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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Clear is Kind | Hooray For Monday
Speak Truth serves as an opportunity for students to build and strengthen leadership skills and as a space for young people to be physically present with one another.
Relational Fitness | Hooray For Monday
Speak Truth serves as an opportunity for students to build and strengthen leadership skills and as a space for young people to be physically present with one another.
Autonomy and Agency | Hooray For Monday
Orly Friedman, founder of Red Bridge, shares how the school centers student agency in all things and how teachers anywhere can incorporate autonomy into their classrooms.
Inspired Teaching for the Long Term, Pt. 2 | Hooray For Monday
Jenna chats with Ben Frazell, an Inspired Teacher from 2011 who today is an instructional coach at Inspired Teaching Demonstration School.
Inspired Teaching for the Long Term, Pt. 1 | Hooray For Monday
Jenna speaks with an Inspired Teaching who first took our Institute in 2011 — and is still in the classroom today!
Teachers Matter | Hooray For Monday
For 30 years, Inspired Teaching has invested in teachers as the source for transformational change in the education system.
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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.
As we sit in our bedrooms and basements this week peering into our screens, preparing to greet the young faces who will soon peer back at us, we will create, we will learn, and we will grow, just as we always have.
