Eric Mills

Jan 2012

• My colleague Danny Medved and I redesigned our school’s study hall to be more forward-looking and data driven. You can read the writeup  on page 2 of the Teacher Leadership Newsletter or learn more about Teacher Leadership Academy. They’ll be interviewing us this week so stay tuned.

July 2011

• I’m speaking on using free / open source technology tools in the classroom at the Colorado Language Arts Society Regional Conference on Sat, 9/24.
• I 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 and I will be traveling to Washington D.C. in July as Ambassadors. He’ll have the opportunity to present his views on youth violence to such national leaders 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.
• I’ve been appointed Language Arts teacher at High Tech Early College where I will design a school-wide reading initiative and also teach college-level courses

April 2011

• Four of my 8th grade students are semi-finalists for the Do the Write Thing contest and will attend 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 mentor at the high school has been awarded the Sach’s Foundation scholarship.

March 2011

• I was asked to give 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.