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Understanding teacher quality: a look into the classroom

May 4, 2012

Written by Claire Bove, Former Associate Director at Mills Teacher Scholars In the national conversation about education, many voices are asking questions about teacher quality: how do we quantify it? How should we report it? But shouldn’t...

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The Complex Work of Figuring Out What Students Know

April 24, 2012

Written by Carrie Wilson, Former Executive Director at Mills Teacher Scholars After more than a decade of placing far too much emphasis on standardized test results, there is (finally) growing acknowledgement that standardized tests...

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Scholars Group Meeting Dates

September 7, 2010

Monday, September 13, 5 – 8 Saturday, October 2, 9:30 – 3:00 Monday, November 15, 5 – 8 Monday, December 6, 5 – 8 Saturday, January 22, 9:30 – 3:00 Monday, February 7, 5 – 8 (practice presentations) Monday, March...

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Mills Teacher Scholars Roundtable Presentations

May 13, 2010

The Mills Scholars are teachers who meet monthly to discuss their questions with their colleagues and to systematically study the data that they collect to answer their questions, including classroom video data, student work, student interview data, and observational data.