
Hooray For Monday
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.
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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.
Latest episodes

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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Jun 15, 2025 • 21min
June 16, 2025: Everyone Can Play a Role in Resistance
This week's Hooray For Monday features a conversation Jenna and Meag had with Deepa Iyer, a lawyer, activist, and author, who shares the framework she's developed that helps us all find our role in building community and advancing the causes we believe in.
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Jun 8, 2025 • 21min
June 9, 2025: (From the Archives) Hooray For Improvisation
Revisit this issue from July 2024 as Inspired Teaching prepares to begin the 25-26 Teaching with Improvisation Fellowship in a few weeks!
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Jun 1, 2025 • 8min
June 2, 2025: A Bowl of Hot Crazy
Jenna visits the classroom of Inspired Teaching Fellow Sabrina Burroughs and discovers a classroom full of young learners who are comfortable and confident navigating big feelings with their classmates.
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May 22, 2025 • 21min
May 26, 2025: A Meaningful Memorial Day
Listen to this week’s Hooray For Monday podcast to hear Susan Coti, longtime Inspired Teacher and the mother of a fallen Marine, share how she keeps her son’s legacy alive through education in Myanmar.
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Contact Susan Coti at Gift of Education to learn more about the organization and volunteering virtually: susan@giftofeducationmyanmar.com

May 17, 2025 • 29min
May 19, 2025: Get Those Stories!
This Jewish American Heritage Month, we're sharing a unique perspective and experience: Aleta speaks with Amber to hear her story—rich with history and informed by research—as a Black Jewish American living in Israel.
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May 11, 2025 • 7min
May 12, 2025: From the Archives: Our Capacity for Kindness
This issue of Hooray For Monday was originally published on November 2, 2020. While much has changed in the world since then, being kind to one another and modeling kindness for our students remains critical in combatting division and distrust.
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May 2, 2025 • 26min
May 5, 2025: Thank You, Teachers
This week, we're reflecting on the many times we've felt appreciation for the many teachers in the Inspired Teaching community.