 or more of your friends and you each pay only $80 (that's $45 off per person!). Find out more.
Month-long Distance Learning Programs
Thrive in our distance learning courses!Humane Education Certificate Program
Get immersive training in humane education!
Teaching for a Better World Summer Institute
Learn how to help your students become changemakers for a humane world at our week-long on-site institute for teachers!
Sowing Seeds Workshops
Learn effective approaches for sharing humane education! MOGO (Most Good) Workshops
Tap into your deepest values & learn to create the world you want to see!
September 25, 2010 - 9:00 am | Location: Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary
Live your values. Change the world. Choose MOGO! IHE President, Zoe Weil, will be leading a one-day MOGO Workshop at Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary! Let your life reflect what truly matters to you. Discover ways to choose MOGO (most good), act on what's most...
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Zoe Weil Speaking at TEDxDirigo
Zoe will be speaking about what schooling should be for at TEDxDirigo in Brunswick, Maine on October 10, 2010. Find out more.
Zoe Weil Interviewed on Planet Green
Mickey Z of Planet Green just posted his interview with Zoe, talking about the power of humane education and the challenges of making change.
Zoe Weil Contributing Blogger on Cooperative Catalyst
IHE President, Zoe Weil, is now a contributing blogger for Cooperative Catalyst, which discusses issues surrounding education and education reform. Check out Zoe's first post, "Why Are We Afraid to Explore Issues Essential to Our Children's Future?"
Humane Issues In the News:
Sex stereotypes in the classroom also hurt boys (via Salon.com)(9/1/10)
Do animals make good classroom companions? (via NorthJersey.com) (9/1/10)
First virtual school in Massachusetts opening (via Boston.com) (8/31/10)
Banks decreasing support for "risky" industry environmental practices (via NY Times) (8/30/10)
"Five years later, a richer, whiter New Orleans" (via Salon) (8/28/10)
Kindergarten enrollments reflect changes in U.S. "ethnic" demographics (via USA Today) (8/27/10)
One district's journey to raise graduation rates (via Learning First Alliance) (8/27/10)
School under fire for segregating class elections by race (via Gawker) (8/26/10)
Some areas in U.S. seeing decline in birth rates (via NPR) (8/25/10)
Just how do you "recall" half a billion eggs? (via NPR) (8/24/10)
"Digital devices deprive brain of needed downtime" (via NY Times) (8/24/10)
"Princess culture turning girls into overspending narcissists" (via Vancouver Sun) (8/16/10)
"Brooklyn Free Store" shows power of community collaboration (via NY Times) (8/15/10)
Students design "their own paths to peace and service" (via Tonic)(8/12/10)
Keep up with more humane issues in the news via our Facebook or Twitter pages.
- Touching Strangers: Making Friends of "Others"
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 - Call for Student Changemakers Passionate About Stopping Plastic Pollution
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 - Is There Food Injustice in Your Community?
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - Share Your Thoughts: What Should Schooling Be For?
Monday, August 30, 2010 - Monday MOGO Tip: Just (Decide to) Do It
Monday, August 30, 2010
Join the Club! Start a Student Group Focused on Humane Choices
There's no shortage of clubs and other after school activities for students to join, but students are hungry for learning that has meaning and that relates to their lives, and they also want to know that their choices make a difference. Get them on the path to becoming changemakers for a better world; start a student group focused on global social justice issues: human rights, animal protection, environmental preservation and media, culture and consumerism.
Here are a couple of resources to help:
Learn about starting a MOGO (Most Good) Club, and get your students involved in creating a more peaceful, sustainable and humane world.
Read IHE M.Ed. graduate Kelle Kersten's handbook for creating a Compassion Club for high school girls. Kelle's Compassion Club [which she created for her graduate Independent Learning Project (ILP)] offers high school girls an alternative to the message that we must exist at the expense and exclusion of others and offers strategies for nurturing compassion through active involvement in meaningful human rights, animal protection and environmental preservation activities. The handbook offers a guide to starting a Compassion Club, as well as a sample curriculum and suggested resources.
Read the complete ILP. (The handbook begins on page 42 of the pdf file.)
Change Your Life. Change the World!
Transform your life so that it reflects your deepest values & works for a compassionate, just, sustainable world through your work, volunteerism, citizenship and daily choices. Check out IHE President Zoe Weil's latest book Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life.
Most Good, Least Harm is a Silver Winner for the 2010 Nautilus Awards.
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