Hooray For Monday
What would it take for every child — and teacher — to be excited for school on Monday mornings?
Hooray for Monday is an award-winning professional learning resource that supports teachers in framing current events, tough moments, and classroom challenges as rich—and hope-full—opportunities for learning in the week ahead. Hooray for Monday challenges educators to hone their skills as Instigators of Thought©; includes instructional ideas from our Inspired2Learn collection; and provides links to other useful tools and free Inspired Teaching programming. Each week, Hooray For Monday offers transformative and sustainable methods for shifting education away from compliance toward authentic engagement.
Actionable insights for creating classrooms in which everyone thrives
Inspiring advice from teachers, school leaders, and education changemakers
Transformative activities and strategies for authentically engaging learning
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Engagement Starts with Curiosity | Hooray For Monday
Engagement is more than participation. When teachers lead with curiosity, students lean in and are open to learning in new and exciting ways.
Developmental Appropriateness | Hooray For Monday
Whether it’s navigating the streets of a new city or creating pancakes from scratch, we crave having a sense of how we might problem solve and come up with a solution.
Craving Competence | Hooray For Monday
Whether it’s navigating the streets of a new city or creating pancakes from scratch, we crave having a sense of how we might problem solve and come up with a solution.
What Do We Mean by Belonging? | Hooray For Monday
In order to foster belonging in the classroom it helps to start with a shared definition of what the term means to begin with.
What Can I Do? Meeting the Need for Autonomy | Hooray For Monday
Explore 10 small ways students can make choices in the classroom.
The ABCDEs of Brave Spaces | Hooray For Monday
Brady Maiden explores how the ABCDEs of Learner Needs can create brave spaces where students feel empowered to speak up and speak out.
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Sharing Expert Advice and Insights
The educators and changemakers featured in Hooray For Monday have so many inspiring perspectives and experiences to share — sometimes we can’t fit them all into one issue! Check out our video collection for a peek into these conversations and additional resources for educators, parents, and all adults committed to creating a better learning experience.
Martha Graham, the mother of modern dance, spoke of “divine dissatisfaction” to describe the experience of creation and growth. As I understand it, dissatisfaction means that learning and creating are never finished, there is always more to do; and divine means there is joy in the quest for continuous improvement.