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3 Ideas for Teaching Mindfulness in the Classroom
How mindfulness complements humane education and three mindful activities for your classroom.
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What a Short Film on Balding Teaches Us About the MOGO Principle
How much harm would you inflict on someone for a luscious head of hair?
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Rethinking the Purpose of School
The most important question is not yet being adequately asked and addressed: What should the purpose of education be?
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5 Approaches to Teaching About Structural Racism
Five approaches for teaching about structural racism in polarized times.
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How to Live with Less Anxiety and Despair
Four steps to reduce anxiety and despair when it feels like there’s bad news all around.
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What Should You Do When You Feel Prejudice Against Others?
Feeling prejudice against someone because of their race is pretty foreign to me, but this past weekend I was blindsided by a tsunami of my own prejudice. My husband and I had finished a walk in Acadia National Park near where we live, and I heard a group of people speaking Russian – a language I’ve studied,…
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Urgency and Opportunity: Preparing a Generation of Solutionaries 
(A Call to Action by Steve Cochrane, Executive Director of the Institute for Humane Education) Over the past two years, life as we know it has changed. We have seen the entire world impacted by disease. We are watching the atrocities of war through our daily news feeds. We are facing a climate crisis, a crisis…
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Paul K. Chappell: Solutionary Spotlight
Introduction: Paul K. Chappell is an international peace educator, author, and founder of Peace Literacy. He graduated from West Point, was deployed to Iraq, and left active duty as a Captain. Realizing that humanity is facing new challenges that require us to become as well-trained in waging peace as soldiers are in waging war, Chappell…
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Be a Force for Good for Ukraine
I am a humane educator, someone who teaches about the cruelties, destruction, and injustices we perpetrate on other humans, animals, and the environment and who helps people cultivate compassion and integrity and become solutionaries able and motivated to build humane, healthy, and just societal systems. It is in this capacity – rather than as an expert in geopolitics or…
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