Mills Teacher Scholars

Delilah Abramo Supporting family literacy practices Rosa Parks BUSD	Benjie Achtenberg Understanding US history through historical maps Melrose Leadership Academy OUSD	Rebecca Akin Explaining thinking and developing ideas independently Korematsu Discovery Academy OUSD
Shannon Amaral Strategies for unfamiliar words for SDC student Rosa Parks BUSD	Carrie Anderson Descriptive writing skills New Highland Academy OUSD	Anne Aranda Linguistic support to express mathematical thinking Colonial Acres SLZUSD
Lynda Arnold The role of emotional health in academic achievement in kindergarten Rosa Parks BUSD	Alicia Arnold Collaboration in primary grades art class New Highland Academy OUSD	Emily Starr Bean Kindergarten students as creative, courageous writers Melrose Leadership Academy OUSD
Kim Beeson Building independence and resliency to move from concrete to abstract tasks Rosa Parks BUSD	Gretchen Biehl The role of student notes in supporting reading comprehension Rosa Parks BUSD	Marie Bivins Metacognition and arts integration Roosevelt School SLUSD
Emily Blossom Idea development in Kindergarten writing New Highland Academy OUSD	Andrea Calderon Enhancing critical thinking in reading through inferences Rosa Parks BUSD	Torina Carter Retelling and the development of student voice Rosa Parks BUSD
Michelle Cascio Multi-media science content and pedagogy Korematsu Discovery Academy OUSD	Marijke Conklin Metacognition among primary students Melrose Leadership Academy OUSD	Michelle Contreras Student engagement with texts during partner turn and talk Rosa Parks BUSD
Ruth Corley Number talks, mathematical conversations, and computation Creative Arts Charter School SFUSD	Katie Curry The role of retelling in comprehension Rosa Parks BUSD	Asucena Davila Scaffolding mathematical reasoning Melrose Leadership Academy OUSD
Joanna Davis Science journals and conceptual development New Highland Academy OUSD	Kristen Delgado Blending sounds for SDC student Rosa Parks BUSD	Susan Deming Higher order thinking assessment in art Washington Elementary SLUSD
Susan Dent Managing musical development Roosevelt School SLUSD	Nancy Endicott Writing skills in English language development Roosevelt School SLUSD	Erika Englund Phonics instruction for struggling readers New Highland Academy OUSD
Cynthia Epps Math problem solving strategies development Roosevelt School SLUSD	Ananda Esteva Bilingual reading comprehension strategies Rosa Parks BUSD	Patty Fishbaugh Monitoring emergent reading skills Roosevelt School SLUSD
Victoria Forrester Programmatic professional development Roosevelt School SLUSD	Paco Furlan Progress monitoring reading comprehension Rosa Parks BUSD	Kathleen Gadway Conferencing for after school reading intervention teachers Rosa Parks BUSD
Susan Gatt Building fluency in upper primary struggling readers Rosa Parks BUSD	Shelley Grant Multi-segment position graphs and mathematical skills Bancroft Middle School SLUSD	Audrey Groesbeck Word study and segmentation with struggling readers RISE OUSD
Michael Hammond Motivating students with ear training and goal setting Berkeley Music BUSD	Annie Henderson Developing executive functions in kindergarten students Hillcrest OUSD	Lisa Hiltbrand Self-assessment of reading strategy learning targets Urban Promise Academy OUSD
Cheri Hinkley Student conversation during partner reading Rosa Parks BUSD	Lisa Holmes Scaffolded oral paired problem-solving in math Richmond High School WCCSUD	Tracey Iglehart Incorporating mini-lesson skills in to Kindergarten independent reading Rosa Parks BUSD
Sam Johnson Motion graphs and critical thinking skills Arroyo High School SLZSD	Lauren Kayed Alternative literacy assessment in Kindergarten RISE OUSD	Matthew Kertesz Students’ understanding of sentence frames Bancroft Middle School SLUSD
Kate Kirkhuff Teachers conferencing methods Rosa Parks BUSD	Alex Langford Building students’ coneptual understanding of the role of mechanics in writing Rosa Parks BUSD	Kristi Leunig Professional learning communities supporting teaching learning Urban Promise Academy OUSD
Lauren Lipka Metacognition and academic achievement Roosevelt School SLUSD	Becky Lum Rosa Parks BUSD	Miriam Macias Reading native language texts during independent reading Rosa Parks BUSD
Nessa Mahmoudi Learning targets, self-assessment and social-emotional development Melrose Leadership Academy OUSD	Isabelle McDaniel Oral and written expression of mathematical understanding among English learners Creative Arts Charter School SFUSD	Matilde Merello The efficacy of spelling journals in a two-way immersion classroom Rosa Parks BUSD
Dina Moskowitz Encouragement of persistent reading through support and interaction Creative Arts Charter School SFUSD	Kenny Moy Fostering sight word recognition Roosevelt School SLUSD	Channon Neal de Stanton Developing analytic science skills New Highland Academy OUSD
Kate Nichols Metacognition in Kindergarten RISE SLZUSD	Alberto Nodal Idioms as language development curriculum Colonial Acres SLZUSD	Javier Ordoñez Spanish second language development in two-way immersion Rosa Parks BUSD
Rebecca Padilla Thinking critically about race and power Bancroft Middle School SLUSD	Nandini Pal Student-directed inquiry in language arts Korematsu Discovery Academy OUSD	Wendy Paplack Supporting number sense development Roosevelt School SLUSD
Margot Pepper The role of high-interest books in reading comprehension Rosa Parks BUSD	Julie Rich Self-monitoring in independent reading Rosa Parks BUSD	Yessica Rodriguez Self editing for struggling writers Rosa Parks BUSD
Leah Rotkin-Ellman Learning targets, assessment, and mastery Urban Promise Academy OUSD	Luz Salazar Jed Language development in a dual-immersion classroom Melrose Leadership Academy OUSD	Lori Sasaki Reading and writing vocabulary development Bancroft Middle School SLUSD
Jody Silver Word-awareness and vocabulary development Bay School SLZUSD	Aija Simmons Language functions among English learners New Highland Academy OUSD	Lois Smith Fostering basic reading skills Roosevelt School SLUSD
Melissa Valdivia Differentiating math instruction Roosevelt School SLUSD	Malcolm Waugh Developing audience awareness through letter-writing Anna Yates EUSD	Karen Wells Musical development in high school Berkeley High School BUSD
Brook Pessin Whedbee Co-authoring stories and collaborative talk, drawing, and acting in Kindergarten Rosa Parks BUSD	Charles Wilson Supporting teachers’ inquiry Korematsu Discovery Academy OUSD

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