{"podcast":{"title":"Human Restoration Project","slug":"human-restoration-project-331008","podcast_index_feed_id":331008,"rss_url":"https://feeds.zencastr.com/f/iQ46Dvpc.rss","website_url":"https://www.humanrestorationproject.org/","image_url":"https://media.zencastr.com/image-files/5c7838c8f83db700141c53b1/b24349c9-37e4-46c6-9882-ecd44bd1caf1.png","author":"chris@humanrestorationproject.org","episode_count":190,"summary":"Since 2018, the Human Restoration Project Podcast has reimaged education through critical, progressive, human-centered learning! Across nearly 200 episodes, and counting, we've explored every topic in education: ungrading and alternative assessment, interdisciplinary play-based and project-based learning, SEL, education reforms and systemic school change in society with students, teachers, leaders, researchers, and advocates around the world. Join us on our mission to restore humanity to education, together!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T12:17:44.713235+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/human-restoration-project-331008"},"episode":{"title":"Cultivating Creativity and Connection in the Classroom w/ Tom Rendon & Zachary Stier","slug":"cultivating-creativity-and-connection-in-the-classroom-w-tom-rendon-zachary-stier","published_at":"2025-12-06T14:19:11+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/human-restoration-project-331008/cultivating-creativity-and-connection-in-the-classroom-w-tom-rendon-zachary-stier","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/human-restoration-project-331008","url":"https://zencastr.com/z/nKnJTN4i","audio_url":"https://redirect.zencastr.com/r/episode/69343b5fe3671d869017fe85/size/86589226/audio-files/5c7838c8f83db700141c53b1/1522257c-90fa-4373-bda4-a71a9c2dc50a.mp3","summary":"How do you define creativity? Would you be able to spot creativity in the wild? What about creativity in the classroom? This endless human quest to define the seemingly undefinable, and somehow make it useful for educators, is what today's guests Tom Rendon and Zachary Stier set out to do, bringing together philosophy, neuroscience, and site visits, in a years-long collaboration that became Creativity in Young Children: What Science Tells Us and Our Hearts Know [https://www.redleafpress.org/Creativity-in-Young-Children-What-Science-Tells-Us-and-Our-Hearts-Know-P3101.aspx]. In this conversation, Tom and Zach help me understand the counterintuitive ways creativity shows up in the world, in the human condition, and how we can cultivate creativity and connection in the classroom.","meta_description":"How do you define creativity? Would you be able to spot creativity in the wild? What about creativity in the classroom? This endless human quest to define…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3607,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/human-restoration-project-331008/episodes/cultivating-creativity-and-connection-in-the-classroom-w-tom-rendon-zachary-stier/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/human-restoration-project-331008/cultivating-creativity-and-connection-in-the-classroom-w-tom-rendon-zachary-stier.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}