Inspired Teaching Institute: Reframing Our Thinking
All behavior is communication — including and especially what we might consider bad behavior. Often, in response to our students’ undesirable behavior, we institute rewards- or compliance-based systems in our classrooms and schools. But external motivation systems do...
Clear is Kind | Hooray For Monday
FacebookTwitterSubscribe August 25, 2025 By Jenna Fournel, Chief Curiosity Officer Listen to this week’s Hooray For Monday podcast to hear Jenna and her son, Leal, discuss his experience with clarity in the classroom as a high school senior. At Inspired Teaching...
Inspired Teaching Institute: Adopting a "Yes, And…" Approach
How do you decide when to say “yes” to the ideas your students bring into your instruction? What does it look like to enlist your students as partners in building a classroom culture? What are some things administrators could do to create school cultures where...
