Investing in Teachers to Transform Schools

All year, Inspired Teaching Fellows have engaged their classroom students as partners in a classroom investigation. Working together, teachers and students have worked to answer such questions as:

"What happens to our writing skills when we accompany writing time with music?"

"Do we learn more when we create a podcast about the topic we are studying?"

"Does meditating a little bit every day help increase our focus?"

After a year of delving into these questions with their students, the Inspired Teaching Fellows shared their findings at a public forum. Through interactive presentations, Fellows shared conclusions and unanswered questions; and the possible next steps for expanding their classroom research projects. Their work highlighted the role of teachers as changemakers in classrooms, schools, and society.

The themes of our Fellows inquiry-based projects are as follows:

A Novel Idea: Book Clubs in the Elementary Classroom

Transitions in the Early Childhood Classroom

 Mindfulness-Based Interventionsin the Classroom

Questioning as a Strategy to Promote Deeper Learning

The Effect of Student Autonomy on Writing Development

Students as Content Creators

Brain Breaks and Behavior

The Power of Effective Transitions

Classroom Transitions: How Teacher Expectations Impact Classroom Efficiency

Using Art to Increase Student Engagement in Math Centers

The Language of Reengagement

The Music Effect

Overall, it was an exciting evening for educators looking to learn from each other's classroom practices and investigations.

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