Find resources and tips for getting funding for your project to help people, animals, and the earth and to create a better world. Curated by the Institute for Humane Education.
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Fracking (Hydraulic Fracturing)
Fracking has been in the news quite a lot the past few years. Find news stories, lesson plans, videos, and other resources to help you learn and/or teach about issues related to fracking. Curated by the Institute for Humane Education.
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Founding India’s First Solutionary School: An Interview with Sayyid Duja
Introduction: Sayyid Duja has been an educator and researcher for more than 20 years and has worked and volunteered in 30 countries across the globe. Driven by a passion for educational intervention and social renewal, he has founded schools based on IHE’s MOGO (most good) and solutionary philosophies and seeks to impact and transform education…
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Solutionary Guidebook – Mandarin
We are excited to offer you a free, digital Solutionary Guidebook to help your students and children build solutionary practices. Our guidebook offers a rationale and step-by-step process for educating people to be solutionaries. It also offers case studies covering elementary through higher education along with many resources. The guidebook will help you guide young people to:
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Bringing Humane Education to Côte D’Ivoire: An Interview with Toti Yalé
In 2018, IHE had the great privilege to welcome Toti Yalé to our week-long humane education immersion at our campus in Maine. After waiting for many months, Toti received word that his visa had been approved just three days before the start of our program. The next day he was on a plane, and after…
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Education to Save the World: An Interview with Julie Stern
Julie Stern is the co-founder of Education to Save the World and the best-selling author of Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Elementary and Secondary, and the upcoming book Learning that Transfers: Designing Curriculum for a Changing World. Her passion is synthesizing the best of education research into practical tools that support educators in breaking free…
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We are excited to offer you a free, digital Solutionary Guidebook to help your students and children build solutionary practices. The guidebook details the multi-step Solutionary Framework and outlines how to use it to educate people to be solutionaries. It also offers case studies covering elementary through higher education along with many supporting resources. The Solutionary Guidebook…
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The World Becomes What We Teach: An Interview with Zoe Weil
Marc Bekoff is professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and he interviewed Zoe Weil for his column in Psychology Today (PT). It is my great pleasure to offer this interview with Zoe Weil, cofounder and president of the Institute for Humane Education (IHE) and one of the world’s leading humane educators….
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What to Do for Earth Day with Your Kids this Year
It’s more important than ever to connect with nature and make a difference. April 22 marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, a day meant to celebrate the protection of the environment. It’s ironic that COVID-19, which has forced us indoors, has had the positive side effect of lowering our carbon footprint and protecting the…
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Pretty Mindful: A Sustainable Clothing Workshop for Tween Girls
By empowering young people to be mindful consumers of fashion, they can determine best practices for sustainability that do the least amount of harm to people, animals, and the environment.
Recommended grades: 6 and up
Time: Six class meetings, each ranging approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes in length
