Stories & Announcements

Hooray for Monday: What’s your handstand?
Most of us are not teaching handstands, but it’s worth asking ourselves how we can create the online learning conditions that facilitate that kind of full-body learning.

Hooray for Monday
Hooray for Monday is a new blog series we’ll be posting each week with questions, ideas, reflections, and actions we can all take to remodel the school experience for students.

Tudor Place: Ask The Expert Interview Series
Elliott Levine, a 2019-2020 Inspired Teaching Real World History Student, interviews Bryn Cooley, Emily Rheault, and Lauren Rever of Tudor Place.

National Museum of African American History and Culture: Ask The Expert Interview Series
Amora Cambell interviews Paul Gardullo about the power of objects in the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Ford’s Theatre: Ask The Expert Interview Series
Lola Rogin interviews Jake Flack about learning from Ford’s Theatre online.

Smithsonian Center of Folklife and Cultural Heritage: Ask The Expert Interview Series
Michael Artemus interviews Dr. Sojin Kim about the impacts of Covid-19 on her curatorial work.

10 Things You Can do With Soap
We’re all using soap to wash our hands more than usual, what else can you do with that slippery bubbly substance?

Sometimes
Sometimes one person can have lots and lots of feelings — different from each other. This activity encourages students to explore that experience.

Inside/Outside
In a moment where the world is especially fraught with change and uncertainty, we are all struggling to observe, name, and adjust to the flood of feelings around and within us. This activity was created in response to that reality.

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.