
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

Sep 29, 2024 • 11min
September 30, 2024: Make Learning Meaningful
Meag Campos, Project Manager, speaks with Cosby Hunt, Director of Youth Programming, history teacher, and Real World History instructor, about the program and the lessons all teachers can take from its approach to teaching and learning.
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Sep 22, 2024 • 18min
September 23, 2024: Being in Community
This week's Hooray For Monday features a preview of a recent interview Aleta did with Creativists in Dialogue, a podcast lead by artists and educators Elizabeth Bruce and Michael Oliver, that dives deep into how creativity shapes us.
Listen to the full episode: https://creativists.substack.com/p/an-innovators-artists-and-solutions-15b
Subscribe to Creativists in Dialogue: https://creativists.substack.com/podcast
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Sep 15, 2024 • 32min
September 16, 2024: Empathy, Humility, and Self-Advocacy
Director of Teaching and Learning Jenna Fournel speaks with Kaneia Mayo Crumlin, long-time Inspired Teaching collaborator and teacher at Beauvoir School in Washington, DC. Kaneia joined Jenna for the recent Inspired Teaching Institute, which focused on supporting students as they build and strengthen relationships in the classroom.
Watch the Inspired Teaching Institute here: https://youtu.be/_cGkaFkqVN4
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Sep 8, 2024 • 7min
September 9, 2024: Physical Space Matters
What does our classroom set up tell our students -- and others -- about what to expect when learning with us?
Watch Sabrina Burroughs, kindergarten teacher in Washington, DC, share how she makes her classroom a welcoming space for students: https://youtu.be/Pe8EfZNa0nY
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Sep 1, 2024 • 10min
September 2, 2024: Humanizing Each Other
It's not easy to support students in having difficult conversations -- but it is possible!
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Aug 25, 2024 • 29min
August 26, 2024: Teaching in a Democracy
In this special episode, Judge Tatel speaks about his recently published memoir, Vision, in which he describes growing up in the DC region; talks about becoming blind and, in later life, welcoming his guide dog Vixen into his family; and offers life lessons that pertain to our work as educators.
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Aug 18, 2024 • 7min
August 19, 2024: Discipline
Aleta shares how a long-time Inspired Teaching professional development exercise helps teachers shift their perspectives on the concept of discipline.
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Aug 11, 2024 • 5min
August 12, 2024: Operating Instructions
Jenna shares how a malfunctioning thermostat inspired a new Inspired2Learn activity that plays a pivotal role in helping teachers build relationships in the classroom.
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Aug 4, 2024 • 17min
August 5, 2024: Take It Outside
Inspired Teaching's Meag Campos speaks with Julita Geer, a long-time educator and current PE teacher from Louisiana, about the importance of play and the lessons students can learn from watching the Olympics.
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Jul 21, 2024 • 7min
July 22, 2024: Uncharted Territory
Just a few hours ago, President Joe Biden announced he is withdrawing from the race for President. This post explores the kinds of questions we might ask our students in this historical moment - and the ways we might begin thinking about the work ahead as we start a new year in this uncharted territory.
Web Version: https://inspiredteaching.org/uncharted-territory-hooray-for-monday/
How to register to vote: https://www.usa.gov/register-to-vote
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