By Claire Howe For some time now, I have worked side-by-side with some of the most inspiring, committed, and passionate activists I have ever known… who just happen to be teenagers. In 2014, through my work as a humane educator at H.E.A.R.T, I began facilitating animal rights clubs at Franklin
By Liz Walch My service-learning students at the Academy for Global Citizenship are great at coming up with BIG ideas. And they not only have BIG ideas, they have a lot of them. “Let’s invent and build a machine to clean all the trash out of the ocean!” “Let’s have
By Kim Korona and Kristina Hulvershorn Imagine a world where children learn to peacefully coexist with one another; a world where children learn to respect and honor the environment; a world where children learn to protect the myriad species with whom we share this planet. This is what youth will
By Jeannie Russell In the fall of 2017, HEART kicked off a new and exciting program that greatly expands the reach and impact of our distinctive approach to humane education. The Compassionate Communities Award competition is being offered to all elementary schools in NYC’s District 8, as an innovative way
By Liz Walch A few minutes before this photo was taken, roughly 35 people were seated in the rows of white chairs, ready to see whatever it was I had displayed on the screen behind me. But no, I had different plans for them! “Ok everyone! How about we all
By Kristina Hulvershorn If you have planted the seeds of concern and compassion through humane education, there will likely come a time where students are ready to take action with that knowledge. I have learned several lessons (through many successes and failures) which I try to remember as I walk the
By Bob Schwalb Prior to my career in humane education, my advocacy work was mostly centered around animals. I cared about human rights and environmental preservation, but animal issues resonated with me more. So that’s where I devoted most of my time and resources. However, it became clear to me
By Liz Walch Some of my favorite outdoor activities as a kid were watching the tiny toads that hopped around my house and quietly sitting myself down on the living room windowsill to watch the hummingbirds, who would come to sip nectar at our hummingbird feeder (and as I type