How Matters – The 4 I’s: Hooray for Monday

How Matters – The 4 I’s: Hooray for Monday

How Matters – The 4 I’s: Hooray for Monday

May 3, 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.  Throughout April we explored...
Imagination – The Third I: Hooray for Monday

Imagination – The Third I: Hooray for Monday

April 19, 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.  This month we’re...
Seven Bikes

Seven Bikes

Created by: Jenna Fournel and Leal Abbatiello Discipline: All Age level: Any Time: As long or short as you like! Materials: None  Background:  This activity was born from a neighborhood walk in which we passed a house with seven bicycles of various sizes and shapes...
Automatic Writing

Automatic Writing

The following activity is part of a series we’re creating to support students, teachers, and caregivers, during this unprecedented time. Read more about the project here. If you try this activity with your student(s), we’d love to see what you do. Share your journey...
Imagination is a hard skill

Imagination is a hard skill

March 30, 2015 (Photo: Sammy Magnuson/Center for Inspired Teaching) Written by Aleta Margolis, Inspired Teaching’s Founder and Executive Director, this piece first appeared in Inspired Teaching’s March 2015 newsletter. In November 2014, Inspired Teaching was...