Experience teacher leadership that drives transformation MARCH 20, 2018 We exist to put learning at the heart of teaching by building communities where teachers and leaders grow in their knowledge, skills, and dispositions to be high-level professionals. We do this by helping them address the complexity of their students’ learning through engaging in systematic, on-going, collaborative inquiry to improve their work. teacherscholars.org 5:30 Dinner & Wine Reception Welcome 6:00 6:10 6:50 7:30 Breakout Session A Wine Toast & Dessert Breakout Session B Breakout Session A Topics • Getting Inquiry off the Ground Through Teacher Leadership Room 110 • Creating Coherence Through Cross-Department PLCs Room 117 • A Teacher Community In Service of Newcomers and English Learners Room 125 • Equity at the Heart of Inquiry Room 118 • Building Teacher Collective Efficacy for Student Success Room 109 See pages 2-3 for complete descriptions of Breakout Sessions. • Learning from Leaders Who are Creating the Conditions for Adult Learning Room 109 • Flash Presentations Gathering Hall and Foyer Come “flash” through this diverse group of elementary and secondary Teacher Scholars’ presentations of their inquiry work. Learn about their breakthroughs and consider their ongoing questions. Glean takeaways for your own practice. Breakout Session B Topics Breakout Session B Topics
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Experience teacher
leadership that drives
transformation
M A R C H 2 0 , 2 0 1 8
We exist to put learning at the heart of teaching by building communities where teachers and leaders grow
in their knowledge, skills, and dispositions to be high-level professionals. We do this by helping them
address the complexity of their students’ learning through engaging in systematic, on-going, collaborative
inquiry to improve their work.
teacherscholars.org
5:30
Dinner
& Wine
Reception
Welcome
6:00 6:10 6:50 7:30
Breakout
Session A
Wine Toast
& Dessert
Breakout
Session B
Breakout Session A Topics
• Getting Inquiry off the Ground Through Teacher Leadership Room 110
• Creating Coherence Through Cross-Department PLCs Room 117
• A Teacher Community In Service of Newcomers and English Learners Room 125
• Equity at the Heart of Inquiry Room 118
• Building Teacher Collective Efficacy for Student Success Room 109
See pages 2-3 for complete descriptions of Breakout Sessions.
• Learning from Leaders Who are Creating the Conditions for Adult Learning Room 109
• Flash Presentations Gathering Hall and Foyer
Come “flash” through this diverse group of elementary and secondary Teacher Scholars’ presentations of their inquiry
work. Learn about their breakthroughs and consider their ongoing questions. Glean takeaways for your own practice.
Breakout Session B TopicsBreakout Session B Topics
Dinner & Wine Reception 5:30PM
Mills College Lokey School of Business Gathering Hall/Room 101Grab a plate, a glass, and mingle with your colleagues.
Breakout Session A 6:10PM
Getting Inquiry off the Ground Through Teacher Leadership Room 110What does it take to begin to build a professional community where teachers comfortably share uncertainties about their teaching and also supportively challenge each other to improve instruction? Hear how teacher leaders and their principal spearheaded a partnership with Mills Teacher Scholars with the goal of developing a collaborative teacher learning community that focused on understanding students' academic and social emotional needs. Lincoln Elementary teachers and principal will share their perspectives about the challenges, successes, and conditions required to support building an authentic adult learning community. Brooke Guiney, Lincoln Elementary, OUSD • Claudia Hung-Haas, Lincoln Elementary, OUSD • Susannah Young, Lincoln Elementary, OUSD • Ivanna Huthman, Principal, Lincoln Elementary, OUSD • Elizabeth Shafer, Program Associate, Mills Teacher Scholars
Creating Coherence Through Cross-Department PLCs Room 117What does meaningful, professionalizing collaboration look like? Teachers are often asked to share best practices, however, without opportunities for deeper sense-making, this sharing does not always lead to meaningful growth. Three years ago, the Humanities department at Life Academy set out to shift their professional learning from sharing best practices to collaboratively exploring uncertainties and questions about their teaching. That work has now spread from its initial small group of teachers to a whole-site effort to understand student learning across grades and departments. Hear how this effort opened up rich opportunities for sense making and alignment, and how inquiry mindsets are impacting the adult and student learning culture at their site. Christi Grossman, Life Academy of Health and Bioscience, OUSD • Hillary Walker, Life Academy of Health and Bioscience, OUSD • Rowan Driscoll, Life Academy of Health and Bioscience, OUSD • Jennifer Ahn, Director of Teacher Leadership, Mills Teacher Scholars
