The healing power of laughter and letting go: Hooray For Monday

The healing power of laughter and letting go: Hooray For Monday

The healing power of laughter and letting go: Hooray For Monday

February 1, 2021 By Aleta Margolis, Founder and President, Center for Inspired Teaching Hooray for Monday is a weekly blog filled with questions, ideas, reflections, and actions we can all take to remodel the school experience for students.  Last week, about an hour...
Embracing Change: A Virtual Inspired Teaching Institute

Embracing Change: A Virtual Inspired Teaching Institute

Join Center for Inspired Teaching for our January Institutes FREE and Open to All preK – 12 Educators DC Public School teachers will receive Professional Learning Units through the Washington Teachers’ Union. Wednesday, January 13, 8-9:30 PM (or) Saturday, January 16,...
Let Them Talk

Let Them Talk

January 7, 2021 By Aleta Margolis, Founder and President, Center for Inspired Teaching In the past 24 hours, an angry pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capitol Building, forcing Members of Congress to evacuate the chamber in the midst of the vote to certify the results of...
Speak Truth: The Morality of Wealth

Speak Truth: The Morality of Wealth

By Kaneia Crumlin December 17, 2020 On the evening of December 17th, Center for Inspired Teaching, in partnership with Ford’s Theater, hosted a special gathering of Speak Truth, a student-led discussion for students and by students on contemporary social issues,...
Speak Truth: Gentrification

Speak Truth: Gentrification

By Kaneia Crumlin Dec 10, 2020 On an unusually warm December evening—a week before students trade in their virtual learning routine for a coveted winter break– 60 DC-area high school students gathered for a Speak Truth session around a topic that has only...