Causes: Education, Educational Services, Elementary & Secondary Schools, Literacy, Scholarships, Scholarships & Student Financial Aid

Mission: Center for inspired teaching is building a better school experience for students by investing in educators at all stages of their careers through transformative teacher training.

Programs: Professional development:inspired teaching provides teachers with new skills to help build student achievement in creative and effective ways. Inspired teaching engages teachers in a deep analysis of their current instructional strategies and provides training in the skills that are the foundation of all teaching and learning. Teachers learn to communicate subject matter effectively while observing, listening, and asking questions designed to spark students' intellectual curiosity. Programs include the inspired teaching institute, interactive professional development for teachers at all stages of their teaching careers; building literacy in the social studies, a partnership with dc public schools to provide common core aligned professional development to all dc public schools, middle school and high school teachers and engage teachers in creating and implementing a district-wide social studies curriculum, and design of professional development for k-12 science teachers aligned with the next generation science standards.

teacher certification program: inspired teaching offers a 24-month state approved teacher certification program that recruits, selects, trains, and supports highly-qualified individuals to become teachers in the district of columbia. This program prepares educators in early childhood and elementary education through a residency model that includes coursework, classroom experience, and one-on-one mentoring.