— By Eva Marie Oliver I had just handed out grades and comments for my eighth-grade Humanities students’ first “assertion” paragraphs of the school year. After they looked them over, I asked each student to...
Registration for the 2018-19 Coaching Inquiry Network is now open! If you have questions about which of our courses would be the best fit for you, email us at teacherscholars@mills.edu. In 2017-18, Amelia Rosenman of the...
In 2016-17, Resourcing Excellence in Education (REEd) at UC Davis School of Education was contracted by Mills College to conduct an evaluation of the Mills Teacher Scholars Program. During this program evaluation year, the Mills Teacher Scholars Program was working...
by Anna Tom The Power of Writing This past year, 18 Kindergarteners entered my classroom with vastly different levels of knowledge. Some of my students had preschool experiences, while others experienced their very first day of school when...
Most adults change their practices not simply from reading and observing others work, but from combining these passive activities with active collaboration and learning-by-doing. –Beyond PD: Teacher Professional Learning in High Performing Systems...
More than 270 educators and supporters attended our annual Teacher Inquiry in Action Forum on March 20th! Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate the teacher leaders who are driving transformation in their districts and schools. Thanks as well...
by Christi Grossman By January 2017, it was clear that the recipe I had been trying since August hadn’t worked. I felt like a failure: I hadn’t helped students improve their reading at all and I had no...
March 5, 2018 | Marguerite Sheffer, Mills Teacher Scholars
by Marguerite Sheffer, Program Associate, Mills Teacher Scholars After attending last year’s Teacher Inquiry in Action Forum hosted by Mills Teacher Scholars, my husband, Russ, was buzzed. The kinds of conversations he saw...
In the Berkeley Unified Early Childhood Education Department, Mills Teacher Scholars supports teachers to lead their colleagues professional growth within the professional learning community (PLC) structure. Mills Teacher Scholars facilitator Claire Bove partners with Kim...
By Nicole Kelly “The great thing about play is that it totally involves the whole personality of the child…attitudes, character, and emotions. It is the carry over from intellectual activity to emotional involvement that is the true characteristic...
