A Daunting Challenge Many of my students complain when asked to read technical literature, despite my efforts to make it fun and relevant. Especially in my most advanced computer science class, it becomes difficult to use material that...
“I’d like you to imagine for a moment a music department where all teachers think deeply about student learning, and collaborate to improve instruction for all students. With the assistance of a group called Mills Teacher Scholars, we...
Teacher: Tell your neighbor which one you like best, frogs or turtles. Student A: I like frogs better. Student B: My mom has 6 toes! Student A: Umm, because Princess Tianna...
Word problems can be confusing and overwhelming, especially for Newcomers, who eventually have to take the Math component of the state test their first year in school. With this in mind, I decided to focus my inquiry with...
When I came to Reach Academy as the Instructional Leader in 2015, I was incredibly concerned by the reclassification rate of English Language Learners to English Proficient students. I spent my first year as instructional leader building capacity, ownership and...
Don Refuses to Read December rolled around and the day of the writing celebration finally came. Parents, grandparents, aunts, and godmothers came to our second-grade classroom to hear their children read their writing. As I walked around the...
My inquiry focus is centered around math partnerships during math workshop. My learning goal is that students will be able to engage in productive math partnerships where they help each other make sense of the problems by explaining...
It’s okay to get it wrong. The purpose of inquiry is not to demonstrate I’m awesome and to prove myself, but to dig in and constantly investigate how to teach better.
What does it look like for teachers to promote curiosity? Our Teacher Leaders support their colleagues’ thinking in many ways. Here’s an email that Beth Levine, a Teacher Leader at Montalvin Elementary sent to her colleagues.
Along with California’s efforts to provide universal preschool, it’s essential to ensure that early childhood educators are supported to continuously learn together in service of their young students. How do we build teacher leader capacity to support high quality early...
