Inspired Teaching Teacher Activities
A collection of lessons and activities from Inspired Teaching to foster authentically engaging learning with students and deepen teachers' understanding of their role in the classroom.
Whether you teach early childhood or calculus, these award-winning lessons and activities—informed by 30 years of work with thousands of educators—authentically engage, spark curiosity, build community, and support academic success in your classroom. The teacher activities challenge you to shift your role from deliverer of information to Instigator of Thought, providing small steps with big payoff for reinvigorating your practice and rediscovering your why.
Graffiti Board
A Graffiti Board can strengthen community, elevate student voice, connect to content, and show students you care about what’s on their minds.
Emotion Continuum
Through this challenge, students build their vocabularies and build productive strategies for communicating feelings and needs to adults and to one another.
Don’t Speak: Snap Inspiration
This Snap Inspiration encourages teachers to let students take the lead in classroom conversations.
Ask “So What?”
Understanding—and being able to articulate to students—why a lesson’s content matters is an essential part of planning.
