eamills.com / Eric Mills on the Web, live from Denver, Colorado

May 2012

CBS filmed my class and interviewed my students (link to video) seeking a model for Memphis’s Shelby County School Turnaround.

Apr 2012

Telemundo filmed my class and interviewed my students about using technology to enhance learning and understanding
CBS Memphis visited my classroom to observe effective utilization of technology in an urban setting

Feb 2012

DPSTv interviewed me about the “learning families” initiative, and the video can be found here

Jan 2012

Redesigned, with colleague Danny Medved, HTEC’s study hall to be more forward-looking and data driven. You can read the writeup on page two of the Teacher Leadership Newsletter or learn more about Teacher Leadership Academy

July 2011

Spoke on using free / open source technology tools in the classroom at the Colorado Language Arts Society Regional Conference
Met with Selamawit Ghebremeskel from South HS while in California at the AVID summer institute in Sacramento

May 2011

My 8th grade student won the National Campaign to Stop Violence, “Do the Write Thing” contest. He traveled to Washington D.C. as an Ambassador. He presented his views on youth violence to national leaders such as the Secretary of Education, the Secretary of the Interior, the Attorney General of the United States, the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and Members of the Congress. Here’s a behind the scenes look at his poem. And, here’s the school’s press release
Appointed Language Arts teacher at High Tech Early College where I designed a school-wide reading initiative and taught concurrent-enrollment courses

April 2011

Four of my 8th grade students won “semi-finalist” for the Do the Write Thing contest and attended the annual awards dinner on Wednesday, May 11, 2011, from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the Mile High Station in Denver
A student I mentored at the high school was awarded the Sach’s Foundation scholarship

March 2011

Gave a professional development talk on using Google Apps for the Middle Schooler, at Aurora South Middle School
My colleague, Lisa Baez, and I wrote a proposal for the Annual NCTE conference. It has been accepted. See you in Chicago this year. Our talk: Te(a)ch-nology in the Urban Language Arts Classroom

February 2011

My fellow TCs and I have the backpack for kids program up and running! We’ve partnered with the Food Bank of the Rockies and we were written up here in the PDS spotlight

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