There were still three months to go in the school year. My students had amazed me with how well they took to this strange new normal, but in recent weeks it seemed that everyone’s focus had started to...
Berkeley Unified Music Teachers Use Collaborative Inquiry To Explore Joy At the start of the 2020-21 school year, the Berkeley Unified Music Department made a radical decision. At that point, Berkeley schools, like most public schools in the...
When our site decided to focus our inquiries on the intersection of writing and social emotional learning, I immediately knew that I wanted to spend the year investigating how to support my second graders with revision. I love...
For years social emotional learning has been on the tip of educator’s tongues, but not always embedded in their practice or at the top of one’s mind. Educators are balancing a lot every moment of everyday. Teaching and...
Students often have misconceptions about Computer Science (CS) as a subject around who can be successful at it and who can’t. My school starts CS education as early as 6th grade and by the time I see them...
We know one of the main areas of uncertainty on everyone’s minds right now is reopening. What does it look like? And, what does it feel like for students, educators, leaders, and community members to reopen in partnership?...
Four years ago when I entered my role as After School Program Coordinator in Oakland Unified (OUSD), I began by becoming an active learner to get a better understanding of the Expanded Learning world in OUSD. What I...
In February the Wallace Foundation published a report that synthesizes over 20 years of research about effective leaders. But, What does it mean to be an effective leader? How do effective leaders support...
