Announcements

This March, at DC’s National History Day competition, two Real World History students won first place in the group exhibit category for their display about the Great Migration. Two other Real World History students won second place in the group performance category for their piece about the 1968-69 Modern Strivers.

This March, Inspired Teaching’s Cosby Hunt, Caitlin Wolf, and David Yarmchuk led a workshop at the 2016 Teaching & Learning Conference in Washington, DC. The national conference, hosted by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, brought together educators from around the country.

This February at the Ashoka U Exchange, Mara Duquette, Inspired Teaching’s Manager of Teacher Certification, and Athena Kopsidas, 1st grade Master Teacher at the Inspired Teaching Demonstration School, joined an innovative and diverse group of educators on the opening Changemaker Panel to discuss how they are preparing teachers to succeed in today’s rapidly changing education system, where empathy and changemaking are increasingly necessary skills for youth to achieve their fullest potential.

Inspired Teaching’s Caitlin Wolf describes her experience at one of the district-wide professional development days hosted by DC Public Schools throughout the school year. This year, Inspired Teaching’s SCALE: Science Curriculum Advancement through Literacy Enhancement Teacher Leaders have been asked to lead several of the sessions, introducing the Cornerstones they’ve developed for use in DCPS schools and facilitating inquiry-based PD experiences.

Inspired Teaching was featured on Euronews’ Learning World, an international news program dedicated to covering education innovation across the globe.

The Inspired Teaching Demonstration School welcomed distinguished guests for an event hosted by Aleta Margolis on behalf of Brown University’s Women’s Leadership Council. The District of Columbia’s Deputy Mayor for Education, Jennifer Niles, gave a keynote presentation, followed by a response panel with five Brown University alumnae with different roles in the field of education.

At the Learning Forward 2015 National Conference, Center for Inspired Teaching led three separate sessions on inquiry-based and student-centered instruction for teachers, instructional coaches, and administrators from across the globe.

Inspired Teaching opened the Catalogue for Philanthropy’s annual Inspiration to Action event, engaging the audience of philanthropists and community leaders with an interactive activity that highlighted the radical difference between the conventional school experience and the Inspired Teaching school experience.

On December 3rd, the second annual Real World History Internship Fair took place at Cardozo High School as staff members from DC museums and historic sites interviewed students to determine their second semester internships.

On November 28, Aleta Margolis addressed a convening of school directors, educators, young people, civil society leaders, and philanthropists at the Changemaker Education Summit in Istanbul.