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Celebrating Ten Years of Commitment to Learning and Equity

April 29, 2019

On April 18th, in honor of our tenth year of building adult learning cultures in service of student learning, we brought together educational leaders, researchers, funders and Mills colleagues for a 10th Anniversary celebration. Our inspiring British Columbia...

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Valuing Process over Answers

April 29, 2019 | Malia Tayabas-Kim

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...

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We’re Not in Kansas Anymore

April 3, 2019 | Tonie Mitchell

This whole year of inquiry was sometimes frustrating and I even resented it at times, but the results led to feelings of success among my students and me.  While I can’t say that each student transformed into an...

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Teacher Leaders Promote Curiosity

March 27, 2019

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.

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Bringing Books to Life

February 13, 2019

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...