Announcements

On June 10, Inspired Teaching and DC Public Schools came together with a community of teachers and students to celebrate the successes of the BLISS & SCALE Teacher Leaders in spreading inquiry-based, standards-aligned instruction citywide.

On June 2, the 2013 Inspired Teaching Fellows presented findings from their yearlong, teacher inquiry projects. Through these independent research projects, Fellows had the opportunity to ask and answer authentic questions by studying their own teaching practice and their role as changemakers.

On May 6, Inspired Teaching’s Fellows Advisory Board and Inspired Teaching mentor Emily Gasoi co-hosted a screening and discussion of the film Good Morning, Mission Hill: The Power to Teach, The Power to Learn.

On May 1, Inspired Teaching’s Jessica Hiltabidel spoke on “Head of the Class” on CCTV America about the value of integrating the arts and building student creativity across academic disciplines.

On April 30, Real World History students competed in DC’s 2015 National History Day, with two students winning the group documentary competition.

Center for Inspired Teaching announced today that it has been awarded a Good Neighbor grant from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation in support of the Inspired Teacher Certification Program and its inquiry-based summer school model.

On April 20, third grade teacher and 2013 Inspired Teaching Fellow Mr. Zia Hassan screened two short films with his students. The films, created by the LEGO Foundation, featured Mr. Hassan’s classroom and premiered in Denmark at the 2015 LEGO Idea Conference.

See photos from Aleta Margolis’ trip to Denmark where she joined fellow Champions of the Re-imagine Learning Challenge and changemakers from around the world to explore how to bring learning through play to all children.

Inspired Teaching’s Aleta Margolis and fellow Champions of the Re-imagine Learning Challenge convened at the 2015 Lego Idea Conference, joining an international discussion of how to advance learning through play.

The Inspired Teaching Demonstration School was named “Best Middle School” in the Washington City Paper’s “Best of DC” 2015 Readers’ Poll. The Demonstration School was also a runner-up finalist in the “Best Elementary School” category.