Greetings!
Welcome to your first issue of the Monthly Inspirer, our e-newsletter designed to keep you connected to Inspired Teaching and to our mission: to ensure that schools make the most of children's innate desire to learn. The Monthly Inspirer will show up in your box once a month filled with news, ideas, and strategies for bringing more Inspired Teaching to our schools.
You can play an important role in making Inspired Teaching the norm rather than the exception in our schools by helping us to spread the word. Encourage your friends to join our mailing list. Try out the suggestion in each month's "Conversation Changers." Take one of our courses, comment on our blogs, and add your voice to the growing community of advocates for change in our schools!
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IN OUR OPINION...
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 Teachers are the Solution
All summer teachers in our Inspired Teaching Institute have expressed concern and worry about the press surrounding upheaval and problems in DC's school system.
We've taken the opportunity to remind them that while the system may struggle to find its financial and administrative footing, the real solution has been right in front of us all along. Teachers are the solution.
LEARN MORE: Read our blog.
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CONVERSATION CHANGERS
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 Questions to Spark Discussion
We are bombarded with conversations about the state of education in our nation, but these conversations usually revolve around issues of governance, assessment, and funding. Our schools won't change until we focus equal attention on what really matters - the teaching and learning going on in our classrooms.
You can help to create that shift simply by changing the way you talk about schools. Try this out: Instead of asking parents, "How is your child doing in school?" ask "How is school inspiring your child? How is it turning him on to learning?" These kinds of questions can help start a desperately needed dialogue about the kind of school experience we want our young people to have.
LEARN MORE: about what we think teaching and learning should really look like.
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NEWS
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 New Inspired Teaching Website
Our new and improved website is complete with interactive features and
regularly updated content. Now you can register for courses, listen to podcasts, read our latest research, and so much more! CHECK IT OUT
Letter to the Editor in The Washington Post
"Let Teachers Use Their Minds" is a letter Aleta Margolis, our Executive Director, wrote in response to an article about the growing teacher shortage and challenges of retention. Aleta argues that better professional development could curb the flight from the profession. READ IT.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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 Inspired Teaching Alumni Conference
Alumni of the Inspired Teaching Institute (formerly the Workshop in the Art of Teaching) are invited to join us for a day of celebration and empowerment. August 20, 2007 9 am to 3 pm Location: THEARC 1901 Mississippi Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20020 Please call Jenna Fournel 202.462.1956 by August 15 to RSVP LEARN MORE.
2007-08 Inspired Teaching Institute Follow UpTeachers enrolled in the 2007-08 Inspired Teaching Institute will join us for the first follow-up session of the season August 22 from 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm. Location TBA. Visitors are welcome, please call Indhika Jayaratnam 202.462.1956 to RSVP. LEARN MORE: about the Inspired Teaching Institute.
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