As a Kindergarten teacher I struggle with the concept of reading a book out loud more than once. I worry that students will be bored out of their minds, lying on the carpet, disengaged as they hear a...
We know how valuable a good book recommendation can be especially from people in the know. So here are a few beloved resources that our Coaching Inquiry Network participants recently shared along with...
I am an instructional coach in an urban East Bay district where nearly one in three of our students are English Learners (EL). At the outset of this year, the teachers at the three school sites whom I coach...
Original post was updated June 28, 2021. People always ask me why I love teaching and my answer is simple: the young people. They are dynamic, fun, ever changing, and brutally honest. Each day is an adventure and...
At Mills Teacher Scholars we support teachers and leaders to build their inquiry stance, allowing understanding student learning to drive instructional improvement. Kindergarten teacher scholar Kate Carlin’s inquiry journey is an example of this core value in action.
Why Aren’t They Talking? Armed with the theory, training, and support from Mills Teacher Scholars, my Masters program at Mills, and my school site, I sat in front of my 21 kindergarteners during a Writer’s Workshop mini-lesson on...
— By Dina Moskowitz Teachers are huddled in groups of twos and threes, analyzing student math work and making an effort to see what students do and do not understand about their content.
— By Eva Marie Oliver I had just handed out grades and comments for my eighth-grade Humanities students’ first “assertion” paragraphs of the school year. After they looked them over, I asked each student to...
by Anna Tom The Power of Writing This past year, 18 Kindergarteners entered my classroom with vastly different levels of knowledge. Some of my students had preschool experiences, while others experienced their very first day of school when...
by Christi Grossman By January 2017, it was clear that the recipe I had been trying since August hadn’t worked. I felt like a failure: I hadn’t helped students improve their reading at all and I had no...
