“Principal Crespo, can you drop me from Ms. X’s class and put me in Ms. Y’s instead?” asked Mia, the third senior this week to walk into my office and ask me this question. I began to wonder...
As I noticed many district and school leaders around me also struggling to feel connected to their visions for improvement in the midst of their day-to-day challenges, I began asking, how can leaders bring about transformation when they themselves don’t have time...
We can all agree that we, as teachers, made the ultimate pivot in our career. We were able to bring the love and joy of learning to an online format. Everyday wasn’t easy and came with...
This year of inquiry began for me with a focus on peer talk routines. Our Mills Teacher Scholars (MTS) inquiry group at Encinal Jr. and Sr. High School was focused on supporting students in engaging more...
Individuals and schools around the world are discussing the atrocities of what happened to George Floyd and Ahmahad Arbery among too many other black and brown bodies. Social Justice is at the forefront of the world. On a...
I logged onto my first Zoom lesson about fifteen minutes early. Nervous about technology glitches and trying to teach a lesson from a distance, I wanted to make sure everything worked. I tried the screen share...
A pattern and an opportunity It’s morning meeting, and we are sitting in a circle sharing what we did during our weekends. Students take turns passing around a talking piece and sharing about their weekend. It is our...
At the beginning of the school year, I asked myself the question, “What do I value in my computer science classroom?” I knew I valued the process of creating over a final product, but I wondered...
At the beginning of the year, my TK/Kinder classroom was often very quiet. The majority of my students were English Learners, still at the early stages of learning to communicate in English. While playing and talking...
My Learning Begins When I began my inquiry process with Mills Teacher Scholars, I chose three focal students, two boys and a girl, whose first language was Spanish or Mam. I wanted to work on teaching them the...
