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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Jun 30, 2024 • 19min
July 1, 2024: Hooray for Improvisation!
Listen to the 2024-2025 Teaching with Improvisation Fellows share the beliefs that were strengthened -- and those that are changing -- after their time at the three-day Institute last week.
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Jun 23, 2024 • 6min
June 24, 2024: Do We Have to Choose?
Aleta explores the relationship between happiness and hard work, inspired by a recent Gipsy Kings concert.
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Jun 16, 2024 • 22min
June 17, 2024: Reengaging with the Past
This week, hear the conversations Jenna and Aleta had with educators and historians in Rappahannock, VA, about the recent history of their community and why it matters to students today.
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Jun 9, 2024 • 12min
June 10, 2024: Making the Unique, Universal
This week we hear from Real World History student Eleanor, who shares her experience in the class and why she'd recommend it to all DC high school students.
Learn more: https://inspiredteaching.org/youth/real-world-history/
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Jun 2, 2024 • 17min
June 3, 2024: Being a Noticer
Listen for Jenna’s conversation with Vicki Bullock, a longtime Inspired Teacher and 23-24 Teaching with Improvisation Fellow. They discussed Vicki's new role as math coach and the power of observing and recording what we notice in our classrooms.
24-25 Teaching with Improvisation Fellowship: https://inspiredteaching.org/teaching-with-improvisation-fellowship/
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May 26, 2024 • 7min
May 27, 2024: An Inspired Summer Playlist
Celebrate the unofficial start to summer this Memorial Day with an Inspired Summer playlist -- a Spotify playlist of tunes curated by members of the Inspired Teaching staff!
Listen: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5OEjwtIP30aDyfqs262bTl?si=660b078d56044e95
Share your recommendations: https://forms.gle/iBP3sCVZFEfgTMzHA
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May 19, 2024 • 15min
May 20, 2024: "Realizing I'm Human"
Jenna speaks with PreK Program Manager and 23-24 Teaching with Improvisation Fellow Joangelee Hernandez about transitioning into a leadership role, and the lessons she's learning along the way.
Apply for the 2024-2025 Teaching with Improvisation Fellowship: https://inspiredteaching.org/teaching-with-improvisation-fellowship/
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May 12, 2024 • 12min
May 13, 2024: Planning for Joy
Listen to Jenna speak with Kim Kelley, a teacher at Goodwill Excel Center in Washington, DC and 23-24 Teaching with Improvisation Fellow, about the places she finds joy in her classroom -- and how she builds into each lesson.
Apply for the 2024-2025 Teaching with Improvisation Fellowship:https://inspiredteaching.org/teaching-with-improvisation-fellowship/
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May 5, 2024 • 8min
May 6, 2024: Inviting Conflict into the Classroom
We have a critical opportunity, and responsibility, to teach students – from our youngest children to teenagers about to graduate from high school – how to step outside of their comfort zones.
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Apr 28, 2024 • 5min
April 29, 2024: A Bouquet of Appreciation
Six things we wish for teachers as the school year nears its end.
Resources mentioned:
Teaching with Improvisation Fellowship: https://inspiredteaching.org/teaching-with-improvisation-fellowship/
Inspired Breathing for Inspired Teaching guidebook: https://simplebooklet.com/inspiredbreathingforinspired
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