Press Kit

Welcome to the Center for Inspired Teaching press kit. If you don’t find the information you need here, please do not hesitate to contact Jenna Fournel, our director of communications and outreach at 202.462.1956 with questions.

Inspired Teaching at a Glance:

Mission
Center for Inspired Teaching exists to ensure that schools make the most of children’s innate desire to learn. We do this by investing in teachers through courses, mentoring, and whole-school partnerships.

Vision
We are working towards the day when every child has an Inspired Teacher.

Location: 1436 U St., NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20009

Leadership

Aleta Margolis, Executive Director

Media Contact
Jenna Fournel
jenna@inspiredteaching.org
202.462.1956

Contact Us!

Photos from our programs:

Teachers in the Inspired Teaching Institute

A student shares her writing during a Literacy Celebration.

upcoming events:

You are welcome to visit any of the posted events to meet our teachers and learn more about what we do. Please call us if you plan to stop by so we can look forward to meeting you!

• Inspired Teaching Institute Monthly Classes
  About 50 teachers from throughout the DC area come together once a month to build their skills and connect with other Inspired Teachers.
  Wednesday, March 5, 12, and May 14, 2008
  from 4:30-7:30pm
  
  Thurgood Marshall Center Trust
  1816 12th Street, NW
  Washington, DC 20009

Press Coverage:

• Inspiring Students to Learn
  by, Ann Geracimos
  Article in The Washington Times: March 3, 2008
  
• Chocolate Fundraiser Aims to Boost Creative Teaching
  by, Victoria Solomon
  Article in The Northwest Current: February 13, 2008 (PDF)
  
• Super Tuesday: Democracy, Education, and the Vote
  by, Aleta Margolis
  Commentary aired on WAMU 88.5: February 5, 2008 (PDF)
  
• Nonprofit Shares Lessons Former Teacher Learned
  by, Jennifer Nycz-Conner
  Article in the Washington Business Journal: February 1, 2008 (PDF)
• Cash Incentives for Students
  Aleta Margolis on the Kojo Nnamdi Show
  Aired on WAMU 88.5: January 28, 2008 (PDF)
• Center Focuses on Teachers, Not Test Scores
  by, Valerie Strauss
  Article in The Washington Post: September 10, 2007
• Labor Day Reflection on the Work of the Teacher
  by Aleta Margolis
  Commentary aired on WAMU 88.5: September 3, 2007 PDF
  
• Let Teachers Use Their Minds
  by Aleta Margolis
  Letter to the Editor in the Washington Post: July 7, 2007 PDF
• Public Schools Should Be More Like Public Radio
  by Aleta Margolis
  Commentary aired on WAMU 88.5: May 30, 2007 PDF
• Women to Watch: Aleta Margolis
  by Kim Forrest
  Article in the Washingtonian Magazine: June, 2006 PDF

Foundation and Corporate Donors:

(List current as of January 28, 2008)

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Anonymous Arnold & Porter LLP Ashoka: Innovators for the Public Barnes & Noble Bess and Israel Workman Foundation Capitol Hill Community Foundation Cherner Automotive Group Comcast Container Store Cosi Cox Enterprises DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts Delaney Family Foundation Ebb Point Foundation Editorial Associates Lois & Richard England Family Foundation The Henry and Edith Everett Foundation Fannie Mae Ferris Family Foundation Ford Motor Company John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation Freddie Mac GlobalGiving GoodSearch

The Harman Family Foundation The Corina Higginson Trust IBM Kraft Foods Latham & Watkins, LLP The Marx Group LLC MetLife The Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation Monsanto The Moran Family Foundation musiKids® National Confectioners Association Network for Good Jack H. Olender & Associates, PC PhRMA Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation The Rotary Foundation of Washington, D.C. The Sallie Mae Fund S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. Spring Creek Foundation Hattie M. Strong Foundation Sony Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman, LLP Toyota Motor North America, Inc. Venn Strategies Veverka Family Foundation The Weatherspoon Foundation