Educator & Student Voices

Inspired Teaching discussed the teaching profession with Liane Alves, a 2014 Inspired Teaching Fellow and preK teacher at the Inspired Teaching Demonstration School.

2015 Inspired Teaching Fellows Allie Morris and Richelle Chapman share their experiences at The White House attending the Young Women Empowering Communities: Champions of Change Conference.

Isabel Brodsky reflects on her time interning at the 2015 BLISS and SCALE Summer Institutes and how, as a high school senior, it felt to experience training for teachers.

What’s the science behind playful learning? Inspired Teaching explored this topic with leading researchers in this field, including Dr. David Whitebread – Senior Lecturer in Psychology & Education and Director of the Centre for Research on Play in Education, Development and Learning at the University of Cambridge.

What’s the science behind playful learning? Inspired Teaching explored this topic with leaders in the field, including Robert Gehorsam, Executive Director of the Institute of Play.

On May 20, students from the Inspired Teaching Demonstration School performed scenes from Romeo & Juliet at the 35th annual Emily Jordan Folger Children’s Shakespeare Festival.

What’s the science behind playful learning? Inspired Teaching explored this topic with leading researchers in this field. Our first conversation was with Dr. Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek, the Stanley and Debra Lefkowitz Distinguished Faculty Fellow in the Department of Psychology at Temple University.

Third grade teacher and 2013 Inspired Teaching Fellow Zia Hassan writes about being featured with his class in a LEGO Foundation video and how his students have led the brainstorming process for incorporating play into their classroom.

2014 SCALE Teacher Leader Patricia Odom, a science teacher at Kelly Miller Middle School (DCPS), shares how she incorporates the Next Generation Science & Engineering Practices in engaging, student-centered lessons to teach her students to think like scientists.

On March 11, Real World History students served as judges at the Deal Middle School History Day competition. Real World History instructor, Inspired Teaching’s Cosby Hunt, reflects on the experience.