Announcements
Speak Truth Kicks Off for the 2019-20 School Year
This blog post was written by Topher Anuzis, a current volunteer with Inspired Teaching. The next time you’re at a party, go ahead and ask someone you’ve never met, “How do you feel about the n-word?” or “Do you have any connections to gun violence in your life?” This...
Creating Community at Summer Institute
This blog was written by Inspired Teaching Residency Intern, Myla Haan, as she reflects on her summer spent with the new cohort of Inspired Teaching Fellows. “I’ve never felt so comfortable sharing about myself” “I wanted to challenge myself and share something that I...
Summer School 2019 Culminates in Celebration of Learning
This blog post was written by Myla Haan, the Inspired Teaching Residency's 2019 Summer Intern. The Summer Teaching Practicum for the Inspired Teaching Residency, at Capital City Public Charter School has concluded! Over these past few weeks, all of the students...
Changemakers in Action: An Evening of Engagement and Celebration
Director, Program Administration Mara Duquette reports on Changemakers in Action, a celebration of the Inspired Teachers and students in our programs as changemakers in classrooms, schools, and society. We explored action research in the classroom, reviewed the power of engagement-based instruction, and heard from Real World History’s youth historians.
Inspired Teachers Emerging: A Year in the Residency Program
Inspired Teaching’s Residency Program Manager Jéri Ogden celebrates the progress of the 2018 Cohort as they complete their year of in-class training and prepare to launch their teaching careers.
Empower Inspired Teaching Youth this Giving Tuesday
Three months ago, I enrolled in a class that is unlike anything I’ve experienced so far in my education. My classmates and I have already gone on field trips that enrich our minds with knowledge necessary for our future colleges and careers, and help us better understand our respective histories in the District.
The #EngagingSchools Tour Begins in NYC
The National Alliance for Engagement-Based Education is excited to launch the #EngagingSchools tour. Inspired Teaching and the Astra Center for Innovative Education will travel across the country observing the qualities of characteristics of outstanding engagement-based classrooms.
Announcing Mary Kadera, Interim Executive Director
Mary has more than 25 years of experience in the education field, working in a variety of capacities to support educators and students and to transform K-12 teaching and learning so that it is more engaging, effective, relevant, and joyful.
Teacher Appreciation Week: Promoting Wellness & Self Care
This Teacher Appreciation Week from May 7-11, Inspired Teaching celebrated the dedication and passion that teachers bring to their classrooms every day. Throughout the week Inspired Teachers and educators focused on self care and gained resources to promote wellness.
Inspired Teaching Publishes New White Paper
How can we best prepare students to thrive? Inspired Teaching’s newly released white paper explains the answer is in authentic engagement. The white paper, the critical need for replacing compliance-based teaching with engagement-based teaching demonstrates that when...
