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Who Has A Story to Tell? : Addressing the Gap in Early Literacy Foundations
Talk to Berkeley teacher Brook Pessin-Whedbee for more than a few minutes about her teaching and you realize that she is a standout when it comes to documenting her young students’ thinking and...
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Having Real Conversations about Books: A Look at Reading Partnerships in 6th...
Dina Moskowitz is a middle school Humanities teacher and department mentor at Creative Arts Charter School in San Francisco, CA. A long-time participant in the Mills Teacher Scholars program, she has...
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Exploring Teacher Leadership
Mills Teacher Scholars had the privilege of spending Valentine’s Day with the more than eighty teacher leaders who turned out for the Exploring Teacher Leadership conference at Stanford on Saturday,...
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Mills Teacher Scholars Partners with OUSD’s Social Emotional Learning and...
The wordle above illustrates the OUSD SEL teacher scholars’ reflections on their all-day Mills Teacher Scholars experience. As we support our teacher scholars from across the East Bay to engage in...
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Academic Discussion: What Does it Mean?
Mills Teacher Scholars’ inquiry work supports teachers to understand both what students are doing/thinking/learning and what is that they want students to do/ learn/think. Kirsti Jewel Peters’...
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Cross-Disciplinary Teacher Learning at Albany High School
In many high schools, collaboration around teaching and learning occurs only in departments and meaningful cross-disciplinary collaboration is rare. Albany High School, in its second year of...
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First Graders Lead Their Learning: What Happens When You Take the Teacher Out...
Marijke Conklin Academic discussion opens a space for students to become aware of their ideas and use academic language to express those ideas with others. By setting up autonomous academic discussion...
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Photo Highlights from the Teacher Inquiry in Action Forum
Over 200 attendees joined us for our Teacher Inquiry in Action Forum 2015. This year’s event highlighted the process Mills Teacher Scholars uses to support teacher learning at sites–with posters, panel...
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Teacher Scholars: Sign Up For This Summer’s Blog Post Writing Workshop!
Teachers will work to write and revise a blog post about an aspect of their inquiry work with Mills Teacher Scholars. Finished blogs will be posted on the MTS website, published in our newsletter, and...
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Inquiry in the Midst of Common Core: What Does Thoughtful Implementation Look...
A new set of standards has districts and schools racing to implement aligned curriculum. In teacher professional development efforts there is an unprecedented focus on curricular implementation and in...
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Celebrating Our Teacher Leaders
“The Teacher Leader Network has helped me understand that being a professional is not knowing it all and dictating it out to others, but instead being a person who people feel comfortable sharing their...
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Teaching With Tech Tools: Putting Student Thinking at the Center
Sharing of technological pedagogy often devolves into sharing of more tools–new apps, new sites, new search engines. I am guilty of this as well, and I have countless under-used usernames on obscure...
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Teachers as Agents of Their Own Learning
In our 2014-15 program evaluation survey, conducted by WestEd, our teacher scholars’ feedback indicated overwhelmingly positive attitudes about their collaborative inquiry work through their Mills...
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Building Leadership To Support Teacher Learning: The Mills Teacher Scholars...
The larger goal of the newly formed Network is to support school leaders to harness the potential of the Mills Teacher Scholars inquiry work at their sites to support transformational systems change....
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Everybody Has A Job To Do!: Text Evidence TK-5
At Roosevelt Elementary in San Leandro, teacher scholars used their inquiry work to examine student learning in response to Common Core-focused instructional shifts. In this Q+A, teacher scholar leader...
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A New Role for Aija Simmons
We are excited to announce that Aija Simmons is our new Associate Director of Teacher Leadership. For years Aija has been our model at Mills Teacher Scholars for what it means when a teacher embraces...
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Creative, Courageous Writing in Kindergarten
Emily Starr Bean It has been well researched that by the time children enter kindergarten, a wide skills gap already exists in terms of language, literacy, problem solving, and school-readiness. One of...
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2015-16 Mills Teacher Scholars School and District Partnerships
Our 2015 site partnerships are going strong. With ten site-based groups and four cross-site groups supported by our Teacher Scholar Leader Network and Principal Inquiry Network, we are working with...
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“But What If I Hurt Their Feelings?”
The Common Core standards deem that students should engage in constructive feedback of peer’s work and ideas from kindergarten and beyond. But what does this really look like? What do students...
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Words, Words, Words: Generating Authentic Participation in the High School...
“She was uncomfortable with what the professors called ‘participation,’ and did not see why it should be part of the final grade; it merely made students talk and talk, class time wasted on obvious...
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