Program Highlights Archives – Page 6 of 13

Berkeley Early Childhood Education Teacher Scholars

Growing Teacher Leadership in Early Childhood Education

February 7, 2018

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...

Tags: Collective Efficacy, Leaders as Learners

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The Role of Adult SEL in California’s Continuous Improvement Efforts

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...

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Montalvin Elementary Teacher Scholars Group

Public Learning in WCCUSD

January 9, 2018

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...

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The Power of Public Learning

January 9, 2018

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...

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Collaborative Inquiry Drives Improvement in WCCUSD

December 7, 2017

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...

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The Power of the Collective

September 18, 2017

Is This Making a Difference for Students? Researcher John Hattie’s latest meta-analysis of factors that influence student achievement has some new and familiar insights into the question of what makes a difference for...

Tags: Collective Efficacy

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Program Highlight: Mills Teacher Scholars Summer Institute 2017

August 3, 2017

In June, sixteen teachers, coaches, and school and district leaders from five East Bay districts participated in the 2017 Mills Teacher Scholars Summer Institute. Over the course of this three-day workshop, participants deepened their understanding of the conditions necessary to...

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A Principal Learns Alongside Teachers

April 27, 2017

An essential component to establishing an adult learning culture in schools is the leader modeling a learning stance alongside their staff. At Mills Teacher Scholars partner site Montalvin Elementary in West Contra Costa Unified, principal Katherine Acosta-Verprauskus is...

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Adult Social and Emotional Learning: The Critical Missing Piece

March 30, 2017

Social and Emotional Learning Teacher Scholars Ruanna Owens and Malia Tayabas-Kim Earlier this month Mills Teacher Scholars presented at the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) convening to district leaders from around the nation...

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Highlights from our Teacher Inquiry in Action Forum

March 30, 2017

Over 200 teachers, school leaders, university faculty, and other supporters joined us on March 23rd for our Teacher Inquiry in Action Forum. Thank you to all who participated in this remarkable event! Below are highlights from this celebration of teacher professional learning. ...

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