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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Teaching in This Moment | Hooray For Monday
Read or listen to this week’s Hooray For Monday for our conversation with Cosby Hunt, Director of Instructional Design at Inspired Teaching and a long-time history teacher in Washington, DC.
Dia de Los Muertos: A Beautiful Way to Talk with Kids About Death | Hooray For Monday
Whether a child loses a hamster or grandparent, the idea that someone can be here one moment and gone the next is one of the most shocking life lessons they have to wrap their young minds around.
From the Archives: What Does Engagement Look Like? | Hooray For Monday
Aleta speaks with Rebecca Winthrop, parenting expert and researcher with the Brookings Institute, about the four modes of engagement.
Inspiration to Action | Hooray For Monday
Revisit past issues of Hooray For Monday that feature educators, advocates, and changemakers helping us all to transform education.
It’s Banned Books Week | Hooray For Monday
Listen to this week’s podcast episode to learn how to use the Everyday Advocacy framework in the face of book bans and censorship.
Everyday Advocacy | Hooray For Monday
Every teacher can, and should, have the agency to take the reins of what’s happening in their schools and classrooms.
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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.
It will take work to make engagement the norm this year. It will take marshaling our knowledge of observing and listening to kids, giving and receiving feedback, finding the right words to push a learner forward, and applying creative energy to planning lessons that engage all our students’ senses.
