Hooray For Monday

HFM May 25 2026: (From the Archives) Curiosity, Kindness, and Critical Thought

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 sharing an episode from 2025 that reflects on the key characteristics of an Inspired Teacher: curiosity, kindness, and critical thought. Revolution in the Classroom: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1996/08/27/the-revolution-in-the-classroom/46314e20-e8f4-41c4-b5d7-e0bdcba169f3/ Subscribe to Hooray For Monday for weekly resources and updates on Inspired Teaching programming and events: https://inspiredteaching.org/subscribe-hooray-for-monday/

May 18, 2026: When Our Colleagues Are Our Teachers

Listen for Jenna's conversation with Sabrina Burroughs and Ben Wilhelm. Ben was Sabrina's student-teacher 4 years ago and is now her colleague at John Lewis Elementary School. They share how their relationship has benefited them both, how they nurture curiosity in their kindergarten students, and what community looks like in their school. Subscribe to Hooray For Monday for weekly resources and updates on Inspired Teaching programs and events: https://inspiredteaching.org/subscribe-hooray-for-monday/

May 11, 2026: When Students Decide How They Are Seen

This week’s issue of Hooray For Monday is a contribution from an Inspired Teaching Fellow who we’ve worked with for many years now, Kim Kelley. Ms. Kelley is a teacher at Goodwill Excel Center here in Washington, DC, and, as you’ll hear in her conversation with Meag shortly, her high school classroom is a bit unusual: Kim’s students are non-traditional. They’re learners who, for many reasons, did not get their high school diploma on the first go. They range in age from their late teens to their early 80s, and, as Kim shares, that means that in addition to helping them learn the academic material and earn their degrees, she and her colleagues at Goodwill Excel are also tasked with helping their students overcome the educational barriers that kept them from doing so the first time. In her piece for Hooray For Monday, Kim offers a glimpse into how she approaches this work in her Strategies for Critical Thinking class, through art and very intentional efforts at relationship building. Subscribe to Hooray For Monday for weekly resources and updates on Inspired Teaching programming and events: https://inspiredteaching.org/subscribe-hooray-for-monday/

May 4, 2026: Our Fabulous Inspired Teachers

Aleta reflects on more than 30 years of teaching teachers whose work we're grateful for every day, in recognition of Teacher Appreciation Week. Subscribe to Hooray For Monday for weekly resources and updates on Inspired Teaching programming and events: https://inspiredteaching.org/subscribe-hooray-for-monday/ Listen to the Hooray For Monday episode with Andrea Durio here: https://soundcloud.com/inspiredteaching/march-30-2026-using-ai-let?in=inspiredteaching/sets/hooray-for-monday#t=0:02

April 27, 2026: Saving Mott's Market

In this week’s Hooray For Monday, Jenna’s conversation with Michael Skinner (Board President of Mott’s Neighborhood Market in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, DC) highlights the many ways the resource of community can be harnessed to make real change—whether that’s in our neighborhoods or in our school buildings. Subscribe to Hooray For Monday for weekly resources and updates on Inspired Teaching programming and events: https://inspiredteaching.org/subscribe-hooray-for-monday/ This conversation originally aired as part of Inspired Teaching's Curiosity Challenge. Learn more here: https://inspiredteaching.org/inspired-teaching-curiosity-challenge/