A Teacher Community In Service of Newcomers and English Learners Room 125In Oakland Unified, 1 out of 3 students is an English Language Learner. To support teachers to understand how best to meet the needs of this diverse and often underserved population of learners, OUSD has partnered with Mills Teacher Scholars to offer an inquiry group focused exclusively on Newcomers and ELL students. Hear how teachers collaboratively draw on resources from the district's English Language Learner and Mulitlingual Achievement Office to build local knowledge to accelerate learning for the students in their classrooms. This panel illustrates a model of using inquiry for program implementation and serving specific populations. James Kindle, Elementary Language and Literacy Specialist, ELLMA Office, OUSD • Ellen Hum, Global Family Elementary, OUSD • Emily Walsh, Horace Mann Elementary, OUSD • Nicholle Pierro, Horace Mann Elementary, OUSD • Pilar Beccar-Varela, Program Associate, Mills Teacher Scholars
Equity at the Heart of Inquiry Room 118The number of students enrolled in Oakland Unified’s Computer Science classes has reached 3000 over the last five years. Our teacher scholars are invested in helping all students feel that Computer Science “is for someone like me.” What does it take to foster students' academic identity development such that they believe in themselves as effective learners and problem solvers in the classroom and beyond? Hear how these teacher scholars are using inquiry to disrupt systemic equity gaps as they support all students not only to access rigorous curriculum, but to develop their identities as communicators, problem solvers, and collaborators. Sam Berg, Middle School Computer Science Coordinator, OUSD • Alia Ghabra, Alliance Academy, OUSD • Kennan Scott, West Oakland Middle School, OUSD • Sonia Spindt, Madison Park Academy, OUSD • Marguerite Sheffer, Program Associate, Mills Teacher Scholars
Building Teacher Collective Efficacy for Student Success Room 109Research shows that collective teacher efficacy is one of the highest predictors of school-wide learning outcomes, even more than relationships, student demographics, or curriculum and instruction. Mills Teacher Scholars supports communities of educators to develop their collective efficacy through engaging in inquiry-driven professional learning communities that help them understand their students' learning. Hear how teachers and leaders at SLZUSD’s Lorenzo Manor Elementary and WCCUSD’s Montalvin Manor Elementary are building communities of shared purpose around developing students’ academic language. Learn how they are working through the challenges involved in building collaborative communities that transform school culture. Beth Levine, Montalvin Manor Elementary, WCCUSD • Martinique Perry, Montalvin Manor Elementary, WCCUSD • Ashley Thomsak, Lorenzo Manor Elementary, SLZUSD • Deja Escalera, Lorenzo Manor Elementary, SLZUSD • Melissa Galletti, Lorenzo Manor Elementary, SLZUSD • Sarah Sugarman, Program Associate, Mills Teacher Scholars
Carrie Wilson, Mills Teacher Scholars Executive Director
Welcome 6:00PM
Breakout Session B 6:50PM
Flash Presentations Gathering Hall and Foyer
Learning from Leaders Who are Creating the Conditions for Adult Learning Room 109
For leaders and teachers, the urgency of producing student outcomes often overshadows concerns about
effective models for adult learning. Yet in order to better support student growth, conditions that nurture adult
learning must also be in place. Hear leaders from early childhood, elementary, secondary and district-level share
what they are learning about building schools and systems that engage teachers and leaders in true partnerships
for continuous learning and improvement. Katherine Acosta-Verprauskus, Principal, Montalvin Elementary,
WCCUSD • Wesley Jacques, Executive Director of School Educator Professional Learning, OUSD • Isabelle
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We are grateful for the school, district, and foundation partnerships that provide the financial resources that fund our teacher and leader learning work.
appreciations
Private philanthropy partnersBerkeley Public Schools Fund • S.H. Cowell Foundation • Educate78 • Walter & Elise Haas Fund •
Dirk & Charlene Kabcenell Foundation • Quigley-Hiltner Fund • Reddere Foundation •
Irene S. Scully Family Foundation • Stuart Foundation
We are grateful to the past funders of our workS.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation • Flora Family Foundation • Spencer Foundation
We appreciate the generosity of these individual donorsMaida Brankman • Shelley Brown • Mr. Albert Chu • Ms. Dyana Curreri-Ermatinger • Dr. David Donahue •
Dr. Pam Grossman • Jason Hirschton • Dr. Joseph E. Kahne • Dr. Linda Kroll • Vicki and Pete LaBoskey •
Ms. Laurie Nardone • Eric Nehrlich • Monica Ng • Ms. Nancy Ragey • Dr. Anna E. Richert • Carol Rodgers •
Peter Ross • Ms. Cindy V. Schlaefer • Ms. Marilyn R. Schuster • Ms. Sheela Shankar • Paul and Susan Sugarman •
Weir and Susan Wilson • Irving Zucker
School and district partnershipsBUSD Early Childhood Department • BUSD Visual and Performing Arts Department • Emery USD Anna Yates
Elementary • OUSD Bret Harte Middle School • OUSD Computer Science Department • OUSD Emerson Elementary •
OUSD Life Academy High School • OUSD Lincoln Elementary • OUSD English Learner and Multilingual Achievement
Office • OUSD Oakland Technical High • OUSD Professional Learning Team • OUSD Social Emotional Learning and
Leadership • OUSD W3 (Whole Child Whole School Day) • SLZUSD Colonial Acres Elementary • SLZUSD Lorenzo
