March 9, 2026
By Aleta Margolis, Founder and President
Listen to this week’s Hooray For Monday podcast for the second half of Aleta’s conversation with Maggie Jackson, a renowned author and leading voice on the many ways the world around us is changing. They discuss uncertainty and how this often-feared state of being is actually one with a wealth of benefits for learning, building community, and sparking curiosity.
Inspired Teaching Fellows “work at the edge” when they join the Inspired Teaching Summer Institute and begin their professional learning journey toward an improvisational mindset!
Last week, I shared the first part of my interview with Maggie Jackson, an author and journalist whose latest book Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure, inspired an issue of Hooray For Monday last fall. If one thing is certain in our world, it is that uncertainty abounds and in the first half of our conversation, Maggie offered rich insights and research into the many benefits this seemingly endless resource offers us, as teachers and as people.
If you haven’t already, I encourage you to listen to, and read, last week’s issue for key takeaways.
In the second half of our conversation, we discussed the deep connection between uncertainty and curiosity, and why embracing both is critical to learning and thriving in the classroom and outside of it.
Hooray For Monday is an award-winning weekly publication of Center for Inspired Teaching, a social change nonprofit organization that champions the power of curiosity and is dedicated to transforming the school experience from compliance-based to engagement-based. Inspired Teaching provides transformative, improvisation-based professional learning for teachers that is 100% engaging – intellectually, emotionally, and physically.
