Stories & Announcements

Why We Sing: Hooray For Monday!
Despite what we may have been told, singing is something everyone can do. Singing is simply sustained speech. If you can speak, you can sing.

Bring on the Challenge: Hooray for Monday
The skills we build when we take on challenges voluntarily serve us well when challenges find us, and we are forced to take them on.

Speak Truth: Cancel Culture
Students debated the efficacy of cancel culture in this recent Speak Truth discussion, noting its particular implications for their generation.

What would make you look forward to coming to school?
From a very young age, children know what interests them. This activity invited the possibility that this wisdom could drive our instruction.

Motivated by Joy: Hooray For Monday!
If you find ways to put joy at the center of your teaching, your students are more likely to reflect it back.

Speak Truth: Want Student Engagement? Be Current.
On Thursday, November 5, students from throughout the greater Washington, DC area gathered to discuss the topic, “COVID and Voter Suppression.”

An Element of Joy: An Online Inspired Teaching Institute
Join us the first week in December to celebrate the wins, small and large, that you’ve found over these tumultuous months.

We’ve Got Enough Fear: Hooray For Monday!
When fear for our country’s stability and anxiety about our personal health is at an all-time high, it’s incumbent upon us as educators to eschew fear-based motivation in school.

Trust Teachers: Hooray For Monday!
It can be very challenging for a teacher to discuss this election. But isn’t the point of school to teach students how to embrace challenge?

Our Capacity for Kindness: Hooray For Monday!
Engaging in acts of kindness can help us feel connected to one another during this divisive time, since we all want and need kindness, and we all have the capacity to offer it.
