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...
By Betsy Hedges Going Beyond “Cute” “Aw they’re so cute!” and “What do you even teach babies?” are familiar responses I hear when explaining I am an infant/toddler teacher. I am usually quick to explain that ages zero...
January 9, 2018 | Carrie Wilson, former Executive Director, Lead by Learning
Original post was updated on June 23, 2021. Policy Analysis on California Education (PACE) recently released a comprehensive report on continuous improvement as the method to California’s success in the era...
Building teams of public adult learners is a central component to developing cultures of continuous improvement in West Contra Costa USD. At each Mills Teacher Scholars inquiry session, a teacher volunteer publicly shares their...
We recently shared a story from Montalvin Manor Elementary in West Contra Costa Unified, where teachers are using inquiry to understand how to best support students’ academic language development across grade levels and...
Verde Elementary Like many elementary school teachers, the teachers at Verde Elementary in WCCUSD are using balanced literacy to build students’ reading comprehension skills. What is different about the approach of the teachers at Verde is that they are working...
In 2016-17, our teacher scholars named changing their practice in four powerful ways as a result of learning through collaborative inquiry. Becoming more student centered by supporting student talk, choice and reflection; Communicating learning expectations explicitly with checklists, rubrics and...
By Carrie Kelder My AP Psychology class represents a diverse group of learners with a variety of skill levels when it comes to reading and writing. What the students have in common is their level of motivation, whether an interest...
