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Cassie Nastase
@cnastase.bsky.social
Michigander🖐🏽
Girl Mom🌸
Former School Counselor 🧠💜
TCLC Project Coordinator at Human Restoration Project 🌊🌎🚀
Seeker of meaning and magic💫🌀
The Artist Inside explores a shared truth: life is a canvas and we are all artists. What if we defined art as the innate urge to make meaning? If everything we do is an act of creation, then all that we create might be a work of art to marvel. 🎨🖌️

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The Artist Inside
This lyrical poem explores a beautiful truth: art isn't just in museums. It's in a dandelion growing in a crack of the sidewalk, a stranger's kindness, and the courage to start again. The Artist Insid...
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December 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I can’t stop thinking about those WWJD bracelets from the 90s and early 2000s.
The acronym was so commercialized that it became an in-your face trend. Whether Christian or not, most of us Millennials had a bracelet, a shirt, or at least saw them on everybody else at school and on TV.
October 27, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Happy 🏳️‍🌈PRIDE🏳️‍⚧️ Month!
June 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
TCLC exists because a group of educators dared to reimagine what school could be—and then took action to make it happen.✨
Grateful to be part of this journey!
Thank you What School Could Be for featuring TCLC! ❤️
#letsrestorehummanitytoeducationtogether #thirdcoastlearningcollaborative #watchusgo
We're honored to have HRP's collaborative work with Michigan schools highlighted in the @whatschoolcouldbe.bsky.social inaugural newsletter, with a huge spotlight on the indispensable and incomparable @cnastase.bsky.social, our TCLC Coordinator! 🙌

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May 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Human Restoration Project's @cnastase.bsky.social moderates the youth panel at the Mental Health Summit in Banff, Alberta.

"What supports do you wish you had in school?"
April 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Today was epic. #banff #halingpeak #canmore
April 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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We wrapped up an incredible time at the uLead Conference in Banff! 🇨🇦

We'll be back in Banff later this week for Headwater Learning Foundation's Mental Health Summit, where we actually picked up a brief workshop session and @cnastase.bsky.social will be moderating a youth panel!
April 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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In her latest piece, @cnastase.bsky.social connects one middle-school PBL unit to Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) competencies, showcasing how PBL supports self- and social-awareness, responsible decision making, and more!

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Reimagining Classrooms Through SEL and Project-Based Learning - CASEL
Key Points Back to top Today in a classroom in Orchard View Schools, students are talking about the way they want to learn together. Their teacher leads a discussion about the CASEL 5 competencies for...
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March 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Thrilled to share the ways the Third Coast Learning Collaborative model supports healthy social-emotional learning! Thanks Wellness Education Magazine for providing the platform. 💜
HRP's Third Coast Learning Collaborative Coordinator, @cnastase.bsky.social, contributed an amazing article, "Exploring the Mutual Dependence between SEL & PBL with the Third Coast Learning Collaborative", to the March 2025 issue of Wellness Education Magazine! 🙌

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March 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Big thanks to Wellness Education Magazine for providing space to share about the Third Coast Learning Collaborative project. Check out the article in the March 2025 Special SEL Edition. 💜🌍🌱

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And consider subscribing to access past/future issues

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#edusky #PBL #SEL
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March 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
February 15, 2025 at 3:47 AM
“If Jenny had 2 apples and Johnny had 3, how many would they have if I took them all away?”
#protectthedepartmentofeducation #edusky
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February 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
“Forgive the government that puts the people in poverty
And it bothers me when the people are goin' hungry
And corporate companies have got their cupboards full of groceries…They’re vultures of culture and their picking on all my friends”

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Vultures Of Culture
YouTube video by Nahko And Medicine For The People - Topic
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February 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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It's a coup.
February 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Concerns about a "Constitutional Crisis" are always framed as an intellectual exercise, as if they're happening in some abstract future.

Well it's here, now, and the Crisis is driving a jet powered steamroller.
i will say that we have never experienced anything like an administration trying to essentially freeze the activities of the entire federal government while making a series of illegal power grabs. genuinely unclear to me what kind of response, if any, these guys are generating against them
January 28, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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"Fun fact about teaching at my Danish school, when we are sick, we’re not required to write sub plans because we’re sick.” - @pernille.bsky.social

So what lessons can we learn from Danish society & its education system that may help heal our own?

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January 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Conference to Restore Humanity! - an online conference on progressive education!

July 21-23. Join the event in our funding drive for tickets/this awesome t-shirt.

https://secure.givelively.org/donate/human-restoration-project/conference-to-restore-humanity-2025-quest-for-connection-funding-drive
December 29, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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What are school voucher programs *really* about, how do they spread, and what should we expect in 2025 and beyond?

In our first episode of 2025, we are joined by @joshcowenmsu.bsky.social to explore these questions and more!

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January 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
“The beauty of a beginner’s mind isn’t in abandoning the old traditions, but in weaving the two together with mindful discernment.”

A lovely piece by a dear friend:

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The Art of Balancing the Creative Mind with Daily Life
Exploring the Zen, Yoga, and Parables for an Open Approach to Life but Life Seems to Object
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January 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
6th grade TCLC student’s kicked off their Sustainable Merchandising project with a trip to the Muskegon Career Tech Center. Guided by high schoolers enrolled in the graphic design and production program, they learned about the digital design process, and screen printing. +
December 11, 2024 at 9:17 PM
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We've got an awesome lineup of guests to keep the conversation going over the holidays and into the new year, feat. @joshcowenmsu.bsky.social, @pernille.bsky.social, & @hechternacht.bsky.social! 🚀

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December 10, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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With all things 'change' atm in the world, there are changes we can make, that support our fellow humans, showing we care & value humanity. This ebooklet, coedited with @kimmears.bsky.social, shares grassroots ideas on change, written with l🍉ve. Details below
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“Ways of Being, Knowing and Doing: An Anthology for Neurodivergent Practice” An e-book to raise funds in support of the Palestinian people - The Autistic Advocate
All about the “Ways of Being, Knowing and Doing: An Anthology for Neurodivergent Practice” project I was honoured to be asked by Kim Mears and Lisa Chapman to have my work featuredin a new ebook they ...
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November 17, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Parents & Caregivers: Have you seen HRP’s Caregiver FAQ?

We all dream of meaningful and joyful lives for our children. Education plays a vital role in making those dreams a reality.❤️ +
If you've ever wondered what progressive education is, where the name comes from, why schools may adopt progressive practice, and what it looks like in schools, then check out our new Caregiver FAQ! #EduSky

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December 6, 2024 at 3:39 AM
This evening @humrespro.bsky.social hosted our first advisory board meeting for the EIR grant funded project: Third Coast Learning Collaborative. Our student and parent representatives left us feeling grateful & inspired about this work. We are 1 marking period in to this 5-15 year project +
November 21, 2024 at 3:01 AM