Sentences with phrase «teacher scholars»

As the Mills Teacher Scholars program notes, SEL competencies are foundational to achieving the communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity goals embedded in the Common Core State Standards.

For the past four years, Mills Teacher Scholars and the OUSD SEL Team have partnered to investigate the intersection between academic learning and social emotional learning.

It is through this lens that the SEL office is proud to partner with Mills Teacher Scholars, a program designing and supporting high quality, inquiry - based adult learning opportunities for teachers, principals, and coaches.

At year's end, we invite teachers to make sense of their inquiry findings at a collective level, asking the entire group of teacher scholars at a site to weigh in on the implications of the inquiry learning for their school.

It took collaboration among a small group of Mills Teacher Scholars to notice Eliki's actions and interest and to redefine this as an asset to exploit in future teaching.

Verde Elementary School is in its first year of inquiry with Mills Teacher Scholars.

In our Teacher Scholars Voices blog this month Kirsti and Juliet ask: «What does it look like to take an asset - based approach to teaching African American boys reading while holding them accountable to specific learning goals?»

As part of her Mills Teacher Scholars inquiry project she decided to video tape these focal students during reading time in a systematic way so that she could understand what was and was not happening.

(I made it yesterday immediately after our Mills Teacher Scholars meeting.)

I stayed in teaching because I was still learning, and I was still learning because of Mills Teacher Scholars.

Mills Teacher Scholars support of the OUSD Social and Emotional Learning Teacher Scholars was featured in EdWeek earlier this month in an article entitled «Teachers Weave Social - Emotional Learning Into Academics.»

Mills Teacher Scholars staff facilitated discussions in site - based groups as participants developed a vision and goals for specific professional learning spaces at their sites.

In June, sixteen teachers, coaches, and school and district leaders from five East Bay districts participated in the 2017 Mills Teacher Scholars Summer Institute.

Working with Mills Teacher Scholars, all participating teachers at Rosa Parks have had the opportunity to develop an inquiry question, gather student work data, analyze these data with colleagues and make their work public.

Montalvin teacher scholars are focusing on academic language instruction to support all students, especially their large English Learner population.

This Spencer Foundation - funded research is designed to study the work of skilled Mills Teacher Scholars teacher leaders as they support their colleagues to learn from classroom evidence.

Aija, one of seven Mills Teacher Scholars at New Highland Academy in Oakland, provides an example.

Last week I received an email message from Tracey, one of the teacher scholars I work with through the Mills Teacher Scholars, a teacher learning program of the Mills School of Education.

On May 31, 2011, the Mills Teacher Scholars» presented their inquiry findings in the Mills College School of Education Building, room 101, 5 - 8 pm.

In the Mills Teacher Scholars program, we provide coaching and tools to teachers in East Bay schools, so that they can understand their students» learning, and figure out what is getting in the way of learning.

These and other questions about productive struggle drive the inquiry work of Oakland's Computer Science Teacher Scholars.

Teacher learning about student learning is at the heart of the Mills Teacher Scholars work.

The questions that guide their work in the Mills Teacher Scholars Leader Network are: How, as teacher leaders, can we use data to help our colleagues to more deeply understand the learning goals they have for their students and also understand how individual students think in relation to each goal?

Supporting teacher leaders to provide meaningful, practice - based learning opportunities for colleagues has become the primary focus of Mills Teacher Scholars.

Since participating in Mills Teacher Scholars, I have become an advocate for student voice and choice, for small schools and small learning communities.

Juliet engaged in the Mills Teacher Scholars process of collaborative inquiry within a professional culture that acknowledges the uncertainty inherent in teaching.

We have learned in our work with the Mills Teacher Scholars that turning to teachers as a place to start brings about authentic engagement in reforming practice.

Through their partnership with Mills Teacher Scholars, Oakland Unified's Life Academy teachers gained tools, support, and structure to engage in collaborative inquiry to improve their teaching for long - term English Learners.

Mills Teacher Scholars provides tools and support to these partner sites to frame an area of inquiry within the topic, to collect classroom - based student data that make learning visible, and to hone collaborative data analysis skills so that teacher scholars are able to make sense of what students know in light of the CCSS and make instructional shifts based on their developing understandings.

At our veteran school sites, Rosa Parks, New Highland and Roosevelt, teacher scholars are engaged in collecting focal student data for each other.

In June over 175 people attended the Mills Teacher Scholars Inquiry in Action Forum where 40 teacher scholars presented their work.

On that October afternoon at the Teacher Scholar Leader Network session Mills Teacher Scholars researchers and facilitators were learning from the teacher leaders about what tools and experiences were most helpful in supporting their colleagues use of data to improve instruction.

Participants reflected alone and together about the Mills Teacher Scholars professional learning framework and how it connects to the current reality of teacher learning at their sites.

Tracey continues in her e-mail, sharing what she did with one of her focal students, after the Mills Teacher Scholars meeting at her school site.

Mills Teacher Scholars founder Anna Richert celebrates teachers and school leaders with a final toast.

These are veteran teacher scholars who, after just a single listening, can skillfully pull out nuances of what each child contributes in the partner conversation.

Last year, I knew I wanted my Mills Teacher Scholars inquiry to focus on something that mattered to me both as an educator and a human being.

By using the approach we use as Teacher Scholars, I knew I'd be guided away from deficit thinking, and would use an asset - based approach.

Mills Teacher Scholars facilitator Claire Bove partners with Kim...

Personalized learning plans for participating teachers supported by both teacher leaders and Mills Teacher Scholars staff

At each Mills Teacher Scholars inquiry session, a teacher volunteer publicly shares their thinking, questions, and student learning data.

As the sole school in its district serving 448 students in grades TK - 8, Anna Yates School is building a community of 35 teacher scholars who use their deeper understand of student learning to achieve equitable outcomes for their students.

It provides a common text for teacher scholars to practice data analysis and ask probing questions of their colleagues.

With over 140 teacher scholars and district leaders serving more than 25,000 students from early childhood through 12th grade.

Hillary brings an extensive background in coaching and mentoring teachers to her role as a program advisor for Mills Teacher Scholars.

Carrie's commitment to transformational adult learning has enabled her to lead the growth of Mills Teacher Scholars from its original single group of 18 teacher scholars to its current 18...

The Social Emotional Learning Group is in their fourth year of partnership with Mills Teacher Scholars and are continuing to investigate the intersection between academic learning and social emotional learning.

In this article, Carrie Wilson, Executive Director of Mills Teacher Scholars, explains, «Our theory of action is that in order for adults, teachers, and principals to be able to provide certain types of learning experiences for students, they have to be able to have those experiences themselves.»

She also recently initiated the first Mills Teacher Scholars Summer Institute.

She advises Mills Teacher Scholars on the design of a teacher...