Miranda Brown, Author at Center for Inspired Teaching

Teacher Feature – Mr. Adam Evans

February 11, 2016 (Roberts map of DC via Michael Neubert; photo below courtesy of Adam Evans) Inspired Teaching spoke with Mr. Adam Evans, a social studies teacher at Ballou High School (DCPS) and a 2014 Teacher Leader in the BLISS: Building Literacy in the Social...

Inspired Teaching’s Intentions for the New Year

January 21, 2016 (Photo credit: Aleta Margolis/Center for Inspired Teaching) This piece – written by Aleta Margolis, Inspired Teaching’s Executive Director – first appeared in Inspired Teaching’s January newsletter. Happy New Year! On the...

Real World History hosts second annual interschool seminar, discussing works by Ta-Nehisi Coates

January 20, 2016 (Photo credit: Sarah Hughes/Center for Inspired Teaching) Real World History hosted its second annual interschool seminar at Cardozo High School on January 14. Guest high school students from School without Walls and Georgetown Day School, as well as...

Four ways I used constraints to develop rich learning experiences

January 20, 2016 (Photos courtesy of Zia Hassan) This piece was written by Zia Hassan, a 2013 Inspired Teaching Fellow and third grade teacher at Truesdell Education Campus, a DC Public School. They say that teaching is an art. As such, teachers should allow their...

Happy-Sad New Year: an Inspired Teacher presents a play about what we can learn from being blue

January 13, 2016 (Photos courtesy of Nicole McGill) This piece was written by Nicole McGill, a Science Secondary Educator and Drama-in-Education Curriculum Specialist at Hart Middle School, a DC Public School in Southeast DC. Nicole is a 2015 Teacher Leader in SCALE:...