Inspiring Great Teaching
Aleta Margolis ’89
Thursday, October 23, 12-1pm,
Faunce House, Room 201
Join Brown Alum Aleta Margolis ’89, founder and executive director of Center for Inspired Teaching (www.inspiredteaching.org), for a conversation about how to help our public schools be student-centered, intellectually challenging, and academically successful. For 13 years, Center for Inspired Teaching has worked with teachers, principals, and students in the Washington, DC, metro area in a research-based program of professional development courses, in-classroom mentoring, and Inspired Schools. Inspired Teaching is rooted in the belief that every student possesses the ability to think critically, learn and understand information, and solve complex problems and that students should spend their time in school engaged primarily in these kinds of activities.
Prior to starting Center for Inspired Teaching in 1995, Aleta was a public school teacher and professor of education at American University. In 2001, she was awarded a fellowship from Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, which recognizes and supports social entrepreneurs worldwide. Aleta is a graduate of Brown University and has an M.S. in Education and Social Policy from Northwestern University.
*Visitors: Faunce House is at 75 Waterman Street, at the intersection with Brown Street, on the north end of Brown's Main Green. Entrances are from the Main Green and Waterman Street.