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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Dec 6, 2025 • 33min
December 8, 2025: It's All About Exploration
Aleta speaks with journalist, professor, and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Dr. George Miller for his insight into watching, reading, and listening to the news today.
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Nov 29, 2025 • 8min
December 1, 2025: Are We Curious Yet?
Curiosity bridges divides among us, enables us to implement AI productively, and fuels student engagement. This means fueling curiosity should be high on your priority list.
Join the Inspired Teaching Curiosity Challenge: https://inspiredteaching.org/curiosity-challenge-2025/
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Nov 22, 2025 • 16min
November 24, 2025: Thankful for Our Differences
As you celebrate Thanksgiving, consider the many unique traditions around the country--and celebrate that diversity, as well!
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Nov 16, 2025 • 7min
November 17, 2025: (From the Archives) The Opposite of Curiosity
Each week at our Inspired Teaching staff meeting, we begin with a brief exercise. This past week, each of us responded to the question: “What are you curious about?” The question connects directly with Inspired Teaching’s work to promote the kind of teaching that fuels—instead of stifles—curiosity.
Conversation with Helanius J. Wilkins on curiosity: https://soundcloud.com/inspiredteaching/january-26-2023-curiosity-is-everything
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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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