Mike Steres, 2004 Fellow, Middle School Teacher at Rincon Middle School, Escondido Elementary:

1. Stay Involved in Professional Organization such as the Greater San Diego Teachers of English (have Fall and Spring Conferences, always looking for presenters, California Association of Teachers of English

2. Being a fellow gives access to many doors.

3. Presenting pushes you and underestimate the value of your ideas.

4. Referenced research by John Hattie, meta-analyses of thousands of studies on effective teaching.

Jeanine Ubalde, 2010 Fellow, Middle School teacher at Great Oak Middle School, Power Unified

1. Feel like it was the best piece of professional development.

2. Inquiry, important questions about how much more they like writing.

3. Presenting is very important and sense of giving back.

4. How to Submit to CATE (Deadline is October 1!), Presented last year at CATE.

5. Continuity Director and creating Young Writers Camps.

Bernardo, 2000 Fellow, High School at Murrieta Valley High School

1. Professional Learning Community

2. Working with the College of Education

3. Teaching AP - writing everyday went from 54% pass rate and 94% pass on test and 100% rate.

4. Moved to AP Spanish Literature for new challenges.

5. Became an AP Scorer after three years of good scores and read the poetry sections.