How can I support my kindergartners’ development of number sense and what do I really mean when I say “number sense”? What do engaging discussions of a text sound like in fifth grade and how can I help my students develop the skills to engage in these discussions? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPj4RKH9daA These kinds of questions and the pursuit of their answers will be the subject of teachers’ talks at the Mills Teacher Scholars Inquiry in Action Forum on May 21st at Mills College, 5-8 PM.

On February 12th, 27 teachers shared their work-in-progress on their Mills Teacher Scholars inquiry projects. The teacher scholars have been collecting real time classroom data on their area of inquiry for several months and the work-in-progress...

Anthony Cody, in his July 23rd EdWeek blog, A Dialogue with the Gates Foundation, named Mills Teacher Scholars "the best model of collaboration I have seen in recent years." The post features both a video of MTS Program Associate/ New Highland Academy teacher Aija Simmons at the OUSD Teacher Conference and the MTS video of the Teacher Inquiry in Action Forum. Here is an excerpt from Anthony Cody’s Living in Dialogue blog: Let's take a look at the best model of collaboration I have seen in recent years, the teachers at New Highland Academy in East Oakland. This team of teachers worked with the support of a team at Mills College to engage in thoughtful inquiry into their practice. They met regularly to look at student work and talk about where their students were struggling. When they looked at their students' work, they saw that while the curriculum they were using was helping the students learn to decode, their comprehension was lagging. They chose a set of strategies to help their students to find meaning in what they read, and worked across the school to try this out.