Spring 2013 has been an exciting time for Mills Teacher Scholars. The following are some of our recent highlights: Mills Teacher Scholars at AERA Dina Moskowitz presented her inquiry “Reading for Pleasure?” at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Program Associate Aija Simmons presented her work on peer writing conferences. Anna Richert, Carrie Wilson, and Claire Bove, the Faculty Director, Executive Director, and Associate Director of Mills Teacher Scholars, presented a paper on teachers’ meaning making process through collaborative analysis of student work data. Teacher Scholar Claire Shorall wins OUSD Region 3 award

The Mills Teacher Scholars program is proud to have five current and alumni Scholars teaching music in the Berkeley program: Karen Wells, Michael Hammond, Sarah Cline, Merlyn Katechis, and Mary Dougherty. The BUSD music teachers and the...

Our teacher scholars Laura Alvarez and Krishna Feeney presented at the Bay Area Science Project’s Saturday Seminar on March 23, 2013. Laura teaches seventh grade humanities at Melrose Leadership Academy in Oakland. Her presentation, “Looking at academic language across the ‘mode continuum,’” addressed the...

In February Mills Teacher Scholars gave the keynote address to the Bay Area Science, Math, and Writing Saturday Seminar on examining student work. The focus of the talk  to over 80 Bay Area educators was to provide teachers with an alternative (and larger) view of data and introduce the idea of re-orienting teachers’ attention from exclusively thinking about teaching strategies and planning to include collaborative analysis of meaningful data to understand student thinking.