Stories - Center for Inspired Teaching

AI: Curiosity Killer or Fuel for Learning? | Hooray For Monday

Whatever role AI may eventually play in the classroom, at Center for Inspired Teaching, we know curiosity is always a necessity.

We Need to Have Tough Conversations | Hooray For Monday

Now is not the time to shy away from discussing the day’s big–and maybe controversial–moments with your students.

The Courage of a Maybe | Hooray For Monday

There is a lot going on in the world right now. Support your students in navigating this uncertainty.

Inspired Teaching Institute: Reframing Our Thinking

All behavior is communication — including and especially what we might consider bad behavior. Often, in response to our students’ undesirable behavior, we institute rewards- or compliance-based systems in our classrooms and schools. But external motivation systems do...

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.

Inspired Teaching Institute: Adopting a "Yes, And…" Approach

How do you decide when to say “yes” to the ideas your students bring into your instruction? What does it look like to enlist your students as partners in building a classroom culture? What are some things administrators could do to create school cultures where...