HEART’s mission is to foster compassion & respect for all living beings & the environment by educating youth & teachers in humane education
Humane Education Advocates Reaching Teachers’ (HEART’s) services are specially designed to provide a combined focus on human rights, animal protection and environmental ethics. Our direct services to educators and students, as well as our city and state level advocacy efforts, enable us to significantly impact the way young people think about their responsibility to one another, animals and the natural world.
By linking our age-appropriate instructional program to our service-based learning program, we give students the tools to make positive changes. As the only full-service provider of humane education in the New York City and Chicago areas, we are able to reach thousands of students each year with our programs. Our services are offered at no cost to schools and other non-profit agencies.
Our Programs
- Create better students, compassionate citizens and contributors to the greater community
- Foster a sense of responsibility for children to act upon their personal beliefs
- Cultivate empathy for animals, and as a result, decrease animal abuse in our society
- Encourage students to strive for a sustainable society while protecting natural resources and the environment
- Offer an effective way to reduce and prevent violence in school and at home
Upcoming Events & News
Sign Up for a Professional Development Course in Humane Education
Saturdays from March 3rd through May 19th in NYC
HEART, the ASPCA and the UFT Humane Education Committee are offering a 36-hour After School Professional Development (ASPDP) P-course for teachers on eight Saturdays in the Spring 2012 semester. Learn to enhance student science and literacy skills while increasing knowledge of humane topics, including Jane Goodall and chimpanzees, companion animals, wildlife, farmed animals, humane literature, environmental issues and human rights. Click here to learn how to sign up.
Video: Stockton School Has HEART
Thanks to volunteer Chuck Stepner, HEART has a new video showing student testimonials from the youth and teachers at Stockton School in Chicago. Watch them talk about their experience with humane education learning about human rights, animal protection and environmental ethics. Check it out!
2011 Newsletter
Check out HEART’s 2011 fall newsletter and read all about our first summer camp, new teacher training initiatives and exciting partnerships.
A Case for Humane Education
HEART instructor Tim Donahue writes “A Case for Humane Education” for Independent Teacher magazine.
Zoe Weil Gives Humane Education Talk at TEDx Conference
Zoe Weil, HEART board member and President of the Institute for Humane Education, delivers an inspiring talk to TEDx conference. View it here.