Our Impact

Our evaluations demonstrate that teachers overwhelmingly agree that our programs improved their students’ motor and cognitive skills, social-emotional development, understanding of curriculum content, and exposure to the arts.

Annual Reports

In FY22, Inspired Child presented in-person residencies in a total of 85 early childhood classrooms, offering 556 workshops to 1,009 children. All classroom teachers received hands-on, OSSE-certified professional development and one-on-one coaching from Inspired Child teaching artists. Students were excited to engage in learning through the arts and teachers were thrilled to learn new ways to integrate the arts into their practice.

Master list of IC schools

Testimonials for Inspired Child

from Early Childhood Educators in DC 

  • "…one good thing that we had fun was, we were able to be singing, and there was a lot of movement and dancing a lot of interaction with the children. The fact that he played the instrument was something new and it captivated the interest of the children…now they are interacting with a different adult, but you know that they’ve seen them before and the fact they were greeting, and they were happy means that they’re happy in their presence…"

    Ms. Fongod, Pre-k 3 teacher
    Langley ES, 2023

  • "…for the group that we have that had different challenges, they are not all of the same thing, we have a lot of students with IP, they struggle following directions, siting a lot time, waiting for their turn, getting the materials…I think when you incorporate movement to the class, for me it was the most successful way to include everyone..."

    Ms. Cardenas, Pre-k teacher
    Briya, 2020

  • “…I learned some strategies from your class, I really liked you read a book, and then you followed with a song and then activity like art, bringing different materials”

    Ms. Adhikari, Pre-k teacher
    Briya, 2020

  • “…there was something very engaging about that activity, I think it was because it’s a lot of things that are familiar, but they don’t maybe get to use it that way…everyone had their own little piece..it was very clear presented and was engaging…”

    Ms. Alexander, Pre-k teacher
    Briya, 2020

  • “…then later we noticed they were doing on their own, like they were experimenting on using the colors and they were like: If I do this and this…what happen? And that was a really cool thing ‘cause we always like to do project based learning, what would happen if I do this, and there is a direct connection to the art but then also how we want them to become problem solvers and to try over there, I think it was very cool because we directly saw them doing it…”

    Ms. Hawkins, Pre-k teacher
    Briya, 2020

  • “…the combination of colors with a song, they really get the meaning of combine blue with yellow and they would try to sing the song and combine the colors, it was really easy for them to remind the colors and how to make the combination, I think It’s a great strategy, I really like this kind of strategies combining music, catching songs, finger plays with any art strategy…"

    Ms. Sandoval, Pre-k teacher
    Briya, 2020

  • “…one thing that I am going to use is singing for the book, you had the instrument and you were singing, and I use singing but I use it in between but I never tried that, doing the singing just singing… everything we are going to do, we are going to sing it… we just sing the instructions, even if it’s just like a short “please sit down”… I mean because things like that, they get drawn to it…"

    Ms. Sharma, Pre-k teacher
    Brightwood, 2023

  • “…I liked how the different stories, the different songs even the different dance movements, it incorporated skills that the students needed to know like for songs it might be alphabet, or for stories it might be counting and recognizing objects and then for dancing it might be movement, so like move their arms around or copying or following the pattern, I really enjoyed how the things they just see as fun they also incorporated academic components and skills that we teach in class…”

    Ms. Hannah, Pre-k teacher
    Randle Highlands ES, 2023

  • “…I liked the ABC rhythm song… also the math addition problems, when you made the rhythm, that’s a part of math skills, the pattern that you did and they were able to repeat that, so that’s also a math skill with patterns…”

    Ms. H, Pre-k teacher
    Randle Highlands, 2023

  • “…This has been such a wonderful residency so far! In terms of artistic areas, I think we have concentrated on the performing arts, singing, dancing, miming, rhyme making and even puppetry…It feels that the residency will come full circle. It all started with the book and every meeting ties into the book, however, each of the activities could work just as well independently…”

    Ms. Ardalan, Pre-k teacher
    JO Wilson ES, 2021

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