Educator & Student Voices Archives - Page 11 of 15

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:...

Teaching Doctors at Hart

January 6, 2016 (Photo 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:...

Language in the Classroom

December 3, 2015 (Photo credit: Center for Inspired Teaching) This piece was written by Katherine Douglas Kindle, an alum of the Inspired Teaching Institute and an Institute Teacher Leader in 2012. Katherine has more than a decade of teaching experience in both the...

Teacher Feature – Mr. Peter Leesam

November 17, 2015 This November, Inspired Teaching spoke with Mr. Peter Leesam, a retired special education teacher and alum of the 2005 Inspired Teaching Institute. The following is a condensed version of this conversation: Inspired Teaching: Why did you want to be a...