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.
Episodes
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Aug 24, 2025 • 10min
August 25, 2025: Clear is Kind
Jenna speaks with her son Leal, and shares actionable insights for teachers, about the importance of clarity and honesty in communication.
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Aug 17, 2025 • 6min
August 18, 2025: Relational Fitness
Speak Truth serves not only as a demonstration of the Inspired Teaching Approach in action and as an opportunity for students to build and strengthen leadership skills, but also as a space for young people to be physically present with one another.
Speak Truth 25-26 citywide seminars: https://forms.gle/BANkfeReCxLYG8cGA
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Aug 9, 2025 • 17min
August 11, 2025: Agency and Autonomy
Orly Friedman, an Inspired Teacher and founder of Red Bridge in San Francisco, discusses the transformative power of student agency in education. She highlights how her school allows learners to decide when they're ready to advance, fostering independence and responsibility. Orly shares practical strategies that any teacher can implement to promote a student-driven environment, emphasizing the connection between autonomy, engagement, and success. Her insights inspire a shift towards innovative practices that empower students in their learning journey.
Aug 2, 2025 • 19min
August 4, 2025: Inspired Teaching for the Long Term, Pt. 2
Jenna chats with Ben Frazell, an Inspired Teacher from 2011 who today is an instructional coach at Inspired Teaching Demonstration School.
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Jul 26, 2025 • 20min
July 28, 2025: Inspired Teaching for the Long Term, Pt. 1
As part of our 30th anniversary celebration, we’ve got a special time-travel issue this week and next, in which we get to revisit the 2010-2011 school year. In that school year fidget spinners were making an appearance along with Silly Bandz, Adele’s Rolling in the Deep was the #1 song, and skinny jeans were still a popular thing. But what we’re sharing today goes a little deeper than these trends.
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Jul 19, 2025 • 4min
July 21, 2025: Teachers Matter
For 30 years, Inspired Teaching has invested in teachers as the source for transformational change in the education system.
30 Years of Curiosity: https://inspiredteaching.org/30-year-anniversary-center-for-inspired-teaching/
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Jul 13, 2025 • 5min
July 14, 2025: Closing the Engagement Gap: A Social Justice Imperative
All students deserve an authentically engaging learning experience.
Download the Closing the Engagement Gap: A Social Justice Imperative white paper: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://e8ujuzejdog.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Closing-the-Engagement-Gap.-A-Social-Justice-Imperative.pdf&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1752241008736415&usg=AOvVaw1f3CGzFhD9MVvf_eS820u8
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Jul 6, 2025 • 34min
July 7, 2025: Instigate Thought
This week's episode features Aleta's interview on the City Neighbors' podcast, Flip-Ed. They discuss all things engaging education, and why all teachers should be Instigators of Thought.
Flip-Ed: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2433198/episodes/17123360
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Jun 29, 2025 • 7min
June 30, 2025: What This Moment Calls For
Much has changed in 30 years. But much has remained the same. There are still too many schools and classrooms where kids are praised for staying in line and teachers are praised for keeping them there. But today there are thousands and thousands of Inspired Teachers who are driving change.
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Jun 21, 2025 • 9min
June 23, 2025: Pride and the ABCDEs
Jenna outlines how Inspired Teaching's ABCDE of Learner Needs apply to ensuring students and teachers in the LGBTQ+ community are welcomed, supported, and celebrated in schools everywhere, every day.
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