Inspired News and Events

• Inspired Teacher Certification Program Now Accepting Applications
  The Inspired Teacher Certification Program is now accepting applications for the 2012 cohort of Inspired Teaching Fellows. The priority deadline for applications is January 25, 2012, with a final deadline of February 26, 2012. We will be hosting two online information sessions where prospective applicants can learn more about the program, ask questions and talk to a current Inspired Teaching Resident.
  



• Making Meaning out of Mesopatamia: Inspired Teaching in action
  When Inspired Teaching Fellow Bri Zika was presented with the challenge of teaching her 7th and 8th grade Capital City Public Charter School students about ancient Mesopotamia, she could have gone in several directions with the subject. 

A classic approach would have been to study pictures and texts and write formulaic essays about the specific contributions the culture made to our lives today. That’s how most of us were taught about ancient civilizations and unless we had a particular interest in the subject, most of us don’t remember much of what we learned.But Bri took a different approach. She recognized the disconnect between the study of a culture from 5000 years ago and the lives of her students today and she set to work finding a way to bridge that giant chasm of relevance.
  



• Inspired Teacher Certification Program Profiled in Washington Post
  Washington Post editor Marc Fisher spent a day as a Guest Selector, and in a front-page Sunday Outlook piece, reflects on what his experience taught him about how to tell an Inspired Teacher in the making.