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Speaker: True light is dependent on the presence of other lights.
Speaker: Take the others away and darkness results.
Speaker: Yet, the reverse is not true.
Speaker: Take away darkness and there is only more darkness.
Speaker: Darkness can exist by itself.
Speaker: Light cannot.
Speaker: In stressful, uncertain times, when cynical powers attempt to divide and isolate us, community and solidarity are acts of resistance.
Speaker: But there are no superheroes here and no simple answers to be found.
Speaker: Only the quest for connection.
Speaker: In 2025, we are responding to the need for community and solidarity in uncertain times by turning Conference to Restore Humanity into a model for humanizing critical discourse and dialogue, bringing together students and teachers, researchers and doers, thinkers and visionaries to explore complex topics in education and illuminate a path forward together.
Speaker: What if, instead of viewing the fringes as an educational afterthought, we treated them as a blueprint for what schools could become?
Speaker: In our opening flipped keynote, Dr. Sarah Fine will explore what can be learned from spaces that are often seen as peripheral to the core purposes of school.
Speaker: Elective courses, career and technical education pathways, alternative education programs, and extracurricular activities.
Speaker: These spaces carry powerful lessons about how to design for authentic relationships and deeper learning.
Speaker: And we are taking our flipped keynote model one step further by adding fireside chats, moderated panel discussions, followed by audience Q&A.
Speaker: Shanae Bond, Maria Monroe-Schuster, Luckett Keish, and Will Richardson will lead us in dialogue about the challenges facing education today and how we can collectively address them in 2025 and beyond.
Speaker: Audrey Waters, Shayna V. White, V. Dow, and Charles Logan will help us answer what, if anything, should be the relationship of AI and edtech to education.
Speaker: We'll also be hosting a student panel of young people from Great Plains Action Society, an Indigenous-led grassroots organization advocating for Indigenous rights, to speak to their experiences and perspectives as Indigenous youth today.
Speaker: And instead of week-long learning tracks as we've had in the past, we are including two-hour daily workshops with expert practitioners.
Speaker: Nawal Karuni will help participants understand and connect family practices to curriculum to create deeper, more authentic caregiver collaborations.
Speaker: Dr. Emma McMain reimagines SEL as open dialogue, not a checklist, connecting social and emotional learning to culture and society.
Speaker: Angela Stockman invites participants to explore how pedagogical documentation can serve as an act of stewardship, honoring, preserving, and nurturing rich narratives about learners and learning.
Speaker: And we'll continue to use our Discord as a hub for camaraderie, community, and to keep the conversation going beyond the live events.
Speaker: Our virtual conference to restore humanity 2025 runs July 21st through the 23rd.
Speaker: To make this year as accessible and sustainable as ever, we've cut the ticket price to just 50 bucks.
Speaker: You can learn more about conference to restore humanity and register on our website at human restoration project.org slash conference.
Speaker: Thank you so much for joining us on our quest for connection as we continue the journey to restore humanity to education together.
