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Empathy, Humility, and Self-Advocacy (from the artchives) | Hooray For Monday

FacebookTwitterSubscribe July 27, 2026 By Jenna Fournel, Chief Curiosity Officer When I was little and had a conflict with a friend, my father was fond of asking me to consider “walking in their shoes” before figuring out how to respond. We’d have dinner table...

Making Friends with Our Mistakes (From the Archives) | Hooray For Monday

FacebookTwitterSubscribe July 6, 2026 By Jenna Fournel, Chief Curiosity Officer Listen to a reprise of our April 25, 2025 Hooray For Monday podcast for the conversation between Jenna, Meag, and Sheena Styles, an elementary math teacher in Washington, DC, and Inspired...

Pride and The ABCDEs (From the Archives) | Hooray For Monday

FacebookTwitterSubscribe June 29, 2026 By Jenna Fournel, Chief Curiosity Officer Listen to this week’s Hooray For Monday podcast for the audio version of this newsletter. 2025 marks the 50th Anniversary of Pride celebrations in Washington, DC; and this month Center...

Hooray for Improvisation! (From the Archives) | Hooray For Monday

As the Inspired Teaching team prepares to kick off the next school year of building community and supporting the educators in our community with the 2026-2027 Teaching with Improvisation Fellows, we are sharing an issue of Hooray For Monday from July 2024....

From the Archives: Curiosity, Kindness, and Critical Thinking | Hooray For Monday

This issue of Hooray For Monday was originally published in June 2025. As we look forward to the start of the 2026-2027 Teaching with Improvisation Fellowship this June and a new cohort of teachers starting their Inspired Teaching journeys, we’re resharing today...