Hooray For Monday
Center for Inspired Teaching
Hooray for Monday is an award-winning collection of resources from Center for Inspired Teaching, shared at the start of every week. These resources feature questions, ideas, reflections, and actions we can all take to remodel the school experience for students. Hooray for Monday challenges teachers to hone their skills as Instigators of Thought©, includes instructional ideas from our #Inspired2Learn collection, and provides links to other useful tools and opportunities.
About Us
Creating radical change in the school experience — away from compliance and toward authentic engagement. Center for Inspired Teaching envisions a future in which every person is prepared to thrive in and contribute to our complex and rapidly changing world, through an education that teaches students how to think, not what to think.
About Us
Creating radical change in the school experience — away from compliance and toward authentic engagement. Center for Inspired Teaching envisions a future in which every person is prepared to thrive in and contribute to our complex and rapidly changing world, through an education that teaches students how to think, not what to think.
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Nov 8, 2025 • 8min
November 10, 2025: Operationalizing Curiosity
Even with the long list of instructional objectives you need to address, each day you spend with your students is just one day out of a whole year of learning. And the whole year you spend with your students is just one out of over a dozen years those students will spend in school.
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Oct 31, 2025 • 23min
November 3, 2025: Teaching in this Moment
Cosby Hunt, Inspired Teaching's Director of Instructional Design and a long-time history teacher in Washington, DC, speaks with Jenna Fournel about teaching history in this city, at this moment in time. He shares his advice for centering student voice and experience.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Mikva Challenge: https://mikvachallenge.org/
Speak Truth: https://inspiredteaching.org/youth/speak-truth/
Looping: https://inspiredteaching.org/looping/
Oct 25, 2025 • 13min
October 27, 2025: Dia de Los Muertos: A Beautiful Way to Talk with Kids About Death
Jenna and Aleta discuss cultural traditions around, personal experiences with, and classroom approaches to navigating death and loss.
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Oct 19, 2025 • 45min
October 20, 2025: (From the Archives) What Does Engagement Look Like?
Revisit Inspired Teaching's October 2024 conversation with Rebecca Winthrop, author of The Disengaged Teen, to understand how young people engage--and how to support them in doing so authentically.
Oct 12, 2025 • 2min
October 13, 2025: Inspiration to Action
Over more than 260 issues of Hooray For Monday, Inspired Teaching has featured the voices of leading activists, educators, and changemakers. Revisit those conversations in the Action & Advocacy playlist today: https://soundcloud.com/inspiredteaching/sets/action-advocacy/s-fAXv2NEd0Gu?si=7182f89e945849b2ba7941b06af5cba2&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Oct 4, 2025 • 24min
October 6, 2025: It's Banned Books Week
Listen to this week's podcast episode to learn how to use the Everyday Advocacy framework in the face of book bans and censorship.
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Sep 27, 2025 • 23min
September 29, 2025: Everyday Advocacy
Every teacher CAN have the agency to take the reins of what’s happening in their schools.
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Sep 21, 2025 • 8min
September 22, 2025: To AI or Not to AI? These are the Questions
It's our responsibility—to our students and ourselves—to be the drivers, not the passengers, of educational innovation.
Sep 14, 2025 • 6min
September 15, 2025: AI: Curiosity Killer or Fuel for Learning?
There are no easy answers to the question of if, when, and how to use AI platforms in the classroom. But Inspired Teachers don’t expect easy answers; instead we engage our curiosity and ask good questions.
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Sep 7, 2025 • 9min
September 8, 2025: We Need to Have Tough Conversations
Don't shy away from discussing the day's big--and maybe controversial--moments with your students.
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