Stories & Announcements
Closing the Engagement Gap: A Social Justice Imperative
Center for Inspired Teaching invites you to download “Closing the Engagement Gap: A Social Justice Imperative,” our new white paper examining how pedagogy itself is critical to educational equity, and how underserved student populations need the same student-centered approach enjoyed by their more advantaged peers. Along with presenting the research about this inequity, we offer three basic recommendations and the resources for implementing them.
Radically Reimagined Relationships: The Foundation of Engagement
Center for Inspired Teaching and the Astra Foundation are proud to present our report about the type of school environments that make engagement-based education possible. We invite you to download our findings and join the conversation.
The 5 Core Elements Series: Making an Impact With School
In our 5 Core Elements series, teacher, coach, and author Heather Wolpert-Gawron writes about Purpose, Persistence, and Action, and about how building students’ interest and confidence gives them the tools to positively impact their world.
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.
Engagement-Based Education: At the End of the Road Trip
Interim Executive Director Mary Kadera describes how a series of school visits showed her that, while engagement-based education may not look similar from one school to the next, they all share a feeling of genuine, mutually respectful, radically reimagined relationships throughout the building and community.
Happy Pi Day From Ins(pi)red Teaching
Inspired Teaching champions inquiry and imagination through hands-on investigations that encourage students to wonder, experiment, and learn. Pi Day offers a perfect example of this approach. In that spirit, we offer resources for bringing the fascinating mysteries of Pi into your classroom.
Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action: Giving Voice to the Black Village
LaTonia Smith Cokely, our Manager of Professional Development, and Mara Duquette, our Director of Program Administration, reflect on the second annual Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action in DC, implemented by Center for Inspired Teaching and Teaching for Change.
The 5 Core Elements Series: Student as Expert
In our 5 Core Elements series, veteran teacher, author, speaker, and ed tech advocate Vicki Davis writes about the idea of Student as Expert and the importance of voice and choice in student engagement.
Seeing Our Mission With Fresh Eyes: An Intern’s Reflection
Dylan Letellier of Brown University reflects on her brief but eye-opening internship with the Residency program at Inspired Teaching. She describes learning about nonprofits, discovering alternative paths to becoming a teacher, and witnessing how classrooms can work in urban public and charter schools.
Teacher Retention in DC: Unpacking the Numbers
According to a 2018 study by the DC State Board of Education, 25% of the classrooms in America’s capital city lose their teachers to churn every year. Why do these problems seem so much greater here than in other large urban districts?
