Announcements
Speak Truth: Destigmatizing Mental Health
What do young people think about the state of mental health in the United States? In our latest Speak Truth seminar we found out.
Speak Truth: The Value of Perspective
The opportunity to engage in discussion around issues that impact their lives happens too infrequently for students, but Speak Truth offers a safe space for doing so.
Speak Truth: A Year of Inviting Conversation
The 2019-2020 Speak Truth season came to end on June 18, but we’re already reflecting on how to apply the lessons learned when we start again this fall.
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.
