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.