Announcements

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.

Inspired Teaching will partner with the National Center for Teacher Residencies (NCTR) to continue transforming teacher preparation as NCTR, which received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, becomes one of five Teacher Preparation Transformation Centers across the United States.

On November 5th, the DC STEM Network hosted its inaugural STEM Summit. Inspired Teaching’s Aleta Margolis and David Yarmchuk both presented at the event, which was open to STEM educators, administrators, and policymakers from across the DC-region.