IHE is pleased to be in active partnership with the following organizations/institutions. We are currently collaborating to further one another’s missions and educate people to be solutionaries. For more information about the outstanding work of each of these organizations/institutions, please click on the organization name.
In partnership with Antioch University, IHE offers an M.Ed., M.A., and Graduate Certificate, as well as an Ed.D. concentration in humane education.
Compass Education empowers learning communities to educate and act for a sustainable future.
As an initiative of the UN SDSN, the Global Schools Program supports schools, educators, and researchers with training, curriculum, and methodologies to integrate sustainable development into education from the classroom to the policy level.
The High Tech High Graduate School of Education, the nation’s first graduate school rooted within K–12 schools, creates the context for transformative learning/action in schools and systems across the globe.
HESS collaborates with schools to empower teachers and students with knowledge and tools to actively address problems surrounding animal welfare, social justice, and environmental preservation.
The Local Pathways Fellowship seeks to provide young leaders with the tools, a platform, and a guiding framework for action, and connect them with leading urban development experts and practitioners.
The former Robert Russa Moton High School, now a National Historic Landmark and museum, preserves and constructively interprets the history of Civil Rights in Education and strives to promote dialogue and advance positions that ensure empowerment within a constitutional democracy.
The National Council for the Social Studies engages and supports educators in strengthening and advocating social studies as the largest professional association in the country devoted solely to social studies education.
Rondine Cittadella della Pace is committed to reducing armed conflicts around the world and to spreading the Rondine method for the creative transformation of conflicts in every context.
SENIA International is a global non-profit organization dedicated to championing inclusion by empowering the global community to connect, learn, and advocate for one another.
SIMA Studios celebrates, curates, and distributes documentaries and creative media projects that advance positive social change and support content creators, activists, educators, and changemakers worldwide.
The Smithsonian Science Education Center connects classrooms around the world with the science, history, research, and culture of the Smithsonian.
VEEP/NHEEP helps Vermont and New Hampshire students, teachers, and school communities build a deep understanding of energy and climate with interactive workshops, equipment, and action programs.
IHE works with and is connected to many non-profits as well as with schools and districts across the US and around the world. These are some of the organizations we consider allies in the effort to create a more equitable, sustainable, and humane world.
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“Changing the world one child at a time.” Those words have inspired my work for more than four decades in education, and they continue to inspire me now. We are at a pivotal point in the evolution of our world. We are facing a climate crisis, a health crisis, a crisis of racial justice, a crisis in our treatment of animals, a crisis of media bias. The list goes on. And perhaps our greatest crisis is our consistent struggle as a society to simply come together respectfully, intelligently, and ethically to solve our problems and save our planet. We need solutionaries. We need young people who have been educated not only to think critically, creatively, and systemically about real-world issues, but also to be passionate, persistent, and humane in their implementation of real-world solutions. And that is IHE’s mission: to support teachers and educational institutions in preparing young people to become solutionaries – and the next caretakers of our planet.
IHE offers a healing vision and a tangible pathway forward for a struggling world. As Executive Director, I am excited, humbled, and deeply honored to join with others to promote that vision and that pathway in ways that make them foundational to systems of education throughout the world – and to each child who is committed to making that world a better place.
Passionate about preparing young people to lead lives of joy and purpose, Steve Cochrane has had a remarkable journey through the field of education. It is a journey that has taken him from the campus of Princeton University, where he served as an admissions officer and an assistant dean of students, to the classroom of a public elementary school, where he had the privilege of teaching – and learning from – his fourth and fifth grade students. Steve has been a dorm director and associate dean of admissions at Wheelock College in Boston. He has also been an elementary school principal, a middle school principal, an assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, and, prior to his work at IHE, he was the superintendent of the Princeton Public Schools in Princeton, New Jersey where he was honored with the award of County Superintendent of the Year. In each of these roles, Steve has collaborated with others to prioritize innovations in learning, wellness for students, equity, and a belief that every child should be supported and inspired to achieve their highest potential.
Steve received his undergraduate degree in English from Princeton University and his master’s degree in educational administration from Harvard. He is a competitive road cyclist who also enjoys the thrill of mountain biking. Steve and his wife are both vegans and advocates for holistic health. They currently reside in Spencerport, New York, with their two dogs and a very large Maine Coon cat.
