Educator & Student Voices

“For this reason, conducting an interview of Ms. Mitchell’s life experiences was incredibly valuable as it put a face to the Great Migration and helped me to understand and appreciate this event on a deeper, more personal level.” Read more from Real World History student Allison as she shares what it was like interviewing a senior Washingtonian about her past.

“Inspired Teachers are advocates for their students. They realize that every student is a unique individual with his or her own needs, ideas, passions, and preferences.” Read more from Mr. Jon Berg, a teacher at the Inspired Teaching Demonstration School and a 2012 Inspired Teaching Fellow.

“My students now are thinking about history. They’re writing about history. They’re analyzing and applying content as opposed to only memorizing it.” Read more from Mr. Adam Evans, a social studies teacher at Ballou High School and an Inspired Teacher Leader.

Real World History hosted its second annual interschool seminar at Cardozo High School, welcoming students from School without Walls, Georgetown Day School, and LaSalle-Backus Education Campus to discuss the writing of Ta-Nehisi Coates.

“That’s because rich learning experiences are a result of creativity. The MI Deck provides teachers with seeds to generate their ideas, thereby enabling the creative process in lesson planning.” Read more from Inspired Teaching Fellow Zia Hassan about his creation, the MI Deck.

In this piece, Inspired Teacher Leader and playwright Nicole McGill writes about her new play, Life After Death, and how the loss of her brother motivated her to explore how we experience and talk about grief.

In this piece, Inspired Teacher Leader Nicole McGill writes about why she and her colleagues at Hart Middle School decided to create a “Medical School” experience for their seventh grade Life Science class.

Katherine Douglas Kindle, a Teacher Leader and alum of the Inspired Teaching Institute, writes about the importance of recognizing and framing students’ traits – even the challenging ones – in positive terms.

This November, Inspired Teaching spoke with Mr. Peter Leesam, a retired special education teacher and alum of the 2005 Inspired Teaching Institute.

This November, Inspired Teaching spoke with Ms. Beth Carmichael, a kindergarten teacher at Powell Elementary School (DCPS) and a 2013 Inspired Teaching Fellow.